In his first work of this scale, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula represents an important place associated with the Dreaming of the old man.
Explore Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV with NGV Senior Curator of Indigenous Art, Judith Ryan AM as she shares that change that occurred in Indigenous Art in 1971…
Hear Dr Ted Gott, Senior Curator, International Art, NGV (he/him) and queer Ngarigo artist and community health worker Peter Waples-Crowe (he/they) reflect on the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and…
Celebrating the unique artistic traditions developed by diverse indigenous and regional communities across India, Transforming Worlds: Change and Tradition in Contemporary India explores the ways in which artists and creatives…
Coinciding with Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala, NGV Kids presents an all-ages exhibition, The Gecko and the Mermaid: Djerrkŋu Yunupiŋu and her sister, that celebrates the work of two…
The Honourable Julia Gillard AC, 27th Prime Minister of Australia, visited Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala to see Dhambit Munuŋgurr’s 2021 work, Order, which was inspired by Julia Gillard’s…
In this episode viewers discover how the eleven women included in the exhibition have pushed the boundaries of what Yolŋu art is, and we see this especially in the contemporary…
The series goes on to explore the ground-breaking way that Yolŋu women have taken to bark painting, an artform traditionally practised by Yolŋu me
In the first episode of the series, viewers hear from artists Naminapu Maymuru-White and Dhambit Munuŋgurr talk about learning to paint from their family members and their passion to continue…
Big Weather is a timely exhibition that recognises the sophisticated appreciation of weather systems that exists within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural knowle
NGV Curator Hannah Presley and local artist Clinton Naina discuss climate change and the future of our environment as explored throughout the exhibition Big Weather.
A discussion with Ellen Broad (via video link), Fiona Milne and Tyson Yunkaporta, moderated by Marion Joseph Every technology comes from a time and place.
The Darling / Baaka River is the major tributary to the Murray-Darling River system – the largest system on the Australian continen
For millennia artists, designers and craftspeople have looked to, and relied on, nature for the space, materials and inspiration to live and work.
JR’s Homily to Country, 2020, draws attention to the ecological decline of the Darling (Baaka) River, Australia’s third longest river, caused by intensive water extraction due to irrigation, climate change…