Celebrating MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection exhibiting artists Kate Just, Elvis Richardson, Karla Dickens and Mia McDonald reflect on representations of motherhood in art, and the relationship between motherhood and their own creative practice.
MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection presents diverse stories drawn from across the NGV Collection. The exhibition features works by contemporary and historical Australian and First Nations artists, alongside international art.
It explores both universal and culturally specific experiences of motherhood – from private transformation and societal expectation to intergenerational trauma and loss, mythology and religious iconography, storytelling and language and the deep connection between motherhood, nature and Country.