To celebrate the opening of MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection, NGV curators explore how artists across time and cultures have turned to motherhood to grapple with questions of creation, care, power, loss and identity.
Join NGV curators Katharina Prugger, Sophie Gerhard, Eva Christoff and Maria Quirk on a highlights tour of the exhibition, tracing the maternal journey through works spanning ancient artefacts, historical European art, and contemporary Australian, First Nations and international practices.
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.