To celebrate the opening of Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light, hear from NGV curators who will consider the relationships between art, gender, technology, activism, and place.
Through a series of spotlight talks that introduce a selection of artists in the exhibition, learn how women artists have pushed photography to its limits, using the medium as a tool to interrogate and disrupt society, gender norms, and even their conceptions of themselves.
This program will take place in the Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light exhibition. You do not need to register to attend the talks, but a ticket is required to enter the exhibition.
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Natasha Bullock is Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). She was previously Assistant Director, Artistic Programs at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and held senior curatorial roles in contemporary art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
Meg Slater is Curator of International Exhibition Projects at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Since 2017, Meg has worked on eight of the NGV’s major international exhibitions, including MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2018; Keith Haring | Jean Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines, 2019/20, Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi, 2023; and Yayoi Kusama, 2024/25. Meg was also one of the five curators who organised QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection, 2022. In 2021, Meg completed a Master of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne with First-Class Honours.
Coral Guan is Project Assistant, International Exhibition Projects at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Exhibitions she has worked on include the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibitions The Picasso Century and the forthcoming Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi. Coral is currently completing a Master of Art Curatorship at The University of Melbourne, with curatorial interests in cultural histories that exist on the periphery. Recently, she co-curated Labour Lexica at Linden Projects Space, exploring labour, futility and language.
About the Exhibition
Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than seventy women artists working between 1900 and 1975. Featuring prints, postcards, photobooks and magazines, the exhibition explores the role of photographers as image-makers, and the ways in which women artists create an image of themselves, of others, of the times – from images of the women’s suffrage movement at the turn of the twentieth century, through to the women’s liberation movement and beyond.