Donna BAILEY<br/> <em>Lush</em> (2002) <!-- (recto) --><br /> type C photograph<br /> 50.3 x 65.0 cm irreg. (image) 61.7 x 76.2 cm irreg. (sheet)<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Purchased with funds arranged by Loti Smorgon for Contemporary Australian Photography, 2006<br /> 2006.295<br /> © Donna Bailey <!--81174-->
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Introduction

  1. Birth of a Mother
  2. Milk
  3. Baby Bubble
  4. Supermum
  5. Bad Mother
  6. Magic Maker
  7. Invisible Mother
  8. My Mother
  9. To Love and to Lose
  10. Maternal Legacies

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Kate JUST
An armour of hope
 2012
from The skin of hope series 2012

Medium
metal and silk (yarn)

Measurements
(104.0 × 45.0 × 4.0 cm) (installed)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2025

Gallery location
Gallery 13
Level 3, NGV Australia

About this work

This is a hand-knitted work from queer, feminist artist Kate Just’s 2012 series The Skin of Hope, produced while the artist was on an Australia Council residency in Barcelona with her wife and their then four-year-old adopted child Harper. Exploring knitting's equivalency to skin, and its association with bondage and repair, An Armour of Hope is a knitted chain mail armour made for Harper, materialising their past losses, and their resilience, renewal and hope for the future.