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25.01.2022 Lisa Waup is a Gunditjmara/Torres Strait Islander interdisciplinary artist and curator. In 2017, Waup teamed up with fashion designer Ingrid Verner of Melbourne based fashion label Verner to collaborate on a new collection. Drawing on her background as a printmaker, Waup shared her hand drawn designs with Verner. These bold designs, collected over many years, inspired their ongoing collaboration. Waup’s graphic line work represents protection of family, history and culture ... ideas translated into each item of clothing. The NGV recently acquired three new pieces from the Lisa Waup x Verner collaboration. The selection includes a black-and-white jumpsuit, a dress in brilliant reds and yellows, and a daring two-piece suit from the second collection. The three pieces are based on three of Waup’s drawings: Continuity, Tracing history and Eyes of our ancestors. Each ensemble comes with its own range of handmade jewellery, which further unites her weaving practice with her fashion line. Indigenous fashion is quickly establishing itself within the industry as dynamic and innovative. Indigenous artists and designers are embracing fashion as another medium to celebrate culture and connection to Country. #NGVEveryDay #FashionFriday #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC2020 Lisa Waup Gunditjmara/Torres Strait Islander b. 1971, Melbourne, Victoria National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2020 Lisa Waup X Verner Talent - Nathan McGuire Photographer - Lester Jones Creative/Fashion - Rhys Ripper Grooming - Afton Radojicic Photos by Phoebe Schmidt in collaboration with Verner

23.01.2022 This week in Depth of Field: Indigenous Photographers we explore the work of Naomi Hobson: Naomi is a Southern Kaantju/ Umpila artist based in Coen in the Cape York region of Far North Queensland. Hobson works across painting, ceramics and photography to share stories of her Country and community. A Warrior without a weapon, 2018 is an empowering series of photographic portraits of three named Aboriginal men from Coen. Hobson explains ‘These photographs break down the stere...otypical representation of Indigenous men and affirm the viewpoint that our men can be sensitive and caring. This position is seldom expressed and portrayed in the public domain’. Hobson has embraced photography as a tool for shifting preconceived ideas and the images from this series embody the care and leadership that more accurately represents the men in her community. Hobson’s clever use of native flora challenges stagnant notions of masculinity, whilst referencing cultural and ceremonial beard adornments. The flowers are also a reminder of the central connection between First Nations people and their Country, framing these men as guardians of the environment, warriors for their Country and culture. #NGVEveryDay Naomi Hobson A Warrior without a weapon, Danny Landis, 2018 Purchased with funds donated by Linda Herd, 2019 A Warrior without a weapon, Peter Liddy, 2018 Purchased with funds donated by Linda Herd, 2019 A Warrior without a weapon, Dallas Harold, 2018 Digital prints Purchased with funds donated by Linda Herd, 2019

23.01.2022 ‘I like to think that there’s a laugh and a tear in each picture.’ Destiny Deacon NGV Curator Myles Russell-Cook explores melancholy through the art of Destiny Deacon whose work sits in the uncomfortable yet compelling space halfway between comedy and tragedy. Offering a nuanced, thoughtful and, at times, intensely funny snapshot of contemporary Australian life, Deacon uses dark comedy to expose uncomfortable truths. Join our free online talk tomorrow 13 Nov, 2-2.45pm:... https://fal.cn/3bvLv DESTINY, the largest retrospective of her work to date, opens 23 Nov at NGV Australia, Fed Square. #NGVDESTINY #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC2020 Destiny Deacon Kuku/Erub/Mer born 1957 Meloncholy 2000; printed 2016 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2016 Destiny Deacon / Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia

22.01.2022 ‘They are Impressionists in the sense that they render not the landscape, but the sensation produced by the landscape.’ Jules-Antoine Castagnary, 1874 #NGVFrenchImpressionism #NGVEveryDay ... Alfred Sisley The Loing at Saint-Mammès1882 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Bequest of William A. Coolidge (1993.44) Photography Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All Rights Reserved With thanks to Presenting Partner Visit Victoria (@visitmelbourne) Principal Partner Mercedes-Benz (@mercedesbenzau) Premium Partner HSBC (@HSBC_aus), Major Partners EY (@eyaustralia) and Telstra (@telstra), Learning Partner The University of Melbourne (@unimelb), Partner Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Supporters Asahi (@Asahisuperdry_au), Dulux (@duluxaus) and Champagne Pommery (@champagnepommeryau), Event Partner Yering Station (@yeringstation), Media Partners The Herald Sun (@theheraldsun), The Australian (@the.australian), Val Morgan (@valmorgan_au), Smooth Fm (@smoothfm915), QMS Media (@qms_media), Learning Patron Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM & Family and Tourism Partner, Sofitel Melbourne on Collins (@sofitelmelbourneoncollins)

20.01.2022 To celebrate National Coming Out Day, we are sharing In your hands, 2016, an image by Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara/Arrernte artist Robert Fielding about his son Zaachariaha. Noongar writer Claire G. Coleman’s explores this significance of moths and butterflies as symbols of transformation, hope and ‘coming out’. Claire writes: ‘Zaachariaha Fielding, the feminine, blak, gay front person of the band Electric Fields, has lived most of his life in the relatively remote Aborigin...al community of Mimili in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands in outback South Australia. There’s a photograph in the NGV Collection by his father Robert Fielding, a painter, photographer and mixed-media artist from Mimili, called In your hands, 2016. In the work, a masculine hand, presumably the artist’s, delicately cradles a moth. Moths and butterflies are animals that have long had a cultural significance for the LGBTIQ+ community as a symbol of hope, of coming out, of emerging into a new beautiful self. The moth [Zaachariaha] is safe in that strong hand, despite our certain knowledge that it could be crushed with ease.’ #QueerArtStories #NGVQueer #ComingOutDay #LGBTHistoryMonth Robert Fielding In your hands 2016 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2018 Robert Fielding/Licenced by Copyright Agency Ltd, Australia

20.01.2022 DESTINY is now open at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square. Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser created this interior specifically for this exhibition. Over the past thirty years, Deacon has created a number of domestic interiors presented inside gallery settings. These lounge rooms and kitchens are always, to an extent, based on Deacon’s own home. Objects, photographs, posters, flags and various knick-knacks turn otherwise ordinary domestic interiors into identi...fiably blak spaces. The room is filled with Deacon's personal collection of 'Koori kitsch'. At best, these knick-knacks portray Aboriginal people as merely decoration and at worst, represent overtly racist perspectives of Aboriginal people. Over the years Deacon has amassed a considerable collection of Koori kitsch. In her own words, she has been rescuing Koori kitsch ‘since forever’: ‘In the beginning I wanted to rescue them, because otherwise they’d end up in a white home or something, somewhere no one would appreciate them.’ By amassing her personal collection and putting it inside the Gallery, Deacon challenges audiences to consider how everyday material culture can be, and often is, inherently racist. Deacon also elevates these objects, removing their status as derogatory and giving them with a second, more dignified, life. Book your free timed-entry tickets now --> https://fal.cn/3bPph #NGVDestiny Installation view of Destiny Deacon Photo: Tom Ross

19.01.2022 Diwali, the Festival of Lights, is about uniting with family and friends, enjoying beautiful light displays and wishing for future prosperity. While restrictions may prevent many friends and family in our community from gathering together to celebrate #Diwali this year, we’re sharing some recent acquisitions of very timely Indian works to the NGV Collection. Apindra Swain’s family has painted in the pattachitra tradition for generations in Raghurajpur, a village in India’s e...astern state of Odisha. Swain continues the stylistic legacy of this traditional art form that historically depicted deities and mythological subjects but draws inspiration from pressing contemporary themes. These works are part of a series by the artist intended to serve as a community education tool to demonstrate and promote safe practices to stem the spread of COVID-19. Stay home 2020, is a painting on sari and shows human bodies positioned to create a sign advising people to ‘STAY HOME’. The work references stylistic representations of temple dance that often appear in historical painting from Odisha. Wash hands 2020, shows a woman wearing a red sari using the basin in an ornate bathroom setting. The style references the recurring subject in historical Indian painting of women tending to personal ablutions and conducting puja worship rituals. The Corona Woman 2020, is a striking stylised profile of a woman wearing traditional maang tikka hair adornment and a face mask. Swain highlights a new reality in which precautionary measures must be taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 no matter the significance of the occasion. #Diwali #NGVEveryDay Apindra Swain Stay home 2020 Proposed acquisition supported by NGV Supporters of Asian Art, 2020 Image credit: Nishant Rodey Apindra Swain Wash hands 2020 Proposed acquisition supported by NGV Supporters of Asian Art, 2020 Image credit: Nishant Rodey Apindra Swain The Corona Woman 2020 Proposed acquisition supported by NGV Supporters of Asian Art, 2020 Image credit: Nishant Rodey

18.01.2022 EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT: NGV Triennial 2020, opens 19 December at NGV International, free entry. This summer, the NGV will present a large-scale exhibition of international contemporary art, design and architecture. Featuring 86 projects by more than 100 artists, designers and collectives from 33 countries, the NGV Triennial 2020 will open 19 December 2020, traversing all four levels of NGV International, Melbourne. Comprising an ambitious and diverse selection of works s...howcasing the vanguard of contemporary practice, the exhibition will offer a visually arresting and thought-provoking view of the world at this unique moment. Free timed-entry tickets will be released in the coming weeks. Learn more about the artists and exhibition, and sign up to our eNews for the latest information and ticketing updates --> https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/triennial-2020/ #NGVTriennial NGV Triennial 2020 was made possible through the generosity of over 80 philanthropic donors and their families, trusts, foundations, and support from the corporate sector. With thanks to Presenting Partner Creative Victoria. Principal Partner Mercedes-Benz Australia. Major Partners Chadstone The Fashion Capital, Ernst & Young, Telstra, Macquarie Group. Design Partner RMIT University. Major Partner Deakin University. Learning Partner La Trobe University. Research Partner The University of Melbourne. Partner Corrs Chambers Westgarth. Supporters City of Melbourne, Mimco, Asahi Beer Australia, NEC Australia, Dulux Australia, and Event Partner Yering Station.

17.01.2022 Stepping into winter today with Maison Martin Margiela’s ‘duvet coat’. This coat takes the form of a square, feather-filled duvet with detachable zipper sleeves and was a collaboration between Maison Margiela and Italian duvet and bedding manufacturer Featherlite. This coat is only the insert, but other versions were sold with accompanying duvet covers. #NGVEveryDay #FirstDayOfWinter... Maison Martin Margiela, Paris (fashion house) Martin Margiela (designer) Look 9, duvet coat 1999 (autumn winter 1999 2000) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift’s Program, 2020. See more

17.01.2022 Free Online Art Event for Kids Artist: Taylah Cole Stream online Saturday 14 Nov and Saturday 28 Nov, 11-11.45am --> https://fal.cn/3bxkA Art Club is a chance for kids to meet artists and designers online and explore the playful side of making art. ... This Art Club series features Taylah Cole, an Indigenous textile designer and artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Taylah’s practice is inspired by her love of nature, which comes from growing up in a beautiful place surrounded by ferns and lush trees. She is heavily influenced by her Indigenous heritage and culture, her love of plants, cats and all things art. The NGV Kids program is generously supported by The Truby and Florence Williams Charitable Trust, managed by Equity Trustees. The NGV also wishes to acknowledge the Spotlight Foundation for their support of the NGV Kids at Home Art Club online program. #NGVEveryDay #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC2020

17.01.2022 NEW ACQUISITION: Weaver ethereal 2020 by Elliat Rich is part of Rich’s Design Mythology collection. She describes this collection of speculative works as artefacts from a future and/or parallel society where science and traditional knowledge systems have converged, returning human beings to a place of understanding and acceptance of our position among the many life-forms on Earth, rather than as separate or in control of them. Weaver ethereal combines distressed mirror with a...crylic hair and is one part of a four-part mirror series that map the transformation of the mythological Weaver from ethereal to earthly being. The proposed acquisition is an important addition to our collection of critical design from Australia. Elliat Rich is a multi-disciplinary designer based in Mparntwe Alice Springs, Central Australia. Her practice spans commercial, limited edition and one-off furniture pieces as well as exhibition design, and public art. Focusing on the complex and dynamic relationships between the biological, spiritual and technological realms that make up life on our planet, Rich’s practice interrogates the ways design is used to shape, reinforce and/or challenge human value systems. #NGVEveryDay Elliat Rich Weaver ethereal 2020 Proposed acquisition through the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists 2020

15.01.2022 'So many of us have been tied to our screens and it's just so important in this moment to physically be in front of something and to experience it, not just aesthetically, but also kinaesthetically, feel it with your body, be in front of it and experience work in a nice, slow way.' - NGV Triennial 2020 artist Tony Matelli From next Saturday you can experience, explore and enjoy works by over 100 artists and designers from around the globe at NGV Triennial 2020. Book your f...ree timed-entry ticket --> https://fal.cn/3cb7D #NGVTriennial

12.01.2022 This week in NGV Depth of Field: Indigenous Photographers we take a look at the work of Steven Rhall: Steven Rhall’s Kulin project was made throughout the lands and waterways of the Kulin Nation that envelops Melbourne. Kulin Country is a union of five independent peoples: Wathaurong, Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung, Taungurong and Dja Dja Wurrung. The imposition of a grid onto the landscape was a fundamentally European way of navigating place. The building of roads, towns and citi...es profoundly changed the way all people live in and on Kulin Country. Rhall uses photography to remind viewers that beneath the city, which is made up of metres of concrete and steel, each of these places is and has always been, built on unceded Aboriginal land. Rhall penetrates and finds within bitumen, brick and industrial constructions, fences and graffiti, hidden Indigenous and non-Indigenous narratives, histories and echoes of Indigenous designs. His images enable him to honour, reclaim and reconnect with sites and boundaries of the five resilient Kulin peoples. He draws our attention to the fact that Indigenous people have always lived, and continue to live, on these lands. #NGVEveryDay Steven Rhall Bunjil (Woiwurrung, Wurundjeri Way) 2012 No junkie, no cops (Woiwurrung, Footscray) 2012 Bunjil Park (Dja Dja Wurrung, Summerfield) 2012 Presland's intersection 1b (Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung, Wathaurung) 2012 X (Wathaurung, Belmont) 2012 Hue (Boonwurrung, Philip Island) 2012 Remnants (Wathaurung, Moolap) 2012 Untitled (Border Country, Port Philip Bay) 2012 from the Kulin project 201213 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Yvonne Pettengell Bequest, 2014 Steven Rhall

12.01.2022 Precision and coordination are vital for an exhibition the size and breadth of NGV Triennial 2020. The NGV Conservation department has overseen the documentation, assembly and installation of works in the NGV Triennial 2020. Swipe right to go behind the scenes with the team preparing NGV Triennial 2020 for opening this Saturday 19 December. Book your free timed-entry tickets --> https://fal.cn/3cbMb #NGVTriennial... Installation view of Cecile Bendixen, Cerith Wyn Evans, Faye Toogood, Glenda Nicholls, Kengo Kuma, Richard Quinn, and Tomoaki Suzuki See more

11.01.2022 We are very proud to announce that In Absence, the 2019 NGV Architecture Commission has been selected from across the globe to win the Small Buildings category of the 2020 @Dezeen Awards. The judges described this thought-provoking and immersive work by contemporary artist and Kokatha and Nukunu woman Yhonnie Scarce and Melbourne architecture studio Edition Office as ‘a beacon of hope; powerful and visceral’. In Absence asks audiences to better understand the fallacy of the p...remise of Terra Nullius, which declared Australia as an emptiness awaiting ownership, by revealing and celebrating over 3000 generations of Indigenous design, industry and agriculture. This well-deserved recognition is one of many accolades awarded to In Absence over the past twelve months. Congratulations to Scarce, Edition Office and the team who brought this incredible installation to life. Read more about the 2020 Dezeen awards --> https://fal.cn/3bLP3 Photo by Eugene Hyland Re-gram: @tracykahn, @_dan.walker, @emo_east, @ewanmceoin

10.01.2022 The NGV Architecture Commission Design Competition for 2021 is now open. Architect-led teams are invited to activate the Grollo Equiset Garden at NGV International with an engaging temporary structure or installation. Scroll through to see a few of the past winners. Learn more --> https://fal.cn/3aUgY... #NGVEveryDay In Absence (2019) by Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office (detail) Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office Photo by Ben Hosking Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne with support from RMIT University, Macquarie Group, Tasmania Timber and The Hugh D.T. Williamson Foundation, and the competition process is managed by Citylab. Doubleground (2018) by MUIR + OPENWORK. View of 2018 NGV Architecture Commission back to the Bamboo Courtyard 2018 NGV Architecture Commission MUIR + OPENWORK Photo by Peter Bennetts Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne with the support of Creative Victoria, RMIT University, Macquarie Group, Brickworks and The Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation Garden wall (2017) by Retallack Thompson and Other Architects Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne with the support of RMIT University, The Golden Age Group and The Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation Retallack Thompson and Other Architects Photo by John Gollings Photography Haven’t you always wanted...? (2016) by M@STUDIO Architects M@ STUDIO Architects Photo by Peter Bennetts 2015 Summer Architecture Commission (2015) by John Wardle Architects John Wardle Architects Photo by John Gollings Photography Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne with support from the Spotlight Foundation. The 2021 NGV Architecture Commission is supported by Principal Partner Macquarie Group, Design Partner RMIT University and The Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation. The NGV Garden is generously supported by Loris Orthwein.

10.01.2022 #TBT: Forty-five women of Aurukun made this installation that first appeared at NGV Triennial 2017. The women gathered at Akay Koo’oila Women’s Art Centre each day to meet, work, share stories and create these geometric woollen forms or ‘God’s eye’. Their creation is a symbol of peace, comfort and healing. Each individual ‘God’s eye’ derives its form and meaning from God’s eyes made in First Nations communities of West Mexico, which are believed to signify ‘the power to see a...nd understand things unknown’. Like their First Nations counterparts in West Mexico, the Aurukun artists from Cape York, Queensland, have connections to sources of spiritual power in Country that go beyond the physical and deal with difficult situations and conditions. #NGVEveryDay #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC2020 Akay Koo'olia Women's Arts Centre Artists, Aurukun God's eye installation 2017 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased NGV Foundation Patrons, 2017 Wik and Kugu Art Centre

10.01.2022 Give the gift of art this holiday season with an NGV Membership. Starting from $110, an NGV membership unlocks priority access, discounted NGV exhibitions, courses, dining and shopping, as well as online talks, self-guided activities and in-Gallery events for one year. Give yourself or a friend a Membership and the NGV is yours to explore. Learn more --> https://fal.cn/3ccjw... #NGV George Bell Lady in a deck chair (summer day) 1924 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Presented in honour of Mr George Bell OBE by Melbourne Contemporary Artists, 1966 Rex Niven

10.01.2022 INTRODUCING NGV CONTEMPORARY: We are very grateful that the Victorian Government has announced its exceptional commitment to fund the construction of Australia’s largest gallery of contemporary art and design, NGV Contemporary. This new purpose-built gallery is funded as part of the first phase of the Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation project, which will reshape and connect the precinct, and its many creative institutions and venues, with a new 18,000 sq/m public garden.... Located at 77 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, NGV Contemporary will feature 10,000 sq/m of exhibition space dedicated to displaying nationally and internationally significant contemporary art and design. Visit our website for more information about NGV Contemporary. https://fal.cn/3bNfH Victoria Together Creative Victoria Visit Melbourne Australia.com #NGVContemporary #NGV #melbourne #visitvictoria #visitmelbourne #seeaustralia #victoriatogether #art #design #architecture

09.01.2022 Explore the nearly fifty-year career of Australian artist Ivan Durrant. Now open at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square. Book your free timed-entry ticket to Ivan Durrant: Barrier Draw --> https://fal.cn/3caYg #NGVIvanDurrant

08.01.2022 ‘Circe stands here alone, strong, confident, independent from being an accompaniment to a man. She reminds me of the beauty of being powerful, of those intimidating powerful women who came before me and will come after me and inspires me to strive to be like them.’ Isabella, 2020 NGV Teen Council member, shares her favourite work of art, Bertram Mackennal’s Circe from the NGV Collection. Applications for the 2021 Teen Council are now open. Apply before 6 November --> https...://fal.cn/3aKfN #NGVEveryDay The NGV Teens program is supported by a grant from The Truby & Florence Williams Charitable Trust, managed by Equity Trustees. The NGV also wishes to acknowledge The Ullmer Family Foundation for their generous support of NGV Teens.

08.01.2022 'Holidaying at the beach and wearing your stylish floral sunhat these are the scenes from which happy memories are made. The figure on the left in this print, looking at us, is Julie Manet, daughter of the painter Berthe Morisot and niece of Édouard Manet. Beside her is her older cousin, Paule Gobillard, who adjusts one of the flowers pinned to her hat. As she turns her head, Julie meets our gaze fleetingly and with a sagacious smile: a snapshot of a girl on the brink of wo...manhood. When Renoir turned to printmaking in 1890, aged fifty, he was an established Impressionist painter famous for his sensual nudes and portraits of fashionable Parisian women. Although printed around 1898, The pinned hat originates from a study Renoir made several years earlier while on holiday on the coast of northern France with Morisot, one of his closest friends, and her family. He returned to the subject in six different prints, this being the largest and most elaborate. Encouraged by the art dealer Ambroise Vollard, and with the assistance of the skilled lithography printer Auguste Clot, Renoir was able to transpose his lively painting technique and harmonious colouring to the lithographic stone.' - Jessica Cole, NGV Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings #NGVEveryDay Pierre Auguste Renoir The pinned hat: second plate 1898 (Le Chapeau épingle: deuxième planche) Delteil 30; Stella 30; Johnson 108 edition of 200 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1974

08.01.2022 TIWI, an exhibition celebrating the unique art and culture of the Tiwi people of Melville and Bathurst Islands, opens 23 November at NGV Australia, Fed Square. Join us for a free online talk hosted by NGV Senior Curator, Judith Ryan AM. This illustrated lecture highlights connections between the upcoming TIWI exhibition and this year’s NAIDOC theme ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’. Register for the event 'TIWI: Always Was, Always Will Be' here --> https://fal.cn/3buvE... #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC2020 #NGVTIWI Timothy Cook Kulama 2012 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Robert Martin Bequest and NGV Supporters of Indigenous Art, 2019 Timothy Cook/Copyright Agency, Australia

05.01.2022 Shop the new TIWI exhibition collection at @NGVdesignstore. Tiwi visual and performative cultural practices have existed for many millennia, and this new collection celebrates the diversity of mark making and colour in the Tiwi visual culture. TIWI celebrates the unique art and culture of the Tiwi people of Melville and Bathurst Islands and explores the dynamic trajectory of Tiwi art across time and media. Tiwi art is intimately connected with song and dance and with jilamar...a, the idiosyncratic body painting designs with which performers celebrate kulama and conceal their identity from mapurtiti (spirits of the deceased) for pukumani ceremonies. The spirit of each work resides in the Tiwi notion of individual creativity, expressed through turtiyanginari (colour), patterns of marlipinyini (lines), kurluwukari (circles) and pwanga (dots). Shop the collection online or visit in-store at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square --> https://fal.cn/3cbJn

05.01.2022 We’re on Spotify! Check out our latest playlists by NGV Curators featuring their favourite music to listen to while working from home. The Hugh Williamson Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture, Simone LeAmon created a playlist of her favourite lockdown tracks from slow-motion groove and indie-pop perfection to electronica, her mix is compiled for dancing or working in the studio to an up-lifting beat. Senior Curator of Indigenous Art, Judith Ryan AM, developed... a playlist featuring her all-time favourite singers and songs for leisure hours including African American singers of soul and blues, Indigenous Australian superstars and iconic opera arias by great classical composers. We also have playlists inspired by recent exhibitions and artworks in our Collection. Click here to start listening: https://fal.cn/3aOwk #NGVEveryDay #Spotify #SpotifyPlaylists #ArtAndMusic

04.01.2022 Located at 77 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, NGV Contemporary will be dedicated to showcasing contemporary art, design, fashion and architecture of local, national and international significance in the heart of the transformed Melbourne Arts Precinct. Once completed, the gallery will span more than 30,000 sq/m, making it the largest public gallery of contemporary art and design in Australia and enhancing Melbourne’s global reputation as a thriving and dynamic destination for... art, design and architecture. The biggest cultural infrastructure project in Australia will transform Melbourne’s creative precinct attracting visitors, creating jobs and establishing vibrant new gardens and creative space in the heart of our city. Victoria Together Creative Victoria Visit Melbourne Australia.com Arts Centre Melbourne #NGVContemporary #NGV #melbourne #visitvictoria #visitmelbourne #seeaustralia #victoriatogether #art #design #architecture

03.01.2022 Gender, environment, participation and performance art are strong themes throughout the NGV Collection. Our online Collection page now features new hubs focused around these themes to help you explore collection-based content, new scholarship and research. With collection highlights, video content, interviews and essays, these news hubs are an easy place to start for people interested in these themes. More hubs will be launched throughout the next six months. Which theme or t...opic would you like to see featured? Visit the hubs --> https://fal.cn/3aPYP #NGVEveryDay TextaQueen Call of the crocotta (Self-portrait) 2012 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased NGV Foundation with the assistance of The Docking Drawing Fund (NGV), 2013 TextaQueen Taloi Havini Stuart Miller (photographer) Sami and the Panguna mine (2009-2010); printed 2014 from the Blood generation series 200911 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2014 Taloi Havini and Stuart Miller Conservators undertaking treatment on John Herbert’s Moses Taking down the Tables of the Law c. 187278 as part of the John Herbert Public Conservation Project. The John Herbert Public Conservation Project was made possible through the support of The Copland Foundation and the help of our volunteers. Yayoi Kusama Flower obsession (2016-2017) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, NGV Women’s Association, 2018 Yayoi Kusama

03.01.2022 Celebrating #WorldSpaceWeek with a few out of this world NASA photographs from the NGV Collection. View more NASA photographs in our Collection: https://fal.cn/3aPGO #NGVEveryDay ... NASA, Washington, D.C. APOLLO 8 Crew (photographer) The Earth showing Southern Hemisphere 1969 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Presented by Photimport, 1971 NASA, Washington, D.C. (manufacturer) The Sun eclipsed by Earth: Apollo 12 on way to 2nd lunar landing 1970 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, 1980 NASA, Washington, D.C. (manufacturer) James McDivitt (photographer) Astronaut Edward H. White, Gemini 4, June 1965 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Presented by Photimport, 1971

02.01.2022 TIWI, the largest exhibition of Tiwi art in the world, is now open at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square. Book your free timed-entry Gallery tickets --> https://fal.cn/3bLJS #NGVTIWI ... Installation view of TIWI Photo by: Tom Ross See more