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Ken Unsworth Truly, Madly

At eighty-six years of age, Ken Unsworth is a senior Australian artist who draws upon an extraordinarily diverse repertoire of skills, techniques and devices. He is an enigmatic creator known for his conceptual sculptures and sculptural installations, mechanical relief works, land art events and innovative performances that combine theatre, dance and art.

Ken Unsworth

Friday 14 September 2018 to Sunday 17 February 2019
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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POLLY BORLANDPOLYVERSE

The NGV presents an exhibition of new and recent works by celebrated Australian artist Polly Borland. Borland is a Melbourne born artist who now lives in Los Angeles and is known for her photographs of noted figures including Queen Elizabeth II, Nick Cave and Gwendolyn Christie. The recent period of Borland’s practice has seen her explore more abstract and surreal imagery.

Polly Borland

Friday 28 September 2018 to Sunday 03 February 2019
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Design Storytellers The Work Of Broached Commissions

Founded in Melbourne in 2010, Broached Commissions is Australia’s most noted limited-edition design studio and leading international exponent of narrative based object design. The studio collaborates with Australian and international designers to produce furniture and objects that respond to context, history and mythology.

Trent Jansen Adam Goodrum Mad Architects Lucy Mc Rae

Friday 17 August 2018 to Friday 01 February 2019
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Baldessin / Whiteley Parallel Visions

George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley were born in the same year – 1939 – and in the 1960s and 1970s experienced meteoric success in their respective cities of Melbourne and Sydney.

George Baldessin Brett Whiteley

Friday 31 August 2018 to Monday 28 January 2019
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Robert Hunter

The NGV is honoured to be presenting a major retrospective exhibition of works by Robert Hunter (1947–2014), arguably Australia’s pre-eminent minimalist painter.

Robert Hunter

Friday 27 April 2018 to Sunday 26 August 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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The Field Revisited

The National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural exhibition at its new premises on St Kilda Road in 1968 was The Field, the first comprehensive display of colour field painting and abstract sculpture in Australia.

Sydney Ball Peter Booth Janet Dawson Robert Jacks

Friday 27 April 2018 to Sunday 26 August 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Colony: Frontier Wars

The counterpoint to Colony: Australia 1770–1861, Colony: Frontier Wars is an important exhibition that explores the period of colonisation in Australia from 1788 onwards and its often devastating effects on First Peoples.

Thursday 15 March 2018 to Wednesday 01 August 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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FLOODPLAINJAMES GEURTS

Floodplain identifies a series of sites and cultural institutions along the floodplain of the 242 kilometre Yarra River (Birrarung) to examine conceptually where the ancient river and the contemporary city collide.

James Geurts

Tuesday 01 May 2018 to Tuesday 31 July 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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ORNAMENT IS FINE

This exhibition of ceramic objects by Melbourne-based designers Ben Landau and Lucile Sciallano explores a new perspective on the relationships between craft and technology.

Ben Landau Lucile Sciallano

Tuesday 01 May 2018 to Tuesday 31 July 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Top Arts 2018

An annual favourite on the NGV exhibition calendar, Top Arts showcases the exceptional work of students who have completed Art or Studio Arts as part of their Victorian Certificate of Education. Comprising work selected from applicants across Victoria, the exhibition encompasses a range of media, including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, digital and mixed media.

Friday 23 March 2018 to Sunday 15 July 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Colony: Australia 1770–1861

NGV Australia hosts two complementary exhibitions that explore Australia’s complex colonial past and the art that emerged during and in response to this period. Presented concurrently, the two exhibitions, Colony: Australia 1770–1861 and Colony: Frontier Wars, offer two parallel experiences of the settlement of Australia.

Thursday 15 March 2018 to Sunday 15 July 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco

The NGV presents a major solo exhibition of one of Australia’s most popular artists, Del Kathryn Barton. Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco reveals the artist’s imaginative and deeply sensuous world, where ornately decorated species – both human and animal – are rendered in seductive line and colour.

Del Kathryn Barton

Friday 17 November 2017 to Monday 12 March 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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7 collections

Louise Paramor: Palace Of The Republic

Louise Paramor is well known for her large-scale public art commissions, which often combine formal concerns with a pop-inspired sensibility.

Louise Paramor

Friday 17 November 2017 to Monday 12 March 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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3 collections

Our Knowing and Not Knowing: Helen Maudsley

Our Knowing and Not Knowing: Helen Maudsley is an exhibition of recent work by this senior Melbourne artist. Paintings and drawings not previously seen give an insight into Maudsley’s ongoing exploration of visual language and analogy.

Helen Maudsley

Friday 17 November 2017 to Monday 12 March 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Claudia Moodoonuthi‘Coya’ (Little One)

‘Coya’ (Little One) is the name Claudia Moodoonuthi’s Kaiadilt family on Bentinck Island have always called her, and still use today. To create this installation, Moodoonuthi collected once loved objects she found littered around Brisbane which reminded her of the fun she had growing up on Bentinck Island.

Claudia Moodoonuthi

Thursday 09 November 2017 to Thursday 01 February 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Akio Makigawa: Spirit And Memory

Akio Makigawa is remembered for his contemplative Zen-like works constructed from primary materials, including stone, steel and wood. One of the defining characteristics of his art, which presents a juxtaposition of elements and a unique sculptural language, is a balance between physicality and inner tranquillity.

Akio Makigawa

Friday 25 August 2017 to Thursday 01 February 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Gareth Sansom

Victorian artist Gareth Sansom is one of Australia’s most highly regarded painters. A pre-eminent figure of the Australian avant-garde for over 60 years, he is renowned for merging pop cultural references with intuitive and gestural mark making.

Gareth Sansom

Friday 15 September 2017 to Sunday 28 January 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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6 collections

Past Legacy: Present Tense

Past Legacy: Present Tense looks at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from city and bush studios who have made their mark by reinterpreting and transforming semiotic signs and customary objects of another time and place into something daringly different and modern.

Tiger Palpatja

Friday 01 September 2017 to Thursday 18 January 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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13 collections

NGV Collection Australian Art

The NGV Collection contains over 75,000 works of art spanning thousands of years, from the art of ancient civilisations right up to contemporary art, reflecting a multitude of different disciplines, periods, styles and inspirations. The NGV Collection really is great, it’s yours and it’s free!

Russell Drysdale Arthur Streeton John Glover Bertram Mackennal Tom Roberts John Brack George W Lambert John Brack Russell Drysdale Arthur Streeton Henry Burn E. Philips Fox

Friday 25 August 2017 to Monday 01 January 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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6 collections

The Joseph Brown Collection

In May 2004 Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE donated the major part of his incomparable collection of Australian art to the National Gallery of Victoria — the most generous single gift of works of art ever made to a public gallery in Australia.

Friday 25 August 2017 to Monday 01 January 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Brave New World: Australia 1930s

Beginning with the Great Depression and ending with the Second World War, the 1930s was characterised by both optimism and despair.

Friday 14 July 2017 to Sunday 15 October 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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7 collections

The Pool

The Pool is an architecture exhibition that represents the connection between landscape, culture and architecture as observed through the frame of a singular architectural and landscape typology – the swimming pool.

Friday 18 August 2017 to Monday 18 September 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s

Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s explores a decade in Australian art. Drawn from the NGV Collection, it provides an in depth look at a period characterised by dramatic change as artists adopted new technologies and increasingly heterogeneous approaches to making art.

Monday 01 May 2017 to Friday 01 September 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition

Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition is the first comprehensive exhibition of the New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist. An avid collector, Patrick Pound is equally interested in systems and the ordering of objects: an attempt, perhaps, to make things coherent. As Pound says, ‘to collect is to gather your thoughts through things’.

Patrick Pound

Friday 31 March 2017 to Sunday 30 July 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Top Arts 2017

Discover the creative talents and unique vision of a new generation of artists. An annual highlight of the NGV exhibition calendar, Top Arts presents exceptional work from students who have completed Art or Studio Arts as part of the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE).

Friday 24 March 2017 to Saturday 01 July 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Brook Andrew: The Right to Offend is Sacred

Brook Andrew is an artist of considerable daring and flair whose work often confronts dangerous ideas, or questions conventional readings of the world. His constantly shifting, interdisciplinary practice challenges stereotypical notions of history, identity and race, without apportioning blame or guilt.

Brook Andrew

Friday 03 March 2017 to Sunday 04 June 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Who’s Afraid Of Colour?

This exhibition brings together presentations of work by a broad range of Indigenous women artists, whose practice is unbounded by convention. It includes bold statements that explore colour and assert the politics of identity.

Samantha Hobson Destiny Deacon Queenie Mc Kenzie Julie Gough Emily Kam Kngwarray Bindi Cole Chocka Nonggirrnga Marawili Claudia Moodoonuthi

Friday 16 December 2016 to Monday 17 April 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Architecture Commission

A playful reinvention of the suburban car wash is the concept behind the 2016 NGV Architecture Commission built in the NGV’s Grollo Equiset Garden this spring. Designed by Melbourne-based M@ STUDIO Architects, the ephemeral structure is titled Haven’t you always wanted to run through all that foam at the car lovers?

Friday 14 October 2016 to Monday 17 April 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Glenn Murcutt: Architecture of Faith

Architecture of Faith is a unique exhibition providing an in-depth exploration of the new Australian Islamic Centre at Hobsons Bay, Melbourne, designed by renowned Australian architect Glenn Murcutt.

Glenn Murcutt

Tuesday 09 August 2016 to Sunday 19 February 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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John Olsen The You Beaut Country

John Olsen is one of Australia’s greatest living artists. Born in Newcastle NSW in 1928, Olsen is well known for his energetic and distinctive painting style and in particular for his lyrical depiction of the landscape. He is a major figure in the story of Australian art and his unique and sensual pictorial language presents a very personal view of the world.

John Olsen

Friday 16 September 2016 to Sunday 12 February 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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