This exhibition pulls together new acquisitions and major works from the national collection, focusing on representations of the figure in art by women practitioners of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Spero, Ana Mendieta, Lynda Benglis, Marlene Dumas, Kiki Smith, Bronwyn Oliver, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, and I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih – particularly works from the 1980s that used the body to assert politics, gender and identity.
Highlights include Smith’s tapestries Sky, Earth, and Underground and a series of early sculptures by the late Oliver.
Bronwyn Oliver, Os (bone), 1985. National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023. Courtesy National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
National Gallery of Australia
25 November 2023 to 19 May 2024
Australian Capital Territory
