Presented as part of NGV's large-scale, gallery-wide exhibition, Melbourne Now, Community Hall is inspired by the rich history of Australian community halls and the important role they play in Victoria’s metropolitan and regional communities....
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Maree Clarke: Ancestral Memories
Covering more than three decades of artistic output, the exhibition traverses Maree Clarke’s multidisciplinary practice across photography, printmaking, sculpture, jewellery, video, glass, and more....
Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco
Del Kathryn Barton's '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....
Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s
You have to admire an artist who volunteers ‘dick-and-balls’ doodles as art. Indeed, the pink and plump phalluses of Jeff Gibson’s Screwballs (1992) engage in an irreverent critique typical of Australian art in the 1990s. Laughing at the highbrow definitions of ego that accompany the images,...
Mid-Century Modern: Australian Furniture Design
‘Mid-Century Modern: Australian Furniture Design’ is the first major exhibition dedicated to Australian furniture of the 1940s to the 1970s; a period of dynamic social change as Australians embraced modern ideals to encapsulate a new, cosmopolitan mode of living characterised by innovative and flexible furniture design....
Jon Campbell: just sing what you feel
An exciting new installation by Melbourne-based artist, Jon Campbell, encourages people of all ages to contribute to, and play with, contemporary art and music....