Deep inside my heart

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An art exhibition space featuring sculptures, drawings, and textiles

Installation view, Deep inside my heart, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2023. Photo by: Eleni Kypridis

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'Art isn’t a stand-in for something. It offers the potential for experience. It’s not about something. It is something. It is a proof in itself.'

KIKI SMITH

Deep inside my heart brings together new acquisitions and key works from the national collection by major female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, exploring representations of the figure across sculpture, drawing and related disciplines. The exhibition features work by Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Spero, Ana Mendieta, Lynda Benglis, Kiki Smith, Bronwyn Oliver, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas and I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih. These artist’s works refer to a key period of the 1980s when representations of the body are used to assert politics, gender and identity.

Taking its name from Bourgeois' and Emin's collaborative work Do not abandon me, acquired by the National Gallery in 2020, Deep inside my heart also includes Smith's tapestries, Sky, Earth and Underground, as well as an extraordinary group of early sculptures by the late Oliver.

The exhibition continues to build on the National Gallery’s  Know My Name initiative which celebrates the work of all women artists with an aim to enhance understanding of their contribution to Australia’s cultural life.

Curator:
Lucina Ward, Senior Curator, International Art

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Deep inside my heart

Past Exhibition
Abstract tapestry featuring a naked woman and a snake

25 Nov 2023 – 19 May 2024

Works by major female artists who use representations of the body to assert politics, gender and identity.

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Essay

Just the Bones

Author Hannah Fink on Bronwyn Oliver’s wildly inventive sculptures, nine of which have been acquired for the national collection.

Read Time: 22 minutes