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Sarah Lucas, TITTIPUSSIDAD, 2018, installation view, Project 1: Sarah Lucas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021 © the artist

Established in 2021, the National Gallery’s Project Series highlights the work of leading contemporary artists from around the world.

The Project Series includes focus exhibitions that celebrate and support the work of living artists and demonstrate the Gallery’s commitment to the art of today.

Sarah Lucas, SUGAR, 2020, installation view, Project 1: Sarah Lucas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021 © the artist

PROJECT 1: SARAH LUCAS
2021

Recent bodies of work by one of England’s most influential and unapologetic artists.

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Kara Walker, Your World is About to Change (installation view), 2019, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased with the assistance of the Poynton Bequest in celebration of the National Gallery of Australia's 40th anniversary, 2022 © Kara Walker

PROJECT 2: KARA WALKER
2022

Leading North American artist Kara Walker explores the narratives of race, gender, and sexuality.

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Angelica Mesiti, ASSEMBLY (production still), 2019, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, image courtesy and © the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, photograph: Bonnie Elliott

PROJECT 3: ANGELICA MESITI
2022

Angelica Mesiti probes the nature of connection in ASSEMBLY, a three-channel video installation commissioned by the Australia Council for the Arts for the 58th Venice Biennale.

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Justene Williams, Strong Woman from Victory over the Sun (performance documentation), 2016, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2021 © Justene Williams. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Gadigal Nura/Sydney

PROJECT 4: JUSTENE WILLIAMS
Victory over the Sun
2022

Justene Williams’ performance Victory over the Sun reimagines the Futurist opera that caused a riot in the streets of Saint Petersburg in 1913.

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