Know My Name: Australian Women Artists

Touring Exhibition
29 Nov 2024 – 23 Feb 2025
Rockhampton Museum of Art, QLD
The interior of a bedroom with bookshelves, Window and Bed; painted in choppy strokes of yellow, green, blue and red

Grace Cossington Smith, Interior in yellow, 1962-64, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1965

‘One hundred years ago art museums were seen as sanctified spaces for art from the past; repositories of recognised greatness. That recognition was almost entirely gender-specific: the great artists of the past were male—or so went conventional wisdom. Today those certainties have been swept away; society has changed profoundly in the past 50 years and women have been claiming their place in every area of cultural life.’

Julie Ewington

About

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists tells a new story of Australian art. Looking at moments in which women created new forms of art and cultural commentary, it highlights creative and intellectual relationships between artists across time.

The Know My Name touring exhibition follows the National Gallery’s major two-part exhibition of Australian women artists. It is part of a series of ongoing gender equity initiatives by the Gallery to increase the representation of all women in its artistic program.

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition supported by the Australian Government through Visions of Australia.

Curators:
Elspeth Pitt, Senior Curator, Australian Art
Deirdre Cannon, Assistant Curator, Australian Art

Supported by

  • National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program
  • Visions of Australia Logo

Dates & Venues

Touring Dates

  • Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
    25 Nov 2023 – 18 Feb 2024
  • Horsham Regional Art Gallery, VIC
    2 Mar – 19 May 2024
  • Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW
    31 May – 25 Aug 2024
  • Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD
    13 Sep – 17 Nov 2024
  • Rockhampton Museum of Art, QLD
    29 Nov 2024 – 23 Feb 2025
  • Araluen Arts Centre, NT
    14 Mar – 11 May 2025
  • Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, WA
    30 May – 30 Aug 2025

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists Audio Tour

A photo of a necklace made of different types of shells of different shapes and sizes, some of them pearlescent, others white and stripey

Lola Greeno, Pakana people, Shell necklace, 1995, Cockles, Maireener, cat's teeth and button shells on cotton string, 136 h cm, 2 w cm, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1998 © Lola Greeno

Hear directly from artists discussing their practices and work featured in Know My Name: Australian Women Artists.

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A woman is sitting in font of a large wall of many portraits in a large gallery space

Know My Name celebrates the work of all women artists with an aim to enhance understanding of their contribution to Australia’s cultural life.

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Know My Name Conference: Keynote Address – Genevieve Grieves

a woman in a bright shirt is smiling and looking at the camera. She is standing in front of a bright painting

Published 22 December 2020

Audio Tour Audio Description
18 mins
Major Exhibition

Anne Dangar

Dec. 7, 2024—April 27, 2025

This major exhibition explores the work of Australian-born Anne Dangar (1885-1951), a pioneering exponent of Cubism in the twentieth century.

Micky Allan: A Live-in Show

A photograph of a woman at a kitchen table

Yvette Dal Pozzo explores the significance of Allan’s 1978 Live-in Show and shares how it is being re-imagined in a contemporary context.

Read Time: 37 minutes
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Artists in conversation: Jo Lloyd

Black and White Image of Jo Lloyd dancing

Published 19 November 2020

Contemporary dancer Jo Lloyd discusses her Know My Name performance commission, Archive the archive.

Audio Tour Auslan Interpretation Open Captioning
45 mins
Feature

Note the quiet achiever

Black and white photograph of The Commonwealth Art Advisory Board c. 1958 Standing left to right: Robert Campbell, Sir Daryl Lindsay, Bill Cumming, Douglas Pratt, Sir William Dargie, Seated: Sir William Ashton (Chairman), Valda Leehy (Secretary) Photo: courtesy Jean Campbell, Canberra

Behind every great museum or gallery director is a quiet and conscientious arts administrator – Valda Leehy MBE.

Read Time: 13 minutes
Feature

As the mind sees it

Joan Mitchell sits on a stool in front of two large painted canvasses

A house in France brought different inspirations to Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet, writes David Greenhalgh.

Read Time: 12 minutes
Know My Name /  Video

Nora Heysen (1911–2003)

Published 21 December 2022

Video excerpt from the ABC documentary 'The Exhibitionists' on Australian female artist Nora Heysen.

7 minutes
In Conversation

Reaching for the stars
Lindy Lee

Woman artist sitting on her studio floor holding a sculpture maquette

Commissioned to make her first immersive public sculpture for the Gallery's 40th anniversary, we sat down with Lindy Lee to talk art, life and loss.

Read Time: 16 minutes
Major Exhibition

Ethel Carrick

Ethel Carrick, Esquisse en Australie [Sketch in Australia] 1908, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, Purchased 2023

Dec. 7, 2024—April 27, 2025

This major exhibition of the work of British born Ethel Carrick (1872-1952) includes over 100 works from private and public collections.