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Know My Name

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

An initiative of the National Gallery of Australia, Know My Name is a national program of exhibitions, commissions, education programs, partnerships and creative collaborations that celebrates the diversity and creativity of Australian women artists throughout history and to the present day.

In 2019 the Gallery acknowledged that only 25% of its Australian art collection and 33% of its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection was by women artists. A commitment was made to change this by establishing the Gallery’s first Guiding Principles for Gender Equity in collection development, programming and organisational structures.

Know My Name is also an invitation to the Australian cultural sector and to communities more broadly, to recognise and highlight the work of women across diverse creative practices.

The Know My Name initiative joins the global movement to increase the representation and visibility of women artists. It builds on the work of groups supporting gender equity across the arts including The Countess Report, Sheila Foundation and the #5WomenArtists campaign by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Celebrate women artists – see their art, hear their stories, and know their names.


Exhibitions & Projects


  • Major Exhibition

    Emily Kam Kngwarray

    2 Dec 2023 – 28 Apr 2024
    Level 1, Gallery 12
    Charges apply

    Wheelchair Accessible
  • Exhibition

    SaVĀge K'lub
    Te Paepae Aora’i – Where the Gods Cannot be Fooled

    A brightly lit room aordned with colourful furniture and lights.

    29 Jun – 10 Mar 2025
    Level 1, Gallery 11
    Free with ticket

    Wheelchair Accessible
  • Major Exhibition

    Know My Name
    Making it Modern

    Four panels of screens painted with oils, featuring various trees and flora

    5 Aug – 8 Oct 2023

  • Exhibition

    Haegue Yang: Changing From From To From

    27 May – 15 Oct 2023

  • New Collection

    Nan Goldin

    2 Mar – 2 Jun 2024
    Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC

  • New Collection

    Janet Fieldhouse: Sister Charm
    Art Makers x National Gallery

    Sep 2023 – Sep 2024
    Sculpture Garden
    Free

  • Project

    Lindy Lee: Ouroboros
    From 25 October 2024

    Wheelchair Accessible
  • Touring Exhibition

    Know My Name: Australian Women Artists

    On Tour
    The interior of a bedroom with bookshelves, Window and Bed;  painted in choppy strokes of yellow, green, blue and red

    13 Sep – 17 Nov 2024
    Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD

  • Conference

    Know My Name Conference
    10 – 13 November 2020

    Audio Tour Auslan Interpretation Closed Captions Audio Description
  • Exhibition

    Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 To Now

    A black and white photograph of women posed like greek statues

    14 Nov 2020 – 9 May 2021 (part one)
    12 Jun 2021 – 26 Jun 2022 (part two)

  • Past Exhibitions & Projects

Gender Equity Action Plan


On International Women's Day 2022, the National Gallery launched its inaugural Gender Equity Action Plan, the first by a major public visual arts-collecting institution in Australia.

The National Gallery’s commitment to gender equity, demonstrated by the ongoing Know My Name initiative, has influenced the way the Gallery thinks and talks about art and how the core business of building a national collection is approached. Find out more about the Gender Equity Action Plan.

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Stories & Ideas


Essay

Emily Kam Kngwarray: An artistic revolution

Kelli Cole and Hetti Perkins with Jennifer Green outline the ideas and perspectives that underpin major exhibition Emily Kam Kngwarray.

Read Time: 20 minutes
Essay

Clarice Beckett

Abstract view of a sunset with pink and purple hues

Deirdre Cannon discusses the role of women in Clarice Beckett's life, shedding fresh light on her art.

Read Time: 35 minutes
Essay

Colour, rhythm, and spirit
Unravelling Grace Cossington Smith’s sketchbook annotations

A sketch of a woman in a woven hat

Unravelling Grace Cossington Smith's sketchbook annotations.

Read Time: 33 minutes
Essay

Olive Cotton: Resisting definition

Curator Shaune Lakin discusses the small of acts of resistance evident in the work of artist Olive Cotton.

Read Time: 31 minutes
Feature

The Seed and the Flower

Curators Kelli Cole and Hetti Perkins reflect on the National Gallery's recent acquisition of a major painting by Emily Kam Kngwarray.

Read Time: 8 minutes
Essay

Grace and force

Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax discusses Modernist pioneers Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme.

Read Time: 27 minutes
Article

Prints, pigments & poison
Conserving the vibrant works by Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme

Print of children wearing green and black playing tug of war

Andrea Wise, Senior Conservator, Paper, explains the conservation preparation for the Spowers & Syme exhibition.

Read Time: 8 minutes
Essay

Nan Goldin’s lens on relationships
The ballad of sexual dependency

Colour Cibachrome photograph of a man and a woman, with the woman's arms around his neck smiling.

Curator of Photography Anne O’Hehir probes Nan Goldin’s The ballad of sexual dependency (1986) – the defining work of Goldin’s life.

Read Time: 37 minutes
Feature

Haegue Yang: Changing From From To From

Detail of artist's work.

Always on the move, Haegue Yang eludes categorisation, seemingly on the run from established artistic conventions.

Read Time: 12 minutes
Essay

A Woman's Work

Australian/British artist and Senior Lecturer, Dr Kate McMillan examines why the National Gallery’s Gender
Equity Action Plan is necessary.

Read Time: 20 minutes
Q&A

Self‑portraits of my feelings

Jennifer Higgie and Tracey Emin discuss the Gallery’s sculpture When I sleep and the Do not abandon me print series created with Louise Bourgeois.

Read Time: 26 minutes
Feature

Daily Rituals

The National Gallery’s acquisition of The fitting by Mary Cassatt reveals the artist’s radical approach to printmaking, writes Griselda Pollock.

Read Time: 8 minutes
Essay

Know My Name: A new chapter

Two women stand looking at a wall hung with prints and paintings of various sizes.

With the launch of Know My Name in 2019, the National Gallery celebrates radical, revelatory, diverse and overlooked art by women.

Read Time: 29 minutes
Essay

Your World is About to Change

American artist Kara Walker’s animation uses performance and text to tell a story ‘reminiscent of a slave testimony or folktale’.

Read Time: 14 minutes

Learning Resources


View more resources

  • Know My Name

    Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now
    Learning Resource

    Painting of woman drawing on a bathroom mirror with red lipstick

    Secondary

  • Know My Name

    Making it Modern
    Teacher's Resources

    Abstract depiction of the construction of the Harbour Bridge in Sydney, NSW

    Primary / Secondary

  • Australian Art

    Spowers & Syme
    Learning Resource

    Primary

  • Australian Art

    Spowers & Syme
    Learning Resource

    Secondary

  • Australian Art

    Skywhales: Patricia Piccinini
    Learning Resource

    Early childhood / Primary / Foundation

On Demand


View more On Demand

  • Know My Name /  Video

    Vivienne Binns (born 1940)

    Published 21 December 2022

    Video excerpt from the ABC documentary 'The Exhibitionists' on Australian female artist Vivienne Binns.

    4 minutes
  • Know My Name /  Video

    Dorrit Black (1891–1951)

    Published 21 December 2022

    Video excerpt from the ABC documentary 'The Exhibitionists' on Australian female artist Dorrit Black.

    4 minutes
  • Know My Name /  Video

    Janet Cumbrae Stewart (1883–1960)

    Published 21 December 2022

    Video excerpt from the ABC documentary 'The Exhibitionists' on Australian female artist Janet Cumbrae Stewart.

    5 minutes
  • Know My Name /  Video

    Karla Dickens (born 1967)
    Wiradjuri people

    Published 21 December 2022

    Video excerpt from the ABC documentary 'The Exhibitionists' on First Nations Australian female artist Karla Dickens, Wiradjuri people

    3 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
  • Know My Name /  Video

    Emily Kam Kngwarray (1908–1996)
    Anmatyerre people

    Published 21 December 2022

    Video excerpt from the ABC documentary 'The Exhibitionists' on Utopia artist Emily Kam Kngwarray.

    4 minutes
  • Know My Name /  Video

    Julie Rrap (born 1950)

    A landscape image of a series of nine large works of art hanging on a gallery wall

    Published 21 December 2022

    Video excerpt from the ABC documentary 'The Exhibitionists' on Australian female artist Julie Rrap.

    4 minutes
  • Know My Name /  Video

    Jane Sutherland (1853–1928)

    Published 21 December 2022

    Video excerpt from the ABC documentary 'The Exhibitionists' on Australian female artist Jane Sutherland.

    4 minutes

Publication


The Know My Name book celebrates art by women from across Australia. With more than 150 artists profiled and texts written by more than 115 women writers, the book aims to highlight the artists and their work and shift assumptions that the histories of art are male dominated. The book is part of a series of ongoing gender equity initiatives by the National Gallery to increase the representation of all women in its artistic program, collection development and organisational structures.

Edited by Assistant Director, Artistic Programs Natasha Bullock; Curator, Special Projects, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Kelli Cole; Head of Australian Art, Deborah Hart and Curator of Australian Art, Elspeth Pitt. Coordinating Editor, Meredith McKendry and Editorial Assistance, Assistant Curator of Australian Art, Yvette Dal Pozzo. Designed by Fabio Ongarato, John Wilson and Lily Hodgson from Studio Ongarato in collaboration with Kristin Thomas, National Gallery of Australia.

Contents:
Foreword - Natasha Bullock and Nick Mitzevich
Guiding Principles for Gender Equity
Artists (artists and contributors listed below)

Essays:
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now by Deborah Hart
I Remember, They Remember, We Remember by Elspeth Pitt
Jess Johnson & Simon Ward Discuss Terminus by Jaklyn Babington
The Body Electric: Images of Desire by Anne O'Hehir
Listen to the Music of the Other: Angelica Mesiti ASSEMBLY by Juliana Engberg
Patricia Piccinini Speaks About Skywhales: Every Heart Sings by Jaklyn Babington
From Little Things Big Things Grow: Tjanpi Desert Weavers by Kelli Cole

458 pages
235mm x 305mm
full colour

Hardback RRP:
$79.95 inc GST

ISBN: 9780642334879
Published: 2020

This publication is now available for purchase in store, by phone and online.

Buy Publication

Supported by

National Gallery of Australia Foundation Board Publishing Fund

Micky Allan
by Janine Burke

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori
by Tina Baum

Tracey Moffatt
by Natalie King

Jean Baptiste (Pulukatu) Apuatimi
by Margie West

Rosalie Gascoigne
by Deborah Hart

Mirka Mora
by Kendrah Morgan

Yvonne Audette
by Beckett Rozentals

Marea Gazzard
by Rebecca Edwards

Doreen Reid Nakamarra
by Tina Baum

Nyukana Baker
by Mary-Lou Nugent

Simryn Gill
by Naomi Cass

Dorothy Napangardi
by Paris Norton

Del Kathryn Barton
by Julie Ewington

Agnes Goodsir
by Karen Quinlan

Nell
by Beatrice Gralton

Clarice Beckett
by Jennifer Higgie

Agatha Gothe-Snape
by Hannah Mathews

Ann Newmarch
by Julie Robinson

Vivienne Binns
by Virginia Fraser

Julie Gough
by Mary Knights

Rose Nolan
by Sally Foster

Dorrit Black
by Lara Nicholls

Elizabeth Gower
by Anja Loughhead

Susan Norrie
by Kelly Gellatly

Elise Blumann
by Simeran Maxwell

Lola Greeno
by Zoe Rimmer

Lena Nyadbi
by Margie West

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists' Co-operative
by Bronwyn Bancroft

Joan Grounds
by Yvette Dal Pozzo

Mel O'Callaghan
by Elyse Goldfinch

Stella Bowen
by Lola Wilkins

GW Bot
by Yvette Dal Pozzo

Bronwyn Oliver
by Hannah Fink

Joan Brassil
by Susan Best

Fiona Hall
by Julie Ewington

Margaret Olley
by Christine France

Pat Brassington
by Juliana Engberg

Barbara Hanrahan
by Maria Zagala

Raquel Ormella
by Rebecca Coates

Lauren Brincat
by Talia Linz

Gwyn Hanssen Piggott
by Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax

Jill Orr
by Anne Marsh

Florence Broadhurst
by Anne-Marie Van de Ven

Melinda Harper
by Carolyn Barnes

Ewa Pachucka
by Susan Best

Frances (Budden) Phoenix
by Alison Alder

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro
by Beatrice Gralton

Klytie Pate
by Emma Busowsky Cox

Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley
by Victoria Perin

Louise Hearman
by Nicola Teffer

Rosslynd Piggott
by Jane Devery

Barbara Campbell
by Jacqueline Millner

Mona Hessing
by Grace Cochrane

Kerrie Poliness
by Carolyn Barnes

Cressida Campbell
by Anne Ryan

Joy Hester
by Denise Mimmocchi

Margaret Preston
by Deborah Edwards

Maria Fernanda Cardoso
by Rachel Kent

Nora Heysen
by Catherine Speck

Thea Proctor
by Lara Nicholls

Ethel Carrick
by Emma Kindred

Margel Hinder
by Denise Mimmocchi

r e a
by Genevieve Greives

Dora Chapman
by Margaret Worth

Joyce Hinterding
by Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax

Jacky Redgate
by Helen Ennis

Maree Clarke
by Kimberley Moulton

Carol Jerrems
by Anne O'Hehir

Hilda Rix Nicholas
by Anna Gray

Barbara Cleveland
by Bree Richards

Helen Johnson
by Claire G Coleman

Freda Robertshaw
by Sally Quin

Sarah Contos
by Jaklyn Babington

Narelle Jubelin
by Susan Best

Romance Was Born
by Jaklyn Babington

Grace Cossington Smith
by Deborah Hart

Mabel Juli
by Carly Lane

Joan Ross
by Emma Kindred

Olive Cotton
by Helen Ennis

Kitty Kantilla (Kutuwalumi Purawarrumpatu)
by Judith Ryan

Caroline Rothwell
by Anne Loxley

Brenda L. Croft
by Hetti Perkins

Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson
by Rebecca Evans

Julie Rrap
by Victoria Lynn

Grace Crowley
by Elena Taylor

Ken Family Collaborative; Freda Brady, Sandra Ken, Tjungkaraken Ken, Paniny Mick, Maringka Tunkin, Tingila Yaritji Young
by Lisa Slade

Yhonnie Scarce
by Tina Baum

Philippa Cullen
by Diana Baker Smith

Inge King
by Jane Eckett

Sally Smart
by Liz Nowell

Janet Cumbrae Stewart
by Juliette Peers

Emily Kame Kngwarreye
by Kelli Cole

Gemma Smith
by Julie Ewington

Elisabeth Cummings
by Sioux Garside

Yvonne Koolmatrie
by Freja Carmichael

Ethel Spowers
by Cathy Leahy

Virginia Cuppaidge
by Una Rey

Vida Lahey
by Juliette Peers

Robyn Stacey
by Alice Clanachan

Anne Dangar
by Rebecca Edwards

Rosemary Laing
by Victoria Lynn

Miriam Stannage
by Lee Kinsella

Janet Dawson
by Angela Goddard

Pat Larter
by Diana Baker Smith

Madonna Staunton
by Elspeth Pitt

eX de Medici
by Yvette Dal Pozzo

Janet Laurence
by Rachel Kent

Violet Teague
by Jane Clarke

Destiny Deacon & Virginia Fraser
by Magdalene Keaney

Lindy Lee
by Anne O'Hehir

Kathy Temin
by Geraldine Barlow

Karla Dickens
by Tina Baum

Fiona Lowry
by Geraldine Barlow

Thanakupi
by Judith Ryan

Margaret Dodd
by Susan Charlton

Erica McGilchrist
by Linda Short

Esme Timbery
by Genevieve O’Callaghan

Julie Dowling
by Carol Dowling

Queenie McKenzie
by Hannah Presley

Aida Tomescu
by Angela Goddard

Lynda Draper
by Rebecca Edwards

Marie McMahon
by Anna Zagala

Jessie Traill
by Jo Oliver

Mikala Dwyer
by Helen Hughes

Shirley MacNamara
by Katina Davidson

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn
by Bronwyn Campbell

Bonita Ely
by Alex Martinis Roe

Bea Maddock
by Elspeth Pitt

Christian Waller
by Emma Busowsky Cox

Mary Featherston
by Denise Whitehouse

Marion Mahony Griffin
by Marina Warner

Jenny Watson
by Sally Brand

Anne Ferran
by Anne O'Hehir

Hilarie Mais
by Manya Sellers

Judy Watson
by Louise Martin-Chew

Janet Fieldhouse
by Katherine Russell

Noŋgirrŋa Marawili
by Tina Baum

Justene Williams
by Lucina Ward

Emily Floyd
by Anne Loxley

Dr B. Marika
by Ellen van Neerven

Margaret Worth
by Mary Eagle

Fiona Foley
by Marina Tyquiengco

Linda Marrinon
by Charlotte Day

Judith Wright
by Geraldine Barlow

Sue Ford
by Maggie Finch

Helen Maudsley
by Pip Wallis

Lena Yarinkura
by Michelle Culpitt and Lena Yarinkura

Mari Funaki
by Jane Devery

Sanné Mestrom
by Lisa Slade

Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋgu
by Tina Baum

Detail photo of open page of the Know My Name book
Detail photo of open page of the Know My Name book
Detail photo of open page of the Know My Name book
detail of an open page of the Know My Name book
Photograph of three versions of the same book, all in different colours. One is standing upright on top of two laying flat.

Partners & Donors


To find out about Know My Name partnership opportunities contact the National Gallery's Partnerships team.

Principal Patron

  • Tim Fairfax AC

Strategic Partners

  • Visit Canberra ACT Government Visit the website for Visit Canberra ACT Government
  • Channel 7 Visit the website for Channel 7
  • ooh Media Visit the website for ooh Media

Major patrons

Exhibition Patrons

  • Naomi Milgrom Foundation Visit the website for Naomi Milgrom Foundation
  • Neilson Foundation
  • Medich Foundation Visit the website for Medich Foundation
  • The Balnaves Foundation Visit the website for The Balnaves Foundation
  • The Keir Foundation Visit the website for The Keir Foundation
  • National Gallery Foundation
    National Gallery Foundation Logo

Major Partners

  • Qantas Visit the website for Qantas
  • Citi Visit the website for Citi

Supporting Partners

  • Doma Hotels Visit the website for Doma Hotels
    Doma Hotels logo
  • Archie Rose Distilling Co Visit the website for Archie Rose Distilling Co
  • Veuve Clicquot Visit the website for Veuve Clicquot

Publication Partner

  • NGA Foundation Board Publishing Fund

Cultural Partners

  • Australia Council for the Arts Visit the website for Australia Council for the Arts
  • ABC Visit the website for ABC
  • Countess Report Visit the website for Countess Report
  • Wikimedia Australia Visit the website for Wikimedia Australia
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts Visit the website for National Museum of Women in the Arts
  • Kambri at ANU Visit the website for Kambri at ANU
  • Sheila Foundation Visit the website for Sheila Foundation
  • Vogue Australia Visit the website for Vogue Australia

Education Partners

  • Australian National University (ANU) Visit the website for Australian National University (ANU)
  • University of NSW Visit the website for University of NSW
  • University of Melbourne Visit the website for University of Melbourne

Media Partners

  • The Sydney Morning Herald Visit the website for The Sydney Morning Herald
  • The Age Visit the website for The Age
  • The Design Files Visit the website for The Design Files

Promotional and Retail Partners

  • Audi Centre Canberra Visit the website for Audi Centre Canberra
  • Flash Graphics Visit the website for Flash Graphics
  • Capital Brewing Co Visit the website for Capital Brewing Co
  • Mud Australia Visit the website for Mud Australia
  • Bonnie and Neil Visit the website for Bonnie and Neil

Supporting Patrons

American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia with the generous support of Geoffrey Pack and Leigh Pack
Antionette Albert
Sue Cato
Penny Clive AO
Helen Cook
Martin Dickson AM and Susie Dickson
Gandel Philanthropy
Kerry Gardner AM
Pauline Harding
Colin Hindmarsh and Barbara Hindmarsh
Phillip Keir and Sarah Benjamin
Alana Kirby
Dr Andrew Lu OAM and Dr Geoffrey Lancaster AM
Elizabeth Pakchung
Suzannah Plowman
Tom Pongrass
Penelope Seidler AM
The Sun Foundation
Rhonda White AO
Ray Wilson OAM

Contributors

Lenore Adamson
Philip Bacon AM
Kay Bryan
Sue Dyer and Steve Dyer
Emeritus Professor Barbara van Ernst AM
Sarah Greer and Damian Clothier QC
Judy Gray and Rod Pilbeam
Wayne Kratzmann
Josh Milani and Danielle Milani
Jan Murphy and Sydney Williams QC
Gary Sands
Dr Sally Sojan
John Story AO and Georgina Story
Wendy Webb

Supporters of the 2020 Gala Fund

The Hon Richard Alston AO
The Aranday Foundation
Philip Bacon AM
Julian Beaumont OAM and Annie Beaumont
Berg Family Foundation
Tony Berg AM and Carol Berg
Kay Bryan
Andrew Buchanan PSM and Kate Buchanan
Robyn Burke and Graham Burke AO
Burton Taylor Foundation
Robert Cadona
Andrew Cameron AM and Cathy Cameron
Terry Campbell AO and Christine Campbell
Maurice Cashmere
Sue Cato
Dr Andrew Clouston
Marilyn Darling AC
The Hon Ashley Dawson‑Damer AM
Tim Fairfax AC and Gina Fairfax
Michael Gannon and Helen Gannon
Julian Goldenberg and Neta Saint
Richard Griffin AM and Jay Griffin
Bill Hayward and Alison Hayward
Sue Hewitt
Sam Hill-Smith
Meredith Hinchliffe
John Hindmarsh AM and Rosanna Hindmarsh OAM
Neil Hobbs and Karina Harris
Jo Horgan and Peter Wetenhall
Mark Hughes
Wayne Kratzmann
Paul Lindwall and Dr Joanne Frederiksen
Dr Andrew Lu OAM and Dr Geoffrey Lancaster AM
Sue Maple-Brown AM
Suzanne Maple-Brown and Anthony Maple-Brown
Dr Michael Martin and Elizabeth Popovski
Fiona Martin-Weber and Tom Hayward
Robert Meller
Naomi Milgrom AO
Jan Minchin
Baillieu Myer AC and Sarah Myer
Rupert Myer AO and Annabel Myer
Roslyn Packer AC
Elizabeth Pakchung
Kenneth Reed AM
Gary Sands and Garth Richardson
Diane Smith-Gander AO
Jane Smyth OAM and Dr Rick Smyth
Ezekiel Solomon AM
Sullivan Strumpf Fine Art
Urban Art Projects
Sally White OAM and Geoffrey White OAM
Ray Wilson OAM

Related


Know My Name /  Video

Know My Name: Curator’s Talk with Deborah Hart and Elspeth Pitt

Photo of 2 brunette women inside an exhibition space with colourful artworks

Published 14 November 2020

Curators Deborah Hart and Elspeth Pitt discuss the Gallery’s major exhibition Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now.

Audio Tour Auslan Interpretation Open Captioning
57 mins
Article

Prints, pigments & poison
Conserving the vibrant works by Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme

Print of children wearing green and black playing tug of war

Andrea Wise, Senior Conservator, Paper, explains the conservation preparation for the Spowers & Syme exhibition.

Read Time: 8 minutes
In Conversation

Sally Smart: An interview by Natasha Bullock

A picture of a woman in an art installation

Natasha Bullock sits down with Sally Smart, one of Australia’s most significant artists.

Read Time: 10 minutes
Article

BHENJI RA — Know My Name

National Gallery facade lit up with colourful video projections

Shaune Lakin takes a look at artist Bhenji Ra, whose practice combines dance, choreography, video, installation and club events.

Read Time: 9 minutes
Feature

Tjanpi Desert Weavers

Annieka Skinner introduces us to the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, and to celebrate twenty-five years of success, this social enterprise is creating a large

Read Time: 8 minutes

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
Feature

‘MARY’S BLOOD NEVER FAILED ME’
Work by women in the Australian national collection

A landscape image of a series of nine large works of art hanging on a gallery wall

NATASHA BULLOCK and ELSPETH PITT uncover how the National Gallery is reassessing its approach to collecting work by women artists.

Read Time: 10 minutes
In Conversation

Margaret Worth: an interview by Elspeth Pitt

Elspeth Pitt chats with Margaret Worth about her pioneering work in the fields of abstraction and environmental art.

Read Time: 14 minutes
Article

Wonder Woman

Artist Patricia Piccinini discusses the creation of her Skywhale family.

Read Time: 14 minutes
Feature

Nature and nurture: a study of Patricia Piccinini’s work

Hot air balloon, in the shape of a whale holding it's babies, floating in the sky

Jaklyn Babington explores the work of artist Patricia Piccinini and her fantastical creatures that suggest what it means to be human.

Read Time: 9 minutes
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