Art on the road: Travel in Worldwide

Carol Cains (Head Curator, International Art), Shaune Lakin (Senior Curator, Photography) and Anne O'Hehir (Curator, Photography) have a close look at the impact of travel on artists in the Worldwide collection display.

From Anna Atkins’ botanical cyanotypes, to the 1830’s Japanese travel prints of Hiroshige Utagawa, and Helen E. Lambert’s travel album, Who and what we saw at the Antipodes (1868–70), this talk focusses on how artists captured the world around them when travelling away from home.

Worldwide is structured around pivotal works in the collection inspired by the National Gallery’s founding history. Working across time, place and media, the Worldwide collection display draws together some of the greatest achievements of artists from Australia, Asia, the Pacific, the Americas and Europe.

It celebrates the diversity of art and cultures across the globe and shows how fundamental ideas such as landscape, abstraction, memory, the body and the power of art itself continue to resonate, demonstrating the interconnectedness of culture and our experience of the world.

Art Talks are a free weekly program. Hear from artists, curators and experts on the works in our collection and exhibition program.