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Defying Empire: Exhibition Overview

3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial

Published 2017

Tina Baum curator of ‘Defying Empire’ talks about the exhbition. Kirsten Paisley, Deputy Director also talks about the exhibition.

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Marrnyula # 2 Mununggurr, Djapu people
Mana ga Djukurr
1995

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Brent Harris 'Deities series I-III'

Published 17 December 2010

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Ben Quilty on ‘Defying Empire’
3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial

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Published 2017

Australian Art /  Video

Fiona Hall ‘Wrong Way Time’

Published 2016

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This Place: Artist Series – Vernon Ah Kee

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Published 24 February 2020

Follow Vernon Ah Kee as he prepares to paint his grandmother’s portrait and revisits the people and places that shaped him.

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7 mins
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Teens x Know My Name: PRINCI and Carla Zimbler

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Published 2020

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Florence Fuller 'A golden hour' c.1905

Published 2013

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Judy Watson & Helen Johnson In Conversation
Reconciliation Week

Two women sit on a timber bench, within a gallery space, surrounded by paintings and work of art suspended from the ceiling and walls

Published 02 June 2022

Hear how artists Judy Watson, Waanyi people, and Helen Johnson have forged a dialogue on the roles of women in contemporary and colonial Australia.

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63 mins
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Working with Country with Dr Matilda House & Paul Girrawah House, Robert Andrew and Nicole Foreshew

Published 05 April 2022

Ceremony artists and curator Hetti Perkins come together for a discussion on contemporary artistic and cultural practices of working with country.

58 minutes
First Nations /  Video

Barrina South
Shifting

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Published 08 August 2023

'Shifting' by Barrina South is an ekphrastic poem, commissioned in partnership with Red Room Poetry, connecting with works in the national collection.

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2 mins
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Tune into Art – The Urban Gallery by Hayds

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Published 02 November 2015

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Artist talk: Karla Dickens
Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial

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Published 2017

First Nations /  Video

National Consultation – Indigenous Arts Leadership Program
Supported by Wesfarmers Arts

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Published 30 June 2021

The Gallery is embarking on national consultation to help guide the development of the Indigenous Arts Leadership program.

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Exhibition Opening: unDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial

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Published 22 May 2012

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Lindy Lee 'The tyranny and liberation of distance'

Published 15 March 2019

Artist Lindy Lee discusses her work displayed in Infinite Conversations: Asian-Australian Artistic Exchange at the National Gallery in 2018.

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Imants Tillers 'Terra Incognita'

A video still of a man standing in front of a large artwork in a gallery space

Published 03 February 2017

Australian Art /  Video

Sidney Nolan: The Ned Kelly Series

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Published 2016

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Curator Jaklyn Babington on Yayoi Kusama
#MuseumFromHome

Published 12 April 2023

Jaklyn Babington, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, guides us through Yayoi Kusama's SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS.

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Hugh Ramsay: Curatorial Introduction

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Published 01 August 2020

Head of Australian Art at the National Gallery, Dr Deborah Hart, introduces us to a young and talented Hugh Ramsay.

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Rosenquist

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Published 2013

Artist Interviews /  Audio

Rosemary Madigan Interview
James Gleeson Oral History Collection

Wooden sculpture.

Published 2015

James Gleeson interviews Rosemary Madigan, 1 January 1979.

45 minutes
Know My Name /  Video

Know My Name Conference: Future Practices

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Published 12 November 2020

What do we want from the future? And how can we work together to enable diverse voices and practices in the arts?

Audio Tour Closed Captions
92 minutes
Australian Art /  Video

Artists in Conversation: Polly Borland and Claire Lambe

Published 2020

Curator Anne O’Hehir leads a conversation with Polly Borland and Claire Lambe about sex, pleasure, and desire in The Body Electric.

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30 mins
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NVAEC 2019 Day 1 – Keynote: John Armstrong

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Published 14 February 2019

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Politics of Performance with Joel Bray, S.J Norman & Darrell Sibosado

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Published 05 April 2022

Ceremony artists and curator Hetti Perkins come together for a panel discussion on First Nations perspectives on contemporary performance practices.

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Betty Churcher AO Memorial Oration 2024
with Dame Quentin Bryce AD, CVO

Published 11 October 2024

Join Dame Quentin Bryce AD, CVO for the 2024 Betty Churcher AO Memorial Oration.

Audio Tour Auslan Interpretation Open Captioning
59 minutes
Art Talks /  Audio

Nature as inspiration
With Carol Cains, Rebecca Edwards and Shaune Lakin

A spotted pumpkin.

Published 11 October 2024

Curators, Carol Cains, Rebecca Edwards and Shaune Lakin introduce a new collection display which focuses on artists inspired by the natural world.

Audio Tour
44 minutes
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Modern Portraits: Francis Chit, Khubiram Gopila and Bhuralal Motilal

manorath Sri Nathji. Female devotees before Srinathji, and Krishna lila in the background

Published 04 October 2024

Explore portrait painting, the photographic image and modernity in the Worldwide Collection

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41 minutes
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David Greenhalgh on Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao

Photograph of a smiling man

Published 06 September 2024

Hear about Gauguin’s time in Tahiti and how this new environment shaped his work.

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41 minutes
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Feeling the Square – David Sequeira on Josef Albers

Photo of a man wearing a red shirt and crossing his arms

Published 30 August 2024

Hear about Albers’ visionary and influential understandings of the value and resonance of colour.

Audio Tour
49 minutes
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Françoise Schneiders on F*ck you, I’m not your Dusky Maiden

Blurry black and white photograph of a person's face

Published 05 July 2024

A direct response to Gauguin’s depictions of Pasifika people, challenging the tropes of Tahitian women as ‘dusky maidens'.

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37 mins
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