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Artistic Relationships: Anne O’Hehir and Rebecca Edwards on Anne Dangar and Grace Crowley

Fri 14 Feb 2025, 12pm

Wheelchair Accessible Audio Tour
Work of art

R.B. Kitaj
Photography and philosophy
1964
Work of art

Edward Cranstone
Photography Lefévre Cranstone
c. 1935
Artist Profile

unknown photographer

Born 1920
Artist Profile

unidentified photographer
Story

James Tylor
Photo essay

Kaurna artist JAMES TYLOR uses the historical 19th century photographic process of the Becquerel daguerreotype to create contemporary images.

Read Time: 6 minutes
Story

Conserving Givenchy
Photo essay

'Fabric is the most extraordinary thing; it has life.' Hubert Givenchy

Read Time: 7 minutes
On Demand / Audio

Anne O’Hehir and Shaune Lakin on Photography

Published 15 November 2023

Hear Curators Shaune Lakin and Anne O'Hehir concider how artists represent the human form to address themes of identity, sexuality, and community.

45 minutes
On Demand / Video

Behind the scenes: Photographing our Linda Jackson collection

Published 28 September 2020

Take a peek behind the scenes of photographing Linda Jackson's collection for display in the Know My Name Exhibition.

38 seconds
Learning Resource

Resolution: New Indigenous Photomedia
Learning Resource
Learning Resource

Max and Olive: The photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain
Learning Resource
Filming and photography

Request permission for filming or photography at the National Gallery.
Robert McFarlane
1942–2023
Work of art

Edward Cranstone
Photography Lefévre Cranstone
c. 1935
Work of art

Carol Jerrems
Photography students Heidelberg Tech.
1974
Artist Profile

Queensland Photographic Co
Artist Profile

unknown photographer
Story

Photo blog: Cazneaux portrait restored to former glory

National Gallery Senior Paper Conservator Andrea Wise does a miraculous restoration of Harold Cazneaux’s portrait of Doris Zinkeisen from 1929

Read Time: 7 minutes
Story

Travelling through images: David Hockney in Mexico

Curatorial Assistant of International Art David Greenhalgh explores what David Hockney can do with too much Polaroid film.

Read Time: 17 minutes
On Demand / Video

Art Talk with Anne O'Hehir
Robyn Stacey’s 'Untitled (Girl in blond wig on floor)' and photographs from her series 'Kiss kiss bang bang' (1985).

Published 29 September 2021

Anne O’Hehir, Curator discusses Robyn Stacey’s 'Untitled (Girl in blond wig on floor)' and photographs from her series 'Kiss kiss bang bang'.

Audio Tour

10 mins
On Demand / Audio

Judith Nangala Crispin
Assembly (The Modelled Forms)

Published 20 February 2023

Audio Tour

10 minutes
Learning Resource

Diane Arbus: American Portraits
Learning Resource
Learning Resource

ASSEMBLY
Learning Resource
Ian North
1945–2024

We remember the National Gallery’s founding Curator of Photography, Ian North AM, who passed away on 14 May 2024.
Weddings

Your wedding should be nothing short of iconic. At the National Gallery, Canberra’s most spectacular and sophisticated venue, it will be just that.
Work of art

John Nixon
The society for other photography
1981
Work of art

Edward Steichen
Experiment in three-color photography
1903
Artist Profile

Photographie J Michelez

France
Artist Profile

unknown photographers
Story

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
Story

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

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
On Demand / Video

Māori Markings: Tā Moko

Published 2019
On Demand / Video

Ronnie Van Hout

Published 2017
Learning Resource

ASSEMBLY
Learning Resource
Learning Resource

Single Channel
Learning Resource
Copyright
Reproductions

The Rights and Permissions department at the National Gallery provides access and licenses to a range of image reproductions of works of art.
Podcast

Podcasts

Hear about art, artists and the national collection with our series of talks, lectures and interviews.
Work of art

unknown designer, UNKNOWN
Australian Centre for Photography Workshop
c.1982
Work of art

Various photographers
Pictorial Photography in America, volume 4
1926
Artist Profile

Royal Photographic Studio

1866-1876
Artist Profile

Talma Photographic Studio

1893-1942
Australia
Story

Ren Hang: Desire and our freedom to express it

Dr Shaune Lakin, Senior Curator of Photography, examines the work of Chinese photographer, poet and provocateur, the late Ren Hang.

Read Time: 8 minutes
Story

Julia Margaret Cameron’s Christabel 1866

Shaun Lakin and Anne O’Hehir explore the provenance of the National Gallery’s print of one of Julia Margaret Cameron’s most famous photographs.

Read Time: 20 minutes
On Demand / Video

Thursday Art Talk: The Body Electric

Published 09 September 2020

Join The Body Electric exhibition curators Shaun Lakin and Anne O’Hehir in conversation with program producer Celeste Aldahn.

Auslan Interpretation Closed Captions
On Demand / Audio

Anne O’Hehir on Queer women artists in the Collection Study Room
Women artists in focus

Published 15 March 2024

Listen to Anne O’Hehir (Curator, Photography) in the Collection Study Room for a close look at Queer women’s photography in the national collection.

Audio Tour

43 mins
Learning Resource

Appropriation and Reclamation
Learning Resource
Research and Collections

A specialist collection of publications and archives supports the National Gallery’s art collection, exhibition and programs.

Closed Captions
Contact Research Library
Work of art

Mervyn Bishop, Murri people
Is there an Aboriginal photography?, 1989
1989
Work of art

Alfred Stieglitz
German and Viennese photography, March , 1906
Artist Profile

American & Australasian Photographic Co.
Artist Profile

Paris Photographic Company

1875-1884
Story

Evidence of an absence: Man Ray at Gemini

Read Time: 33 minutes
Story

The Curator Series

Get to know the National Gallery curatorial team as they share insights into key works from the collection.

Read Time: 30 minutes
On Demand / Video

Garden of the East

Published 27 August 2014
Kenneth E. Tyler Collection

Man Ray

One of 78 artists who collaborated with master printer Kenneth Tyler.
Conference

Know My Name Conference
10 – 13 November 2020

The Know My Name Conference celebrates all women as artists, activists, researchers, intellectuals and mentors now and into the future.

Audio Tour Auslan Interpretation Closed Captions Audio Description
Work of art

Ralph Steiner
Photographer photographing
c. 1920s
Work of art

Henry Talbot
Fashion photograph for Pacific Photographic Fair
1964-65
Artist Profile

Adelaide Photographic Company [the]
Artist Profile

Dai-Nippon Photographers At Seiganji Temple
Story

Enlightening the National Gallery

We look back on the artist commissions that have illuminated the façade of the National Gallery building as part of Canberra’s Enlighten Festival.

Read Time: 13 minutes
Story

Sex by the pool in California Cool

Anne O'Hehir uncovers the west coast look created through the lens of the sun-bathed LA photographers of the 1960s and 70s.

Read Time: 17 minutes
Research Projects

The Gallery collaborates with university and industry partners on research projects that extend our understanding of art and its importance to life.
Media

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