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  • Painting of an older man wearing a white shirt green vest and navy blue jacket with a red and white spotted neck tie, standing in front of a textured wall
    Jeffrey Smart

    The Sitters

  • First Nations

    Remembering Mrs N. Yunupiŋu

  • Four people are walking in a large painting storage room, with many paintings hanging in tall wire storage racks
    First Nations

    Leading the Way

    By Ian R.T. Colless

  • Black and white print of the words 'clear vision' written backwards
    The Kenneth Tyler Collection

    Reading, writing and performing clear vision

    By Ruby Rossiter

  • Colour photo of Pat Gilmour in an art studio
    The Kenneth Tyler Collection

    Pat Gilmour (1932-2021)

    By Jane Kinsman

  • Photograph of Sarah Lucas in front of her sculptures
    Sarah Lucas

    Slipping Through the Veil

    By Peter Johnson

  • Photograph of conservator checking small object with light

    Inside Vivienne Binns’s Tower of Babel

    By Alysha Redston

  • Colour print of man and woman staring at each other in the ocean. Print style reminiscent of traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints
    The Kenneth Tyler Collection

    Masami Teraoka & ukiyo-e printmaking

    By Kira Godoroja-Prieckaerts

  • Image of Dr Matilda House and Paul Girrawah House in front of a scar tree
    Ceremony

    Madhan warrugarra wirimbirra gulbalanha

    By Paul Girrawah House

  • A portrait of Dylan River standing outside.
    Ceremony

    Dylan River

    By Kelli Cole

  • Hetti Perkins stands in front of two artworks.
    Ceremony

    Ceremony Curator's Letter

    By Hetti Perkins

  • Two woman in bright hats, jewellery, sunglasses and dresses have their arms around each other, posing for a photograph
    Know My Name

    Two of a kind

    By Georgina Safe

  • Wooden banner intricately carved with Maori design

    Stories from the Collection Study Room

  • A painting depicting the Mona Lisa on a corrugated iron fence

    A life in pictures

    By Deborah Hart

  • A group of young people stand posed in front of a wall

    Summer Scholarship

    By Adriane Boag

  • Two men using a pulley system to lower a boxed painting from a tall apartment block

    The American Connection

    By Michael Maher

  • Blue poles carried by conservators behind a display of Tiffany lamps

    Blue poles: a new perspective

    By David Wise

  • Linocut print of child watching the silhouette of other children playing behind a bamboo screen

    At the Cutting Edge

    By Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax

  • Photograph of Bruce Beresford and Jeffery Smart in the artist's home

    Jeffrey and Me

    By Bruce Beresford

  • A man seated in a wheelchair in front of a painted canvas
    Jeffrey Smart

    Under the Tuscan Sun

    By Michael Maher

  • Photograph portrait of Jonathan Jones

    Studio Spotlight: Jonathan Jones

    By Aidan Hartshorn

  • The artist Bert Flugelman standing in front of  Cones - a large-scale sculpture of seven steel cones.

    National Treasures

    By Deborah Hart, Bert Flugelman

  • Photograph of Janet Fieldhouse seated in her studio, working on her ceramic pieces
    Studio Spotlight

    Janet Fieldhouse

    By Tina Baum

  • A couple embrace in front of a colourful artwork
    The Kenneth Tyler Collection

    Marabeth Cohen-Tyler (1962-2021)

    By David Greenhalgh

  • How to: Create your own learning resources

  • A photograph of a woman standing in a field watching a hot-air balloon in the shape of a flying whale being inflated.
    Know My Name

    Wonder Woman

    By Patricia Piccinini

  • The Kenneth Tyler Collection

    How to make a bomb-shaped sculpture

    By David Greenhalgh

  • Painting of native grasses after the rain in pink, yellow, black, and white.
    Know My Name

    Emily Kame Kngwarreye

    By Kelli Cole

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

    As the mind sees it

    By David Greenhalgh

  • a vase of sunflowers on a yellow background

    Director’s Top 5

    By Nick Mitzevich

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