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Collection

Worldwide

Ongoing
Level 1, Galleries 8–11
Free with ticket

Major Exhibition

Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao

Painting of a village depicting local people sitting under a tree and out the front of their hut.

29 Jun – 7 Oct 2024
Level 1, Gallery 12
Charges apply

Wheelchair Accessible
Collection

Anni and Josef Albers

A chromatic composition of green squares

8 Jun – 22 Sep 2024
Level 1, Gallery 15
Free with ticket

Wheelchair Accessible
Touring Exhibition

Rauschenberg & Johns
Significant Others

Print in black and navy on white backbround with the word BLUE in capital letters and the mirror image of it

1 Jun – 15 Sep 2024
Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo NSW

New Collection

Janet Fieldhouse: Sister Charm
Art Makers x National Gallery

Sep 2023 – Sep 2024
Sculpture Garden
Free

Collection

A Century of Quilts

Photo of Square quilt with embroidery

16 Mar – 25 Aug 2024
Level 2, Gallery 26
Free with ticket

Wheelchair Accessible

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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
Talks & Lectures /  Video

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

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

Audio Tour
41 minutes
Art Talks /  Audio

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.

Audio Tour
41 minutes
Art Talks /  Audio

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
Art Talks /  Audio

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'.

Audio Tour
37 mins