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Celebrating Shirley O’Shea

Meet the Art Gallery’s longest-serving member, 100-year-old Shirley O’Shea, who joined when our members organisation began back in 1953.

Members Look magazine

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Home to Nepal from Australia

The Art Gallery has voluntarily returned a carved wooden architectural sculpture to Nepal. Roshan Mishra shares his experience of the repatriation.

Collection Sculpture Walking with gods

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Projections #9: A celebration, a protest – Rhea Storr x Makeda

The Australian premiere of Bahamian-British artist Rhea Storr’s acclaimed trilogy of films screened in dialogue with a newly commissioned live performance by Makeda Zucco.

Events and programs Film

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A few beautifully crafted lines

Exquisite works from India have been added to the Art Gallery collection, representing the great traditions of Mughal and Rajput painting, as well as vernacular, folk and Company school painting.

Collection Painting Support and benefaction Asian Lantern

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Unguided audio

Reimagining the art museum audio tour as a dynamic, unguided experience that places the artist’s voice at the forefront and encourages visitors to follow their own path.  

Collection Artists

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Artist interview: Victoria Hunt

Māori–Australian dancer and choreographer Victoria Hunt speaks about her new dance work KŌIWI.

Artists Events and programs Performance Interview Look magazine Dreamhome

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The art that made me: Glenn Barkley

Glenn Barkley discusses works in the Art Gallery collection by Guy Warren, Margaret Dodd and Brenda L Croft, and an ancient Jômon pot.

Artists Collection Members Look magazine The art that made me brick vase clay cup jug

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Essential questions: Jitish Kallat

An interview with Jitish Kallat whose vast installation wraps around an entire room of the Asian Lantern galleries.

Artists Collection Installation Interview Look magazine Asian Lantern

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A grande dame in the frame

A guide to the intricate process of creating a frame fit for a 19th-century painting by French artist Louise Hersent.

Conservation Collection Members Painting Interview Look magazine Grand Courts

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The work of women

Since 2021, the Australian Masterpiece Fund has been used to acquire significant 19th- and 20th-century works by women artists for the Art Gallery collection.

Collection Artists Support and benefaction Painting

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That’s love in any language

For their kindness, resilience, impressive skills and the way they embrace life, mothers and grandmothers are inspiring subjects for these Young Archie 2023 portraits.

Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes Portraiture Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2023

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New picks on the dock

Meet the people picking the Archibald’s Packing Room Prize in 2023.

Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2023