54-588: The Joseph Brown Collection comprises works of art donated to the National Gallery of Victoria in 2004 by the collector and art dealer Joseph Brown. The collection is displayed in the Ian Potter Centre , part of the NGV. More than 150 works are on display at the centre. The collection comprises varied Australian art from different periods, including portraits painted by many well-known artists. The display gives
108-462: A cow carcass in the NGV forecourt. Durrant later stated that it was part of a performance art piece intended to shock those who might be horrified by the death of the animal while also happy to consume meat. At the time, the NGV denounced the piece as a "sick and disgusting act". A famous event in the gallery's history occurred in 1986 with the theft of Pablo Picasso 's painting The Weeping Woman (1936). A person or group identifying themselves as
162-421: A history of Australian art. It includes engravings from the first days of the colony and early European looking landscapes of Australia, and Heidelberg era paintings from the late 19th century, and post impressionist works of the early 20th century. The Melbourne ' Angry Penguins ' school of the 1940s is represented, as are colour field and abstract painting. Many modern and post-modern Australian painters of
216-537: A new home for the Australian Performing Arts Gallery. The Ian Potter Foundation pledged $ 20 million for the new building. The masterplan for the precinct was approved in 2022. The public space is being designed by architecture firms HASSELL and SO-IL with a new elevated garden connecting Hamer Hall and Southbank Boulevard. The winner of the design competition for the NGV Contemporary
270-556: A radical departure from the gallery's more traditional program, it signified more broadly a growing internationalisation of the Australian art world. The NGV held an exhibition titled "The Field Revisited" in 2018 to mark its 50th anniversary. The NGV has held several large exhibitions known as Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibitions, starting with Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay in 2004. The exhibition concluded with
324-444: A total attendance figure, of 404,034, making it the NGV's second most attended ticketed exhibition on record. In 2013 the NGV launched "Melbourne Now", an exhibition which celebrated the latest art, architecture, design, performance and cultural practice to reflect the complex cultural landscape of creative Melbourne. "Melbourne Now" ran from 22 November 2013 – 23 March 2014 and attracted record attendances of 753,071. A decade after
378-565: Is also referred to as the 'National Gallery School' ‘National Gallery Art School’, ‘National Gallery School of Art’ and ‘Victorian National Gallery School of Art’. Official correspondence commencing from the 1950s is headed ‘National Gallery of Victoria Art School’ and in McCulloch ’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art , it is abbreviated 'NGC School'. It was the leading centre for academic art training in Australia until about 1910. Among its luminaries,
432-476: Is surrounded by a moat and fountains, while the main entrance features a famous water wall, which has been used to display the art of Keith Haring and others. At the rear of NGV International is a sculpture garden, which hosts an annual large-scale installation through the NGV Architecture Commission. NGV Australia is located in the Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square . The building houses
486-517: The Arts Centre and the existing NGV International building. The Government spent $ 203 million to begin the project, including $ 150 million to purchase the former Carlton and United Breweries building for the new gallery. The new building is part of a major new $ 1.7 billion redevelopment of the surrounding Melbourne Arts Precinct which is planned to include 18,000 square metres of new public space, new space for contemporary art and design exhibitions, and
540-682: The Felton Bequest , was established by the will of Alfred Felton and from 1904, has been used to purchase over 15,000 works of art. Since the Felton Bequest, the gallery had long held plans to build a permanent facility; however, it was not until 1943 that the State Government chose a site, Wirth's Park, just south of the Yarra River . £3 million was put forward in February 1960 and Roy Grounds
594-513: The Joseph Brown Collection . Selected works The NGV's international art collection encompasses European and international paintings, fashion and textiles, photography, prints and drawings, Asian art, decorative arts, Mesoamerican art, Pacific art, sculpture, antiquities and global contemporary art. It has strong collections in areas as diverse as old masters, Greek vases, Egyptian artefacts and historical European ceramics, and contains
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#1732854821714648-681: The Melbourne Arts Precinct of Southbank , and the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia , located nearby at Federation Square . The NGV International building, designed by Sir Roy Grounds , opened in 1968, and was redeveloped by Mario Bellini before reopening in 2003. It houses the gallery's international art collection and is on the Victorian Heritage Register . The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, designed by Lab Architecture Studio , opened in 2002 and houses
702-441: The "Australian Cultural Terrorists" claimed responsibility for the theft, stating that the painting was stolen in protest against the perceived poor treatment of the arts by the state government of the time. They sought as a ransom the establishment of an art prize for young artists. The painting was found undamaged in a railway locker two weeks later and returned to the gallery. During a retrospective of Andres Serrano 's work at
756-458: The 102 watercolours he worked on up until his death in 1827 to illustrate the Divine Comedy by Dante , the largest number of works from this series held by any gallery in the world. Rembrandt and Goya are also well-represented, and the Australian collection contains a detailed account of the history of graphic arts in Australia. The NGV no longer dedicates a space to exhibiting works from
810-572: The 1920s. They commenced with drawing in charcoal from plaster casts, before proceeding to working from the nude model. The museum provided classes in natural history , and students benefitted from ready access to its art collections. Prizes were instituted in 1887 and gradually increased in number and value, the most desirable being the Traveling Scholarship which was later the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship. A past students' club
864-546: The Arts , where the next Dean of Art was William Kelly . As the VCA was not already split into departments, it was the Prahran heads who were given such, newly created, roles in several cases; with Pam Hallandal becoming head of drawing (then retiring at the end of 1993); head of ceramics was Greg Wain, previously head of ceramics at Prahran; Victor Majzner likewise became head of painting at
918-637: The Clemenger Foundation, and $ 1 million each from James Fairfax and the Pratt Foundation . NGV on Russell closed on 30 June 2002 to make way for the staged opening of the new St Kilda Road gallery. It was officially opened by premier Steve Bracks on 4 December 2003. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia in Federation Square was designed by Lab Architecture Studio to house the NGV's Australian art collection. It opened in 2002. As such,
972-529: The NGV in 1997, the then Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne , George Pell , sought an injunction from the Supreme Court of Victoria to restrain the gallery from publicly displaying Piss Christ , which was not granted. Some days later, one patron attempted to remove the work from the gallery wall, and two teenagers later attacked it with a hammer. Gallery officials reported receiving death threats in response to Piss Christ . NGV Director Timothy Potts cancelled
1026-545: The NGV is technically not a national gallery, and occasionally there have been calls for it to follow the example of the other state galleries. In May 1883, when the National Gallery of Victoria opened on a Sunday for the first time, a public debate erupted over the propriety of displaying a female nude portrait on the Sabbath . The painting in question, French artist Jules Joseph Lefebvre 's Chloé (1875), had been loaned to
1080-450: The NGV's Australian collection, with a permanent display presenting a chronological history of Australian art and a selection of the galley's 25,000 Australian works. NGV Australia has a particular focus on Indigenous Australian art, and alongside the permanent displays presents temporary exhibitions relating to Australian art and history. In 2018, the State Government of Victoria announced a new contemporary art gallery would be built behind
1134-481: The NGV's collection is now housed in two separate buildings, with Grounds' building renamed NGV International. NGV international is located at 180 St Kilda Rd and houses the NGV's European, Asian, Oceanic and American art collections. It houses a number of permanent displays, arranged by region and chronology. It also has a large ground-floor space used for temporary exhibitions, and contemporary art spaces on level 3 are also used for temporary exhibitions. The building
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#17328548217141188-521: The Prints and Drawings collection, though some works on paper are rotated within the permanent collection galleries and may appear in exhibitions. Works in the collection may be viewed by appointment in the department's Print Study Room. Selected works When plans for the construction of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra became firmly established in the 1960s, Australia's state galleries removed
1242-639: The School had reverted to a Drawing School and a Painting School. Among its alumni are counted many of the most prominent Australian artists. The National Gallery Art School ceased as an independent institution in 1973 when it became the foundation school of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) which became an affiliated college of the University of Melbourne in July 1991. On 1 January 1992 an Act of Parliament brought
1296-550: The School of Design which prepared students for the School of Painting, a separate institution. In 1887 the School of Design became the Drawing School. By the turn of the century, its teaching largely followed that of the Academies of Europe. Students enrolling were required to demonstrate only rudimentary artistic skill and came from all over the country, paying a very reasonable ten shillings per term (a value of A$ 40–50 in 2022) in
1350-565: The State Library with its entrance on Russell Street . A major fundraising drive was launched on 10 October 2000 to redevelop the ageing St Kilda Road building and although the state government committed the majority of the funds, private donations were sought in addition to federal funding. The drive achieved its aim and secured $ 15 million from the Ian Potter Foundation on 11 July 2000, $ 3 million from Loti Smorgon , $ 2 million from
1404-516: The components of former Prahran College , Victoria College 's Prahran Campus and Prahran College of TAFE, under the auspices of Swinburne University of Technology , with the only tertiary courses, Graphics and Industrial Design, remaining on the campus, all others being moved to Deakin University . Prahran Fine Art under Gareth Sansom was relocated and amalgamated with the Victorian College of
1458-627: The early 1860s for the purchase of original paintings by British and Victorian artists. These works were first displayed in December 1864 in the newly opened Picture Gallery, which remained under the curatorial administration of the Public Library until 1882. Grand designs for a building fronting Lonsdale and Swanston streets were drawn by Nicholas Chevalier in 1860 and Frederick Grosse in 1865, featuring an enormous and elaborate library and gallery, but these visions were never realised. On 24 May 1874,
1512-602: The establishment of a public art gallery, and in 1859, the Government of Victoria pledged £2000 for the acquisition of plaster casts of sculpture. These works were displayed in the Museum of Art, opened by Governor Sir Henry Barkly in May 1861 on the lower floor of the south wing of the public Library (now the State Library of Victoria ) on Swanston Street . Further money was set aside in
1566-469: The features of the building is the Leonard French stained glass ceiling, one of the world's largest pieces of suspended stained glass, which casts colourful light on the floor below. The water-wall entrance is another well-known feature of the building. In 1997, redevelopment of the building was proposed, with Mario Bellini chosen as architect and an estimated project cost of $ 161.9 million. The design
1620-521: The first in the world. It now holds over 15,000 works. In that same year, the Gallery acquired the photography collection's first work, Surrey Hills street 1948 by David Moore [1] and in 1969 the first international work was acquired, Nude 1939 by František Drtikol [2] . The first photographer to exhibit solo at the NGV was Mark Strizic in 1968. Jennie Boddington , a filmmaker, was appointed first full-time curator of photography in 1972, possibly only
1674-608: The first purpose-built gallery, known as the McArthur Gallery, opened in the McArthur room of the State Library, and the following year, the Museum of Art was renamed the National Gallery of Victoria. The McArthur Gallery was only ever intended as a temporary home until the much grander vision was to be realised. However such an edifice did not eventuate and the complex was instead developed incrementally over several decades. The National Gallery of Victoria Art School , associated with
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1728-401: The gallery that month, and was "cautiously displayed in a dim corner". Nonetheless, Chloé became "Melbourne's femme fatale ", and after three weeks of scandal, was withdrawn and hidden from the public. It eventually found a permanent home at Melbourne's Young and Jackson Hotel , down the road from the NGV on Swanston Street. In 1975, painter and performance artist Ivan Durrant deposited
1782-688: The gallery's Australian art collection. A third site, The Fox: NGV Contemporary, is planned to open in the Melbourne Arts Precinct in 2028, and will be Australia's largest contemporary art gallery. In 1850, the Port Phillip District of New South Wales was granted separation, officially becoming the colony of Victoria on 1 July 1851. In the wake of a gold rush the following month, Victoria emerged as Australia's richest colony, and Melbourne , its capital, Australia's largest and wealthiest city. With Melbourne's rapid growth came calls for
1836-409: The gallery's founding, when Frederick Dalgety donated two Chinese plates. The Asian collection has since grown to include significant works from across the continent. The NGV's Australian art collection encompasses Indigenous ( Australian Aboriginal ) art and artefacts, Australian colonial art, Australian Impressionist art, 20th century, modern and contemporary art. The first curator of Australian Art
1890-626: The gallery's history until then. The 2020–21 NGV Triennial opened on 19 December 2020 and closed on 18 April 2021. The exhibition, which attracted more than 548,000 visitors during its run, showcased works by more than 100 artists, designers and collectives from 30 countries, with 34 newly commissioned works from a mixture of both Australian and international artists. The 2023–24 NGV Triennial, running from 3 December 2023 until 7 April 2024, featured over 75 projects by 100 artists, designers and collectives from over 30 countries. The exhibition attracted 1,063,675 visitors during its run, making it one of
1944-424: The gallery, the name was changed to its present name. The NGV also publishes a bi-monthly magazine, NGV Magazine. Directors of the NGV since its inception: National Gallery of Victoria Art School The National Gallery of Victoria Art School , associated with the National Gallery of Victoria , was a private fine arts college founded in 1867 and was Australia's leading art school of 50 years. It
1998-509: The gallery, was founded in 1867 and remained the leading centre for academic art training in Australia until about 1910. The School's graduates went on to become some of Australia's most significant artists. This later became the VCA (Victorian College of the Arts), which was bought by the University of Melbourne in 2007 after it went bankrupt. In 1887, the Buvelot Gallery (later Swinburne Hall)
2052-455: The highlights of the NGV's international collection is Auguste Rodin 's first cast of his iconic sculpture The Thinker , executed in 1884. The NGV is also home to the only portrait of Lucrezia Borgia known to have been painted from life, dated to approximately 1515 and attributed to Dosso Dossi . Selected works In 1967, the NGV established the first curatorial department dedicated to photography in an Australian public gallery, one of
2106-579: The largest and most comprehensive range of artworks in Australia. The international collection includes works by Arbus , Bernini , Bonnard , Bordone , Canaletto , Cézanne , Constable , Correggio , Dalí , Degas , Delaunay , van Dyck , Emin , Gainsborough , Gentileschi , El Greco , Lange , Manet , Matisse , Memling , Modigliani , Monet , Moore , Picasso , Pissarro , Pittoni , Poussin , Rembrandt , Renoir , Ribera , Riley , Rothko , Rubens , Soulages , Tiepolo , Tintoretto , Titian , Turner , Uccello , Veronese and others. One of
2160-542: The later 20th century are also on display. A few works by Australian Aboriginal artists are also included. The collection includes the following artists: National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria , popularly known as the NGV , is an art museum in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. The NGV houses its collection across two sites: NGV International, located on St Kilda Road in
2214-736: The most popular exhibitions in the NGV’s history. The Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria , usually referred to as the Art Journal , was first published as The Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1945, changing its name and frequency in 1959 to the Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria , then to the Art Bulletin of Victoria in 1967–68 (edition 9) (abbreviated to ABV, edition 42). For edition 50 in 2011, in its 50th year of publication and 150th anniversary of
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2268-508: The original exhibition, a second edition of Melbourne Now ran from 24 March 2023 to 20 August 2023 at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. The exhibition, which celebrated home-grown art and design from over 200 Victorian-based emerging and established artists, designers, studios and firms, drew 433,575 attendees, which made the exhibition one of the most popular exhibitions at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. Following
2322-532: The school was headed by Sir William Dargie in 1946–53, John Brack from 1962–68, and Lenton Parr from 1968 to its absorption into the newly created Victorian College of the Arts . The State Library of Victoria , a public library, opened in Melbourne in 1859, and from 1861 it housed a Museum of Art and a Picture Gallery, opened in 1864, both situated alongside the Public Library on Swanston Street between LaTrobe and Russell Streets. Its art collection
2376-535: The show, allegedly out of concern for a Rembrandt exhibition that was also on display at the time. Supporters argued that the controversy over Piss Christ is an issue of artistic freedom and freedom of speech . An exhibition known as The Field opened the gallery's new premises on St Kilda Road in 1968. Reflecting the influence of abstract art , particularly New York-inspired hard edge and color field painting, it featured 74 works by forty (mostly emerging young) Australian painters and sculptors. Described as
2430-558: The success of "Melbourne Now", in March 2014 the NGV announced a major new initiative, the NGV Triennial. Beginning in the Summer of 2017, it is intended as a large-scale celebration of the best of contemporary international art and design. The inaugural Triennial ran from 15 December 2017 to 15 April 2018, and drew almost 1.3 million visitors during its run, making it the most attended exhibition in
2484-410: The third such appointment amongst world public institutions. The NGV's Department of Prints and Drawings is responsible for one third of the gallery's collection. Highlights among the department's holdings include one of the world's largest collections of engravings and woodcuts by Dürer . The NGV is also said to have one of the most impressive collections of works by William Blake , including 36 of
2538-501: The word "national" from their names (for example, the National Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney became the Art Gallery of New South Wales ). This naming convention dated back to the 19th century when Australia's colonies were self-governing political entities and had yet to federate . Only the NGV has retained "national" in its name. This has proven to be somewhat contentious, given that
2592-1627: Was Brian Finemore, from 1960 until his death in 1975. The 1880s saw the birth and development of the Heidelberg School (also known as Australian Impressionism ) in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, and the NGV was well-placed to acquire some of the movement's key artworks, including Tom Roberts ' Shearing the Rams (1890), Arthur Streeton 's The purple noon's transparent might (1896), and Frederick McCubbin 's The Pioneer (1904). The Australian collection includes works by Del Kathryn Barton , Charles Blackman , Clarice Beckett , Arthur Boyd , John Brack , Angela Brennan , Rupert Bunny , Louis Buvelot , Ethel Carrick , Nicholas Chevalier , Charles Conder , Olive Cotton , Grace Crowley David Davies , Destiny Deacon , William Dobell , Julie Dowling , Russell Drysdale , E. Phillips Fox , Rosalie Gascoigne , John Glover , Eugene von Guerard , Fiona Hall , Louise Hearman , Joy Hester , Hans Heysen , Emily Kame Kngwarreye , George W. Lambert , Sydney Long , John Longstaff , Frederick McCubbin , Helen Maudsley , Tracey Moffatt , Jan Nelson , Hilda Rix Nicholas , Sidney Nolan , John Perceval , Patricia Piccinini , Margaret Preston , Thea Proctor , Hugh Ramsay , David Rankin , Tom Roberts , John Russell , Grace Cossington Smith , Ethel Spowers , Arthur Streeton , Clara Southern , Jane Sutherland , Violet Teague , Jenny Watson , Fred Williams and others. A large number of works were donated by Dr. Joseph Brown in 2004 which form
2646-529: Was announced as the architect. In 1959, the commission to design a new gallery was awarded to the architectural firm Grounds Romberg Boyd. In 1962, Roy Grounds split from his partners Frederick Romberg and Robin Boyd , retained the commission, and designed the gallery at 180 St Kilda Road (now known as NGV International). The new bluestone clad building was completed in December 1967 and Victorian premier Henry Bolte officially opened it on 20 August 1968. One of
2700-532: Was announced in March 2022 as Angelo Candalepas and Associates . In April it was announced that billionaires Paula and Lindsay Fox had donated $ 100 million to the NGV Contemporary project in the largest ever donation to an Australian art museum, and that the gallery would be named The Fox: NGV Contemporary. The new gallery will have 13,000 square metres of exhibition space and is planned to open in 2028. It will be Australia's largest contemporary gallery. The NGV's Asian art collection began in 1862, one year after
2754-485: Was extensive, creating all new galleries leaving only the exterior, the central courtyard and Great Hall intact. The plans included doing away with the water wall, but following public protests organised by the National Trust of Victoria , the design was altered to include a new one slightly forward of the original. During the redevelopment, many works were moved to a temporary external annex known as 'NGV on Russell', at
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#17328548217142808-486: Was formed in the early 1920s and held reunions attended by many who were to become significant artists, including Norah Gurdon , Victor Cobb , Dora Wilson , Elma Roach , Madge Freeman , Ruth Hollick , and Isabel May Tweddle . After World War II, ex- servicemen and women training under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme (CRTS) were accommodated in a third department. By 1953
2862-484: Was named the National Gallery of Victoria in 1869. At the suggestion of Thomas Clark, who was to become teacher of drawing, a National Gallery Art School, School of Design was formed and started enrolling students in June 1867, then was divided into two schools in 1870. Eugene von Guerard , then 60 years old, was appointed Instructor of Painting and Master of the School of Art. Thomas Clark was appointed Instructor and Master of
2916-457: Was opened, along with the Painting School studios. In 1892, two more galleries were added: Stawell (now Cowen) and La Trobe. In 1888, the gallery purchased Lawrence Alma-Tadema 's 1871 painting The Vintage Festival for £4000, its most expensive acquisition of the 19th century. The gallery's collection was built from both gifts of works of art and monetary donations. The most significant,
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