Now, rather than beginning with our colonial past, visitors at NGV’s Federation Square will be greeted by Indigenous works.
Myles Russell-Cook, senior curator of Australian and First Nations art at the National Gallery of Victoria.According to Myles Russell-Cook, senior curator of Australian and First Nations art at the NGV, international visitors often ask the same question: where can they see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander work?
“Your first experience should be First Peoples, everything should be First Peoples first. Just the amalgamation [of departments] in itself has been really powerful because no matter how well-meaning curators have been in the past, you tend to work independently... And you end up with concurrent histories being told at the same time without that general sense of a single history.”
One of the most significant elements of the change is the new, permanent exhibition on the ground floor, called, which means ‘many mobs’ in the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung language. It includes work by artists from around the country, from Victoria to the Tiwi Islands, Central Desert to Northeast Arnhem Land.
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Federation Square site is merging its Indigenous and Australian art departments and reconfiguring its entire local art collection.Artists featured include Tony Albert, Treahna Hamm, Kent Morris, Marlene Gilson, Rover Thomas, Christian Thompson, Gary Lee, Nicole Monks, Gali Yalkarriwuy, Dhambit Mununggurr, Nonggirrnga Marawili and more.
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