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.
Richard Bell is an Aboriginal Australian artist and political activist. He is one of the founders of proppaNOW,a Brisbane-based Aboriginal art collective.
Zoja Trofimiuk is an Australian sculptor and printmaker,born in Prague,Czechoslovakia. She specializes in cast glass;her studio is in Melbourne.
Jenny Bannister is an Australian fashion designer,based in Melbourne.
Gareth Sansom is an Australian artist,painter,printmaker and collagist and winner of the 2008 John McCaughey Memorial Prize of $100,000.
Irene Barberis,is an Australian/British artist,based in Melbourne and London. She is a painter primarily,working also with installation,drawing,and new media art. She is also the founding director of an international arts research centre,and is an international curator and writer.
Matthew Sleeth is an Australian visual artist and filmmaker. His often collaborative practice incorporates photography,film,sculpture and installation with a particular focus on the aesthetic and conceptual concerns of new media. The performative and photographic nature of media art is regularly highlighted in his work.
The Melbourne Arts Precinct is home to a series of galleries,performing arts venues and spaces located in the Southbank district of Melbourne,Victoria,Australia. It includes such publicly-funded venues as Arts Centre Melbourne,National Gallery of Victoria and Southbank Theatre,along with various offices and training institutions of arts organisations.
Harriet Edquist is an Australian historian and curator,and Professor Emerita in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University in Melbourne. Born and educated in Melbourne,she has published widely on and created numerous exhibitions in the field of Australian architecture,art and design history. She has also contributed to the production of Australian design knowledge as the founding editor of the RMIT Design Archives Journal and is a member of the Design Research Institute at RMIT University.
Ilka Jane White is an Australian artist. Her practice spans projects in textiles,drawing,sculpture and installation,art-in-community and cross disciplinary collaboration. Direct engagement with the natural world is central to White’s making process. Her current work explores relationships between the mind,body,time and place,and questions the separation of these elements.
Robert Stewart Bell was an Australian artist and arts curator,best known for his focus on decorative arts. He also worked as an artist in ceramics and textiles.
Brenda L. Croft is an Aboriginal Australian artist,curator,writer,and educator working across contemporary Indigenous and mainstream arts and cultural sectors. Croft was a founding member of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in 1987.
Lucy McRae is a British-born Australian science fiction artist,body architect,film maker and TED fellow. Her installations include film,photography,sculptures,and edible and wearable technology.
Maree Clarke is an Australian multidisciplinary artist and curator from Victoria,renowned for her work in reviving south-eastern Aboriginal Australian art practices.
Yhonnie Scarce is an Australian glass artist whose work is held in major Australian galleries. She is a descendant of the Kokatha and Nukunu people of South Australia,and her art is informed by the effects of colonisation on Indigenous Australia,in particular Aboriginal South Australians. She has been active as an artist since completing her first degree in 2003,and teaches at the Centre of Visual Art in the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.
Elizabeth Gower is an Australian abstract artist who lives and works in Melbourne. She is best known for her work in paper and mixed-media monochrome and coloured collages,drawn from her sustained practice of collecting urban detritus.
Mari Funaki was a leading contemporary jeweller,designer,metal-smith and sculptor. She was active from 1990 to 2010. Initially a jeweller,she moved towards "purely sculptural forms" from the late 1990s.
Dhambit Mununggurr is a Yolngu artist of the Gupa-Djapu clan known for her unique ultramarine blue bark paintings inspired by natural landscapes and Yolngu stories and legends. In 2005,Mungunggurr was hit by a truck,leaving her wheelchair bound and stopping her from painting for five years. The incident affected her painting by limiting her use of her right hand.
Michael Cook is an Aboriginal Australian photographic artist of Bidjara heritage,whose work is held in major Australian galleries. He strives to promote understanding of Indigenous Australian culture and history in his work,and is the winner of two Deadly Awards.
David Hicks is an Australian interior designer and author,and the founder of David Hicks design.
