national gallery of victoria Archives

July 9, 2026

A History of Photography – Three-week course at National Gallery of Victoria

'From its invention in the nineteenth century to its digital ubiquity today, photography has always had innovation, technical skill and experimentation at its core. Photography…

March 26, 2026

A History of Photography – Three-week course at National Gallery Victoria

‘From its invention in the nineteenth century to its digital ubiquity today, photography has always had innovation, technical skill and experimentation at its core. Photography…

November 1, 2025

Exhibition: Women Photographers 1900-1975 – A Legacy of Light

'Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975. Featuring prints, postcards,…

March 18, 2024

Ian Lobb and the Black Range – David Tatnall

The Black Range series by Australian photographer Ian Lobb and collected by the National Gallery of Victoria has always been a great source of inspiration…

October 5, 2023

Exhibition: Photography – Real and Imagined

Photography: Real and Imagined examines two perspectives on photography; photography grounded in the real world, as a record, a document, a reflection of the world around…

February 1, 2019

Exhibition: Archaeology of Light by Erieta Attali

‘Through her poetic images, Israeli architectural photographer Erieta Attali explores the relationship between architecture and landscape, interrogating how the context and surrounding terrain of a…

October 7, 2018

Peter Dombrovskis prints on exhibition at NGV

The National Gallery of Victoria currently has three Peter Dombrovskis photographs on exhibition. The dye destruction prints were printed during Peter’s lifetime in 1985. These are…

August 26, 2018

MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern & Contemporary Art

National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne until 7 October 2018 ‘The National Gallery of Victoria, in partnership with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presents MoMA…

April 23, 2018

Exhibition: Colony – Frontier Wars – Leah King-Smith & Ricky Maynard

National Gallery of Victoria – Australia. Federation Square. Level three. Until 2 September 2018 Two stand-out sets of photographs by Leah King-Smith and Ricky Maynard…