IN THE GALLERY: SELF-GUIDED VIDEO TOURS
Launching on Saturday 27 June, visitors to the NGV can access self-guided video tours on the NGV website using their own smart devices to navigate the Gallery.
Audiences will be guided by curator led videos through NGV Collection galleries and NGV International exhibitions Japanese Modernism, Collecting Comme, Colin McCahon: Letters and Numbers, Japanese Design: Neolithic to Now and at NGV Australia Top Arts 2020 and Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV.
On Level 2 at NGV International, NGV Assistant Curator of Collections and Research, Dr. Maria Quirk will lead the Women in Art: 17th Century tour exploring the history of female artists in Europe from the 1600s to the twentieth century.
NGV Senior Curator of International Decorative Art and Antiquities, Amanda Dunsmore will guide audiences through the Being Modern in early 20th Century Vienna tour, on Level 2 at NGV International, focusing on the enormous social changes that took place during the twentieth century and how this influenced art and design in this period.
Self-guided video tours will be available on the NGV Channel from Saturday 27 June. Visitors are invited to bring their own headphones to use with their smart device in the Gallery.
WATCH: LIVE IN-STUDIO VISIT WITH CHRISTOPHER BOOTS
Wednesday 24 June | 6.00 – 6.30 pm
As part of the NGV’s live in-studio artist visit series, Melbourne lighting designer Christopher Boots will virtually invite NGV’s Hugh Williamson Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture, Simon LeAmon into his Fitzroy studio where he works with a team of artisan makers handcrafting decorative lighting.
Boots’ practice is inspired by natural forms and references his Greek heritage through narratives of ancient mythology. In the NGV Collection, Boots’ most recognisable design, ORP: Oblique rhombic prism 2011, emphasises simplicity and form while employing sacred geometry to create a 3D optical illusion.
SPEAKERS
Christopher Boots, lighting designer
Simon LeAmon, The Hugh Williamson Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture, NGV
Available to watch on NGV’s Instagram on Wednesday 24 June at 6.00 pm and available to watch on NGV Channel following the livestream.
WATCH: NATIVE FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH FLOWERS VASETTE INSPIRED BY WORKS IN THE NGV COLLECTION
Live on NGV Channel – Friday 19 June at 2.00pm
With a focus on Australian native florals, Curator of Australian Painting Beckett Rozentals explores renowned Australian artist, Margaret Preston’s much-loved painting, Flannel flowers, 1938. In this episode we are also joined by Curator of Indigenous Art, Myles Russell-Cook, who explores indigenous artist Trevor Nickolls’ work Still life Venetian vase created in 1990. Russell-Cook explores Nickolls contemporary practice and his unique style, through this captivating painting. Sonya Wilson from Flowers Vasette demonstrates two ways viewers at home can create simple yet striking arrangements using seasonal Australian native florals, inspired by the works of Preston and Nickolls from the NGV Collection.
SPEAKERS
Myles Russell-Cook, Curator of Indigenous Art, NGV
Beckett Rozentals, Curator of Australian Painting, NGV
Sonya Wilson, florist, Flowers Vasette
WATCH ON THE NGV CHANNEL: ngv.vic.gov.au/channel/floral-arranging-series/
WATCH: FLORAL GARDEN ARRANGEMENTS FROM YOUR GARDEN WITH ARTIST ROSSLYND PIGGOTT
Live on NGV Channel – Friday 26 June at 2.00pm
In part three of the instructional video series, audiences will learn to create at-home floral arrangements inspired by art works from the NGV Collection.
Joined by special guest and renowned Australian artist Rosslynd Piggott, the final instalment of the series focuses on Piggott’s work Unfolding flower-cloud space no. 2, 2005-2006 and the ways in which this work is inspired by Japanese cherry blossom.
Rosslynd Piggott will collaborate with Hokuto Takase from Flowers Vasette to arrange florals inspired by Piggott’s work and her ongoing fascination with flowers. Curator of Contemporary Art, Jane Devery will share with audiences the themes and inspirations behind Piggott’s work and its importance in Australian art.
SPEAKERS
Rosslynd Piggott, artist
Jane Devery, Curator of Contemporary Art, NGV
Hokuto Takase, florist, Flowers Vasette
WATCH ON THE NGV CHANNEL: ngv.vic.gov.au/channel/floral-arranging-series/
