The National Gallery of Victoria
Asian Art Galleries
Pauline Gandel Gallery of Japanese Art
Chinese, Korean, Himalayas, South & Southeast Asian, Central Asian & Persian Art Gallery
2 Year Major Renovation of Permanent Galleries
Level 1, NGV International
Opened 2012
Newly refurbished Asian art galleries dedicated to displaying the art and culture of Chinese, Japanese and South and Southeast Asia. The NGV has been collecting Asian art since 1862. The Asian Art collection reflects the rich diversity of Asia’s artistic traditions as well as artistic, cultural and spiritual links brought about by cross-cultural contacts and interactions. Our Asian Art collection holds almost 5,000 works dating from the second millennium BC to the twenty-first century. Media represented include paintings, calligraphy, prints, bronzes, sculptures, ceramics, lacquer, jade, glass, furniture, textiles and video. The redesign has allowed for distinct areas to be dedicated to Chinese, Japanese and South and Southeast Asian art.
Role: Interior/Exhibition Designer
Pre-renovation photographs
The Mad Square:
Modernity in German Art 1919-37
Major Summer Exhibition
Ground Floor, NGV International
Nov 2011 — Mar 2012
Avant-garde Art
In an era of chaos came an explosion of creativity – experimental, provocative and utterly compelling.
Drawn from renowned international and Australian collections, this is the most comprehensive exhibition of German modernism to be seen in Australia. The exhibition brings together over 200 works exploring the fascinating and complex ways in which artists represented the modern world, including major works by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Christian Schad, Hannah Höch, August Sander, László Moholy-Nagy and El Lissitzky.
Role: Exhibition Designer
Eugene von Guérard:
Nature Revealed
Major Australian Art Exhibition
Level 3, NGV Australia
Apr — Jul 2012
Eugene von Guérard (1811–1901) is arguably Australia’s, and certainly Victoria’s, most important colonial landscape painter.
The work of von Guérard has not been the subject of a dedicated exhibition since 1980. Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed features over 150 works, including many of von Guérard’s beloved iconic landscapes, as well as several beautifully illustrated sketch books, and some never-before seen paintings. Through his detailed brushstrokes and breathtaking compositions, visitors can explore the magnificent Australian, New Zealand and European landscapes he captured on his expeditions around the world.
Role: Exhibition Designer
Endless Present:
Robert Rooney & Conceptual Art
Level 3, NGV International
Nov 2010 — Mar 2011
Contemporary Art
This exhibition presents a selection of conceptual photographs and artists’ books produced in Melbourne and internationally during the 1960s and 1970s. The works reveal an interest in ideas or concepts rather than in the physical form of the work. They also display a fascination with serial-based practice and the everyday – the ‘endless present’ of daily existence. The exhibition will feature the work of Robert Rooney, Ed Ruscha, Sol LeWitt and others. It provides an opportunity to view rare and significant conceptual works by key international artists, and to examine the transmission of these works and ideas to Melbourne.
Role: Exhibition Designer
John Davis:
Presence
Level 3, NGV Australia
Aug — Oct 2010
Modern Australian Art
At the time of his death in 1999, John Davis had established a critically acclaimed reputation as an influential sculptor and installation artist whose practice synthesised material diversity with an idiosyncratic concept of landscape and ecology. By working closely with the artist’s estate, the exhibition will chart Davis’s development as an artist, with particular focus on his interest in found and fragile organic materials, and the powerful evocation of the landscape that is at the core of his work.
Role: Exhibition Designer
