A woman dressed in white looks to be photographing the caption on the wall, but is actually taking a selfie with the artwork behind her.
26th February 2018. A woman walks amongst Oki Sato’s “Manga Chairs”, created by Japanese design studio Nendo (of which Sato is the founder). The collection of 50 chairs was recently acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria as part of their 2017–18 Triennial exhibition in Melbourne, Australia.
5th March 2018. A man walks through Californian artist Pae White’s yarn installation as part of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial 2017–18 exhibition.
26th February 2018. People lay on the hand-tufted rug and tapestry “Santa Cruz River” by Alexandra Kehayoglou, looking up at the mirror on the roof immersing themselves in the landscape. The tapestry was on show during the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial 2017–18 exhibition.
3rd May 2018. Woman looking at paintings in the British & European Salon at the National Gallery of Victoria. The paintings on view in this image were created between 1843 – 1906.
5th March 2018. A man reads the blurb of William Larkin’s painting “Mary, Lady Vere”. The painting was made in 1612-1615 and hangs in the British and European 16th-17th Century collection at the National Gallery of Victoria.
17th April 2018. A man walks the ramps between level 1 and 2 at the National Gallery of Victoria two days after the closing of the gallery’s Triennial 2017–18 exhibition.
15th March 2018. A woman walks past “The Eternity Buddha in Nirvana” by Xu Chen. The sculpture measures 51m x 150m x 51m in size and sits on ground level at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
3rd May 2018. Man looking at Hendrick van Vliet’s painting “Interior of St. Janskerk at Gouda”, painted in 1662. It is hanging in the 16th-17th Century British and European collection at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Australia.
5th March 2018. A woman takes a selfie in front of a white wall with text introducing Paulina Olowska’s work, with a glimpse of her painting “The Lepidopterist”, 2016, in the selfie. Olowska’s work was loaned to the National Gallery of Victoria as part of the Triennial 2017–18 exhibition.
3rd May 2018. A couple sits and views “Moses Bringing Down the Tables of the Law”, created in 1872–77 by John Rogers Herbert. It hangs in the 19th Century European paintings gallery and was the most expensive painting the National Gallery of Victoria had ever acquired.
3rd May 2018. Two women view David Hockney’s “The Second Marriage” 1963 at the National Gallery of Victoria. This painting is located in the 19th-20th Century international collection on level 2.
5th March 2018. A man stands between Zanele Mulholi’s photographs “Zinathi I” (left) and “Ntozkhe II” (right) at the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial 2017–18 exhibtion in Melbourne, Australia. Mulholi’s series of photographs are self portraits using everyday objects as props and digitally blackens her skin to address issues of race and gender politics.
15th March 2018. Man in yellow looking at Thomas Gainsborough’s 1776–1780 painting “An Officer of the 4th Regiment of Foot”. The man in the painting was later identified as Richard St George Mansergh-St George. He was involved in the 1777 battles of Brandywine and Germantown in America where he received a bullet to the head and survived. After returning home to Ireland he was murdered by Irish Rebels in the Rebellion of 1798. The painting hangs in the 17th-18th Century British and European gallery at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.T
A woman in orange wearing a hat, getting her photo taken in front of Xu Zhen’s gigantic installation “Eternity-Buddha in Nirvana, the Dying Gaul, Farnese Hercules, Night, Day, Sartyr and Bacchante, Funerary Genius, Achilles, Persian Soldier Fighting, Dancing Faun, Crouching Aphrodite, Narcissus Lying, Othryades the Spartan Dying, the Fall of Icarus, A River, Milo of Croton”, 2016-17.
