Collection Display
5 Oct 2024 – Aug 2025
Lower Ground, Galleries 16 & 18
The natural world is a constant inspiration for artists, who explore the myriad forms of nature as a means of expression, a way to understand the cosmos and to explore their personal relationship with their environment.
Featuring works by AES+F, Inge King, Yayoi Kusama, Eko Nugroho and Brett Whiteley, this display includes art by twenty-five artists, drawn from the national collection. Their diverse responses to nature reflect their engagement with materials and natural structures, environmental issues, the symbolisms of natural forms, and the artist’s spiritual affinity with nature.
The works are cast, carved, painted, assembled and woven explorations of nature across cultures, materials, time and traditions.
Artists: AES+F, Neil Douglas, Bert Flugelman, Rosalie Gascoigne, Treahna Hamm, Glen Farmer Illortamini, Anselm Kiefer, Inge King, Les Kossatz, Yayoi Kusama, Mavis Ngallametta, Eko Nugroho, Bronwyn Oliver, John Perceval, Norma Redpath, Neil Taylor, Ken Unsworth, Danila Vassilieff, Mr. Wanambi, Brett Whiteley
Curator: Carol Cains, Senior Curator, Asian and Pacific Art.
AES+F is represented by two works, Last Riot, 2007, a 3-channel video installation, and Last Riot 2, Panorama #4, 2006, pigment print on canvas. Both works are from the NGA Collection (a generous gift from Dr. Dick Quan).