Queer exhibition has been five years in the making. An Australian-first, the landmark exhibition opens on 10 March 2022 and trains a queer lens on the NGV collection, celebrating the rich diversity of the LGBTQI community and foregrounding the many untold stories.
The exhibition originated as a themed issue of the NGV’s art journal around the time of the Marriage Equality debate in Australia in 2017.
The bathers (1926-1933) by Duncan Grant“We realized very quickly that there was actually a lot of content and enough to really dive quite deep and explore the whole collection.
The project just kind of snowballed and got bigger and bigger,” Myles Russell-Cook, Curator of Indigenous Art at NGV told Star Observer.