Inspired by Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou and Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic, on display at NGV Australia, explore contemporary artists, writers and thinkers whose work features the same figures again and again. How do these representations subvert traditional notions of the muse?

Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.

This event will be Auslan interpreted.

Consider community and country as inspiration in the work of Indigenous artists, writers and performers, responding to women artists currently on display in Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV.

Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.

This event will be Auslan interpreted.

Explore representations of destructive and seductive women in mythology, looking at Bertram Mackennal’s Circe (1893) and John Longstaff’s The Sirens (1892) in the NGV’s 20th Century Australian art gallery.

Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.

This event will be Auslan interpreted.