Australian art

NGA Art Talks is a podcast brought to you by the National Gallery of Australia.

I'm Professor Lisa Slade, a curator, art historian and the Hugh Ramsey Chair in Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne.

This is The Gleeson Tapes and in this series we'll be delving deep into the archives to hear from some of Australia's most enduring and influential artists.

In the late 1970s, before the National Gallery of Australia opened its doors, the surrealist artist and writer James Gleeson set out across Australia with a tape recorder and a mission to build an oral history archive that captured the stories behind key works of art in the National Collection, told by the artists themselves.

You'll certainly be very welcome if I can be of any use.

Thank you very much.

Grace Crowley is featured in Australian Art Highlights of the Collection on display at the National Gallery.

This has been NGA Art Talks, brought to you by the National Gallery of Australia.

Denise Mamocki is with me on the Radio National Hour.

She's a Senior Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and she's curated a new exhibition on the early work of Sidney Nolan.

Denise, let's get to the Ned Kelly series.

You've managed to bring the entire series together in one spot for the first time in more than 60 years.

My pleasure.

Thanks, Tracey.

That was Denise Momoki, Senior Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Nolan Origins opens next Saturday, the 3rd of October.