NGVA presents the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection of Australian art with gallery exhibition areas of approximately 7,000m2 in a building of with a total area of 14,250m2. The building showcases each part of the collection: on the ground floor aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands’ work, nineteenth and twentieth century art on Level 2, and contemporary art, photographs, prints and drawings, fashion & textiles and special exhibitions on Level 3. The scope of the commission was comprehensive, involving not only the design of the building itself, but the gallery interiors, the laying out of all secondary

(temporary) walls, exhibition design for the first hang including the selection of colours and paintings of walls, the development of the building’s identity and a specific graphic typeface, the design of fixtures, fitting, counters, gallery and public furniture and multimedia housings, retail fit outs for the gallery shop and Level 3 café. The scope of work extended to detailed involvement in the first collection hang: in the positioning and layout of art within galleries, the detailed spatial layouts for the ‘fieldwork’ exhibition, and the construction of specific visual narratives with the collection.