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The National Gallery of Australia will host its first-ever naked tours this April as part of a collaboration with Melbourne-based artist, Stuart Ringholt, whose work is characterised by a resolute sense of art as a social enterprise with personal and social themes such as fear and embarrassment often presented through absurd situations or amateur self-help environments, including anger workshops, participatory performance works and naturist gallery tours.
The Gallery’s current exhibition, ‘James Turrell: A retrospective‘, explores the American artist’s love of light and landscape over almost 50 years, bringing together projection pieces, built spaces, holograms, drawings, prints and photographs. When visiting Canberra last year, Turrell encouraged the Gallery to allow visitors to experience his works naked as previously done in Japan. Turrell says “we drink light through the skin as Vitamin D… so we are literally light theatres. It’s part of our diet”.
The Gallery invites the public to strip down and remove all barriers between artist and audience, to experience these works in the flesh (pun intended).
The experience includes nude reception following the tour (18+ only, restrictions apply).
National Gallery of Australia
Tour 1: Wednesday 1 April, 5.30pm
Tour 2: Thursday 2 April, 7am
Tour 3: Thursday 2 April, 7.30pm
