The 1930s was a turbulent time in Australia’s history. During this decade major world events, including the Depression and the rise of totalitarian regimes in Europe, shaped the nation’s evolving sense of identity. In the arts, progressive ideas jostled with reactionary positions, and artists brought substantial creative efforts to bear in articulating the pressing concerns of the period.
Brave New World: Australia 1930s encompasses the multitude of artistic styles, both advanced and conservative, which were practised during the 1930s. Included are commercial art, architecture, fashion, industrial design, film and dance to present a complete picture of this dynamic time.
The exhibition charts the themes of celebrating technological progress and its antithesis in the nostalgia for pastoralism; the emergence of the ‘New Woman’ and consumerism; nationalism and the body culture movement; the increasing interest in Indigenous art against a backdrop of the government policy of assimilation and mounting calls for Indigenous rights; the devastating effects of the Depression and the rise of radical politics; and the arrival of European refugees and the increasing anxiety at the impending threat of the Second World War. Brave New World: Australia 1930s presents a fresh perspective on the extraordinary 1930s, revealing some of the social and political concerns that were pertinent then and remain so today.
Brave New World: Australia 1930s encompasses the multitude of artistic styles, both advanced and conservative, which were practised during the 1930s. Included are commercial art, architecture, fashion, industrial design, film and dance to present a complete picture of this dynamic time.
The exhibition charts the themes of celebrating technological progress and its antithesis in the nostalgia for pastoralism; the emergence of the ‘New Woman’ and consumerism; nationalism and the body culture movement; the increasing interest in Indigenous art against a backdrop of the government policy of assimilation and mounting calls for Indigenous rights; the devastating effects of the Depression and the rise of radical politics; and the arrival of European refugees and the increasing anxiety at the impending threat of the Second World War. Brave New World: Australia 1930s presents a fresh perspective on the extraordinary 1930s, revealing some of the social and political concerns that were pertinent then and remain so today.
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| Brave New World Australia 1930s, NGV Gallery |
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| Brave New World Australia 1930s, NGV Gallery |
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| Russell Patterson- Where there's smoke there's fire |
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| Seventh city of the Empire - Melbourne, Victoria c. 1930 |
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| Frank Hinder, Trains passing, 1940 |
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| Sybil Craig, Peggy, 1932 |
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| Arthur Challen, Miss Moira Madden, 1937 |
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| Unknown, Australia Evening dress (c. 1935) |
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| AWA Radio |
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| Radio Corporation, South Melbourne (manufacturer) Astor Mickey (yellow, red, blue and white, green, pink) 1939–49 |
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| Radio red |
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| Fred Ward, Sideboard, for Maie Casey (c. 1932) |
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| Michael O'Connell, (designer) Textile, (c. 1933) |
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| Sam Atyeo, Album of designs- tables, (c. 1933-c. 1936) |
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| Max Dupain, Discus thrower (c. 1939) |
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| Dorothy Thornhill, Resting Diana, 1931 |
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| Jean Broome-Norton, Abundance (1934 |
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| Max Dupain, On the beach. Man, woman, boy, 1938 |
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| Douglas Annand, Max Dupain, Australia Poster, c. 1937 |
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| John Rowell, Blue hills, (c. 1936 |
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| Gert Sellheim, Spring in the Grampians poster, 1930s |
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| Hilda Rix Nicholas, The fair musterer, (c. 1935) |
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| Collection page Frances Derham, Kangaroo and Aboriginal motifs, (1925-1940) |
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| Margaret Preston, Shoalhaven Gorge, New South Wales, (1940-1941) |
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| Unknown, Walamangu active, (1930s) |
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| Dance Australia |
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| Dance costume Australia |
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| Dance Australia |
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| Laurence Le Guay, No title (War montage with globe), (c. 1939) |
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| Bernard Smith, The advance of Lot and his Brethren, 1940 |
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| Max Dupain, Brave New World, 1938 |
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| Kelvinator advertisement (1936) by Max Dupain |
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| Poster by Gert Sellheim |
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| Sellheim created a series of posters for the Australian National Travel Association promoting beach holidays. |
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| Poster by Tom Purvis |
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| Australia Travel Kanagaroo poster |
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| BNW/Aldous Huxley |
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| Cover illustration for Proletariat magazine (1932) |
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| Follow the Sun' poster by Douglas Annand |
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| Sydney Bridge celebrations poster, 1932 |
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| Western Australia, Flower Girl poster c.1936 |
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| Brisb Vida Lahey, Sultry noon (Central Station Brisbane), 1931 |
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| Clarice Beckett |
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| Clarice Beckett |
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| Eveline Syme, The tram line, 1932 |
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| The Bridge in-curve, Grace Cossington Smith, 1930 |
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| Clara Hunt by Percy Leason |
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