00:01A cacophony of disruptive female energy.
00:05That's how the National Portrait Gallery
00:07is describing its new summer exhibition,
00:09Maiden Mother Crone.
00:11They're terms that have historically been used
00:14to define and constrain women's identities,
00:16but in this show they're reclaimed
00:19in a riot of colour, decadence and detail.
00:22The exhibition features about 70 artworks
00:25by three internationally celebrated female artists.
00:28There's two-time Archibald Prize-winning artist
00:31Del Catherine Barton,
00:32whose huge and intricately adorned portraits
00:35focus on the female form.
00:37Sydney-born, Berlin-based artist Emily Hunt
00:40has created ceramics and drawings
00:42that challenge female stereotypes
00:44and embrace a bit of magic.
00:47And New Zealand-born, US-based artist Jess Johnson
00:50has built her own science fiction-inspired universe
00:53conveyed through quilts and animations.
00:56All three artists' works are maximalist and meticulous,
01:00energetic and excessive, intricate and intimate.
01:04People respond to the show on a bodily level.
01:07It's incredibly overwhelming.
01:09We've used the tropes of the maiden,
01:11the mother and the crone as a means
01:13of interrogating these inherited roles of womanhood
01:17and how we choose to inhabit them,
01:19but also how we choose to tear them apart, frankly.
01:22The exhibition opens to the public tomorrow
01:25and runs through to May next year,
01:28bringing plenty of colour
01:29and otherworldly female power to Canberra.
01:33So, if you want to pull out the Senate from the Nationalує.
01:34All three days later,
01:34for you to do the next April,
01:34you should turn on to the National PourGHz.
01:34You have a base of a location.
01:35You're going to pull out a page of the black title.
