Pixy Liao, How to build a relationship with layered meanings (2008), pigment inkjet print, 37.5 (H) x 50 (W) cm

Yvette Coppersmith, Nude self portrait, after Rah Fizelle (2016), oil on linen, 91.5 (H) x 66.0 (W) cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased with funds from the Marie and Vida Breckenridge bequest 2010.

Petrina Hicks, Venus, from the series The Shadows (2013), backlit transparent archival film (lightbox), Image courtesy the artist and Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin.

Margaret Worth, Samsara 11 (1968), screenprint, 28.0 h x 83.8 w cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 1994.

Rosemary Laing, Flight research #6 (1999–2000), Type C photograph, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 2001, © Rosemary Laing.

Jo Ann Callis, Untitled (hand grabbing ankles) (c.1976), pigment inkjet print, 50.8 (H) x 40.6 (W) cm.

Sue Ford, Faces (1976), single-channel moving image, 16mm film, remastered as digital, black-and-white, silent, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 1984, © Sue Ford / Copyright Agency 2019.

Anne Wallace, She Is (2001). (Detail). Oil on canvas Collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Purchased 2002, © Anne Wallace.

Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (Tiwi people), Jirtaka [Sawfish] (2004), natural pigments on canvas, 90.0 (H) x 90.0 (W) cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 2005, © Jean Baptiste Apuatimi.

Julie Rrap, Persona Shadow (1984), colour photograph, 193.6 h x 104.9 w cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, KODAK (Australasia) PTY LTD Fund 1984.

Nan Goldin Nan one month after being battered (1984), direct positive colour photograph, 39.0 h x 60.0 w cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 1994, © Nan Goldin, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.

Destiny Deacon (Ku Ku/Erub/Mer peoples), Eva Johnson, writer (1994), colour photograph, 72.8 h x 58.6 w cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 1995, © Destiny Deacon/Copyright Agency

Sally Smart, Imaginary anatomy #7 (March 1995), monotype and stencil, 134.5 h x 60.5 w cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australian Print Workshop Archive 2, purchased with the assistance of the Gordon Darling Australasian Print Fund 2002, © Courtesy of the artist.

Pat Brassington, Boucher (2001), Pigment print, 75.0 (H) x 58.0 (W) cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 2001.