The human form has been the subject of art for millennia. Portraiture has been used to record the look of individuals, and representations of the human body have been enlisted as vehicles for narrative or to communicate emotional states. More recently artists have sought to challenge our understanding of the relationship between bodies and art – both on a physical and conceptual level. This display of artworks from the State Art Collection takes the human body as its starting point. Body will focus on corporeality in many guises, from the seemingly simple representation of the human form, to artworks by Indigenous Australian artists that are drawn from ceremonial markings on the human body, to works by contemporary artists that are determined by the physical body of the artist or seek to include the body of the viewer within their realm.