Art lovers had to leave their inhibitions - and their clothes - at the door when visiting Australia's national gallery.
Artist James Turrell specifically requested all visitors to his after-hours exhibition see it in the nude.
The tours are conducted in groups of 50 for people aged over 18, who hand over their clothes and receive them back at the end, ABC news in Australia reports.
"Everyone's all in it together, so it's not weird or anything," one visitor told ABC News.
"You don't have the clothing distracting you. And because of the light installations, everyone's very neutral," one woman told ABC.
"It just gives it a very different perspective."
'James Turrell: a retrospective' explores the artist’s work over almost 50 years, bringing together projection pieces, built spaces, holograms, drawings, prints and photographs.
The tours have been conducted through the Canberra gallery in the morning and evening.
In Turrell's last visit to the Australian capital he suggested the gallery allow audiences to experience his work naked, as had previously been done during one of his exhibitions in Japan.
The tour was led by Melbourne-based contemporary artist Stuart Ringholt who told ABC being nude "liberates the spirit".
"I believe we're less sexualised with our clothes off and we're more sexualised with them on. So by doing the nude tour we get to know a lot about ourselves," he said.
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