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Director of the NGV, the English curator Eric Westbrook, was determined to have the new gallery engage with contemporary art and accessible to broader audiences, [8] and he supported curators of the exhibition John Stringer, Exhibitions Officer, and Brian Finemore, Curator of Australian Art, in their aim to showcase contemporary Australian art not previously seen in major institutions, but ...
The "University of Victoria Art Collection" was established in 1953 with the purpose of furnishing buildings around campus with art. [4] The "Maltwood Art Gallery and Museum" was established in 1964 with a bequest from John and Katharine Maltwood that included their art collection and mansion, nicknamed the Thatch. [5]
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is an art gallery that houses the Australian part of the art collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is located at Federation Square in Melbourne, Victoria; while the gallery's international works are displayed at the NGV International on St Kilda Road.
Parr was Head of Sculpture at RMIT (1964–66), then Head of Prahran College of Technology in a $1.5 million building completed as he arrived. He appointed staff who became influential Australian art and was held in high esteem by staff, but his fine art philosophy clashed with the vocationally-oriented aims of the College Principal Alan Warren, [2] who acted unsuccessfully to have him removed ...
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968–2002, Ian Potter Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribbe Park, Melbourne , 2002 Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin , 2003
2011 'Dobell Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; 2011 I'N[TWO]ART', Maitland Regional Art Gallery touring exhibition; 2010 'Salon des Refuses', S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; 2010 ‘Tales from the City’, Two person exhibition with Wendy Sharpe, Orange Regional Art Gallery; 2009 ‘Every Dog has its Day’, Letham Gallery Auckland NZ
Peers, in a number of her papers, identifies Teague's writing as an overlooked aspect of the artist's career. Teague provided commentary on Australian art in letters and essays, including a panegyric on E. Phillips Fox at his passing, [15] on the 'Latest Felton Bequest Purchases' in The quarterly journal: members newsletter of the Victorian Artists Society of 1 July 1911, and 'Some Thoughts on ...
After leaving art school, Graham received the support and patronage of James Mollison AO, former director of the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. Graham accompanied James Mollison and Vincent Langford overseas to view art museums in New York, Paris and Rome in 1992, and London and Germany in 1997.