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Talks | ‘My Learned Object’ | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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J CarneyCorrosion cast of the kidney blood vessels 1968resinHarry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, the University of Melbourne

Ten Minute Talks at Ian Potter Museum of Art Date: Saturday 30th Jan, 1pm Venue: Ian Potter Museum of Art, Swanston St, University of Melbourne My Learned Object: Collections & Curiosities is drawn from the Cultural Collections and hidden storerooms of the University of Melbourne. These four ten minute talks will give insights into otherwise unseen parts of the University’s collection from the Science, Medical, History and Arts Faculties and showcase historical learning tools used since 1890. Such is life | Ryan Jefferies, Curator, Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology An exploration of the phrenological interpretation of Ned Kelly’s death mask and the prominence of ‘memento mori’ in Victorian times. Learn who created this death mask, why it…

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Exhibition | My learned object: collections and curiosities | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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J CarneyCorrosion cast of the kidney blood vessels 1968resinHarry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, the University of Melbourne

Saturday 5 Dec 2020 to Sunday 28 Feb 2016. Guest curator: Dr David Sequeira. My learned object: collections & curiosities draws its content from over 25 of the University of Melbourne’s cultural collections. Rich and varied, the cultural collections form an integral part of the workings of the University.  Primary documents—decorative arts, botanical specimens, zoological specimens, paintings, models, furniture, bones, photographs, books, scientific equipment, ephemera (the list goes on… ) from across all university collections can be largely divided into three main categories, namely the arts, the sciences and the archives. There is considerable overlap amongst these areas andMy learned object is a rare opportunity to explore the possibilities of these intersections. The exhibition’s four main themes—people and personalities, same but…

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News | Ian Potter Museum of Art appoints new Curatorial Manager

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The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne has appointed Jacqueline Doughty to the position of Curatorial Manager. Kelly Gellatly, Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art says, “We are delighted to welcome Jacqueline to the Potter and look forward to working with her on the next exciting phase of the Museum’s development. Jacqueline’s innovative and collaborative curatorial approach, interest in the activation of historical and contemporary collections, and ability to work in a cross-disciplinary manner will bring much to the Potter’s programs”. Jacqueline comes to the Potter with over 20 years professional experience in the contemporary art sector encompassing curatorial projects, research, writing, arts administration, organisational management and strategic planning in the United States, United Kingdom and…

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Exhibition Review | An Illumination: the Rothschild Prayer Book & other works from the Kerry Stokes Collection c.1280-1685| Ian Potter Museum of Art

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An Illumination: the Rothschild Prayer Book & other works from the Kerry Stokes Collection c.1280-1685 until Sunday 15th November 2015 It is always interesting to get a glimpse of a private collection and in this small but well-curated exhibition we are able to view a selection of art from the collection of Kerry Stokes. The objects on display are mostly religious in subject and have been chosen by curator (and leading expert on illuminated manuscripts) Margaret Manion to complement the display of the Rothschild Prayer Book, which Stokes bought in 2014. The exhibition is displayed across several galleries at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at Melbourne University. The galleries are dimly lit for this exhibition, the dark setting and…

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Exhibition | An illumination: the Rothschild Prayer Book and other works from the Kerry Stokes Collection | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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King David in Penitence. Penitential Psalms, The Rothschild Prayer Book, fols 147v-148r.

A new exhibition opening at the Ian Potter Museum of this Art provides an opportunity for Melbourne audiences to see art from the Kerry Stokes Collection, including the famous Rothschild Prayer Book. The exhibition is curated by Emeritus Professor Margaret Manion and brings together paintings, stained glass, polychrome sculpture and other art dating from between 1280 and 1685. Mr Stokes has built his collection of illuminated manuscripts over the past forty years, though many of the works included in this exhibition, such as the Pieter Breughel the Younger painting Calvary (1615), are more recent acquisitions stimulated by his recent purchase of the Rothschild Prayer Book (c. 1505 – 1510 ) in early January 2014. The Rothschild Prayer Book is a…

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Artist Talk | Julie Rrap – Remaking the World | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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Julie Rrap will talk about her new exhibition Remaking the World. this Friday 31st July, 1 – 1.30pm, at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne. All welcome. Free talk. About the Exhibition Julie Rrap has been working across painting, photography, sculpture and video since the 1970s. Her art often focuses on the naked human form and examines the ways in which the human body is perceived and represented in the history of Western art. Her work uses humour and a sense of irony to encourage the viewer’s to engage with themes such as gender, fetish, sexuality and death. Julie Rrap: Remaking the World at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, examines the creative process…

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Exhibition | Julie Rrap – Remaking the World | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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Julie Rrap, Remaking the World #1, 2015, digital print. Courtesy the artist, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

23rd July until Sunday 25th November 2015. Curator Vincent Alessi. Julie Rrap has been working across painting, photography, sculpture and video since the 1970s. Her art often focuses on the naked human form and examines the ways in which the human body is perceived and represented in the history of Western art. Her work uses humour and a sense of irony to encourage the viewer’s to engage with themes such as gender, fetish, sexuality and death. Julie Rrap: Remaking the World at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, examines the creative process and the notion of the artist as genius. In the exhibition Rrap has used the architecture of the museum to create two spaces analogous to…

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Exhibition | Brook Andrew – Sanctuary: Tombs of the outcasts | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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IMAGE: Brook Andrew, Tomb of the outcast I, 2015, photographic print. Courtesy the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

A new exhibition at the Ian Potter Melbourne-based multi-disciplinary artist Brook Andrew explores an additional understanding of the ANZAC story, in a major new exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne. Sanctuary: Tombs of the outcasts challenges popular narratives around the ANZAC legend to reveal and highlight stories hidden over time. The exhibition seeks to give voice to other histories such as Indigenous and immigration that have become silent, and reveals Australia as a place of sanctuary.  It asks questions about what we remember, personally and collectively, and how we commemorate.The exhibition features new sculptural work from Andrew, as well as items selected by Andrew from his own archives and from the University of Melbourne Collections,…

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Floor Talk| Kelly Gellatly on Richard Avedon People | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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Join the Potter’s Director Kelly Gellatly for a director’s tour of Richard Avedon People. American photographer Richard Avedon (1923–2004) produced portrait photographs that defined the twentieth century. The exhibition Richard Avedon People explores Avedon’s work from 1949 to 2002. Avedon is best known for transforming fashion photography from the late 1940s onwards. The full breadth of Avedon’s renowned work is revealed in this exhibition of 80 black and white photographs. The exhibition include instantly recognisable portraits of artists, celebrities, and countercultural leaders as well as many of Avedon’s portraits that capture ordinary New Yorkers and the people of America’s West. Richard Avedon People pays close attention to the dynamic relationship between the photographer and his sitters and focuses on Avedon’s portraits across social strata, particularly his interest in counter-culture. At the…

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Exhibition | Everyday Imagining: New Perspectives on Outside Art | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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Andrew Blythe, Untitled 2012, synthetic polymer paint on paper, 88 x 116cm, Courtesy the artist and Tim Melville Gallery, Auckland

The exhibition Everyday imagining: New Perspectives on Outsider art will be on at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, 1 October 2020 – 18 January 2015. The exhibition will feature the work of artists Andrew Blythe, Kelly Greaves, Julian Martin, Jack Napthine, Lisa Reid, Martin Thompson and Terry Williams. The term ‘Outsider art’ was coined by British art historian Roger Cardinal in 1974 expanding on the 1940s French concept of art brut—artworks made by the institutionalised mentally ill—to include artworks made by folk artists and those who are self-taught, disabled, or on the edges of society. The work of Outsider artists is often interpreted as expressing a unique inner vision unsullied by social or cultural influences. Everyday imagining: new perspectives…

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Floor Talks | Make it Last Longer: Conservation Conversations at the Ian Potter Museum of Art

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Visitors enjoy Stephen Bush: Steenhuffel via Ian Potter Museum of Art website

If you want to know how to look after your collections, or how conservators analyse, preserve and conserve cultural material, you are welcome to attend this free event. Learn how art and science merge with a behind the scenes tour of our secretive laboratories. Led by the second year students in the Master of Conservation Cultural Materials at the University of Melbourne, this promises to be a fascinating insight into the preservation of culture. Meet in the foyer at the Potter and be taken on a series of lightning talks on selected works around the gallery. Then, head to the CCMC labs for a behind the scenes look at conservation science and practice. Attendance is free but RSVP essential via the Ian…

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Floor Talk with Vincent Alessi and winner of the Basil Sellers Art Prize 2014

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One of the finalists | Raquel Ormellaborn Sydney, 1969, lives SydneyWealth for toil I 2014cotton, metallic thread, synthetic polymer paint220 x 270 cm© Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane

Saturday Floor Talk | Basil Sellers Art Prize 2014 | Join Curator Vincent Alessi in conversation with the Basil Sellers Art Prize winner for 2014. Sixteen finalists have been selected for the fourth Basil Sellers Art Prize and are; Tony Albert, Narelle Autio, Zoe Croggon, Gabrielle de Vietri, Ivan Durrant, Shaun Gladwell, Richard Lewer, William Mackinnon, Rob McHaffie, Noel McKenna, Rob McLeish, Fiona McMonagle, Raquel Ormella, Khaled Sabsabi, Jenny Watson, and Gerry Wedd. The winner will be announced on 25 July 2014. Venue: Ian Potter Museum of Art, Swanston ST, Univeristy of Melbourne Parkville Date: Saturday 26 Jul 2014, 1.00- 2.00pm Free event | RSVP via this website.

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Floor Talks | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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Ceramic stoneware jar, China, c. 19th century Excavated Chinese kiln and market garden site, Bendigo Collection of Heritage Victoria

The Ian Potter Museum of Art is holding a series of floor talks open to the public. The talks run from 30th April until the 18th June and cover  a range of topics based around archaeological investigations in Melbourne and elsewhere in Victoria, with a particular focus on objects in the collections of Heritage Victoria. All talks are free to attend, no bookings required. For further details on each talk see the links below. Curator talk – Secret lives, forgotten stories: highlights from Heritage Victoria’s archaeological collection Wednesday 30 April 1-1.30pm | Dr Andrew Jamieson, Curator, Classics & Archaeology, University of Melbourne http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/public-programs/current-events/prgm-date/2014-04-30/prgm/curator-talk-secret-lives-forgotten-stories   ‘Good Taste, Fashion, Luxury: a genteel Melbourne family and their rubbish’ on Viewbank Homestead, Heidelberg Saturday 3…

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Lunchtime Talk | Marketing and Dürer connecting business and the arts – Louise Box | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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Marketing and Dürer connecting business and the arts Louise Box Louise will share some of her recent research on the Albrecht Dürer woodcuts held in the University of Melbourne’s print collection. Linking book and print history, she will also discuss how these sixteenth-century art objects can be compelling learning and teaching tools for business students. Louise Box has combined a corporate career with arts research and arts board roles and currently works in executive education at Melbourne Business School. Her research interests include prints, illustrated books, links between business and the arts, and collecting and display practices. Louis Box  is an alumna of the Attingham Trust Study Programme (historic houses and collections, UK) and the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the…

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Lecture | Donald Bates ‘Architecture, Imagination and Consequences’

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As part of the Ian Potter Museum of Art exhibition ‘The Piranesi effect’ leading international architect Donald Bates will discuss the continuing relevance and influence of Piranesi on contemporary architectural practice today ins his lecture ‘Architecture, Imagination and Consequences’. Professor Donald L Bates FAIA, RIBA is Chair of Architectural Design at the University of Melbourne and Founder/Director, LAB architecture studio. Date: Saturday 5 April, 2-3pm Venue: Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Swanston St, Parkville Website: http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/public-programs/current-events/prgm-date/2014-04-05/prgm/saturday-lecture-the-piranesi-effect Free event but seating is limited – book via the Ian Potter website. Piranesi Exhibitions in Melbourne from February The Piranesi Effect at the Potter 20 February until 25 May  Piranesi’s works are  juxtaposed with Roman and Etruscan antiquities, also works by contemporary artists Rick…

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