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All the better to see you with: Fairy tales transformed image

All the better to see you with: Fairy tales transformed

All the better to see you with: Fairy tales transformed, the Ian Potter Museum of Art’s 2017 summer show, traces the genre of the fairy tale, exploring its function in contemporary society.

Kiki Smith Sally Smart Amanda Marburg Tracey Moffatt Peter Ellis Miwa Yanagi Kate Daw Kylie Stillman Paula Rego Broersen & Lukács Dina Goldstein Mirando Haz Vivienne Shark Le Witt Polixeni Papapetrou Patricia Piccinini Lotte Reiniger Allison Schulnik Tale Of Tales Janaina Tschäpe Kara Walker And Zilverster Goodwin & Hanenbergh

Thursday 23 November 2017 to Sunday 04 March 2018
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Sister Corita's Summer of Love  image

Sister Corita's Summer of Love

Organised by Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Sister Corita’s Summer of Love is a remarkable journey through the life and work of Corita Kent. (United States, 1918–1986).

Sister Corita Corita Kent

Tuesday 22 November 2016 to Sunday 26 March 2017
Art benefit in Victoria, Australia.

Don't Be Too Polite: Posters and Activism image

Don't Be Too Polite: Posters and Activism

Don’t Be Too Polite presents an exhibition of graphic works from three influential Melbourne based printmaking collectives.

Tuesday 08 November 2016 to Sunday 19 March 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

The Dead Don't Bury Themselves image

The Dead Don't Bury Themselves

Dr Andrew Jamies on Burial as an act of commemoration first occurred nearly 100,000 years ago in the Middle East. Grave goods were often placed in early burials and may be directly associated with the deceased’s identity as well as that of their community.

Tuesday 27 September 2016 to Sunday 19 March 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran: In the Beginning image

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran: In the Beginning

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran pushes the symbolic and material qualities of clay to produce iconoclastic sculptures that break the rules of the medium. Combining Hindu and Christian symbolism with the subversive imagery of internet memes, his wildly mishapen characters act as avatars through which to explore gender and eroticism, religion and popular culture, exoticism and outsider aesthetics.

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

Tuesday 22 November 2016 to Sunday 26 February 2017
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Basil Sellers Art Prize 5

The Basil Sellers Art Prize invites artists to tackle an Australian obsession—sport. In its tenth year, the Prize offers artists the opportunity to be a part of a major exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the chance to win the $100,000 acquisitive prize, the $5,000 People’s Choice Award and the Basil Sellers Creative Fellowship at the National Sports Museum.

Laith Mc Gregor Vipoo Srivilasa David Ray Abdul Abdullah Grant Hobson Richard Lewer Jane Brown Shaun Gladwell Narelle Autio Dana Harris Rew Hanks William Mackinnon Fiona Mc Monagle Kate Daw And Stewart Russell Eamon O'toole Trent Parke And

Tuesday 19 July 2016 to Sunday 06 November 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Breaking Waves

The tide-tossed reveries of Percy Grainger's obsessive, unconventional mind are made manifest in this multi-screen installation film by acclaimed director Amiel Courtin-Wilson.

Percy Grainger Amiel Courtin Wilson Amiel Courtin Wilson

Tuesday 04 October 2016 to Monday 31 October 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Calling Percy

As an inventor as well as composer, Percy Grainger's musical practice was never constrained by tradition or convention.

Danielle Cheng Maggie Clare Sam La Marca Nicola Lewis Jessie Mc Clure Kate Mc Gain Qalissa Othman Yuval Rosinger Laura Woodward

Tuesday 04 October 2016 to Monday 31 October 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Images of Life: Ancient Greek Vases image

Images of Life: Ancient Greek Vases

At the end of the Late Bronze Age, Greece was plunged into a Dark Age lasting for several centuries. In the 9th century BCE there was a revival of economic and artistic activity that culminated in the glories of the Classical period.

Thursday 28 April 2016 to Sunday 18 September 2016
Art exhibition in Australia.

Max and Olive: the photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain image

Max and Olive: the photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain

Olive Cotton and Max Dupain are key figures in Australian visual culture. They shared a long and close personal and professional relationship. This exhibition looks at their work made between 1934 and 1945, the period of their professional association; this was an exciting period of experimentation and growth in Australian photography, and Cotton and Dupain were at the centre of these developments

Max Dupain Olive Cotton

Tuesday 31 May 2016 to Sunday 24 July 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Susan Norrie: Field Work 2006-2016 image
2 collections

Susan Norrie: Field Work 2006-2016

Field Work 2006-2016 premieres an ambitious new moving image work – aftermath (2016) by one of Australia’s most highly regarded multidisciplinary artists. For the creation of this new work Norrie returned to East Java, Indonesia to the site of the LUSI mud volcano, first explored by her in her monumental work HAVOC (2006-07) with which she represented Australia at the 52nd Venice Biennale.

Susan Norrie

Tuesday 15 March 2016 to Sunday 03 July 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Mummymania

Mummymania focuses on the figure of the Egyptian mummy and its role within the themes of life, death, resurrection and immortality.

Tuesday 29 September 2015 to Sunday 17 April 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Love of Beauty, Love of Country image

Love of Beauty, Love of Country

This exhibition is an opportunity to re-visit one of the founding gifts to the University of Melbourne’s Art Collection. Dr Samuel Arthur Ewing’s 1938 gift, of 56 paintings was the first major donation of art to the University.

Wednesday 27 January 2016 to Sunday 10 April 2016
Art exhibition in New South Wales, Australia.

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My learned object: collections & curiosities

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.

Saturday 05 December 2015 to Sunday 28 February 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

William Kentridge: Drawn from Africa image

William Kentridge: Drawn from Africa

Celebrated South African artist William Kentridge works in a variety of media such as film, drawing and printmaking, to create work inspired by some of the most topical subjects in South African society and politics. This exhibition reveals the breadth of the National Gallery of Australia’s holdings of works on paper by Kentridge to the Australian public.Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg.

William Kentridge

Tuesday 20 October 2015 to Sunday 17 January 2016
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

An illumination: the Rothschild Prayer Book & other works from the Kerry Stokes Collection c.1280-1685 image

An illumination: the Rothschild Prayer Book & other works from the Kerry Stokes Collection c.1280-1685

An illumination: the Rothschild Prayer Book & other works from the Kerry Stokes Collection c.1280-1685 provides an opportunity for Australian audiences to view this specific aspect of the Kerry Stokes Collection for the first time.

Friday 28 August 2015 to Sunday 15 November 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Julie Rrap. Remaking the worldA Vizard Foundation Contemporary Artist Project

Julie Rrap’s involvement with body art and performance in the mid-1970s in Australia continued to influence her practice as it expanded into photography, painting, sculpture and video in an ongoing project concerned with representations of the self and the body.

Julie Rrap

Tuesday 21 July 2015 to Sunday 15 November 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

More love hours image

More love hours

More love hours brings together selected works by thirteen contemporary Australian artists who use craft media, techniques or processes in their practice.

Julia Robinson Vipoo Srivilasa Rhys Lee Stephen Bird Newell Harry Raquel Ormella Dana Harris Hiromi Tango Fiona Cabassi Anton Veenstra Yarrenyty Arltere Dulcie Sharpe Louise Robertson Rhonda Sharpe

Tuesday 21 July 2015 to Sunday 15 November 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Neighbourhood night image

Neighbourhood night

Music, food, drink and great art all in one evening.Come and enjoy an evening of art and music for local residents, students, families and those interested in art, music and the cultures of different places and times.

Tuesday 27 October 2015 to Tuesday 27 October 2015
Art special_event in Victoria, Australia.

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Panel Discussion

Universities have a crucial role in training the next generation of professionals engaged in education, health and social services in Australia and beyond, to think in creative and expansive ways to mediate social change.

Dr Heather Gaunt Lena Gan Prof Shaun Ewen Dr Maurizio Toscano Dr Chi Baik

Thursday 22 October 2015 to Thursday 22 October 2015
Art talk in Victoria, Australia.

Souvenirs of the Grand Tour: The Vizard Collection of Antiquities image

Souvenirs of the Grand Tour: The Vizard Collection of Antiquities

Comprising of sixty objects this collection of antiquities was acquired by the Vizard Foundation and now forms an integral part of the Vizard Foundation Art and Antiquities Collection held at the University of Melbourne.

Tuesday 28 April 2015 to Friday 25 September 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Brook Andrew. Sanctuary: Tombs of the outcasts

The world dramatically changed after the outbreak of WWI: Australia was not excluded. Described as the war to end all wars it would be a mere two decades before Europe was once again plagued by a major conflict. Australia has played its role in both of these wars and many other conflicts since.

Brook Andrew

Saturday 18 April 2015 to Sunday 09 August 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Ferntree Gully, Dandeong Rangers (Victoria) image

Weird melancholy: The Australian gothic

The gothic tradition—dealing with alienation, violence, and a powerful, if imaginary, oppressor—held great appeal for nineteenth century Australian writers wishing to convey their experience of the ‘new world’.

Fred Williams Louise Hearman Hugh Ramsay Eugene Von Guerard

Saturday 04 April 2015 to Sunday 09 August 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Luminous World: Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection

Luminous World brings together a selection of contemporary paintings, objects and photographs from the Wesfarmers Collection in a conversation about light.

Tuesday 31 March 2015 to Sunday 05 July 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Nimbus II image

Nature/Revelation

Climate change and its devastating impact on the earth’s many ecosystems is arguably today’s most critical global issue. Nature/Revelation celebrates the unique capacity art has to cut through prevailing rhetoric to stimulate individuals both intellectually and emotionally in the face of current environmental issues.

Mel O’Callaghan Susan Jacobs Gabriel Orozco Susan Jacobs David Haines Ansel Adams Andrew Hazewinkel Jonathan Delafield Cook Jamie North Berndnaut Smilde

Tuesday 31 March 2015 to Sunday 05 July 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Fabrik: conceptual, minimalist and performative approaches to textiles image
2 collections

Fabrik: conceptual, minimalist and performative approaches to textiles

Artists: John Barbour, Clementine Barnes, Sarah crowEST, Christine Dean, ADS Donaldson, Mikala Dwyer, David Egan, Andreas Exner, Dana Harris, Louise Haselton, Mark McDean, Elizabeth Newman, Michelle Nikou, Rose Nolan, Virginia Overell, Janet Passehl, Elizabeth Pulie, Stuart Ringholt, Robert Rooney, Kate Sylvester, Lyndal Walker, Jenny Watson, Heimo Zobernig.

Sarah Crow Est Elizabeth Pulie Robert Rooney John Barbour Jenny Watson Stuart Ringholt Rose Nolan Lyndal Walker Ads Donaldson Mikala Dwyer Elizabeth Newman Dana Harris Michelle Nikou Virginia Overell David Egan Louise Haselton Clementine Barnes Christine Dean Andreas Exner Mark Mc Dean Janet Passehl Kate Sylvester Heimo Zobernig

Tuesday 01 March 2016 to Friday 22 May 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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Public Smog

Amy Balkin is an American artist whose practice investigates the geo-political and legal structures that define and claim the land and sky. Interested in the evolving issues around climate change politics, Balkin’s process-oriented work includes the purchasing of land and the atmosphere, the creation of websites, photographs and videos, and the presentation of public talks.

Amy Balkin

Saturday 11 April 2015 to Tuesday 12 May 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Untitled #13 from the Mob Rule (Family Series) image

Activate, animate, complicate, grow: what new acquisitions can do to and for the collection

The Ian Potter Museum of Art houses and manages the University of Melbourne Art Collection. Comprising over 16,000 objects this collection documents Australian artistic practice since the early nineteenth century and also includes holdings of European art, Australian and International Indigenous art and classics and archaeology objects.

Tuesday 27 January 2015 to Sunday 05 April 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Richard Avedon: People image
4 collections

Richard Avedon: People

American photographer Richard Avedon (1923–2004) produced portrait photographs that defined the twentieth century. Richard Avedon People explores his iconic portrait making practice, which was distinctive for its honesty, candour and frankness.

Richard Avedon

Saturday 06 December 2014 to Sunday 15 March 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Norman Macgeorge: an unlikely Modernist image

Norman Macgeorge: an unlikely Modernist

Norman Macgeorge: an unlikely Modernist, celebrates Macgeorge as both a great defender of Modernism and reveals his engagement with early European Modernism in his own artistic practice. It shows his debt to artist such as Cezanne and van Gogh and highlights his adoption of both stylistic and thematic characteristics as he grappled with a quickly changing artistic environment.

Norman Macgeorge

Saturday 06 December 2014 to Sunday 08 March 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

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