UQ Art Museum Public Programs: The Art of Collecting

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 16 August 2013

Time:

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

UQ Location:

James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Before the official opening of the exhibition 'NEW 2013', please join us for a lively discussion on the art of building a collection, be it small scale, high-end, or following an alternate model. Chaired by Michele Helmrich with Mal Enright, Morris Low and Jane Wilson.

Free. All welcome.
RSVP 12 August
07 33653046
artmuseum@uq.edu.au

'NEW 2013' features a selection of artworks acquired for The University of Queensland Art Collection during 2012–2013. The exhibition highlights the University’s active acquisition program, which continues a tradition of acquiring innovative artworks that respond to the contemporary moment. Also featured are works from earlier periods, which enter the Collection primarily through donations (including gifts under the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program), donations and bequests.

As a special highlight, we have devoted one gallery to celebrate donors to the Collection. Works in Gallery C will be rotated three times over the course of the exhibition, enabling a greater number of gifts and donors to be acknowledged. Six students, drawn from a variety of disciplines, worked with the curator to select works and establish the following thematic groupings:
'Colours of Country' (10 August – 22 September)
'Dreamscapes' (24 September – 3 November)
'Assuming the Feminine' (5 November – 15 December)

Curator: Michele Helmrich
Exhibition continues until 15 December 2013