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The University of Melbourne Art Collection
23 Jan 2010 to 19 Sep 2010
This exhibition continues the Potter’s recent exploratory approaches to the long-term display of the University of Melbourne Art Collection. Rather than a selection based on theme, collection or historical period, this exhibition will include key artworks considered by curators as the most impressive and valuable.
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The Shilo project
28 Nov 2009 to 14 Mar 2010
The Shilo project is based on Neil Diamond’s 1970 album, the cover of which features a connect-the-dots portrait of Diamond for fans to complete. The project invites up to 100 contemporary Australian artists to complete a ‘blank’ cover and displays their sleeves alongside those found in op shops completed by unknown individuals.
This kaleidoscopic exhibition of art and record sleeves is a tribute to pop idols, classic tunes, record collectors, fans and vinyl. At the same time, it poses conceptual challenges to artists. The original sleeve promises an image of Neil Diamond but doesn't deliver: When is a portrait not a portrait? Completing the puzzle reveals the portrait but may trash the sleeve.
Our Shilo Scouts are currently hunting for drawn-upon or embellished copies of the album. Do you have one? Let us know at shilo-project@unimelb.edu.au.
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Tim Johnson: painting ideas
11 Nov 2009 to 14 Feb 2010
This major survey exhibition begins with Johnson’s activities as a conceptual and performance artist in the early 1970s and co-founder of the Inhibodress artists’ collective in Sydney. In addition to performance documentation, films and artists’ books from the early 1970s, this section also includes his punk music paintings and prints.
The major section of the exhibition commences with paintings that came from Johnson’s first visits to Papunya in the late 1970s and early 1980s and his subsequent collaborations with Aboriginal artists including Michael Jagamara Nelson and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Johnson’s concurrent interest in Buddhism and Asian iconography from diverse sources is also explored. The rest of the exhibition is devoted to the impressive paintings and other works that developed from Johnson’s interest in tracing an often eclectic, at times controversial, equivalence between artistic and spiritual practices across many cultures and countries.
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