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Monash University Museum of Art

Locality: Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia

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Address: 900 Dandenong Rd 3145 Caulfield East, VIC, Australia

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24.01.2022 Coming soon to MUMA Congratulations to @aliciafrankovich @eva_birkenstock @melee tliff and the team behind this very much anticipated publication! #Repost @starkwhite with @make_repost Editor Eva Birkenstock has announced the release of ALICIA FRANKOVICH - OUTSIDE BEFORE BEYOND, published by Buchhandlung Walther König and produced by Kunstverein Für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf with support from Creative New Zealand, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) and Starkwhite. Congratulation to Alicia, Eva and the team. @aliciafrankovich @eva_birkenstock @kunstverein_duesseldorf @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig @dansolbachstudio @danielfalb @karenarchey @rosabraidotti #hannahmatthews @mumamonash @creativenz

24.01.2022 Michael Cook: Undiscovered University of Sunshine Coast Gallery, Queensland 17 August - 7 November 2020 Over the last decade, Michael Cook has produced photo media works that interrogate the legacy of colonisation in Australia.... The exhibition includes 'Majority Rule', on loan from the @monash_uni Collection. The series asks ‘what if Indigenous people were 96 per cent of the Australian population and non-Indigenous people defined as the four per cent?’ Image: Michael Cook ‘Majority Rule (Bus)’ inkjet print on paper 80 x 120 cm (image) Monash University Collection Acquired 2016 Image courtesy the artist, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane and THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne #michaelcook #uscartgallery #uscaustralia #australianart #photography #majorityrule #uama

23.01.2022 'Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce', curated by Hetti Perkins, opens today at TarraWarra Museum of Art. Yhonnie Scarce's 'Only a Mother Could Love Them', 2016, is on loan from the Monash University Collection for this exhibition. The exhibition runs until March 8, 2021. ... https://www.twma.com.au//looking-glass-judy-watson-and-yh/

22.01.2022 We are pleased to launch a special limited edition artwork by widely recognised and celebrated First Nations artist Dale Harding, with funds raised supporting MUMA’s 2021 artist commissions and education initiatives. Dale Harding‘Three Pink Breaths’, 2020 ochre applied by breath on 185 gsm hot-pressed Aquarel Arches paper 56 x 38 cm (unframed)... Edition of 50, with the first 25 available through MUMA. Each work is unique, signed and numbered by the artist. Price $900 Framing offered by @UnitedMeasures for an additional $204 (prices include GST) ‘Three Pink Breaths’ is a unique edition of artworks created by widely recognised and celebrated First Nations artist Dale Harding in the lead up to hissolo exhibitionat MUMA, opening April 2021. Each work has been created with the artist’s own breath: drawn, released and drawn again, applying pigment to paper. Harding’s multilayered practice is defined by his sensitive and nuanced approach to materiality and process, and its strong focus on community, family and place. His works pay particular homage to matrilineal female figures in his family, and have come to focus on his mother’s Country, Carnarvon Gorge. Visit the link in our bio to find out more and purchase. Born in 1982 in Moranbah, Harding is a descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples of the Country now recognised as Central Queensland, Australia. Harding has achieved impressive career success, both internationally and within Australia, having had his work featured in the 10th Liverpool Biennale (2018), documenta 14 (2017), 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), and the major group exhibitions‘Things Entangling’, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan (2020);‘Surface Tension’, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates (2019); and‘The National: New Australian Art’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2017). Dale Harding is represented by @MilaniGallery, Brisbane. #DaleHarding #ThreePinkBreaths #MUMAMonash

21.01.2022 Always Was, Always Will Be. To celebrate the start of this year's NAIDOC week, we would like tofeature Kamilaroi artist Archie Moore’s t-shirt designed for MUMA’s Art You Can Wear. Pictured is Archie wearing his own design Based in Brisbane, Archie works across different media to portray self and national histories.... According to the artist: ‘Paying your respects to traditional owners of these lands most times seems a token gesture that doesn’t do anything to advance any movement towards mutual respect or reconciliation. How is this respect paid? Is it just a veiled disclaimer or a loophole? In any case, you have nothing to lose and I have nothing to gain with these words.’ To view and find out more about Archie’s Art You Can Wear t-shirt, visit the link in our bio. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #NAIDOC2020 #MUMAArtYouCanWear #ArchieMoore

21.01.2022 Debris Facility is a Melbourne-based, queer body corporate. An artistic/corporate entity whose activities often parody and parasite processes of neoliberal identity construction and industrial commodification, they produce wearable works, installations and performances that respond to specific contexts. Based on a 'logo sample sheet', the Facility's T-shirt design is a manic proliferation of design tropes and a critical deployment of corporate branding. Logotypes can be thoug...ht of as blueprints for the construction of identity; worn on and beyond human bodies, they represent a distributed performance of labour. Customisation to the t-shirt may be obtained via negotiation with helpful @debris.facility staff. Printed locally on Fairwear accredited 100% organic cotton by@occ_apparel, a donation from each Tshirt sold will be made to@nava_visualartsArtists’ Benevolent Fund. Visit the link in bio to view and purchase Debris’s Art You Can Wear t-shirt.#MUMAArtYouCanWear#DebrisFacility

19.01.2022 Bayside Gallery is hosting an In Conversation with Wona Bea and Charlie Lawler who are exhibiting in the Greenworld exhibition at 2pm today. The exhibition also features works by Tellah George from the Monash University Collection. https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au//conversation-wona-bae-and-

19.01.2022 Our friends at MLIVE are presenting Sound Gallery Sessions every Wednesday, 7pm from the David Li Sound Gallery. Live-streamed and free, details below

19.01.2022 @tomohernia’s with his Art You Can Wear T. Visit link in our bio to get yours #MUMAArtYouCanWear #Repost @tomohernia New shirt with @mumamonash

18.01.2022 Phil Sidney from @_studio_a_ looking sharp in his ‘Night Owl’ t-shirt he designed for #MUMAArtYouCanWear You can purchase Phil’s T by visiting the link in our bio! Printed locally on Fairwear accredited 100% organic cotton from @occ_apparel, a donation from each T-shirt sold will be made to @nava_visualarts Artists’ Benevolent Fund.... #philsidney #studioa

18.01.2022 Precarious Movements: Conversations - Session 3/3 Preservation Through Knowledge Transmission: From Artist to InstitutionTuesday 3 November, 8pmFree live webinar, visit link in our bio to register Panel: Louise Lawson (Conservation Manager, @tate) and Robert Lazarus (Associate Lecturer,Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, @unimelb) Moderator: Stephen Gilchrist (Lecturer, @sydney_uni)... The preservation of choreographic work lays challenge to the core principles of the traditional museum modelperpetuity and permanence. What processes might better serve the preservation of choreographic works? And how might knowledge transmission occur within and without the institution? The speakers in this session discuss case studies and experiences of archiving and conserving works that engage with body, memory and social networks.Louise Lawson discussesthe conservationpractice andprocesses that are being developed at Tate to preserve performance art. Robert Lazarus will reflect on the importance of stretching our understanding of conservation practices through the nature of the artworks themselves, and how this responsive approach can shape the teaching and learning of new generations of conservators. Co-presented by MUMA and thePrecarious Movements: Choreography and the Museumresearch group, Precarious Movements: Conversations is athree-part program of live talks with artists, curators and conservators that reflects on what happens when works of a choreographic nature enter into the museum. Image: Lee Mingwei,‘Our Labyrinth’, 2015, performance. Installation view, 11th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Power Station of Art, 12 November 2016 2 March 2017. Jay Yuan #PrecariousMovements#mumamonash

17.01.2022 Samson Young: Real Music, opening soon at MUMA. Stay tuned for our museum re-opening dates! https://artguide.com.au/hearing-the-sound-of-dragons-breath

17.01.2022 To celebrate World Kindness Day we’d like to share a project we’ve been working on behind-the-scenes.As ateam,we acknowledge we are all responsible for taking actions to minimise our impact on the environment. We joined Monash Green Impact as MUMA Greenies in March 2020. Green Impact is a task-based sustainability initiative that many Australian universities use to build sustainable practices from the ground up. Here are a number of initiatives we’ve been undertaking towar...ds making sustainable changes: Meat-free Mondays Planting days (weeding, planting new trees, shrubs and herb garden) Composting Turning equipment off at power points Biking or taking public transport We’re also working with the Global Challenges 3rd year unit fromMonash'sBachelor of Advanced Science. This project involves a team of students whohaveundertaken an analysis of MUMA's activities to identify areas where we can improve our environmental impact. As part of the exercise, MUMA will work with the Sustainability Development Institute at @monash_uni to come up with a range of recommendations to become a more sustainable institution #worldkindnessday2020

16.01.2022 ‘Queer Readings of the Monash University Collection’aims to diversify writing on the Collection and launches alongside our sixtieth anniversary program. For this project, a group of writers and artists are invited to contextualise a selection of works of art through the lenses of their experience and knowledge. Twenty texts will be published online in the coming months. During Pride Month, we are delighted to release the first five commissions by Judy Annear, Léuli Eshrghi,... Maija Howe, Spence Messih and Daniel Mudie Cunningham writing on works by Tracey Moffatt, Dani Marti, Patricia Piccinini, Brook Garru Andrew and Mathew Jones. Reading works ‘queerly’ is a strategy for intervening in an art historical record that has participated in reinforcing heterosexuality as the societal norm. Queer Readings acknowledges that what have been considered to be non-normative sexualities and gender identities have been a part of our social lives for a long timethey just couldn’t be read as such. Visit link in bio to view these texts #PrideMonth#MUMAMonash#MonashUniversity#MonashUniversityCollection#60thAnniversary#60YearsOfCollecting#QueerReadings #QueerReadingsofMonashUniversityCollection #JudyAnnear #LéuliEshrghi #MaijaHowe #SpenceMessih #DanielMudieCunningham #TraceyMoffatt #DaniMarti #PatriciaPiccinini #BrookGarruAndrew #MathewJones

15.01.2022 Our friends at Liquid Architecture, West Space and Bus Projects are looking for four individuals to join their team: - Publishing and Communication Coordinator - Associate Editor (Disorganising) - Associate Producer (Disorganising)... - Research Assistant (Machine Listening) Applications due Monday 14 December 2020 https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/work

14.01.2022 Robert Nelson reviews the exhibition case study video we created, with the support from Fancy Films and Joel Stern from Liquid Architecture, on 'Samson Young: Real Music'. You can find the link to the video at the end of the article. https://www.theage.com.au//if-conceptual-art-is-displayed-

10.01.2022 Asia Art Archive invites applications for participation in Art Schools of Asia, an online seminar and conference series that examines the history of institutions of higher learning from the perspective of the region. Two information sessions for interested researchers will be held on Zoom on Monday, 14 June at 9pm HKT, 9am EDT and Tuesday, 15 June at 12:30pm HKT, 10am IST Details below:... https://bit.ly/2TtjGlr See more

10.01.2022 The wait is over! We’re excited to welcome you to the first major exhibition in Australia by acclaimed artist Samson Young.‘Real Music’invites us to look, listen and imagine, while drawing attention to how often our perception is blinkered. ‘Samson Young: Real Music’ 14 November - 12 December 2020... In line with the Victorian Industry Restart Guidelinesfor Museums and Galleries, MUMA is implementing a variety of public health and physical distancing measures to keep our visitors safe. Visit the link in our bio to find out more about ‘Real Music’ and what we are doing to keep our community safe ‘Samson Young: Real Music’is presented in partnership with@talbotricegallery at @edinburghuniversity. Images: Samson Young: Real Music ‘Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky’s 5th’, 2018. Photo: Andrew Curtis ‘The World Falls Apart into Facts’, 2019. Photo: Andrew Curtis ‘Possible Music #2’, 2019. Photo: Andrew Curtis ‘The World Falls Apart into Facts’, 2019 (production still). Photo: Lily Yiyi Chan #SamsonYoung #RealMusic #SamsonYoungRealMusic #MUMAExhibition

09.01.2022 With universities suddenly facing significant cuts, a timely review has revealed for the first time the large and often unappreciated role they play in acquiring art, hosting exhibitions and pushing artistic boundaries. https://www.theage.com.au//university-art-exhibitions-are-

08.01.2022 On World Oceans Day we share a work by Peggy Perrins Shaw, part of a suite of works on paper that the artist donated to Monash University in the 1970s and 1980s. ‘Great Barrier Reef’ describes the rare splendour and living energy of Australia’s remarkable coral gardens, which stretch more than 2000 kilometres along the Queensland coast. An artist primarily concerned with the natural world and its abstract, painterly possibilities, Perrins Shaw presents the vibrant minutiae of... the reef, narrowing in on a small section of a coral cay and evoking its modest looseness and charm. While Great Barrier Reef might have appeared as a celebration to its original audience in 1970, it may equally serve as a cenotaph or commemoration to the contemporary viewer, as the twenty-million-year-old reefone of the seven natural wonders of the worldweathers the deleterious effects of global warming and pollution. Excerpts from a text by Lesley Harding Link in bio Peggy Perrins Shaw ‘Great Barrier Reef’, 1970 gouache and crayon on paper 78 x 58 cm Monash University Collection Gift of the artist 1970 Image: A vibrant and dynamic abstract composition composed of a mass of circles and ovoid shapes side-by-side in varying sizes and colours, ranging from creams and yellows to pale and dark blue, green and lilac. The interior spaces of the shapes are filled with dots, rings, follicles and petal-like formations. #MUMAMonash #MonashUniversity #MonashUniversityCollection #60thAnniversary #60YearsOfCollecting #PeggyPerrinsShaw #WorldOceansDay

07.01.2022 Reminder: join us on zoom this evening, 8pm AEST for the second session of Precarious Movements: Conversations. Register via in our bio. #Repost @annaschwartzgallery ‘Precarious Movements: Conversations’ is athree-part program of live talks with artists, curators and conservators that reflects on what happens when works of achoreographic nature enter into the museum. Each session focuses on aparticular phase of awork’s museum life cycle: how its... presentation challenges existing display systems and program infrastructure; how its ephemerality and mutability confront current collection and acquisition frameworks; and how achoreographic work’s particular relationship to body, memory and social networks might shift institutional practices of archiving and preservation. Tomorrow, 27 October, 8pm Session 2. Square Peg: Rethinking and Reconfiguring the Museum Collection Panel: Lisa Catt (Assistant Curator, International Art, AGNSW), Victoria Hunt (artist), Shelley Lasica (artist) and Tania Doropoulos (Director, Anna Schwartz Gallery) Moderator: Pip Wallis (Curator, Contemporary Art,NGV) [Free live webinar, visit link in bio to register] __ Image: Shelley Lasica ‘Dress: A Costumed Performance with Designer Martin Grant’ (19972019) Performance still, Anna Schwartz Gallery, 2019 Photo: Jacqui Shelton __ #ShelleyLasica #AnnaSchwartzGallery #ASG #PrecariousMovements #mumamonash __

07.01.2022 Precarious Movements: Conversations Session 1/3 Points of Tension: Presenting Work Within the Museum Space Tuesday 20 October, 8pm Free live webinar, visit link in our bio to register... Panel: Agatha Gothe-Snape (artist), Amrita Hepi (artist) and Latai Taumoepeau (artist) Moderator: Hannah Mathews (Senior Curator, MUMA) Three artistseach working with choreography in distinct ways and regularly invited to work within the space of the galleryshare their experiences of presenting work of a choreographic nature within the white cube. Whether programmed as a commission, intervention, exhibition, performance or event, the works of these artists have challenged how museums produce and present art. In what way can institutions be more adaptable to artists whose work falls outside the modes of artmaking traditionally held in such institutions? How can artists learn to better navigate the institution and advocate for their practice? These case studies identify the points of tension between artist and museum, and suggest how they might be overcome. Co-presented by MUMA and thePrecarious Movements: Choreography and the Museumresearch group, Precarious Movements: Conversations is athree-part program of live talks with artists, curators and conservators that reflects on what happens when works of a choreographic nature enter into the museum. Image: Agatha Gothe-Snape,Lion’s Honey, 2019, performers, green vinyl chair, letter from the artist, the artist’s sheepskin rug, books, wall-mounted shelves. Commissioned by Kaldor Public Art Projects forMaking Art Public: 50 Years of Kaldor Public Art Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 7 September 2019 16 February 2020. Photo: Jenni Carter #PrecariousMovements #mumamonash

06.01.2022 Quandamooka artist Megan Cope's 'Untitled (Death Song)', 2020 from the 2020 Adelaide Biennial can be experienced online via Liquid Architecture's Disclaimer journal below

04.01.2022 As part of our celebration of World Environment Day; a day to promote awareness about environmental protection, we share the work of Indigneous Australian artist Lydia Balbal, 'Martakulu', from the @monash_uni collection. Balbal’s work is reflective of the Bidyadanga style as seen in the combination of desert and saltwater colours: the tales of exodus and place-making richly narrated onto the canvas. Sensual washes of blue and green allude to the clear tidal water, which ha...ve a gentle interplay with the vivid orange and ochre red present in this work. The lack of straight lines is utterly feminine and evokes the sensation of waves lapping at the edge of water, as does the gentle wash of white that has been carefully placed on so much of the image. There is a sense of intimacy conveyed by the work that is sometimes absent in the men’s work from Bidyadanga. Excerpt from a text by Clothilde Bullen, link in bio. Lydia Balbal Gjinabalyi/Wugubalyi ‘Martakulu’, 2010 acrylic on linen 171 x 205 cm Monash University Collection Purchased 2010 Image: A painting of what looks like an aerial view of a landscape which comprises of multiple curved lines in textural washes of mostly white, blue and green, with some layering of earthy orange, purple and red tones. #mumamonash #monashuniversity #monashuniversitycollection #60thanniversary #60yearsofcollecting #lydiabalbal #worldenvironmentday

04.01.2022 MUMA is thrilled to announce the success of our ARC Linkage grant forPrecarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum.This project brings academics, curators, conservators and artists together to interrogate the relationship between dance and visual art practices towards developing solutions for emerging and associated challenges. Along with our colleagues at University of NSW, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW and Tate, London, MUMA is excited to embark on this type of deep and industry-specific research that promises meaningful outcomes for institutions and artists alike. Image:ShelleyLasica,‘Dress: a costumed performance with designer Martin Grant’, 1998-2019. Performance still,AnnaSchwartzGallery, Melbourne. Photography: Jacqui Shelton.

03.01.2022 Precarious Movements: ConversationsSession 2/3Square Peg: Rethinking and Reconfiguring the Museum CollectionTuesday 27 October, 8pmFree live webinar, visit link in our bio to registerPanel: Lisa Catt (Assistant Curator, International Art, @artgalleryofnsw), Victoria Hunt (artist), Shelley Lasica (artist) and Tania Doropoulos (Director, @annaschwartzgallery)Moderator: Pip Wallis (Curator, Contemporary Art, @ngvmelbourne) There is a notable absence of choreographic work...s in museum collections. An obstacle seems to exist at the most fundamental levelthe very way museums understand the art object and structure the process of collecting. This session looks at how artists and institutions are confronting the limitations of current acquisition frameworks and are considering ways in which collections might make space for living practice and immaterial context. Shelley Lasica and Tania Doropoulos look to Lasica’s work‘Dress: A Costumed Performance with Designer Martin Grant’, 19982019, as a model for how artists might approach the acquisition of their work. Artist Victoria Hunt discusses her experiences within institutional contexts, reflecting on how museum ontologies and temporalities might be challenged and changed. Curator Lisa Catt discusses how the archive might circumvent institutional hierarchies and dependencies on objecthood to represent a wider range of artforms within a museum collection. Co-presented by MUMA and thePrecarious Movements: Choreography and the Museumresearch group, Precarious Movements: Conversations is athree-part program of live talks with artists, curators and conservators that reflects on what happens when works of a choreographic nature enter into the museum. Image: Shelley Lasica,‘Dress: A Costumed Performance with Designer Martin Grant’, 19982019,preparatory image. Photo: Kate Gollings #PrecariousMovements#mumamonash @ShelleyLasica @TaniaDoropoulos @PipWallis @vichunt_

03.01.2022 Looking back on our special National Eucalypt Day 2021 event at the incredible Tree Story exhibition, which was curated by Monash University Museum of Art's Cha...rlotte Day and 2020 Bjarne K Dahl Medallist Dr Brian Martin, Associate Dean, Indigenous, Monash University Art Design & Architecture. We were thrilled to present the 2021 Bjarne K Dahl Medal to Dr Dorothy Steane of the School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, for her vital work on eucalypt genetics and adaptations. We are humbled by the talent and commitment of our Bjarne K Dahl Medallists, all of whom have made significant contributions to the study, conservation, and appreciation of eucalypts.

02.01.2022 Celebrating Universal Children's Day with a selection of the recent works produced by students from the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS), adapted from a three-part video workshop led by artist Tai Snaith. Designed as an outreach program, MUMA offered this program as an alternative to our usual collaboration with MITS due to their relocation to Darwin this year. In her videos Tai included demonstrations of painting and collage techniques and processes. MITS's adap...tation involved researching protected marine life as well as their natural habitats. ‘The Turtle' James Hood (Lake Tyres, VIC) "Turtles are becoming endangered because of plastic so we need to help it and the environment. In other words stop using plastic and start using recycled plastic. One person can make a difference if that one person is committed to make that difference!" ‘Monk Seal' Hazel Armstrong (Batchelor) "This is a Monk Seal and they are becoming extinct because of fish nets. Monk Seal are getting stuck in fishnets and can't get free." ‘The Dolphin' Jocelyn Dhamarrandji (Ramingining) "Dolphins are the best animal that I have ever seen in my life. They are smart, friendly and we have to stop hunting for them! Sixteen species of dolphin are considered to be in danger of extinction according to the Endangered Species Act. Furthermore, because our knowledge about most dolphins and whales is lacking, there may be many more endangered species. We have to stop hunting for them and also we have to think!" #UniversalChildrensDay #MUMAEducation

01.01.2022 EFFIE by @s_rod. Order your T via link in bio #MUMAArtYouCanWear Thanks for sharing your selfies with us @jess0livieri @gabriellechantiri @arthurgoatsnake, Lizzie Thomson, Brian Fuata, @mxvortexdust & @lmtvv