Tag Archives: Ian Potter Museum of Art

All the better to see you with: Fairy tales transformed

30 January 2018 | Art Almanac

Contemporary artworks and popular fairy tales are paired in 'All the better to see you with: Fairy tales transformed', which observes the ability of each medium to articulate, question, and propose solutions to the challenges of the world....

Marco Fusinato: Mass Black Implosion

29 August 2017 | Julian Day

Artist and musician Marco Fusinato's ten-year project, ‘Mass Black Implosion’ "is like watching the Millennium Falcon leap into hyperspace – your sense of time and space condenses from the macro into the micro," writes Julian Day....

Richard Lewer wins the 2016 Basil Sellers Art Prize

25 July 2016 | Art Almanac

Lewer’s winning work, The Theatre of Sports (2016), is a compendium of twelve paintings that form one work. It represents Lewer’s sustained passion for art and sport, and examines the role sport can play in relation to mental illness....

Luminous World: Contemporary art from the Westfarmers Collection

29 April 2015 | Art Almanac

Works focusing on light and darkness, and how light creates and reveals our world, from one of Australia’s pre-eminent corporate art collections compiled by Wesfarmers over the past 30 years will be exhibited at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne. ...

Everyday imagining: new perspectives on Outsider art

29 September 2014 | Sara Sweet

Outsider Art, since its origins, has generated great curiosity and interest. The term was initially established as Art Brut; an expression formulated by French painter Jean Dubuffet in the 1940s. Art Brut transitioned into what became recognised as Outsider Art, a name created by British art...

Tony Albert wins prestigious Basil Sellers Art Prize

1 August 2014 | Art Almanac

The $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize has been awarded to Indigenous artist Tony Albert for his work titled Once upon a time … 2013-14. The work consists of a painted target over which are hung 23 small framed works comprising watercolours on paper, photographs and collage,...

The Piranesi effect

26 February 2014 | Art Almanac

Using examples of contemporary art, this exhibition investigates the influence of Giovanni Piranesi – 18th centenary printmaker – by comparing his works with examples by contemporary artists Rick Amor, Michael Graf, Mira Gojak, Andrew Hazewinkel, Peter Robinson, Jan Senbergs and Simon Terrill....

Basil Sellers Art Prize 2012

28 August 2012 | Art Almanac

One of the most significant opportunities available to contemporary Australian artists, the prize encourages artists to develop their practice and to challenge perceptions of sport and sports culture whilst exploring a topic of interest for most Australians....