Premonitions: Monash University Collection 1961–2007
Dates:
16 February – 4 May 2008
Curators:
Kirrily Hammond, Curator – Collection, MUMA, and Penny Teale, Senior Curator, McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park
Location:
McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Vic.
Artists:
James Angus, Howard Arkley, Lauren Berkowitz, Kate Beynon, Peter Booth, John Brack, Pat Brassington, Janet Burchill, Ian Burn, Stephen Bush, Nadine Christensen, Peter Cripps, Adam Cullen, Aleks Danko, Juan Davila, Destiny Deacon, Mikala Dwyer, Dale Frank, Simryn Gill, Peter Graham, Brent Harris, Robert Hunter, Raafat Ishak, Roger Kemp, Nick Mangan, Linda Marrinon, Tracey Moffatt, Callum Morton, Rose Nolan, David Noonan, Robert Owen, Ti Parks, Mike Parr, John Perceval, Rosslynd Piggott, Kerrie Poliness, Scott Redford, Robert Rooney, Giles Ryder, Kathy Temin, Peter Tyndall, Louise Weaver, Anne Zahalka, Constanze Zikos
Works that imagine the future continue to provoke the present. Premonitions included some of Australia’s best and most iconic works of art that have created our sense of cultural identity.
The Monash University Collection is recognised as one of the nation’s leading collections of contemporary Australian art. Established in 1961, it has maintained a focus on new work by emerging and established artists, and now represents a unique overview of cutting-edge Australian art since that time.
Held as part of the University’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations, this survey exhibition held at McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park revealed the currency, depth and diversity of the Monash University Collection, with a particular focus upon abstraction, minimalism and conceptual art; pop art, identity and suburbia; and representations of the body.
With a selection of key works by over forty artists, Premonitions presented the opportunity to revisit iconic, provocative and innovative art that imagined the future and that continue to resonate today.
Exhibition Catalogue:
Premonitions: Monash University Collection 1961-2007 (PDF)
Image: Simryn Gill, A Small Town at the Turn of the Century #1 1999–2000, type C photograph. Monash University Collection, Melbourne