Potter Museum of Art

Exhibition

65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art

30 May – 23 Nov 2025

Tertiary

Engage with unique museum-based learning opportunities for tertiary students and researchers.

Schools

Encourage critical thinking and creativity in Grades 3–12 with exhibition tours and curriculum resources.

Renee So
Woman III, 2018
stoneware
The University of Melbourne Art Collection

Dhambit Munuŋgurr
Welcoming the refugees / Scott Morrison and the treasurer, 2020–21
synthetic polymer paint on Stringybark
The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased through the Margaret Cooper Bequest fund, 2021

Sculpture of funerary mask of a woman made out of plaster, paint, and cartonnage dated 30 BCE to 600 CE

Funerary mask of a woman, 30 BCE – 600 CE
Plaster, paint, cartonnage
The University of Melbourne Art Collection
Gift of David and Marion Adams

Destiny Deacon
Freefall, 2001
from the series Forced into Images
light jet print from Polaroid original
Michael Buxton Collection, the University of Melbourne Art Collection. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Michael and Janet Buxton

Mia Boe
Maniac Scholar, 2024
oil on linen
The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased through the Margaret Cooper Bequest Fund, 2024.

Alicia Frankovich
T-E-S-L-A- face, T-E-S-L-A- crash, T-E-S-L-A- crash face dummy I, 2023-24
deployed Tesla air bag, epoxy glass resin, aluminium.
The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased through the Margaret Cooper Bequest Fund, 2024

Ludwig HirschfeldMack
The Cigarette, c. 1950s
watercolour on spackle on cardboard
The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of Mrs Olive Hirschfeld

Tommy McRae
Before the fight – A war dance, 1890
pen and ink on paper
The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased through the Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund with the support of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account

Henry Gritten
Melbourne from the Botanical Gardens, 1865
oil on canvas
The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased through the Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund.

John Brack
The Queen 1988
oil on canvas
The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of Helen Brack. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2012

Angela Goh
Body Loss, 2017
performance work
The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased 2024.

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Untitled figure 12, 2016
earthenware, glaze, gold lustre, platinum lustre, resin, shells, wooden beads
The University of Melbourne Art Collection

James Barth
Stone Milker, 2023
video still
The University of Melbourne Art Collection

A montage of drawings of faces on a colourful background

Richard Larter
Star Type, 1979
cotton and wool
The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Commissioned by the Resource Centre of the State College of Victoria, Hawthorn, 1979