Nine Objects: An Encounter with the Collections of the University of Melbourne
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Cnr of Swanston St and Masson Rd, Parkville
Join us for a day of fascinating talks as leading art historians and curators speak to their favourite objects in the University of Melbourne's cultural collections.
The University is home to more than 15 museums and galleries, and over 30 individual cultural collections. There are thousands of extraordinary artworks and objects. Some are well known iconic works by historical and contemporary artists, and others are unknown treasures, ranging from an ancient Egyptian funerary mask to 19th-century Japanese prints.
The Australian Institute of Art History and the Potter Museum of Art have partnered for an initiative exploring University Collections. Nine curators and academics from a diverse range of disciplines were invited to choose a collection object for research and creative work. Nine Objects is the outcome of their work, a study day and celebration sharing what they have created or uncovered – with the nine objects on special display for the event.
Free entry. Please note that capacity is limited and bookings are essential.
Becky Clifton
10 am – 10:30 amBecky Clifton, Teaching Specialist (Assistant Lecturer), Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne, on Funerary mask of a woman, 30 BCE—600 CE.
University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of David and Marion Adams, 2009
Dr Sally Foster
10:30 am – 11 amDr Sally Foster, Curator Prints and Drawings, Bailleu Library, University of Melbourne, on Lucas van Leyden, The temptation of Christ, 1518.
Gift of Dr J. Orde Poynton, 1959, Prints and Drawings Collection, Archives and Special Collections
Jane Brown
11 am – 11:30 amJane Brown, Manager, Visual Cultures Resource Centre, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne on ‘Memo to Miss Welsford dated 8 August 1946 with gravure by Braun after Carlo Crivelli’ (Madonna and Child) ca. 1480.
University of Melbourne, Visual Cultures Resource Centre, Courtauld Collection
Shanysa McConville
11:30 am – 12 pmShanysa McConville, Associate Curator, Art Museums and Indigenous collections, University of Melbourne, on Judith PugkartaInkamala, Bush Medicine, 2017.
Medical History Museum, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Dr Lisa Dethridge
2 pm – 2:30 pmDr Lisa Dethridge, Honorary University Fellow, School of Media and Communication, RMIT, on Goat Skull rendered by Rita Hardiman.
Pedestal 3D of collection objects
Dr Miguel Guete
2:30 pm – 3 pmDr Miguel Guete, Social art historian and lecturer in Art History and Curatorship, University of Melbourne, on Francisco de Goya, Las resultas. [The consequences.], (1814–1815), published after 1892, plate 72 from Los Desastres de la Guerra [The Disasters of War] series, 3rd edition of 7.
Purchased 1982, Prints and Drawings Collection, Archives and Special Collections
Jenny Hall
3 pm – 3:30 pmJenny Hall, Teaching Associate, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, on Toyohara Kunichika, Stories of Good and Evil Women, 1881.
Purchased through the Geoffrey Garlick Memorial Fund, 2021, Rare East Asian Collection, Archives and Special Collections
Amanda Haskard
3:30 pm – 4 pmAmanda Haskard, Curator-Indigenous, MUMA, on Dhambit Munungurr, Welcoming the Refugees / Scott Morrison and the Treasurer, 2021.
The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased through the Margaret Cooper Bequest Fund, 2021
Partners
This event is organised by the Australian Institute of Art History and the Potter Museum of Art.
- Banner Image:
Roman, Funerary mask of a woman, 30 BCE–600 CE, Egypt, plaster, paint, cartonnage, The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of David and Marion Adams, 2009. Photo by Lee McRae