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'Country' from the series 'Fitzroy' digital print on paper The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of Anthony Scott, donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2018.
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Samantha Comte on Robert Ashton's 'Fitzroy'
Helen Maudsley 'The Coat' 1998 oil on canvas The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of Helen Brack 2012 © the artist
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Euan Heng, ‘Fortune Seeker’ 1989, oil on linen, The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of Marcello Donati, donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2017
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The Ian Potter Museum of Art Miegunyah Student Project Award 2019
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Inside Out Highlights
exhibition
2020
1 Jan 2020 — 31 Dec 2020
Scotty So performing at 'Performing Textiles' Photograph by Gregory Lorenzutti
Articles
Beyond the Material – VCA Honours students stretch their creativity for 'Performing Textiles'
17 Aug 2019 — 25 Aug 2019
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MULCH: Performance Picnic in the System Garden
9 Nov 2019
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Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock – 'Essays in vibrational poetics {~~} … , … ; …'
19 Oct 2019 — 19 Oct 2019
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Collection Highlights

Harold Herbert ‘Golden sands’ 1928 watercolour on paper The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of Dr Samuel Arthur Ewing 1938
Harold Herbert
‘Golden sands’ 1928
Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi 'Retired Emperor Sutoku-In' c. 1840 The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased by the Department of East and South East Asian Studies 1976
Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi
Retired Emperor Sutoku-In c. 1840
Joshua Wickett Gliddon
‘Untitled (Gum tree, Boolarra, Gippsland)’ c. 1901
Frederick McCubbin ‘Untitled (Sheila)’ c 1912 oil on composition board The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of Dr Samuel Arthur Ewing 1938
Frederick McCubbin
‘Untitled (Sheila)’ c. 1912
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