Inside Out

2020

As the Potter continues its process of transformation in 2020, our gallery spaces will remain closed to exhibitions yet open to possibilities.

Throughout the year, our Inside Out program will continue to shift the audience experience by exploring the artistic opportunities that exist beyond the conventional spaces of our galleries – offering the chance to experience the Potter in a range of unexpected ways.

 

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Great Sporting Land

From 20 August 2019

Google Arts & Culture launched Great Sporting Land – the first dedicated celebration of sporting culture on Google Arts & Culture. Collections, stories and knowledge from over 30 renowned institutions across Australia, including the Potter.

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Exhibitions & Special Projects
Special Project

The Potter at UMSU SummerFest
26 Feb 2020
Special Projects

Google Arts & Culture
exhibition
Performing Textiles
17 Aug 2019 — 25 Aug 2019
Special Projects
Liam Gillick: Some significant equations, 2019
18 Apr 2019 — 2 Jun 2019
Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design installation view, Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, 2018 Photograph: Christian Capurro
exhibition
Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design
20 Nov 2018 — 24 Mar 2019
Athanasius Kircher Musurgia universalis 1650 vol. 2, Rome: Francisci Corbelletti Rare Music, Special Collections, Baillieu Library, the University of Melbourne
exhibition
Eavesdropping
24 Jul 2018 — 28 Oct 2018
exhibition
State of the Union
24 Jul 2018 — 28 Oct 2018
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Events
Talk

Up from the Vaults: The changing shape of Birrarung (Yarra River)
10 Mar 2020
Performance Picnic

MULCH: System Garden Picnic
9 Nov 2019
Art, food & wine

Montalto: Vipoo Srivilasa
10 Nov 2019
Art, food & wine

Montalto: Minna Gilligan
27 Oct 2019
Interdisciplinary public forum

Language
19 Oct 2019
Talk

Up from the Vaults: Echoes of Spain in Belle-Époque Paris
10 Oct 2019
Lecture

Robin Boyd’s Civic Designs
19 Sep 2019
Talk
Up from the Vaults: All Fired Up
5 Sep 2019
Talk
Up from the Vaults: 'Rus in urbe'
8 Aug 2019
Talk
Up from the Vaults: Antarctica
18 Jul 2019
Performance
Double Double
29 Jun 2019
John Skinner Prout (1805-1876) No title (Probation Station, Mount Dromedary)1847 watercolour and gouache on paper The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of the Russell and Mab Grimwade Bequest 1973
Talk
Up from the Vaults: Convict Labour
13 Jun 2019
Event
Water: Interdisciplinary public forum
24 May 2019 — 25 May 2019
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The Potter acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we work and create. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.