Highlights of the University of Melbourne Art Collection

Rupert Bunny, Norman Macgeorge, Mervyn Napier Waller, Christian Waller

Curator: Joanna Bosse

This exhibition showcases the University of Melbourne Art Collection. The Grimwade Gallery displays for the first time Mervyn Napier Waller’s outstanding mural Australian symbolic figures (c. 1940), which was originally commissioned for the Royal Insurance Company building located at 414 Collins Street, Melbourne. The mural was recently removed from its long-term location in the University of Melbourne’s Architecture Library, and conserved.

The large-scale figurative mural is displayed alongside other works by the artist, in addition to works by Mervyn Napier Waller’s wife, Christian Waller, artist-colleague Norman Macgeorge, and Rupert Bunny. Included in this exhibition is the rarely seen study for the Ian Potter Museum of Art’s iconic stained glass Leckie window.