The Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), formerly the Monash University Gallery, is a contemporary art museum on Monash University's Caulfield campus on Dandenong Road,

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History

The Museum grew out of a number of earlier initiatives at

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, starting in 1961 when the inaugural Vice Chancellor

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created a fund for the purchase of artworks by then living Australian artists. The establishment of the museum reflected a desire by the university's founders to create the modern Australian university, and to enrich the cultural life of students, staff and visitors. In the late 1960s John Waterhouse and

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(then a

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at Monash and

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at ''

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'') were appointed as curators, and in 1975, McCaughey created the Monash University Gallery on the seventh floor of the Menzies Building of the main campus and set up an

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program. In the same year, Grazia Gunn was appointed as the first full-time collection curator at the university. The gallery was also referred to as the Monash University Department of Visual Arts Exhibition Gallery. In 1987 the gallery moved to the Multi-Discipline Centre (later called the Gallery Building), and in 2002 the Gallery was renamed Monash University Museum of Art. Its collection had grown to over 1500 works by 2008. The present building, created by extensively remodelling an existing

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building on the Caulfield campus, was designed by Melbourne-based architect

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and completed in 2010.

Description

The present location at Caulfield is closer to the city and to the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture than its previous location, and the flexible design allows for exhibitions, education programs (in the Helen Macpherson Smith Education Space) and various events. There is a

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, the Ian Potter Sculpture Court. The museum aims to support "innovative art-led models of interdisciplinary teaching, learning and research across the University". It mounts

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as well as

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s, as well as commissioning temporary public artworks in the Ian Potter Sculpture Court and permanent

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projects across all of the university's campuses. An example of this is ''Weelam Ngalut'' (Our Place), created by

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artist

Megan Cope Megan Cope (born 1982) is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Quandamooka people of Stradbroke Island, Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah. She is known for her art installation, sculptural installations, video art and paintings, in which she exp ...

in 2109, designed to welcome students and visitors onto

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country.

Collections

the gallery houses over 2,300 artworks by leading

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, including including artworks by

Kate Beynon Kate Beynon (born 9 September 1970, in Hong Kong) is an Australian contemporary artist based in Melbourne. She was the 2016 winner of the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize for the painting, ''Graveyard scene/the beauty and sadness of bones.'' Her ...

Robert Rooney Robert Rooney (1937–2017) was an artist and art critic from Melbourne, Australia, and a leading figure in Australian Conceptual art. Biography Born in Melbourne on 24 September 1937, Rooney lived in Northcote until December 1939 when he mov ...

Tracey Moffatt Tracey Moffatt (born 12 November 1960) is an Indigenous Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video. In 2017 she represented Australia at the 57th Venice Biennale with her solo exhibition, "My Horizon". Her works are held in th ...

and

Vivienne Binns Vivienne Joyce Binns (born 1940) is an Australian artist known for her contribution to the Women's Art Movement in Australia, her engagement with feminism in her artwork, and her active advocacy within community arts. She works predominantly in ...

Exhibitions

The museum has presented a program of exhibitions focusing on contemporary Australian and international art since the 1990s. The Monash University Gallery held an exhibition from 13 April to 18 May 1996 called ''Women hold up half the sky: The orientation of art in the post-war Pacific'', (not to be confused with an exhibition of the same name held at the National Gallery in 1995) and published a 20-page catalogue, which included biographies of the artists whose work was exhibited, to accompany an exhibition.

was one of the artists whose work was exhibited at the Monash exhibition, along with

Emily Kame Kngwarreye Emily Kame Kngwarreye (or Emily Kam Ngwarray) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. She is one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Austr ...

Governance

the curator is Charlotte Day, while the advisory committee is chaired by Dean Shane Murray and includes

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and Maudie Palmer AO, founding director of the

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and

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Architecture

The project plan had to take into consideration the placement of the original building. It is positioned between different buildings and faculties, surrounded by garden areas. Taking this into consideration, an approach that emphasised flow and connectivity was taken, described as a ‘cultural exchange’ or a continuum from internal to external. Set between two buildings on Dandenong Road is the art installation ''Silverscreen'' by Callum Morton which serves as ceremonial entry into the MUMA precinct.

Awards

* 2011

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Awards: Marion Mahoney Award * 2011 RAIA Awards: Public Alterations & Additions * 2011

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: Institutional Interior Design

References

External links

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