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Academics offer perspectives on Monash's art collection

7 December 2005

A new exhibition featuring the favourite works of 25 Monash academics chosen from the university collection is now on show.

Fred Williams, Portrait of Sir Louis Matheson 1976
oil on canvas, Monash University Collection, Commissioned 1976.

Extra-Aesthetic: 25 views of the Monash University Collection is on display at the Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, and the Faculty Gallery, Art and Design building, Caulfield.

Museum Artistic Director Mr Max Delany said 25 academics from disciplines across the university were selected to choose and write about works from the collection.

Associate Professor Sally Joy (Business and Economics), Dr Jon McCormack (Information Technology), Professor Alan Trounson (Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences) and Ms Julie Adams (Art and Design) were among those to take part.

Mr Delany said the exhibition provided a vivid representation of the range of research occurring at Monash and highlighted the scope and breadth of the Monash University collection.

"The exhibition offers new perspectives on the collection, which is a leading representation of contemporary Australian art since the sixties," he said.

"It comprises 25 mini-exhibitions, selected by leading academics at Monash, who have been given carte-blanche to explore the collection from the standpoint of diverse disciplines, from cyber culture to cloning, history to psychoanalysis, information technology to artificial intelligence, Indigenous studies and the law."

To coincide with the exhibition, the Monash University Museum of Art has published an extensive catalogue, featuring participants' responses to the works, with an introductory essay by MUMA's Assistant Curator -- Collection, Ms Kirrily Hammond.

The exhibition can be viewed from 1 to 17 December 2005 and 1 February to 25 March 2006 at building 55, Clayton campus, on Tuesdays to Fridays from 10 am to 5 pm and Saturdays from 2 pm to 5 pm.

It will also be at the Faculty Gallery, Caulfield campus, from 1 to 21 December 2005 and 3 January to 8 March 2006, Mondays to Fridays from 9 am to 5 pm and Saturdays from 1 pm to 5 pm.