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Visit the private home and art collection of Melbourne Art Fair director, Melissa Loughnan. Guests will see highlights of Melissa’s collection and hear from her about collecting contemporary art.
The Sydney Biennale is one of the most important events in Australia's art calendar! This year the biennale is curated by Hoor al Quasami, President and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation around the theme of Rememory. The exhibition featuring Australian and international artists will highlight marginalised narratives, untold stories and inspires us to rethink how memory shapes identity, belonging and the creation and celebration of new communities and connections. Our program will include highlights from the various venues of the Biennale; White Bay Power Station, Chau Chuk Wing, University of Sydney and Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as visits to Sydney’s leading commercial galleries and some of Sydney’s finest art lovers’ homes.
Our next exhibition at Buxton Contemporary is guest curated by the Melbourne University alumni and director Inside Outside Museum, Beijing Carol Yinghua Lu and artist Liu Ding. The exhibition makes visible the genesis of conceptualism and the shift towards contemporary art practice in 1980s and 90s China, and includes a new, multi-part commission by Melbourne-based artist Darcey Bella Arnold, whose conceptual and language-based practice engages a contemporary dialogue with the works around it. Arnold's new commission is supported by funds from the Buxton Circle.
Gertrude Contemporary has an incredible history of supporting artists both through exhibitions and subsidised studio spaces. We will meet for wine and cheese with Tracy Burgess, Executive Director; Mark Feary, Artistic Director; exhibiting artist Augusta Vinall Richardson and then visit the studios of artists David Egan and Jenna Lee.
Image: Hoda Afshar, Vernon Ah Kee and Behrouz Boochani, Code Black/Riot, 2025, Four-channel digital video, colour, sound, 33 mins.
Guests are offered the opportunity to preview the exhibition at The Potter Museum of Art with talks from Charlotte Day and curators. 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art celebrates the brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art while confronting the dark heart of Australia’s colonial history and proclaims the importance of Indigenous knowledge and agency. The exhibition features more than 400 works, including rarely-seen artworks and cultural objects from the University of Melbourne’s collections, 194 important loans from 78 private and public lenders and six new commissions.
Private preview of the new Flagship MECCA Bourke Street store before its official opening and opening to the public. Lead by Charlotte Day curator of the MECCA Collection, we will explore the vision for this ambitious new department store, as well as the art works and new commissions embedded within, with a focus on women artists from Australia and New Zealand.
The Donor Circle started their morning at Quarantine Art Fair, a boutique art fair set on the cliff of Portsea’s Point Nepean National Park. Guests were invited to sip champagne while listening to the ten participating galleries discuss the artworks in their presentations. This was followed by lunch and a tour at the private residence of Michael and Janet Buxton, where guests were shown highlights of the house and gardens as well as a talk from artist Gareth Sansom.
Offering a deep exploration into identity, memory and cultural resilience, the veil will journey into the realm of the spiritual, exposing otherworldly experiences that are central to our existence though often concealed. Guests will preview the group exhibition with talk from curator Hannah Presley and artist Hayley Millar Baker.
Guests were invited to a special evening at Buxton International to view the latest exhibition, Anatomy of Form. Focusing on artists that use the body to discuss ideas of gender, sexuality, beauty and the spaces between. Guests were able to hear from artists Tim Buckovic and Julia Trybala and curator, Luisa Bosci.
Spanning moving image, sound, sculptural intervention and performance, The same crowd never gathers twice tests the limits of the arena. The artists consider the social and structural architectures that define these spaces, and by extension, the elastic relationship between performance and reality, audience and participant, public and private. Donors were invited to a preview of the exhibition with talks by curator Annika Aitken and artists Yona Lee and Cate Consandine.
The Briggs Collection is recognised as the most significant collection of Latin American contemporary art in the Asia pacific region, with over 500 artworks by more than 220 important Latin American artists. See Art Collector Profile. Donors were invited to view the collection in its purpose-built private museum beneath Graeme and Mabie home. Guests had special access to their art collection including an introduction from its passionate collectors, followed by a light Latin American–inspired lunch with Graeme and Mabie.
The Buxton International Collection marks a new chapter in the evolution of collecting by Michael Buxton AM, expanding the remit of the Michael Buxton Collection to include international artists. Donors were invited to see the inaugural exhibition at Buxton International, housed in a new facility in the heart of Prahran with talks from Michael Buxton and artists, Emily Floyd, Helen Johnson and Heather B. Swann.
Unsculpted presents a multifaceted overview of one of Australia’s most respected artists. For over four decades, Tony Clark has explored the capacity of painting to test the boundaries between genres and creative disciplines. Clark’s paintings reinterpret motifs from the histories of art, architecture and the decorative arts in ongoing bodies of work that repeat and reconfigure familiar themes, building an iterative visual language that is distinctively his own. Departing from a conventional survey, the exhibition has been developed in collaboration with the artist and focuses on his sustained interest in the representation of sculpture and sculptural relief through painted form. Donors were invited to preview the exhibition with talks by curator Jacqueline Doughty and artist Tony Clark.
Image: Tony Clark, Landscape (bronze relief) 1988, oil on canvas. Private collection, Melbourne. Photo: Christian Capurro.
