Current Exhibitions
Face to face: portraits of artists
Baillieu Library, Ground Floor, 12 April to 9 June 2012
Exhibitions which explore portraiture are currently featuring across the University at the Ian Potter Museum of Art and the Dax Centre. The Baillieu Library Print Collection also contains a variety of portraits depicting famous faces, mainly European, from the 15th century onwards; a number of these are artists. The prints on view are often after paintings and many are self portraits. These images convey the face the artist wished to present to the world. They are faces which represent some extraordinary stories.
A Med Student's Life
Medical History Museum, Brownless Biomedical Library, University of Melbourne Parkville Campus, 20 March to 24 August 2012, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Memories, ephemera and photographs of students days collected from Melbourne medical graduates from the 1860s to today.
The exhibition is open to the public from Monday to Friday. Admission is free.
Adventure & Art: the fine press book from 1450 to 2011
Leigh Scott Gallery, Level 1, Baillieu Library, 1 March to 27 May 2012
Adventure & Art, curated by poet and fine press printer Alan Loney, is about the printer’s craft, evidenced from the first printed books in the 15th century, and given a hugely influential impetus by William Morris and the Arts & Craft movement at the end of the 19th. This exhibition shows how a number of technologies that are obsolete in commercial terms are still current in creative & craft terms in the 21st century. Exhibited are books from the Baillieu Special Collections from Europe, North America, New Zealand and Australia.
A Symposium discussing fine press books will be held from 2-5pm on March 9th 2012 in the Leigh Scott Room in the Baillieu Library. Speakers at the Symposium are Alan Loney, Andrew Schuller, Peter Vangioni, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Carolyn Fraser and Caren Florance.
More information and bookings: http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/exhibitions/