Cultural Collections

Forthcoming Exhibitions

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 will show how a number of technologies that are obsolete in commercial terms are still current in creative & craft terms in the 21st century. Exhibited will be 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/

 

A Med Student's Life

Medical History Museum, Brownless Biomedical Library, University of Melbourne Parkville Campus, 8 March to 24 August 2012, 09:00am - 05:00pm

Memories, ephemera and photographs of students days collected from Melbourne medical graduates from the 1860s to today.

 

Forthcoming exhibitions at the Ian Potter Museum of Art

 

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