Culture Quiz: RMIT Gallery

c) Storey Hall. Throughout its long, colourful history, the building has played a part in the cultural life of Melbourne – from social and political protest to its current role as a significant contributor to the city’s arts and exhibitions calendar.

c) Museum of Me. Students of RMIT were invited to curate this exhibition by selecting works from the RMIT Collections alongside works of art in the public domain, as well as their own practice. As a way to adapt to the changing world, curator Amy Bartholomeusz said Museum of Me “[transcends] traditional notion of what we understood the gallery to be”. Check out more here.

d) Tate Adams. Adams had a prolific career and established the artist print department at RMIT in 1960. He was named a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to publishing and the arts, particularly through his preferred medium of printmaking. He spent the later years of his life adapting to his changing health conditions while still creating pieces of visual media. He contributed greatly to the history of printmaking of Melbourne, making the retrospective exhibition all the more important. You can read more about his retrospective here.

c) Human hair. This is Patricia Piccinini’s Teenage Metamorphosis. The piece is comprised of silicone, fibreglass, found objects and human hair. Piccinini’s piece will be featured in RMIT Gallery’s 2021 exhibition Future U, which seeks to question the implications of rapid technology advancements and how these changes will affect our livelihoods. Read more about Future U here.

The new (ab)normal. The exhibition provides a timely snapshot that celebrates art created at this unusual time, and how it can provide connections when physically distant from one another. Staff, students and industry partners of RMIT’s School of Art have all contributed. You can read more about the exhibition here, and hear a presentation by the curators and artists here.

a) Impossible Cornucopia by William Eicholtz. RMIT Gallery exhibits a broad range of work – both large and small. This piece proved to be quite a challenge in bringing into the gallery. You can see more behind-the-scenes shots here.

c) 80 kgs.  You can see a film of Murphy wearing the work as part of her performance here. The works in Pleasure centre around the body as a site of celebration, joy and expression. They explore how the body has been used as personal, provocative and political canvases from the 1980s until recent times. You can take a virtual tour of the artworks here.

c) Shane Hulbert. The Image Looks Back is a photographic exhibition that intends to explore photography and begs the question of how truth and human experience can be shaped by new visual technologies. Shane Hulbert gives a virtual tour of the exhibition that you can watch here. The exhibition is now due to open in January 2021.