Charles Darwin University Art Collection
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Gifted II - recent aquisitions
May 7 to 28, 2009
The Gallery, Orange 10.1.16, Casuarina campus
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Charles Darwin University Art Collection exhibition, entitled Gifted II – recent acquisitions, was the second in a series focusing on the 'art of benefaction'.
The exhibition acknowledged the important role that individual donors, the CDU Foundation and University printmakers have played in enriching the CDU Art Collection’s holdings in recent years.
Gifted II featured 61 paintings, works on paper and sculptures by established and emerging Australian artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and Southeast Asian artists. The works were recently aquired pursuant to the Collection's Acquisition Criteria, which requires that the University's holdings of art demonstrate a connection to the Northern Territory and its adjoining regions, including Southeast Asia.
Acquisitions of new paintings, works on paper and sculptures, have been possible in the past 12 months with support from the CDU Foundation through its Art Acquisition Fund. The University Art Collection has also attracted a number of new external benefactors, as well as receiving generous gifts of art work from artist-donors (former students, Art School staff or artists-in-residence @ CDU) and other members of the arts community.
In 2008, continuing a tradition begun in 1993 by the Art School’s Printmaking Studio, a number of workshop proofs of limited edition prints were also “gifted” to the CDU Art Collection by Northern Editions Printmaking Studio and the artists who created them.
In late 2009, with the opening of the new Administration Building on Casuarina campus in Darwin, the Charles Darwin University Art Collection will have a dedicated exhibition space to display its permanent holdings, dating from 1980 to the present.
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