Melbourne Moderns: European art & design at RMIT since 1945
21 June – 17 August 2019
RMIT Gallery
344 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Please join us for the opening night of Melbourne Modern: European art & design at RMIT since 1945 on Thursday 20 June 6–8 pm.
OPENING SPEAKER
Philip Goad
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
Chair of Architecture, The University of Melbourne
In the wake of World War II hundreds of exiled and displaced European artists, architects and designers arrived in Melbourne and sought employment with RMIT.
Melbourne Modern: European art & design at RMIT since 1945 traces a legacy of European intervention and interdisciplinarity through successive generations of RMIT teachers and students to the present day.
Curated by Jane Eckett and Harriet Edquist.
The exhibition features the artists:
Tate Adams, Helen Aitken-Kuhnen, Robert Baines, George Baldessin, Geoffrey Bartlett, Nicholas Bastin, Richard Beck, Peter Clarke, Jock Clutterbuck, Terry Cockrem, Su san Cohn, Simon Cottrell, Robert K. Cranage, Leonard Crawford, Norman Creighton, Augustine Dall’Ava, John Davis, Jenny de Nijs, Ken G. Eastwood, Mark Edgoose, Maggie Edmond, Nina Ellis, Peter Ellis, Marion Fletcher, Emily Floyd, Ken Foletta, Ernest Fooks, Hendrick Forster, Ernst Fries, Mari Funaki, Peter Gertler, Donald Gore, Wayne Guest, Bruce Hall, Kirsten Haydon, Gerard Herbst, Hermann Hohaus, Marian Hosking, Robert Jacks, Adrianus Janssens, George Johnson, Vincas Jomantas, N.Rex Keogh, Grahame King, Inge King, Hertha Kluge-Pott, George Kral, Johannes Kuhnen, Andrew Last, Sanné Mestrom, Robert Owen, Robert Pataki, Anthony Pryor, Geoffrey Putman, Norma Redpath, Frederick Romberg, Greg Scarlett, Beatrice Schlabowsky, Tor Schwanck, Antonia Sellbach, Udo Sellbach, Denise Sprynskyj, John Sterling, Frederick Sterne, Fleur Summers, Howard Tozer, Gus van der Heyde, Fran van Riemsdyk, Victor Vodicka, Wolf Wennrich, Margaret West, Normana Wight, Miloslav Zika, Paul Zika, Teisutis Zikaras, Klaus Zimmer, Phillip Zmood.
This is a free event. Please register, via RMIT Gallery.
Image: George Johnson, Structures 9, 1983, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 107 cm, RMIT Art Collection