We acknowledge the people of the Kulin Nations as the Traditional Owners of the sacred and sovereign lands, skies and waterways where Monash University operates. We pay our respects to Elders, past and present, and recognise connection to material and creative practice on these lands for more than 60,000 years.
Established in 1975, the Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA is one of Australia’s most respected contemporary art museums. It delivers a dynamic program of exhibitions, commissions and publishing, supported by a nationally significant art collection that is displayed and shared across all Monash University’s Victorian campuses. Through artist-led education and academic engagement programs, MUMA connects art, research and ideas in transformative ways.
MUMA is the custodian of the Monash University Collection, established in 1961 with the founding of the University. The Collection holds over 2,700 artworks, including site-responsive public art commissions across Monash’s campuses. Nearly half of the Collection is on display or on loan to museums and galleries nationally and internationally, making it one of the most accessible collections of post-1960s Australian art in the country.
Located on Monash University’s Caulfield campus, MUMA’s architecturally designed, awardwinning galleries provide a
welcoming and inclusive space for students, staff, alumni and the wider community. Here, audiences gather to experience, share and participate in exhibitions, events and activities that foster collaboration, nurture new partnerships and extend MUMA’s connections with diverse communities and audiences.
Through teaching, learning and engagement, MUMA actively contributes to the University’s academic purpose. Its artist-led education programs prioritise access and inclusion, with a strong commitment to low SES and First Nations students and schools in Melbourne’s south-east. MUMA’s award-winning engagement and publishing activities extend its reach nationally and internationally, both in person and through digital and print platforms.
Distinctly positioned within a leading global university, MUMA’s context enables it to advance ambitious, research-driven and globally relevant artistic programs, playing a vital role in shaping contemporary art discourse and connecting art with ideas that inspire and transform.
To be the Indo-Pacific’s leading contemporary university art museum with global reach
Shaping Australia’s cultural landscape through art-led learning and experiences
Inquiring: curious, forward-looking and experimental
Open-minded: accessible, friendly and inclusive
Progressive: a safe place for risk-taking and challenging ideas
Respectful: upholds Indigenous sovereignty and ways of knowing
Rigorous: critically engaged, reflexive and research-focused
Sustainable: environmentally conscious and supportive of sustainable practices
Transformative: impactful, shaping how people think, feel and relate
MUMA’s 2025 Annual Report reflects our dynamic artistic program, nationally significant contemporary Australian art collection displayed and shared across all Monash University’s Victorian campuses, and art and artist-led education and academic engagement programs that connect art, research and ideas in transformative ways. These activities ensure that MUMA remains one of Australia’s most respected and trusted contemporary university art museums.
In 2025, Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA celebrated its 50th year anniversary. The year’s program began with the launch of our first exhibition, Image Economies, accompanied by artists talks, a performance by Scotty So and even a fabulous birthday cake conceived by Rose Nolan that spelt ‘SO FAR SO GOOD’ or alternately ‘SO GOOD SO FAR’ in her eponymous red and white text. In an era where images proliferate at unprecedented speed, shaping public opinion and driving global movements, the exhibition invited audiences to consider how we interpret and navigate the visual landscapes that define our networked world.
MUMA’s ARTISTIC PROGRAM presented three further exhibitions in 2025, although the year was not without its challenges.
Stolon Press: flat earth explored new curatorial models through the lens of collaboration and collective practice, positioning the exhibition itself as a form of expanded publishing. The exhibition brought together long-time collaborators, including Khaled Sabsabi, whose invitation to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale had had at the time been rescinded by Creative Australia. MUMA’s exhibition was postponed by Monash University while a period of consultation was undertaken with students and the wider community. After a twoweek delay, MUMA’s exhibition was successfully presented – and Creative Australia subsequently reinstated its commission. Writing for Art Guide Australia, Peter Hill described flat earth as ‘one of the most complex, minimal, thoughtprovoking exhibitions I have ever seen. . . full of glorious seductive colour, accompanied by the background aroma of Lebanese coffee.’
Nusra Latif Qureshi: The House of Irredeemable Objects presented a major survey exhibition by the Melbourne-based Australian Pakistani artist in her hometown for the first time. Featuring a substantial new commission developed through research in Monash Special Collections, Nusra seduced with her
use and understanding of colour and sustained enquiry into central issues of our times.
Awakening Histories concluded the year, a major and timely exhibition that explored the deep and enduring connections between the First Nations peoples of Northern Australia and the Makassan seafarers of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Informed by Monash’s Australian Research Council–funded project Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples: 1000 Years of Australian History, it marked a significant milestone for MUMA’s research-led curatorial practice. With an afternoon of artists talks and a new performance by Abdi Karya welcoming all to the exhibition, we were honoured that His Excellency Dr Siswo Pramono, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to Australia, opened the exhibition. Awakening Histories will also be presented at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) as part of the Perth Festival 2026.
Monash’s Caulfield campus was enlivened by the 2025 Sculpture Commission, The Birds, 2024–25. Jen Berean, Callum Morton and Linda Tegg’s new work highlighted the complexities of place and our responsibilities to the non-human world. We’re delighted that The Birds is now part of the Monash Collection and is on display at the Peninsular campus.
MUMA’s publications were recognised for their contribution to research, with Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, 2021–24, winning the Best Designed Catalogue/Exhibition Publications at the Australian Book Designers Awards. The muchanticipated Earth Ethics: Institutions and Regenerative Practices, part of the MUMA Reader series that profiles more than 20 artists and projects, was launched in Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore, and is already into a second edition.
MUMA’s COLLECTION continued to grow through acquisitions and generous donations. MUMA is committed to adding new commissions and artworks by artists featured in the artistic program to the Monash Collection, to share them with future generations.. With around 40 per cent of the Collection on display across Monash’s campuses, it remains one of the most actively used and shared collections in Australia.
MUMA’s collection priorities include the acquisition of works by First Nations artists, with particular focus on artists from south-east Australia; continued improvement of gender parity; increasing diversity with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region; and acquiring works by artists aged under forty.
70 artworks by 29 artists entered the collection in 2025, with highlights including a major new work by Dhambit Munungurr, featured in Awakening Histories; major new works by Hodar Afshar, on display in 2025; and an important early work by Susan Norrie, which adds to significant holdings by Norrie already in the Collection.
ENGAGEMENT is central to MUMA’s activities as a university art museum, involving audiences from across the wider Monash community and beyond. unique art-led teaching and learning experiences were presented with Monash’s Business School; Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture; and the Faculty of Education. These co-led programs offered innovative teaching and learning experiences and contributed to Monash’s nontraditional research outcomes. Our Future Selves program was awarded the Faculty of Business Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence; and the Learning with the Land with Respect program was awarded the Faculty of Education’s Equity and Inclusion Award.
MUMA offered four student internships over the course of the year, and one work experience placement, enabling Monash and other tertiary students to develop an understanding of career pathways in the arts and cultural sector.
MUMA’s Schools program continued to deliver innovative, artled teaching and learning programs showcasing excellence in arts education. MUMA presented four artist-in-residence programs with artists Rudi Williams; Trent Walter, Small Press Network; Nusra Latif Qureshi; and Kait James, supported by the Department of Education, Strategic Partnerships Program. We focused on low-SES schools in Melbourne’s south-east and First Nations students, including our ongoing partnership with the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS). For many of our students, these classes are their first engagement with a university and with an art museum.
As part of our 50th year, MUMA continued to build digital reach. Adding to existing exhibition histories from 2010 onwards, MUMA published its first comprehensive digital archive, tracing 365 exhibitions over five decades of exhibition-making from 1975 to the present day. MUMA also launched the Digital Public Art Guide, a new digital resource showcasing Monash’s public art works installed across its Victorian campuses, bringing the Monash Public Art Collection to a global audience.
This year, MUMA has again worked with generous donors, supporters and many collaborators. We thank you all and look forward to continued involvement in the years to come. As ever, we welcomed new staff, and farewelled other key members of the MUMA team. None of these activities would have been possible without a dedicated and professional team and great supporters and collaborators who were a part of the journey.
Finally, a thank you to our artists and arts sector colleagues and friends. A university art museum is a space for ideas, where people come together to share and explore diverse perspectives and understanding. 2025 was not an easy year for the arts and cultural sector. There is, however, a silver lining—it has revealed to us clearly that the work we do offers myriad ways to understand the world and each other, ensuring arts and culture is central to civic society and critical debate.
Prof. Rebecca Coates Director, MUMA
4 exhibitions 19 new artworks commissioned
1 major publication
70 artists and collectives presented 40 writers engaged
36% of the Collection on display across Monash University’s Victorian campuses
70 artworks acquired into the Collection 50 external loans
18,369 in-gallery and offsite visitors
119 academic programs delivered to 7,446 university students
105 education programs delivered to 3,164 primary and secondary students from 53 schools
7 internships totalling 446 hours
51 public programs
4 video resources
4 industry and academic awards
17 Staff
MUMA’s artistic program is shaped by a number of key priorities that reflect its position as one of Australia’s leading contemporary university art museums. These include an Indo-Pacific focus, strong First Nations foundations and shared ways of working; collaborations and partnerships that extend the Museum’s reach; and a commitment to researchled exhibitions that generate new scholarship and knowledge through teaching and learning. Innovation and experimentation— across curatorial models and artist opportunities—remain central to the program.
In 2025, MUMA’s exhibitions foregrounded the Museum’s IndoPacific connections, deepening artistic and cultural exchange across the region. The program presented significant artists from Aotearoa New Zealand and Indonesia, including several who had not previously been the subject of major exhibitions in Australia. Across the year, MUMA explored new curatorial models grounded in rigorous research and collaboration, reinforcing its role as a site of critical inquiry and creative experimentation.
The program also became an important educational resource for students from early years through to tertiary, showcasing creative intelligence while supporting learning across disciplines through direct engagement with contemporary art and artists. Collectively, these exhibitions underscored MUMA’s commitment to fostering impactful regional engagement, amplifying diverse artistic voices, and connecting audiences through art, research and dialogue.
8 February – 17 April 2025
Artists
James Barth (AU), Ian Burn (AU), Juliet Carpenter (NZ/DE), Róisín Berg (IE), Jeff Gibson (AU/US), D Harding with Hayley Matthew (AU), Ana Iti (NZ), Machine Listening (Sean Dockray [US/AU], James Parker [AU], Joel Stern [AU]), Bea Maddock (AU), Tracey Moffatt (AU), Sione Tuívailala Monū (NZ/AU), Ashley Perry (AU), Joshua Petherick (AU), Scotty So (HK/AU), Sorawit Songsataya (TH/NZ), Tennant Creek Brio (Rupert Betheras and Simon Wilson [AU]), Victoria Todorov (AU)
Curators
Stephanie Berlangieri, Melanie Oliver and Francis E. Parker
Opening speeches
Welcome to Country by Caroline Martin Custodian of Boonwurrung Country; Professor Mark Andrejevic, Monash’s School of Media, Film and Journalism
Image Economies launched MUMA’s 2025 artistic program and marked the Museum’s 50th anniversary year with a major exhibition examining the power and complexity of images in contemporary digital life. In an era where images proliferate at unprecedented speed, shaping public opinion and driving global movements, the exhibition invited audiences to consider how we interpret and navigate the visual landscapes that define our networked world.
Bringing together artists and collectives from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the broader Asia-Pacific region—including works from the Monash University Collection—the exhibition fostered cross-cultural dialogue and critical reflection. Through its focus on the economic, social and political forces underpinning image culture, Image Economies served as a valuable teaching resource for students across disciplines.
New commissions: Machine Listening, #C, 2025; Sione Tuívailala Monū, Stories, 2015–25; Scotty So, Seeking Affirmation of a Mother, 2025; Victoria Todorov, Anna Nicole Glamour, 2024, Cicciolina Triptych, 2024, Trumpettes (MAGA), 2024, Jezebel Spirit, 2025. Supported by MUMA Contemporaries
‘What the Melbourne-based artist [Scotty So] is trying to do with this AI-generated hologram of himself as Jenner, all sassy nods and gestures, sparkly jacket and power-mum, cropped haircut, is to explore the notion of image.’
—Tiarney Miekus, The Saturday Age, 25 January 2025
Digital Resource
Image Economies video
Dr Rebecca Coates, Ash Perry, Machine Listening (Joel Stern, Sean Dockray, James Parker)
Sione Tuívailala Monū
Stolon Press: Flat earth
29 May – 12 July 2025
Artists
Stolon Press, Elisa Taber, Khaled Sabsabi
Curators
Stolon Press, with Prof. Rebecca Coates and Stephanie Berlangieri
Opening speakers
Stolon Press, Simryn Gill and Tom Melick
Flat earth explored collaborative and collective curatorial models, positioning the exhibition itself as a form of expanded publishing. Developed by the Sydney-based art and publishing collective Stolon Press (Simryn Gill and Tom Melick), the project brought together longterm collaborators, including Buenos Aires and Montreal-based anthropologist Elisa Taber and Lebanese-born, Sydney-based artist Khaled Sabsabi. Conceived as a flattened map, the exhibition invited audiences to reflect on shared authorship, cohabitation and neighbourliness within artistic and institutional contexts.
Educational Resources
Video: Explore printmaking and collaboration with Trent Walter/Negative Press
Education Kit
Initially scheduled to open on 8 May, the exhibition was postponed while Monash University undertook a period of consultation with students and the wider community. The exhibition was subsequently reinstated and opened on 29 May. Stolon Press invited Monash Art, Design and Architecture staff and students to participate directly in the creation and installation of the works, reflecting their inclusive approach to exhibition-making and reinforcing MUMA’s role as a space for complex, courageous and critically engaged art and ideas.
‘It is one of the most complex, minimal, thought-provoking exhibitions I have ever seen. It is also full of glorious, seductive colour, accompanied by a background aroma of Lebanese coffee.’ —Peter Hill, Art Guide Australia, 25 June 2025
‘This is also about more than one artist or one show, it’s about how we as an industry respond to challenges, stand by each other, and uphold the integrity of artistic expression.’ Sabsabi said —Sian Cain, The Guardian, 22 May 2025
Nusra Latif Qureshi: The House of Irredeemable Objects
26 July – 20 September 2025
Curators
Prof. Rebecca Coates and Melanie Oliver
Opening speakers
Maud Page, Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Prof. Rebecca Coates, MUMA Director; Prof. Mel Dodd, Dean of Monash Art, Design and Architecture
The House of Irredeemable Objects was the first major solo exhibition in Victoria by Melbourne-based artist Nusra Latif Qureshi. Spanning more than thirty years of practice, the exhibition brought together painting, collage, photography and installation, alongside a major new commission developed in response to the Monash University Special Collections.
The survey highlighted Qureshi’s significant contribution to contemporary art through a practice that engages deeply with art history, migration and cultural identity. Through her work, Qureshi retraces art historical narratives from multiple perspectives, repositions the role of women within patriarchal frameworks, and examines borders and barriers—both physical and symbolic. Her use of vibrant colour, delicate line drawing and poetic motifs evokes the entanglements of power and knowledge, memory and desire.
Developed around these interwoven themes, The House of Irredeemable Objects reinforced MUMA’s commitment to gender equity and the recognition of women artists whose practices reshape our understanding of history, place and belonging.
New commission: Nusra Latif Qureshi, Choice Lessons in Rapacity, 2025. Supported by MUMA Contemporaries.
‘Qureshi’s new body of work engages with Monash University Special Collections to explore mapping, geographies, the provenance of objects and acquisition processes. This new commission is framed within broader themes that include reinterpreting art histories from multiple perspectives; interrogating the role of women in patriarchal societies; and examining issues of borders, barriers, and migration.’
—Art Daily, 2 December 2025
4 October – 6 December 2025
Artists
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Aziziah Diah Aprilya, Zaenal Beta, John Bulunbulun (Ganalbingu), Cian Dayrit, Dogmilk Films, Gunybi Ganambarr (Naymil), Global Encounters Monash and MAREGE Institute, Guan Wei, Colin HeenanPurunatameri and Michelle Woody Minnapinni (Tiwi), Karrabing Film Collective, Abdi Karya and Sana, Jenna Lee (Larrakia, Wardaman, Karajarri), Nancy McDinny (Garrwa, Yanyuwa), Mathaman Marika (Rirratjingu), Mawalan 1 Marika (Rirratjingu), The Mulka Project, Dhambit Munuŋgurr (Djapu, Waṉḏawuy, Dhuwa), Trevor Nakanapa Maminyamanja (Anindilyaugwa), Ipeh Nur, Margaret Rarru Garrawurra (Liyagawumirr, Garrawurra), Wilda Yanti Salam, Darrell Sibosado (Bard), Ms M Wirrpanda (Dhuḏi-Djapu), Bulthirrirri Wunuŋmurra (Dhaḻwaŋu), Mr N Wunuŋmurra (Dhaḻwaŋu) and Ms D Yinupiŋu (Gumatj, Rrakpala)
Prof. Rebecca Coates, MUMA; Amanda Haskard, MUMA; Dr David Haworth, Monash University, Global Encounters Senior Research Officer; Hannah Mathews, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; Melanie Oliver, formerly MUMA; Francis E. Parker, MUMA; Nurabdiansyah Ramli (Abi), Makassar State University; Prof. Lynette Russell AM, Monash University, Global Encounters Project Lead; Pierra Van Sparkes, formerly MUMA
Opening speakers
Welcome to Country by Prof. N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs AM; Prof. Susan Elliott AM, Provost and Senior Vice-President, Monash University; His Excellency Ambassador Dr Siswo Pramono, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to Australia and the Republic of Vanuatu; and Prof. Rebecca Coates, MUMA Director
‘In exploring the deep connections between the First Nations Peoples of Northern Australia and the Makassan seafarers of South Sulawesi, Indonesia ... Awakening Histories reveals a powerful truth.’
—Dr Joseph Brennan, Art Daily, 12 October 2025
Awakening Histories explored the deep and enduring connections between the First Nations peoples of Northern Australia and the Makassan seafarers of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Bringing together twenty-seven artists and collectives from Australia, Indonesia, China and the Philippines, the exhibition examined this shared history through contemporary visual art, reframing the Makassan exchange through equal and reciprocal perspectives.
Informed by the Australian Research Council–funded project Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples: 1000 Years of Australian History, the exhibition marked a significant milestone for MUMA’s research-led curatorial practice. It featured seven new artist commissions, a live performance, and key loans from national and international collections, including the National Textile Museum, Jakarta. Bilingual didactics and digital resources supported its international scope and accessibility.
Presented in partnership with Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Awakening Histories strengthened MUMA’s Indo-Pacific collaborations and demonstrated the Museum’s leadership in integrating artistic practice, academic research and cross-cultural exchange. The exhibition will tour to PICA in 2026.
New Commissions: AbdulRahman Abdullah, The Collectors
Table, 2025, Finding Bilqis, 2025, Kerbau, 2025, Merentasi Air, 2025, Reflections, 2025; Aziziah Diah Aprilya, Under the Tamarind Tree, 2025; Cian Dayrit, Footprints of a Battle, 2025; Guan Wei, Australian Sea Cucumber Plate, 2025, Delicacies Jar, 2025, Nourishing Jar, 2025; Jenna Lee, Category of Significance: Ancestral (Tamarindus indica), 2025; Wilda Yanti Salam, Lontar dan Ballo: Tracing People to People Living Story, 2025; Darrell Sibosado, Niman Aarl (Many Fish), 2021–25. Supported by MUMA Contemporaries.
Awakening Histories video
Prof. Rebecca Coates, Abdi Karya, Aziziah Diah Aprilya and Darrell Sibosado (Bard)
Poster Education Kit
The Ian Potter Sculpture Court, located at MUMA’s Caulfield campus, is a key site for expanding the field of sculpture and public art. Designed in 2010 by Kerstin Thompson Architects, Simon Ellis Landscape Architects and Fiona Harrisson, the award-winning landscape connects MUMA’s galleries with the surrounding campus, creating a dynamic site for artistic and community engagement.
Since 2012, MUMA has commissioned eight artists and collectives to create temporary public artworks with the aim of fostering creativity, innovation and collaboration. In 2025, the space continued to serve as a platform for experimentation, dialogue and exchange, reinforcing MUMA’s commitment to excellence in curatorial practice and its leadership in contemporary sculpture and public art.
Jen Berean, Callum Morton and Linda Tegg
The Birds 2024–5
Water, central upland granite, volcanic plain bluestone, midland quartz conglomerate, western upland sandstone, cameras
Staff
Prof. Rebecca Coates, MUMA; Alicia Renew, MUMA
In 2025, the Sculpture Court continued to function as a platform for research-led and interdisciplinary practice, premiering The Birds—a sculptural installation that reimagines public art as a tool for ecological learning and biodiversity support.
At its core, The Birds considers how public art can function as a vehicle for learning about the complexities of place. In response to habitat change at Monash’s Caulfield campus, the artists observed the dominance of non-migratory species such as common mynas, rock doves and little ravens. During its residency at MUMA, the installation also attracted and supported other species, including bees, a whitenecked heron, possums and a fox. The work played an important role in MUMA’s education partnerships, engaging children from a local childcare centre and pre-service teachers through play-based and curriculum-linked activities.
The Birds was acquired for the Monash Collection in 2025. Installed on the Monash Peninsula campus, it will continue to support teaching, learning and cross-disciplinary engagement.
[T]his innovative temporary installation at Monash University’s Caulfield campus reimagines public art to support local biodiversity and continues MUMA’s dedication to experimental, interdisciplinary public art.’
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‘Melbourne Design Week 2025: Event Highlights’, green magazine
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‘The Birds has been an invaluable teaching resource, used in our work with children from a local childcare centre and have informed our teaching program with pre-service teachers.’
Dr Geraldine Burke, Senior Lecturer, Creative and Visual Arts Education, Faculty of Education, Monash University
MUMA’s publishing program expands ideas and research generated by the Museum’s exhibitions and events, often forming a core component of artists’ practice-led research. These publications support new writing and discourse in contemporary art, engage multiple collaborators through editing and design, foster new research and critical reflection, and extend MUMA’s curatorial and educational activities.
In 2025, MUMA released Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices—the second volume in the MUMA Reader series following Let’s Go Outside: Art in Public, 2022. This major publication examines regenerative, ecological and plant-oriented practices, profiling more than twenty artists and projects through essays, case studies, interviews and artists’ pages.
330 pages, softcover, 19.5 x 12 cm, black and white
Texts: Caroline Martin, Madeleine Collie, Megan Cope, Charlotte Day, Melissa Ratliff, Larissa Behrendt, Candice Hopkins, Victoria Lynn, Jen Berean, Callum Morton, Linda Tegg, Janina Hilberer, Alistair
Hudson, Hanna Jurisch, Barbara Kiolbassa, Ute Lührs, Jessica Menger, Stéphane Verlet Bottéro, Rüdiger Waurig, Zayaan Khan, Joss Hamilton Allen, Marleen Boschen, Sofía Olascoaga, Luna Marán, Sari Dennise, Tara Rodríguez Besoca, Carolina Caycedo, Lumbung Land Working Group, Annalee Davis, SJ Norman, N’arweet Carolyn Briggs, David Tournier, Brian Martin, Jessica Neath, Julian Rutten, Alexander Holland, Stanislav Roudavski, Alia Yunis, Keg de Souza, Shooshie Sulaiman, Kath Coff, Zoe Scoglio
Editors: Madeleine Collie, Megan Cope, Charlotte Day, Melissa Ratliff
Coordinating Editor: Stephanie Berlangieri
Designers: Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen
Copyeditor: Hilary Ericksen
Proofreader: Amy Stuart
First Edition: 300 (sold out)
Second edition: 300
Year: 2025
ISBN: 978-0-6481529-3-4
Published by: Monash University Museum of Art and Monash University Publishing, Narrm/ Melbourne
To coincide with Awakening Histories, MUMA also published a poster featuring the bark painting Gunyaŋara Makkassans (2025) by Djapu, Waṉḏawuy and Dhuwa artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr. The poster brings together statements from, and about, a selection of exhibition artists, and includes some of the many stories and connections explored in the exhibition.
59.4 x 84.1 cm, colour
Texts: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Aziziah Diah Aprilya, Diane Moon, Cian Dayrit, Guan Wei, Jenna Lee, Ipeh Nur, Dhambit Munuŋgurr, Wilda Yanti Salam, Allegra Mazin, Bulthirrirri Wunuŋmurra
Editor: Amanda Haskard
Designer: Studio Round
Translator: Karina Roosvita
Copyeditors: Amanda Haskard, Francis E. Parker
Proofreader: Stephanie Berlangieri
Year: 2025
Published by: Monash University Museum of Art, Narrm/Melbourne
MUMA’s involvement in Australian Research Council–funded projects and its collaborations with Monash faculties position the Museum as a valuable research partner within the University. Through the following projects active in 2025, MUMA contributes to the advancement of new knowledge and fosters an ecosystem that encourages the exchange of ideas among artists, researchers and industry professionals.
Learning with the Land with Respect (2022–26)
Partners
Faculty of Education and Dandenong Primary School
Staff
Dr Geraldine Burke, Senior Lecturer, Monash Faculty of Education; Melissa Bedford
Research page
Led by Prof. Rita Irwin (University of British Columbia) and Dr Geraldine Burke (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University) with collaborators Aunty Karan Kent (Bidjara and local community Elder), Kylie Colemane (Darug and Wiradjuri), Nikky Browne (Bidjara) and Melissa Bedford (Senior Educator, MUMA), this project delivered collaborative education programs, workshops and symposia at the University of British Columbia in Canada and Monash University’s Peninsula campus.
Publication
MUMA supported an associated publication as a non-traditional research output, hosted on MUMA’s research platform Deadly Learning.
Awards
• Equity and Inclusion Award, Monash Faculty of Education, School of Curriculum, Teaching and Inclusive Education (CTI): For outstanding contribution to equity and inclusion within the faculty or wider community
• Faculty of Education, Deans Award: Innovation in Learning and Teaching
Symposiums
• Learning With The Land, University of British Columbia, Canada, 14 June
• Learning With The Land, Monash Faculty of Education, Peninsula campus, 30 October
Workshops
• Monash Faculty of Education and Dandenong Primary School, MUMA, Caulfield campus, 8 September and 13 October
Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples: 1000 Years of Australian History (2023–25)
Partner
Faculty of Arts
Research page
MUMA’s exhibition Awakening Histories was informed by this ARC-funded research project, led by Prof. Lynette Russell AM (Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University), who also served on the exhibition’s curatorium. Examining a millennium of encounters between Australia’s Indigenous peoples and Makassan seafarers, the project exemplified MUMA’s integration of academic research and curatorial practice.
Gesturing Towards Artful Play: Early Years Education Pilot Program (2025–26)
Partners
Faculty of Education, Monash Caulfield Childcare Centre, Tokyo Gakugei University
Staff Melissa Bedford
This early years education research project investigates how playbased encounters with artworks in a museum context can enrich young children’s understanding of the world. In April 2025, MUMA hosted a pilot program centred on First Nations knowledge and pedagogy, activating the Sculpture Court’s public artwork The Birds through play-based art, dance and storytelling activities. Led by Aunty Karen Kent (Indigenous Industry Sista, Monash Faculty of Education), the program highlighted the importance of birds and wildlife within urban environments.
Workshop
Gestures of Artful Play Pilot Program, Early Years Children, 10 April
MACSYS: ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems
artist-in-residence (2025–31)
Partners
Prof. Mike McDonald, Monash School of Biological Sciences and others
Research page
Staff
Prof. Rebecca Coates, Pip Wallis, Francis E. Parker
The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical modelling of Cellular Systems (MACSYS) will develop the mathematical, statistical and computational foundations that are required to transform cell biology into a new discipline that is predictive, quantitative and reproducable. MACSYS will drive this transformation by developing fundamental theory in applied and computational mathematics to rapidly expand biological knowledge.
In 2025, MACSYS invited MUMA to develop a three-month artist-inresidence program that embeds artists and artistic practice within scientific research to foster crossdisciplinary dialogue, knowledge and learning across diverse disciplines.
The 2026 artist-in-residence will be Mia Salsjö. Salsjö is a Swedish Albanian Australian artist, working across visual art, music composition and numeric codes. Drawn to the dynamic processes MACSYS uses to illuminate individual cells, both visually and mathematically, she proposes to apply her own conceptual approach and imagination to visually communicate the diverse modes of navigation that chart these intricate, cellular worlds.
The Monash University Collection is a leading representation of contemporary Australian art from the 1960s to the present. The Collection comprises 2822 artworks valued at $51,764,913. It charts a period of dynamic change, from the mediumspecific perceptual and formal experiments of late modernism to the broader cultural references inaugurated by pop, minimal, conceptual and performance art.
MUMA’s collecting is driven by a sustained commitment to the support of innovation and excellence in contemporary Australian art and continues to represent new artistic tendencies as they emerge. In 2025, MUMA focused on acquiring works that reflect the many voices that contribute to the Australian cultural landscape, with particular emphasis on First Nations artists, especially from south-east Australia, as well as artists with Indo-Pacific connections, gender parity and artists under forty.
The Collection is of national significance and is shared widely with the Monash community. With 36 per cent of the Collection on display across all Monash’s Victorian campuses, it plays an important role in shaping the campus experience, contributing to a vibrant environment for staff, students and visitors.
1,772 In storage 1,042 Displayed on campus 39 Toured 54 Featured in MUMA exhibitions
identifying as male
Artists identifying as female
ARTWORKS BY INDIGENOUS ARTISTS MEDIUM
273 artworks by Indigenous artists are in the Collection. Increase of 2.5 per cent since 2020.
In 2025, MUMA continued to develop key collection priorities. These included the acquisition of works by First Nations artists, with a focus on artist from southeast Australia; improving gender parity; increasing diversity with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region; and strengthening the Museum’s commitment to acquiring works by artists aged forty and under.
In 2025, MUMA approved the acquistion of 70 artworks by 29 artists for the Collection valued at $660,959. New artists introduced to the Collection by purchase included Nicholas Currie (Mununjali), Lisa Waup (Narrm), Steven Rhall (Taungurung), Matthew Harris (Koori) Bulthirrirri Wunuŋmurra (Dhalwangu), Dhambit Munuŋgurr (Djapu, Waṉḏawuy, Dhuwa), Nathan Beard, Ella Badu, Scotty So, Jelena Telecki, Elizabeth Pulie and Naminapu Maymuru-White (Yolŋu).
Of the 70 artworks acquired in total, 32 donations built on existing holdings by artists Brook Andrew, Juan Davila, Jon Campbell, Hoda Afshar, Alicia Frankovich, Mike Parr, Susan Norrie and Jan Nelson.
The Monash University Collection is currently valued at $51,764,913.*
* Excluding study collections. Value correct at time of publishing.
Dhambit Munuŋgurr
Gunyaŋara Makkassans 2025
In June 2025, MUMA’s Awakening Histories curators undertook a research trip to Yirrkala, Northeast Arnhem Land, visiting the BukuLarrnggay Mulka Centre and meeting Djapu artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr. Working predominantly in shades of blue acrylic applied with a Marwat (traditional Yolŋu hair brush) using her non-preferred left hand, Munuŋgurr creates distinctive strokes that evoke sky and sea Country. Her bark paintings narrate the Manggatharra (Makassans) and their early exchanges with Yolŋu people on Gunyaŋara, a small island in Melville Bay that still bears Manggatharra graves, stone structures and tamarind trees linked
to Darripa (trepang) preparations— sites where Manggatharra camped and where Dhambit’s mother clan, the Gumatj, gathered and sang for generations. This significant work played a central role in Awakening Histories, foregrounding Indigenous sovereignty and oceancentred storytelling, and countering assumptions of isolation or European ‘discovery’. By entering the Monash University Collection, the work ensures that Awakening Histories is represented in the Collection, contributing to the longterm documentation of MUMA’s exhibition history.
Hoda Afshar
Untitled 3 2023
Untitled 4 2023
Untitled 6 2023
from the series In Turn 2023
Gift of the artist through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program
In Turn is in a series of photographs that respond to the uprising in Iran following the death of twenty-twoyear-old Jina Amini, arrested by Iran’s morality police for not wearing the hijab properly. The women pictured are Iranian Australians, their braids allude to the women in Iran who defiantly discarded the hijab and to Kurdish female fighters who plait each other’s hair before heading into battle against the Islamic State. This addition to the Monash University Collection builds on its holdings including three works from the Behold series, 2025, documenting the intimacy and private desires of a group of gay men in a historic bathhouse that has since been demolished.
Susan Norrie Flaunted Fleeced 1984
Gift through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program from Sid Myer AM, Rupert Myer AO and Samantha Baillieu AM in honour of their parents Sarah and Baillieu Myer AC
Susan Norrie’s Flaunted Fleeced, 1984, created during her University of Melbourne residency, forms part of her early Lavished Living series, 1982–84, a playful critique of middleclass aesthetics partly inspired by her appearance in Vogue Living’s 1981 feature on young Australian painters. Its compressed, textured surface captures the maximalist spirit of the era while drawing on Norrie’s engagement with Australian art history, nineteenth-century botanical studies and the private sketchbooks of colonial women. Evoking the colonial wool industry— its wealth built on vast land grants and the displacement of traditional owners—the work also highlights the role of women in shaping domestic interiors that attempted to tame or exclude the surrounding ‘wild’ landscape. Strengthening the Museum’s holdings of key Australian artists, the acquisition adds to MUMA’s significant representation of Norrie’s practice, which already includes the five-part Natural Disasters series, 1995, six works from the Shudder series, 1994–95, the major installation Thermostat, 2001, and the painting Last Dance, 1982.
Naminapu Maymuru-White
Milŋiyawuy, River of Stars 2025
earth pigments on bark
125.5 x 43.5 cm
Dhambit Munuŋgurr
Gunyaŋara Makkassans 2025
acrylic and earth pigments on bark
223 x 87 cm
Ella Badu
Prekese—Soup Perfume (1) 2024
recycled brass, nylon (Sapo wash cloth)
15 x 3.5 cm
Prekese—Soup Perfume (2) 2024
recycled brass, nylon (Sapo wash cloth)
15 x 4 cm
Matthew Harris
Consigned to Oblivion 2024 ochre and acrylic binder on linen
198 x 167 cm per panel
Susan Jacobs
Mother Nacre 2024
fabric, Jesmonite, bronze powder, iron powder, rust, acrylic, interference pigment, steel, synthetic pearl, hessian, slumped glass, oak frame
88 x 63 x 6.5 cm framed
Smouldy Ghost 2024
fabric, Jesmonite, bronze powder, iron powder, rust, acrylic, interference pigment, steel, synthetic pearl, hessian, slumped glass, oak frame
88 x 63 x 6.5 cm framed
Scotty So
There is No Place Like Home
2024
digital rendered image, lenticular print on lightbox
56.2 x 102 x 7.3cm framed
The Little Dragon Princess 2024
digital rendered image, lenticular print on lightbox
43.2 x 53.5 x 4cm framed
Daughter of the Fisherman’s
Wife 2024
digital rendered image, lenticular print on lightbox
43.2 x 53.5 x 4cm framed
Jelena Telecki
Party Trick 9 2024 oil on canvas
142 x 121 x 3.5cm
D Yunupiŋu
Marwat 2024
earth pigments on stringybark
145 x 68 cm
Nathan Beard
Tropical Flesh (i) 2023
painted silicone, steel
42 x 25 x 20cm
Tropical Flesh (iv) 2023
painted silicone, steel
44 x 26 x 17 cm
Lisa Waup
Impression of Country 14 2023
ink and reflective ink on paper
76 x 112 cm
Impression of Country 15 2023
ink and reflective ink on paper
76 x 112 cm
Impression of Country 17 2023
ink and reflective ink on paper
76 x 112 cm
Elizabeth Pulie #108 (Curtain for E) 2020
acrylic on hessian, metal rings, mixed fibre 270 x 190 cm
Steven Rhall
Institutional Interface (ACCA) 2024
inkjet print
150 x 225 cm
Institutional Interface (MAGNT) 2024
inkjet print
150 x 225 cm
Nusra Latif Qureshi
White Lines 1995–96 watercolour, gouache and ink on wasli paper
26.9 cm x 14.5 cm (sheet); 20.8 cm x 7.5 cm (image)
Hoda Afshar
Untitled 3 2023
from the series In Turn 2023
archival pigment print
165 x 132 cm
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Hoda Afshar 2025
Untitled 4 2023
from the series In Turn 2023
archival pigment print
165 x 132 cm
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Hoda Afshar 2025
Untitled 6 2023
from the series In Turn 2023
archival pigment print
165 x 132 cm
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Hoda Afshar 2025
Alicia Frankovich
Atlas of Anti-Taxonomies 2019–2022
dye-sublimation prints on PVC, lightboxes, backlit polyester, video
180 x 240 cm large lightboxes; 100 x 200 cm small lightboxes; 180 x 240 cm large prints; 100 x 200 cm small prints
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2025
Brook Andrew
Mirror I 2017
Sapele timber, paint, block board, paper, Perspex and glue
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Mirror II 2017
Sapele timber, paint, block board, paper, Perspex and glue
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Mirror III (rescuing) 2017
Sapele timber, paint, block board, paper, Perspex and glue
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Mirror IV (stripes) 2017
Sapele timber, paint, block board, paper, Perspex and glue
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Habitat I 2017
Red gum and Sapele timber, glass, steel and oil pastel
214 x 140 x 140 cm
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Habitat II 2017
Red gum and Sapele timber, glass, steel and oil pastel
214 x 140 x 140 cm
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Systems of Substance I 2017
silver gelatin photograph 64 x 90 cm sheet
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Systems of Substance II 2017
silver gelatin photograph 64 x 90 cm sheet
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Systems of Substance III 2017
silver gelatin photograph 64 x 90 cm sheet
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Systems of Substance IV 2017
silver gelatin photograph 64 x 90 cm sheet
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Systems of Substance V 2017
silver gelatin photograph 64 x 90 cm sheet
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Systems of Substance VI 2017
silver gelatin photograph 64 x 90 cm sheet
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Systems of Substance VII 2017
silver gelatin photograph 64 x 90 cm sheet
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Brook Andrew 2025
Jan Nelson
Break on Through to the Other Side 2013
Forton, plastic, painted MDF 488 x 244 cm
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2025
Mike Parr
The Not Yet 2011 acrylic, pastel, ink, charcoal on watercolour paper 153 x 229 cm
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Trevor Tappenden 2025
Jon Campbell
Insufficient Funds 2009 lightbox, aluminium, Perspex, enamel paint
25 x 200 x 15 cm
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Ken Fehily 2025
Juan Davila
Nothing if not Abnormal 1991 oil paint and collage on canvas, feather boa
200 x 180 cm
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2025
Susan Norrie
Flaunted Fleece 1984 oil on board
187 x 125 cm
Gift through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program from Sid Myer AM, Rupert Myer AO and Samantha Baillieu AM in honour of their parents Sarah and Baillieu Myer AC.
Bernhard Sachs
Somnambulist—Iconoclastic Anti-Klein Group Skin Bloc. 1996–2008 graphite on paper, tape
50 x 310 cm
Gift of the Trustees of the Late Dr Bernhard Sachs Estate 2025
Untitled n.d. etching on paper, kraft tape 150 x 210 cm
Gift of the Trustees of the Late Dr Bernhard Sachs Estate 2025
Untitled n.d. etching on paper, kraft tape 190 x 140 cm
Gift of the Trustees of the Late Dr Bernhard Sachs Estate 2025
[from…] Folio XXXII n.d. mixed media on paper 110 x 75 cm
Gift of the Trustees of the Late Dr Bernhard Sachs Estate 2025
St John Devours the Book… n.d.
mixed media on paper 115 x 86 cm
Gift of the Trustees of the Late Dr Bernhard Sachs Estate 2025
The Graduate 1982 … n.d. mixed media on paper 105 x 100 cm
Gift of the Trustees of the Late Dr Bernhard Sachs Estate 2025
Renunciation Project toward Aesthetic Cleansing n.d. mixed media on paper
Gift of the Trustees of the Late Dr Bernhard Sachs Estate 2025
Kontaminate
Vererbungsdialektik, Lidice Süd
Australien 1229 n.d.
mixed media on paper 120 x 100 cm
Gift of the Trustees of the Late Dr Bernhard Sachs Estate 2025
Apostasis (Oratorio Faust) Babelsberg—Melbourne n.d. mixed media on paper 120 x 100 cm
Gift of the Trustees of the Late Dr Bernhard Sachs Estate 2025
Kontaminierte
Vererbungsdialektik Lidice, Süd Australien 1929 10:54am 1997 / Reworked 2:13am 2004 / Reworked 4:57am 2020 / Reworked 5:08am 2021 mixed media on paper, tape
Gift of the Trustees of the Late Dr Bernhard Sachs Estate 2025
Kate Smith
Deep Privacy II (Fountain) 2025 oil, acrylic and permanent marker on canvas
29 x 41.5 cm
Deep Privacy II (Plinth) 2025
oil, acrylic and permanent marker on canvas
29 x 41.5 cm
Purchased by the Research and Enterprise Portfolio 2025
Jen Berean, Callum Morton, Linda Tegg
The Birds 2024–25
central upland granite, volcanic plain bluestone, midland quartz conglomerate, western upland sandstone, cameras
dimensions variable
Purchased by Buildings and Property Division 2025
Bulthirrirri Wunuŋmurra
Waŋupini 2024 ink on Hahnumuhle paper
85 x 66.7 cm
Waŋupini 2024 ink on Hahnumuhle paper
84.5 x 64.4 cm
Waŋupini 2024 ink on Hahnumuhle paper
85.1 x 65.1 cm
Waŋupini 2024 ink on Hahnumuhle paper
50.5 x 49.5 cm
Waŋupini 2024 ink on Hahnumuhle paper
50 x 32.5 cm
Rupa 2024
ceramic
42 x 39 cm
Rupa 2024
ceramic
39 x 43.5 cm
Rupa 2024
ceramic
36 x 32 cm
Rupa 2024
ceramic
36 x 35 cm
Rupa 2024
ceramic
37.5 x 24 cm
Rupa 2024
ceramic
37 x 22 cm
Nicholas Currie Big Purple 2023
acrylic on linen
200 x 250 cm
Purchased by the Faculty of Education 2024
Lisa Waup
Impressions of Country 16 2023
ink and reflective ink on paper
76 x 112 cm
Impressions of Country 18 2023
ink and reflective ink on paper
76 x 112 cm
Purchased by Education Department 2024
MUMA is dedicated to enhancing accessibility and visibility of the Monash University Collection by facilitating loan requests from both Australian and international institutions. In 2025, 50 artworks were loaned to 16 galleries across Australia. This is a 1 per cent increase from 2024. There was a notable rise in loan requests from regional Australian galleries.
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Angela Brennan
Portrait of Geoff Lowe as Sergeant Pepper 1992
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Nusra Latif Qureshi
Untitled 2016
Boat People II 2007
Desires of Memory 1–8 2012
Bendigo Art Gallery
Rob McHaffie
The Beachcomber 2014 Study Commerce and Work Part-time at Country Road 2015
Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, Canberra
Jonas Balsaitis
Imprint Image No. 17, the Newspaper 1990
Geelong Gallery
Richard Lewer
Jesus is condemned to death 2007–08
Jesus receives the cross 2007–08
Jesus falls for the first time 2007–08
Jesus is met by his blessed mother 2007–08
The cross is laid upon Simon of Cyrene 2007–08
Veronica wipes the face of Jesus 2007–08
Jesus falls the second time 2007–08
The woman of Jerusalem mourn of our lord 2007–08
Jesus falls for the third time 2007–08
Jesus is stripped of his garments 2007–08
Jesus is nailed to the cross 2007–08
Jesus dies on the cross 2007–08
Jesus is taken down from the cross 2007–08
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
John Nixon
Untitled 2013
Untitled 2014
White Monochrome with Spoon 1990
Self Portrait (History Painting) 1988
Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania
Darren Sylvester
Fillet-O-Fish 2017
Juan Davila
Picasso Theft 1991
NETS Victoria (on behalf of University of Sunshine Coast Gallery, Sippy Downs; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo; Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell; Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre, Mount Gambier; Mildura Arts Centre)
Matthew Harris
Consigned to Oblivion 2024
Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Maree Clarke
Thung-ung Coorang (Kangaroo Teeth Necklace)
2013
Gail Mabo
Mabo Claim I 2022
Mabo Claim II 2022
Tagai 2022
Zenadth Kes 2022
UNSW Gallery, Sydney
Paul Knight
Untitled (Chamber Music) 2009–19
Untitled (Chamber Music) 2009–19
TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville
Mark Smith
Welcome 2018
119 programs delivered
7446
total attendance
MUMA creates unique art-led teaching and learning experiences for Monash students and the wider community, connecting faculties with artistically ambitious ideas that foster creativity, critical thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration. Through these partnerships, MUMA generates fresh perspectives, sparks innovated solutions and deepens our understanding of the world. This cross pollination is essential for cultivating a vibrant academic environment that encourages exploration and growth.
Working closely with faculties, MUMA designs integrated learning experiences that position artists as innovators and expand researchled enquiry. Students engage directly with leading artists, curators and thinkers through lectures, masterclasses and tours, while internships and volunteer programs deepen professional knowledge, support career pathways and inspire the next generation of museum professionals.
Monash Business School
Introduction to Management (MGF1010)
Future Selves: Portraits with Ross Coulter Semester 1 and 2
Staff
Dr Darren Thomas Baker, Lecturer, Monash Business School; Alicia Renew, Gallery Manager, MUMA; Dr Laura Visser, Senior Lecturer, Monash Business School; Ross Coulter, artist
First-year business students enter their studies within a global environment characterised by significant social, environmental and economic challenges. These conditions make it challenging for students to reflect meaningfully on how global forces may influence their future professional lives. In response, Monash Business School collaborated with MUMA to develop Future Selves, an artist-led project integrated into the Introduction to Management (MGF1010) unit. Designed with artist Ross Coulter, the program engaged more than 1650 students through lectures on photographic portraiture and the MUMA Collection, followed by a self-reflective studio experience.
Working in Coulter’s temporary photography studio at MUMA, students created symbolic portraits imagining themselves twenty years into the future, considering how they might navigate personal and professional challenges requiring resilience, adaptability and ethical leadership. This artsbased assessment framework strengthened students’ capacity for reflection on values, identity and purpose, and supported clearer connections between personal commitments and managerial dilemmas. Students reported enhanced confidence, creativity and ethical judgement.
Future Selves was awarded the Faculty of Business, 2025 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence General.
Student feedback:
‘The unit made me think about my own life, how I want to live, what I want to achieve, and the future career challenges I may face.’
‘The future self in 20 years assignment was the most effective for me—having a vision for myself really motivated me to become the best version of myself.’
‘This project was my favourite university assignment; it pushed me to think outside the box, consider potential struggles and stay motivated about my future career path.’
Architecture, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture
Positions and Dialogues in Architecture 2 (ARC3401) Semester 2
Staff
Dr Alex Brown, Senior Lecturer, Deputy Associate Dean Education, MADA; Nusra Latif Qureshi, artist; Alicia Renew, Gallery Manager, MUMA
For the second year, MUMA collaborated with the Architecture program to co-design an artist-led teaching component for Positions and Dialogues in Architecture 2 (ARC3401). Artist Nusra Latif Qureshi, supported by Prof. Rebecca Coates and MUMA staff, introduced students to ideas of memory, history and personal experience through a lecture and workshop. Students explored how
architecture carries meaning over time, how buildings shift when original purposes are lost, and how form, materiality and narrative can be used to rethink architectural futures.
The unit positioned architectural publishing as a collaborative and pedagogical practice, with students developing publications for MUMA’s Education Lab and participating in public reading and feedback sessions with interdisciplinary guests, including Qureshi. Informed by her concurrent exhibition The House of Irredeemable Objects, the project embedded artistic and curatorial perspectives in architectural learning, strengthening students’ critical reflection, agency and understanding of the broader social and material contexts shaping their work.
Curatorial Tours
31 curatorial tours
596 attendees
3 faculties Self-Guided Visits
17 self-guided visits
574 attendees
Image Economies
• Bachelor of Fine Art (1st year), MADA: 24 February
• Design Studio 1, MADA: 12 March
• Contemporary International Art, MADA: 18, 19, 20 March
• Bachelor of Art History and Curating (2nd year), MADA: 19 March
• Management Honours, Monash Business School: 9 April
• Monash Indonesia–Australia Leadership Program (Master of Marketing and Digital Communication): 9 April
• Studio Practices 5, MADA: 16, 17 April
Nusra Latif Qureshi: The House of Irredeemable Objects
• Painting: Figuration, MADA: 29, 31 July; 1 August (2 tours)
• Drawing: Introduction, MADA: 31 July
• Bachelor of Art History and Curating (3rd year), MADA: 12 August
• Exhibition Design, MADA: 13 August
• Introduction to Curating, MADA: 20 August; 21 August
• Postgraduate Program, MADA: 27 August
• Studio Practices 2, MADA: 8 September
• Lifestyle Journalism, Faculty of Arts: 18 September (4 tours)
Awakening Histories
• Studio Practices 6, MADA: 23 October
Image Economies
• Bachelor of Architectural Design, MADA: 5 March
• Drawing: Introduction, MADA: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 March (2 tours per day)
• Creative Cities, School of Media, Film and Journalism: 4 April
Nusra Latif Qureshi: The House of Irredeemable Objects
• Positions and Dialogues in Architecture 2, MADA: 12 August (4 tours)
• Drawing: Introduction, MADA: 13 August
Awakening Histories
• Monash Business School (Management Honours): 3 December
programs
22 students
Tutorials
• Curatorial Projects, MADA: 11 August
• Honours Curatorial Feedback Sessions, VCA: 27 November
tutorials
5973 attendees
• Introduction to Management (MGF1010), Lost Jobs, Monash Business School:
31 March, 10am, 12pm, 2pm
1 April, 10am, 12pm, 2pm
2 April, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm
3 April, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm
• Fine Arts (Honours), MADA: 9 April
• Online Lecture: Portraiture in the Monash University Collection, Introduction to Business (MGF1010), Monash Business School, Prof. Rebecca Coates and Ross Coulter Online: 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 April
Stolon Press: Flat earth
• (MGF1010) Introduction to Management, Future Selves, Monash Business School:
26 May, 10am, 12pm, 2pm
27 May, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm
28 May, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm
29 May, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm
Nusra Latif Qureshi: The House of Irredeemable Objects
• Introduction to Management (MGF1010), Lost Jobs, Monash Business School:
26 August, 8am, 10am, 12pm, 2pm
27 August, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm
28 August, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm
29 August, 10am
• Introduction to Management (MGF1010), Photography Portraits with Ross Coulter, Monash Business School: 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 May
• Positions and Dialogues in Architecture 2 (with Nusra Latif Qureshi), MADA: 15, 16 September
Workshops
• Introduction to Management (MGF1010), Photography Portraits with Ross Coulter, Monash Business School: 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 October
• Workshop (with Geraldine Burke and Melissa Bedford), Master of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University: 12 March
• Workshop (with Juliet Carpenter), Fine Arts (Honours), MADA: 26 March
workshops
attendees
• Mentorship, as maker, as facilitator: Understanding our arts ecology (with Zoe Butt), workshop for Higher Degree by Research students, MADA and RMIT: 22 May
• Graduate Program workshop (with Nicholas Currie), William Cooper Institute: 14 May, 11 June
Nusra Latif Qureshi: The House of Irredeemable Objects
• Online Lecture: Portraiture in the Monash University Collection, Introduction to Business (MGF1010), Monash Business School
Professor Rebecca Coates and Ross Coulter Online
1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 September
• University of the Third Age, Glen Eira: 7 August
• Positions and Dialogues in Architecture 2 (with Nusra Latif Qureshi), MADA: 19 August
• Workshop (with Simon McGlinn), Introduction to Curating, MADA: 17 September
‘You have helped elevate our understanding of the technical elements of Monash’s art storage and installation processes. As Art History and Curatorial students, it is illuminating to find out how interlinked the theoretical and practical sides of exhibition creation are. Your lecture has given us the confidence to get involved with hands-on work with ARIs and the MUMA gallery.’
‘These are skills that we will all continue to use into our professional future, and we were lucky to learn these skills from such an experienced technician.’
The Bad Bitch Collective, Introduction into Curating AHT1202, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture with Simon McGlinn, Museum Officer
4 internships and 1 work experience student totalling 446 hours
• Bachelor of Art History and Curating, MADA: 2 placements, 127 hours each (paid internships, supported by MADA)—Alida Worthy and Ella Peck
• Bachelor of Art History and Curating, MADA: 2 placements, 80 hours each – Lexie Ferguson and Nicolette Arkas
• Fine Art (1st year), MADA: 30 hours (work experience)—Nadia Kober
• Master of Curatorship, University of Melbourne: 100 hours— Natalie Fung
• Master of Arts and Cultural Management, University of Melbourne: 80 hours—Grace Vescovi
‘Thank you so much for the trust you placed in me by offering this internship. It has been incredible. Your kindness and encouragement throughout have genuinely strengthened my confidence and sense of capability.’
—Lexie Ferguson
‘My internship at MUMA was an invaluable insight into the inner workings of a contemporary art museum. I developed practical skills in curatorial research, education and archiving, and gained a real understanding of how collaboration shapes exhibitions and public programs. The experience has profoundly shaped my confidence and direction as an emerging curator, allowing me to apply my academic learning in a meaningful, real-world context.’
Nicolette Akras
MUMA designs and delivers innovative, art-led teaching and learning programs that showcase excellence in arts education. These programs support learners at all levels, with a strong focus on lowSES schools in Melbourne’s southeast and First Nations students, and introduce young people to a welcoming, inclusive and inspiring higher education experience in a gallery context. For many, it is their first time setting foot in a university or art museum. As the only art museum in the south-east working closely with local schools, MUMA nurtures creativity and critical engagement, equipping learners with essential future-ready skills, from critical thinking and emotional intelligence to cultural connection and expression.
In 2025, MUMA’s curriculumdesigned programs fostered collaboration and reciprocal learning between students, educators and artists, strengthened partnerships with schools and deepened MUMA’s connections with its communities. Through this work, MUMA reaffirms its commitment to excellence and inclusivity, demonstrating the vital and transformative role that art plays in inspiring young people through education.
105 programs delivered
3164 total attendance
53 schools
‘The industry approach to art and putting it into context of the real world is so valuable.’
—Jess Kinnersley, Visual Arts Teacher at Gleneagles Secondary College.
Supported by the Department of Education, Strategic Partnerships Program
MUMA’s artist-in-residence program across 2024–25 has been supported by the Department of Education, Strategic Partnerships Program, enabling MUMA to deliver free, curriculum-aligned, artistled learning to young people. The program connects learners with practising artists through hands-on workshops that prioritise creativity, expression and cultural connection.
MUMA delivered 27 workshops to 656 students, working with four leading artists who shared their practices through inspiring art-making sessions and objectbased learning activities. These engagements support skill development, confidence and meaningful cultural engagement, ensuring young learners can experience the transformative potential of contemporary art.
1. Rudi Williams: Cameraless Photography, 5–26 March
Venue: MUMA, Education Lab
Rudi Williams delivered cameraless photography workshops to 179 students across eight schools, introducing the history of photography through early cameraless techniques and guiding students in making their own cyanotypes. The workshops explored distortion, representation and the legacies of photographic processes, highlighting human agency in image-making as a counterpoint to the machine-driven processes examined in MUMA’s concurrent exhibition Image Economies.
• Year 11, Caulfield Grammar: 5 March
• Year 11 and 12, Wellington Secondary College: 6 March
• Year 10, Pakenham Secondary College: 11 March
• Year 11 and 12, Ashwood Secondary College: 13 March
• Year 11, Westall Secondary College: 13 March
• Year 10, Melbourne High School: 18 March
• Year 12, Virtual Schools Victoria: 20 March
• Year 12 (Cert III Visual Art), Kambrya College: 26 March
‘These new partnerships with our creative organisations will help more students have the opportunity to embrace the arts in the classroom.’
—Colin Brooks, Minister for Creative Industries
‘The most valuable thing about these workshops is understanding how a practicing artist finds inspiration and creates artworks. As well as learning new materials, techniques and processes off them.’
—Casey Rhodes-Anderson, Pakenham Secondary
‘There are nuances to particular settings and considerations students weren’t exposed to before. They also learnt new key terms from museum professionals and heard them linked in real life not theory.’
—Portia Jackson, Virtual Schools
Victoria
2. Trent Walter: Small Press Network, 14–22 June
Venue: Education Lab, MUMA
This publishing-focused workshop was delivered to 152 students from 7 schools over 7 workshops in response to the exhibition Stolon Press: Flat earth.
Small Press Network transformed MUMA’s Education Lab into a working print studio, where students engaged with analogue and digital printmaking processes including collage, monotype and photocopy. Using ink, typography and newspapers of the day, students created their own prints, then combined them to develop a publication, working collaboratively to determine its title, cover design and page sequence through a shared editorial process.
• Year 9, Carey Baptist Grammar School: 14 May
• Year 11, Gleneagles Secondary College: 15 May
• Year 11 and 12, Victorian College of the Art Secondary School: 15 May
• Year 9, Minaret College Officer: 20 May
• Year 12, Nazareth College: 20 May
• Year 11, Ruyton Girls’ College: 22 May
• Year 11, Trinity Grammar School: 22 May
3. Nusra Latif Qureshi: Gems and Watercolours / Layering, 7–28
August
Venue: Education Lab, MUMA
Across six schools, a total of 220 students joined exhibiting artist Nusra Latif Qureshi for eight handson workshops, learning about the techniques and materials she uses in her finely crafted miniature paintings. Students explored archives, layering, and combinations of drawing and watercolour to create their own works inspired by the speculative journeys of gems and rare stones in Qureshi’s new commission Chance Lessons in Rapacity, 2025.
• Year 11, Cranbourne Secondary College: 7 August
• Year 11, Beaconshill College: 8 August
• Grade 4, Malvern Primary School: 14, 27, 28 August
• Year 9, Minaret College Officer: 21 August
• Year 11 and 12, Ashwood High School: 21 August
• Year 11 and 12, Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School: 22 August
‘The day was a rich and inspiring experience, encouraging students to experiment with new forms of artistic expression and deepening their understanding of contemporary art practices. Excursions like this not only spark creativity but also broaden students’ perspectives on the possibilities within our Middle School Art program and the partnership we have established with MUMA through Carey’s Artist in Residence program.’
—Simon Carver, Leader of Learning—Art and Design, on behalf of Year 9 Art program, Carey Baptist Grammar School
‘Students were introduced to the publishing work of an artist who collaborates with various and diverse people in society. This shows them an alternative to exhibitions as outcomes for artists.’
—Simon De Boer, Technician, Carey Baptist Grammar School
‘The real-world application of learning in a different environment is wonderful. Being able to do a workshop with the artist exhibiting was amazing. Students were lucky to learn a new technique and use high quality materials we don’t get at school.’
—Kate Jenkinson, Malvern Primary School.
Explore printmaking and collaboration with Trent Walter
Yarns and Words, 6–27 August
Year 7, Melbourne Indigenous Transition School
Venue: Melbourne Indigenous Transition School, Richmond
In the eighth year of MUMA’s partnership with the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS), MUMA engaged artist Kait James (Wadawurrung), whose textile practice repurposes vintage ‘Australiana’ souvenir tea towels to critically subvert colonial messaging through overlaid words and patterns. Working with twenty-two of the Year 7 students, James provided each student with a tea towel from her collection and worked with them to find a message that connected with and spoke to their values.
MUMA also designed and printed a series of post cards that were featured at the MITS Gala on 23 October.
‘I really love it and I’m proud of it. I couldn’t connect much with my culture, but now just understanding it more by making art out of it, it feels really nice to do.’
—Jarlan, Melbourne Indigenous Transition School Student.
‘It says “Don’t Be Sorry Be Better”. I think it’s important because it’s kind of saying you make mistakes, but you can get better from it.’
—Josh, Melbourne Indigenous Transition School Student.
‘It was a joy and a career highlight working with the Indigenous students and the MUMA team at MITS. The students energy, ideas and enthusiasm were wonderful to be around, and every artwork created during the workshops is so special.’
—Kait James
Kait James: Yarns and Words at the Melbourne Indigenous Transition Schools Video
Deadly Learning: Kait James Sorry, This is Not a Dot Painting 2022
MUMA delivered 33 tours to 651 students from 42 schools.
MADE: MUMA and Duldig Experience
• Year 12, Melbourne Girls College: 26 February
• Year 12, Emmanuel College: 2 July
Curating an Exhibition: Art Making and Exhibiting
• Year 12, Wellington Secondary College: 28 February
• Year 12, Canterbury Girls Secondary College: 12 March
• Year 12, Trafalgar Secondary College: 19 March
• Year 12, Scotch College: 25 March
• Year 11 and 12, Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School: 3 April; 5 June
Thematic Exhibitions: Art Making and Exhibiting
• Year 11, Cranbourne West Secondary: 26 March
Guided Talks in the Galleries + MADA Studio Tours
• Year 10, Haileybury: 12 June
Curating an Exhibition: Art Making and Exhibiting + Behindthe-Scenes: Care and Conservation
• Year 12, Williamstown High School: 18 June
• Year 12, Caulfield Grammar: 26 June
• Year 12, Haileybury: 26 June
• Year 12, Gleneagles Secondary College: 5 August
• Year 12, Homestead Senior Secondary College: 5 August
• Year 12, St Peter’s College: 12 August
• Year 12, Pakenham Secondary College: 22 August
• Year 12, Mornington Secondary College: 31 August
• Year 12, Mazenod College: 10 September
• Year 12, Our Lady of Sacred Heart: 10 September
Behind-the-Scenes: Care and Conservation
• Year 12, Geelong Grammar School: 22 July
• Year 12, Fountain Gate Secondary College: 23 July
• Year 12, Kilvington Grammar: 8 August
• Year 12, Luther College: 8 August
• Year 12, Westall Secondary College: 13 August
• Year 12, Brentwood Secondary College: 9 September
Guided Talks in the Galleries
• Year 9 and 10, Eltham High: 11 September
• Monash Caulfield Child Care Centre: 16, 17, 18 September
Interpretive Lenses
• Year 11 and 12, Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School: 8 October
• Year 10, Carey Baptist Grammar School: 24 October
Supported by Monash Art Design & Architecture
MUMA delivered 4 Access Monash programs to 161 students from 14 schools. Schools Access Monash is a program that works with partner schools to provide students with the opportunity to engage in higher education and experience campus life.
MUMA delivered 17 artist-led workshops and residency programs to 848 from 3 schools in Melbourne, working in partnership with art educators to bring artistled workshops to their classrooms.
• Year 10, 11 and 12, Pakenham Secondary College: 27 March
• Prep to Year 12, Cranbourne East Primary School and Cranbourne East Secondary College: 27 May
• Year 11, Keysborough Secondary College, 24 July
• William Cooper Institute, 23 September
• Cranbourne West Secondary
• Dandenong High School
• Eden Brook Secondary College
• Kambrya College
• Koo Wee Rup Secondary College
• Lyndhurst Secondary College
• Narre Warren South P-12 College
• Officer Secondary College
• SELLEN and the William Cooper Institute
• Marine Collage and Diorama Workshop (with Vera Möller), Year 8, Scotch College: 6 May
• Artist-in-residence (Scotty So), Year 12, Methodists Ladies College: 7 May
• Artist-in-residence (Juan Ford), Year 10 and 11, Methodists
Ladies College: 9 May
• Artist-in-residence (Rudi Williams), Year 11 and 12, Methodists
Ladies College: 12 May
• Artist-in-residence (Nathan Beard), Year 11 and 12, Methodists Ladies College: 29 July
• Artist-in-residence (Robert McHaffie), Year 11, Methodists Ladies College: 30 July
• Artist-in-residence (Hayley Millar Baker), Year 12, Methodists
Ladies College: 1 August
• Dogu Workshop (with Noriko Nakamura), Year 11, Carey Grammar Baptist School: 5, 12 August
• Portraiture Workshop (with Ross Coulter), Year 11, Carey Grammar Baptist School: 6, 11, 14 August
• Shimenawa Workshop (with Noriko Nakamura), Year 11, Carey Grammar Baptist School: 18, 26 August; 2 September
• Watercolour Gems Workshop (with Nusra Latif Qureshi), Prep and Grade 4, Methodists Ladies College: 5 November
• Artist Talk and Workshop (with Vera Möller), Year 8 and 12, Scotch College: 12 November
• Exhibition Making Intensive Program, Year 11, St Michael’s Grammar School: 23–25 June
‘I really enjoyed the interactive nature of this program, especially talks from curators and people who currently work in the industry. I have learnt so much about writing didactics to all the work that goes into curating an exhibition.’ —Yael, Year 11 student St Michael’s Grammar School
• Precious Gems, Grade 4, Malvern Primary School: 28 June
• Inside/Outside the Box, Year 10, Korowa: 2 September
• Graduation Show, Year 12, Gleneagles Secondary College: 8 October
• Untitled, Early Years (0-4 year olds), Monash Caulfield Child Care Centre: 13 October
• A Sudden and Happy Turning Point, Year 11, Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School: 28 October
MUMA offers a number of work experience opportunities each year, designed to foster career pathways and cultivate a deeper understanding of the creative industries.
• Emma Carmichael, Wheelers Hill Secondary College, Year 10: 12 hours
Primary and Secondary
• Ashwood High School
• Beaconhills College
• Brentwood Secondary College
• Canterbury Girls Secondary College
• Carey Baptist Grammar School
• Caulfield Grammar
• Cranbourne East Primary School
• Cranbourne East Secondary College (Access Monash Partner)
• Cranbourne Secondary College (Access Monash Partner)
• Cranbourne West Secondary
• Dandenong High School (Access Monash Partner)
• Dandenong Primary School
• Eden Brook Secondary College
• Eltham High
• Emmanuel College
• Fountain Gate Secondary College
• Geelong Grammar School
• Gleneagles Secondary College (Access Monash Partner)
• Haileybury
• Homestead Senior Secondary College
• Kambrya College
• Keysborough Secondary College (Access Monash Partner)
• Kilvington Grammar
• Koo Wee Rup Secondary College
• Korowa Girls Grammar
• Luther College Croydon
• Lyndhurst Secondary College
• Malvern Primary School
• Mazenod College
• Melbourne Girls College
• Melbourne High School
• Melbourne Indigenous Transition School
• Methodists Ladies College
• Minaret College Officer (Access Monash Partner)
• Mornington Secondary College
• Narre Warren South P-12 College (Access Monash Partner)
• Nazareth College
• Officer Secondary College (Access Monash Partner)
• Our Lady of Sacred Heart
• Pakenham Secondary College
• Ruyton Girls’ College
• Scotch College
• St Michael’s Grammar School
• St Peter’s College Cranbourne
• Trafalgar Secondary College (Access Monash Partner)
• Trinity Grammar School
• Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School
• Virtual Schools Victoria
• Wheelers Hill Secondary College
• Wellington Secondary College
• Westall Secondary College (Access Monash Partner)
• Williamstown High School
• Monash Caulfield Child Care Centre
Tertiary
• Monash Faculty of Education
• Tokyo Gakugei University
• William Cooper Institute / Spring Into Monash
MUMA’s public programs platform bold and influential voices, ideas and research from Australian and international artists, curators and thinkers. Our programs offer crossdisciplinary dialogue, revealing moments of insight, inspiration and creative exchange for students, staff and visitors.
In 2025, MUMA’s public programs marked the Museum’s 50th anniversary with a dynamic yearlong program of lectures, artist talks, curatorial tours, workshops, screenings and readings. These events amplified First Nations perspectives, centred artists’ voices, enriched student learning and promoted an inclusive and welcoming higher education environment. Developed in collaboration with industry partners, academics and artists, the program extended MUMA’s reach into broader communities and welcomed new audiences to the Museum.
65 programs and events
2637 attendance
MUMA celebrated its 50th anniversary with a dynamic program of events that brought together artists, academics, students and the community throught the year. The celebrations reflected MUMA’s role as a meeting point for visual culture and research, highlighting the Museum’s commitment to collaboration, inclusivity and innovation.
In 2025, MUMA’s public programs created new opportunities for audiences to connect with art, artists and research and were developed in collaboration with industry partners, academics and artists. They centred the artistic voice, promoted inclusivity and encouraged intellectual curiosity, together positioning MUMA as a hub for dialogue between art, research and community.
Presented in partnership with Monash Fine Art
Monash Art Lecture: Commune
Speakers: Simryn Gill, Nick Croggon
27 May, 6pm
Venue: State Library Victoria
Presented in partnership with Monash Fine Art
Monash Art Lecture: Praxes of Displacement: Contemporary
Art as Method for Cultural Resilience
Speakers: Chrisoula Lionis
8 August, 6pm
Venue: Building H, The Pavilion
2025 Margaret Plant Art History Lecture, presented in partnership with Monash Fine Art
Sione Tuivailala Monū: Kahoa (Tongan garland)
8 February, 2pm
Venue: Ian Potter Sculpture Court
ART+FILM: Juliet Carpenter
Screening: Juliet Carpenter, EGOLANE, 2022–24; Dizzy, 2022
Speakers: Juliet Carpenter, Dr Melanie Oliver
27 March, 6.30pm
Venue: Cinema 2, Level 2, ACMI, Fed Square
Presented in partnership with ACMI
Artist Talks: Image Economies
Speakers: Sean Dockray, Dr Melanie Oliver, James Parker, Ashley Perry, Jathan Sadowski, Scotty So, Joel Stern
16 April, 6pm
Venue: MUMA
MUMA Talks: The Birds
Speakers: Jen Berean, Prof. Rebecca Coates, Prof. Callum
Morton, Linda Tegg
24 May, 2pm
Venue: MUMA
Presented as part of Melbourne Design Week
Research in Action Symposium, MADA
Panel peakers: Jen Berean, Prof. Callum Morton, Anna Taylor, Linda Tegg
5 June, 6pm
Venue: G Concourse, MADA building
Presented by MADA
Artist Talk: Flat earth
Live reading: Elisa Taber, An Archipelago in a Landlocked Country
/ Otra isla rodeada de tierra (Another Island Surrounded by Land)
27 June, 9pm
Venue: MUMA
MADA Symposium: Framing Relations
Speakers: Michael Mohamed Ahmed, Jumana Bayeh, Suzannah Henty, Lina Koleilat, Bader Rizk, Micaela Sahhar, Sary Zananiri, Azza Zein
8 August, 10.30am–7.30pm
Venue: Building G, Caulfield Campus and MUMA
Presented in partnership with MADA
MUMA Talks: On Violence and Beauty
Speakers: Prof. Rebecca Coates, Nusra Latif Qureshi
14 August, 6pm
Venue: MUMA
MUMA Talks: Dreams of Colour
Speakers: Prof. Rebecca Coates, David Egan, Nusra Latif
Qureshi, Prof. Alison Ross
3 September, 6pm
Venue: MUMA
Artist Talks: Awakening Histories
Speakers: Aziziah Diah Aprilya, Prof. Rebecca Coates, Amanda Haskard, Francis E. Parker, Darrell Sibosado
4 October, 2pm
Venue: MUMA
ART+FILM: The Mulka Project
Speakers: Bec Charlesworth, Amanda Haskard, Dhukumul
Wanambi
8 October, 6.30pm
Venue: Cinema 2, Level 2, ACMI
Presented in partnership with ACMI
Earth Ethics Publication Launch and Birdwatching Tour
Speakers: Jen Berean, Prof. N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs AM, Madeleine Collie, Megan Cope, Charlotte Day, Janine Haddow, Prof. Callum Morton, Melissa Ratliff, Dr Stanislav Roudavski, Linda Tegg
13 September, 9.30am–12.30pm
Venue: Monash Caulfield Commons and MUMA
Opening Event: Image Economies and MUMA 50th Birthday Party
Performances: Sione Tuivailala Monū, Lucreccia Quintanilla, Scotty So
Speakers: Prof. Mark Andrejevic, Prof. Rebecca Coates, Caroline Martin
8 February, 2pm
Venue: MUMA and Ian Potter Sculpture Court
Opening Event: Flat earth
Speakers: Prof. Rebecca Coates, Prof. Mel Dodd, Simryn Gill and Tom Melick
29 May, 6pm
Venue: MUMA
Curatorial Tours (public)
Curatorial Tours (groups)
Monash Staff and Student Activities
Opening Event: The House of Irredeemable Objects
Speakers: Prof. Rebecca Coates, Prof. Mel Dodd, Maud Page
26 July, 3pm
Venue: MUMA
Opening Event: Awakening Histories
Performance: Abdi Karya
Speakers: Prof. N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs AM, Prof. Susan Elliott AM, His Excellency Ambassador Dr Siswo Pramono, Prof. Rebecca Coates
4 October, 3pm
Venue: MUMA and Ian Potter Sculpture Court
Stolon Press: Flat earth
3 June, 11am and 2pm
5 June, 10am and 2pm
11 June, 10am and 2pm
Nusra Latif Qureshi: The House of Irredeemable Objects
29 August, 10.30am
31 August, 12pm
Awakening Histories
7 October, 11am
9 October, 11am
• Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects: 22 March
• Monash Arab Student Society: 9 July
• Matheson Society, Monash Advancement: 21 October
• 20 Years of MADA PhD Completions—Alumni Event: 26 November
• NGV Guides (Special Interest Group—Contemporary): 28 November
• O-Week: 24–27 February
Venue: Monash Caulfield Green and Monash Clayton grounds
• Book stall and Birthday Cake: 11 March
Venue: Ian Potter Sculpture Court
• Cocktails and Creatives, MADA Student Society: 10 April
• Public art tour, William Cooper Institute: 14 May
Venue: Monash Caulfield campus
• Morning tea and tour with Stolon Press (Simryn Gill and Tom Melick), MADA: 30 May
• Artist-led workshop (with Nicholas Currie), William Cooper Institute Graduate program: 11 June
Venue: Education Lab
• Slow dash to the border (with Tai Snaith), artist-led workshop, Monash Business School: 17 June
Venue: Education Lab
• Compositions (with Minna Gilligan), artist-led workshop, Monash Business School: 11 November
Venue: Education Lab
• Artist-led workshop (with Noriko Nakamura), Office of the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice-President: 20 November
Venue: Education Lab
• MADA, Crunch Time: Churros, Ice Cream and Census
25 March, 12:30pm
Venue: Ian Potter Sculpture Court
• Monash Fine Art, Honours students
9 April, 1pm
Venue: Education Lab
• MADA, Staff morning tea 17 April, 10am
Venue: MUMA Foyer
• MADA, Monash Urban Lab Seminar
5 May, 11:30am
Venue: MUMA Foyer and Conference Room
• HSW and BPD, Mindful May, Endota Spa
7 May, 10am
Venue: MUMA Foyer
• Faculty of IT, Software Systems and Cybersecurity, Writing Retreat
4 June, 9–5pm
Venue: Education Lab
• Faculty of Business, Alumni—Cocktail function
21 June, 5–8pm
Venue: MUMA Foyer, Conference Room and Ian Potter Sculpture Court
• MADA, Monash Urban Lab Housing Symposium
30 July, 12:30–2:30pm
Venue: Education Lab
• MADA, DONUT Forget Census
19 August, 11am–2:30pm
Venue: Ian Potter Sculpture Court
• MADASS Student Society, Cocktails and Creatives
4 September, 5–8pm
Venue: MUMA Foyer, Conference Room and Education Lab
• MADA, Monash Masters Portfolio Review 17 September, 5–7pm
Venue: MUMA Foyer and Conference Room
• Faculty of IT, Software Systems
2 November, 10am
Venue: MUMA Foyer and Education Lab
• MADA, MADA Now 20 November, 5–8pm
Venue: Ian Potter Sculpture Court
• MADA, Art Education Victoria (AEV) Conference 21 November, 10am–1pm
Venue: MUMA Foyer
To mark MUMA’s 50th anniversary, a suite of digital initiatives was launched throughout 2025 to deepen online engagement and expand access. These projects extend the reach of MUMA’s artistic program and the Monash University Collection, strengthening global connections and broadening public access to art and research. Together, they reinforce the University’s leadership in integrating art, research and education on a global scale.
Central to these is the MUMA Exhibition Archive, the Museum’s first comprehensive digital archive. The archive brings to light MUMA’s important exhibition history since its founding in 1975, tracing 365 exhibitions over five decades of exhibition-making from the gallery’s early years to its dynamic, researchdriven program today.
MUMA: Into the Archive
The anniversary campaign Into the Archive celebrates the stories and memories that have shaped MUMA’s legacy, featuring reflections from artists, academics and curators who have been inspired by MUMA’s program or collaborated with the Museum.
Monash Collection Digital Public Art Guide
The Digital Public Art Guide, launched on the Bloomberg Connects platform, brings the Monash Public Art Collection to a global audience. This initiative enables users to explore public artworks across Monash’s Victorian campuses or engage remotely from anywhere in the world. The Guide enhances accessibility and inclusivity, inviting new audiences to experience one of Australia’s most significant collections of contemporary public art.
78,011 website page views
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eNews subscribers
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MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
‘Qureshi explores how objects can carry something larger than themselves—a trace, a wound, or a memory—and reminds us that beauty and violence often walk side by side.’
—ABC RN, The Art Show
MEDIA COVERAGE
Media Clippings 194 total placements
67 international 135 national Media Type 18 print 19 broadcast 157 online
324,000,000 global reach
$8,200,000 in earned media value (conservative)
‘In a world awash with selfies and celebrities, artists unpick the methods behind the manipulation. —Tiarney Miekus, The Saturday Age, Spectrum
In 2025, MUMA’s research-led artistic programs, teaching initiatives and academic collaborations were recognised through a range of national and international awards, reflecting the Museum’s leadership across curatorial practice, design, education and research.
Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum (2021–24)
Winner:
Best Designed Catalogue/ Exhibition Book at the 73rd Australian Book Designers Awards
Dance in the Public Sphere Award at the Dance Studies Association 2025 Conference in Washington, DC
Spanning three years, Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, 2021–24, brought together artists, researchers and institutions into dialogue about best practice to support the choreographer and the museum, and to sustain momentum in theory and practice around dance and the visual arts.
MUMA’s major solo exhibition: Shelley Lasica: WHEN IM NOT THERE was an outcome of the project.
Research project
Future Selves: Portraits with Ross Coulter, MGF101: Introduction to Management
Winner:
Faculty of Business: 2025 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence— General
Awarded to: Dr Darren Thomas Baker, Lecturer, Monash Business School; Alicia Renew, Manager, MUMA; Dr Laura Visser, Senior Lecturer, Monash Business School; Ross Coulter, Artist
Learning with the Land with Respect: Art-Reach Collective
Winner
Faculty of Education: Equity and Inclusion Award, School of Curriculum, Teaching and Inclusive Education (CTI): For outstanding contribution to equity and inclusion within the faculty or wider community
Faculty of Education: 2025 Dean’s Award for Programs that enhance learning: Collaborative Partnerships in Learning and Teaching
Awarded to: Geraldine Burke, CTI; Aunty Karan Kent (Bidjara), Monash Industry Fellow, Indigenous; Nikki Browne (Bidjara) Monash Industry Fellow, Indigenous; Kylie Colemane (Darug and Wiradjuri), Monash Industry Fellow, Indigenous; Melissa Bedford, Senior Educator, MUMA; Priscilla Pettengell in collaboration with the Pitcha Makin Fellas [Ted Laxton, (Gunditjmara), Alison McRae (Dja Dja Wurrung, Gunditjmara and Yorta Yorta), Trudy Fatnowna Edgeley (Gimuy Walubarra Yidinji)]; and Dandenong Primary School (Daniel Ryley, Principal; Keery Gibson, Community Hub Leader; Sara Djakovic, Art Teacher
Director: Prof. Rebecca Coates
Gallery Manager: Alicia Renew
Collection Manager: Emma Neale (parental leave until January 2025)
Senior Curator: Melanie Oliver (until August 2025)
Senior Curator: Pip Wallis (parental leave until August 2025)
Curator—Exhibitions: Francis E. Parker
Curator—Indigenous: Amanda Haskard (from March 2025)
Curator—Research: Stephanie Berlangieri
Senior Educator: Melissa
Bedford
Assistant Education Officer: Jennifer Hunt (from March 2025)
Communications Coordinator: Warisa Somsuphangsri (parental leave until September 2025)
Communications Coordinator: Brianna Speight
Public Programs Officer: Anna Taylor (until November 2025)
Collection Coordinator: Susie Raven (until January 2025)
Assistant Registrar: Bella Beare (April – May 2025)
Assistant Registrar: Zoe Priest (from June 2025)
Museum Officer: David H Thomas
Museum Officer: David Egan (until January 2025)
Museum Officer: Simon McGlinn (from March 2025)
Publicist: Rhiannon Broomfield
Visitor Experience Officer: Madeline Mondon (from March 2025)
Gallery Administrator: Katherine Benjamin (from March 2025)
MUMA Advisory Committee
Prof. Mel Dodd Chair, MUMA Advisory Committee; Dean, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
Judy Annear Writer; Honorary Fellow at the School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne (until March 2025)
Prof. Wendy Brown Chair, Department of Surgery, Monash University; Program Director of Surgical Services, Alfred Health
Prof. Rebecca Coates Director, MUMA
Prof. Craig Jeffery
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) and Senior VicePresident, Monash University
Dr Spiros Panigirakis
Head of Department (Fine Art), Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
Aziz Sohail
Student representative, Monash University (until October 2025)
Jamil Tye
Executive Director, External Community Engagement and Impact, Monash University
N’Arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM Boon Wurrung Senior Elder and founder Boon Wurrung Foundation
Rosemary Gilby Lecturer, Gukwonderuk Unit, Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University
Andrew Giles
Assistant Lecturer, School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
Dr Brian Martin Director Wominjeka Djeembana
Indigenous Research Lab, Monash University
John Page
Manager Indigenous Education, William Cooper Institute, Monash University
Jacinta Walsh
PhD Candidate, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University
Prof. Mel Dodd Chair; Dean, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
Prof. Rebecca Coates Director, MUMA, Monash University
Prof. Callum Morton Artist; Head of Monash Art Projects (MAP), Monash University
Dr Spiros Panigirakis
Head of Fine Art, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
Shelley Penn University Architect, Monash University
Andrew Simpson Manager, Campus Design, Quality and Planning, Monash University
Alicia Renew Chair; Gallery Manager
Rebecca Coates Director
Karla Contrearas
HSW Advisor, Buildings and Property
Emma Neale Collections Manager
Melanie Oliver Safety Officer; Senior Curator (until meeting March 2025)
Francis E. Parker Curator—Exhibitions
Pip Wallis Safety Officer; Senior Curator (from April 2025)
Casual Staff
Museum Assistants
Ruby Benjamin
Isabella Darcy
Kim Ma
Ella Peck
Lilith Pett
Kelly Semmler
Installation Staff
Benjamin Bannan
Hugo Blomley
Cohen Dix
Bradley Downs
Kubota Fumikazu
Nicholas Mahady
Gian Manik
Andrew Nille
Caeylen Norris
Oliver Piperato
Simone Tops
Volunteers
Amelia Blanc
Mia Bowcher
Jennifer Chen
Dora Chung
Rin Clancy
Jess Duffy
Alexandra Van Empel
Alexandra Ferguson
Ava Jia
Trish Menchaca
Anisha Muniandy
Daisy Perley
Lilith Pett
Rachelle Postregna
Alida Worthy
Interns, Trainees, Work Experience
Nicolette Arkas
Alexandra Ferguson
Natalie Fung
Ella Peck
Grace Vescovi
Alida Worthy
Emma Carmichael
Committees, Boards and Professional Affiliations
Melissa Bedford
• Member, Museums
Australia Education Network Victoria Committee
• Strategic Partnerships Program (SPP) Visual Arts Network
Stephanie Berlangieri
• Adjunct Curator, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Prof. Rebecca Coates
• Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts, MADA
• Board Member, Artlink
• Board Member, International Association of Art Critics
• Member, International Council of Museums
Emma Neale
• Member, Australasian Registrars Committee
Dr Melanie Oliver
• SCAPE Public Art Curatorial Advisory Panel
Francis E. Parker
• Member, City of Port Phillip Art Acquisition Reference Committee
• Secretary, Stonnington Symphony Committee of Management
Alicia Renew
• Joan Kirner Alumni Advisory Panel, Leadership Victoria
Jennifer Hunt
• Board Member, Student Youth Network, SYN Media 90.7FM
Curatorial and Artistic
Stephanie Berlangieri
• Curator, Desire Is a Machine, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 12 July – 21 September
Simon McGlinn
• Artist, If the Brush Could Cut, CACHE, Melbourne, 9–19 August
• Artist, Mascot, Sutton Projects, Melbourne, 24 May – 14 June
Melanie Oliver
• Curator, Disruptive Landscapes, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 2 April – 24 August
David H. Thomas
• Artist, Arcadian Slums, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, 9 October – 15 November
Brianna Speight
• Artist, Prosopon, The Little Machine, Adelaide, 26 July – 30 August
• Artist, Training Ground, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide, 10 October – 7 November
Talks, Lectures and Symposia
Melissa Bedford
• Learning with the Land Symposium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Prof. Rebecca Coates
• Speaker, Public Galleries Association of Victoria Roundtable 2025, Public Galleries Association of Victoria
• Podcast interview
Nusra Latif Qureshi, with Richard Graham, Australian Women Artists podcast, published February 2026
Melanie Oliver
• Curating Across the Regions panel discussion, Melbourne Art Fair, National Gallery of Victoria
Pip Wallis
• Sam Contis in conversation with Pip Wallis, Melbourne Art Book Fair, National Gallery of Victoria
Stephanie Berlangieri
• Diego Ramirez, PhD milestone panel, MADA
• Brooke Babington, PhD confirmation panel, MADA
• Holly Childs, PhD Milestone panel, MADA
Francis E. Parker
• ‘Nuts and berries, roses and serpents’, Nuts and Berries, exhibition catalogue, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne, 2025
Pip Wallis
• David Egan: Cell Theory, exhibition catalogue, Neon Parc, Melbourne, 2025
External Advisory and Assessment Roles
Melissa Bedford
• Panel Member, Creative Learning Partnerships, Creative Victoria
Prof. Rebecca Coates
• Focus Group Panellist, Best Practices for Museums
Working with Living Artists, CIMAM Annual Conference
Alicia Renew
• Visual Arts Judge, Melbourne Fringe
Professional Development and Training
Katherine Benjamin
• Museum Management, Sustainability and Accountability in Action, Australian Museums and Galleries Association
Stephanie Berlangieri
• Futures of Thought Symposium, Deakin
University
• Future of Arts, Culture and Technology Symposium, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Prof. Rebecca Coates
• Psychosocial Safety in the GLAM Sector, Australian Museums and Galleries Association
Madeline Mondon
• Disability Confidence Training, Get Skilled Access
• The Art of Engaging Gallery Experiences Workshop, Public Galleries Association of Victoria
Alicia Renew
• Psychosocial Safety in the GLAM Sector, Australian Museums and Galleries Association
Anna Taylor
• Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
MUMA extends sincere thanks to our partners and supporters across Monash University and beyond. Your expertise, generosity and commitment make our exhibitions, programs and research possible. We are grateful for your continued engagement and look forward to building on these relationships in the years ahead.
Marc Besen AO & Eva Besen
AO
Helen Mcpherson Smith Trust
Ian Potter Foundation
Sidney Myer Fund
MUMA CONTEMPORARIES
We thank the MUMA Contemporaries for ongoing support of MUMA to commission new artworks by leading contemporary artists, ensuring that bold, researchdriven artistic practices continue to shape and inform the Museum’s program.
MUMA Benefactor
Graeme and Mabie Briggs
MUMA Patron
David Clouston and Michael Schwarz
Prof. Shane Murray
MUMA Circle
Charlotte Day
Paul Foulkes
MUMA Friend
Sandra Beanham
Fiona Brockhoff
Christine Clough
Allison Pye
Dr Irene Sutton
Monash Art, Design and Architecture
Monash Art Projects
Monash University Publishing
Monash Childcare Centre
Monash Buildings and Property Division
Monash Business School
Monash Art, Design and Architecture Student Society
Monash Wellbeing
Monash Libraries
Monash Faculty of Education
William Cooper Institute
Wominjeka Djeembana
Indigenous Research Lab
EDUCATION PARTNERS
Art Education Victoria
Gertrude Contemporary
Independent Schools Victoria: Arts Learning Festival
Melbourne Indigenous Transition School
Tokyo Gakugei University
University of the Third Age Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
PHILANTHROPIC AND GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
Strategic Partnerships Program, Department of Education, Victorian Government
PROGRAM PARTNERS
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Melbourne Art Fair
Melbourne Design Week
PUBLISHING AND DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS
Monash University Publishing
EXHIBITION PARTNERS
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
MEDIA PARTNERS
7am
Fancy Films
Gatherer Media
The Monthly
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Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA)
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Australia (UAMA)
Images all 2025, MUMA, Naarm, Melbourne unless otherwise noted.
Front cover Performance by Scotty So as part of Opening Event: Image Economies and MUMA 50th Birthday Party Photo: Casey Horsfield
P2-3 Smoking ceremony with Bunurong and Gunditjmara Elder Uncle Mark Brown. Photo: Yanni
P4-5 Sione Tuivailala Monū: Kahoa (Tongan garland) as part of Opening Event: Image Economies and MUMA 50th Birthday Party, Ian Potter Sculpture Court. Photo: Casey Horsfield
P14-15 Khaled Sabsabi, Aajyna 1998/2021/2025. Installation view, Stolon Press: Flat earth. Photo: Andrew Curtis
P17 Image Economies opening. Photo: Casey Horsfield
P19 Top: Stolon Press, Mixed business 2025 (detail). Installation view, Stolon Press: Flat earth. Photo: Andrew Curtis. Bottom: Stolon Press, Mixed business 2025. Elisa Taber, Otra isla rodeada de tierra (Another Island Surrounded by Land) 2026. Installation view, Stolon Press: Flat earth. Photo: Andrew Curtis
P20 Top: Installation view, Nusra Latif Qureshi: The House of Irredeemable Objects. Photo: Christian Capurro. Bottom: Nusra Latif Qureshi. Photo: Christian Capurro
P23 Top: Installation view, Awakening Histories. Photo: Andrew Curtis. Bottom: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, The Collectors Table 2025 (detail), wood, brass and cotton fringing, 48 x 99 x 22 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Moore Contemporary, Boorloo/Perth. Installation view, Awakening Histories. Photo: Andrew Curtis
P25 Jenna Lee, Category of Significance: Ancestral (Tamarindus indica) 2025 (detail), pages of Aboriginal Words and Place Names, silk, wire, video projection, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and MARS Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne. Installation view, Awakening Histories. Photo: Andrew Curtis
P26-27 Jen Berean, Callum Morton, Linda Tegg (Monash Art Projects), The Birds 2024–25. Installation view, Ian Potter Sculpture Court, 2024. Photo courtesy of the artists.
P29 Linda Tegg, Jen Berean, Callum Morton (Monash Art Projects) with The Birds 2024–25. Installation view, Ian Potter Sculpture Court, 2024. Photo: Christian Capurro.
P30-31 & 33 Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices. Photo: Andrew Curtis
P34-35 Dhambit Munuŋgurr, Gunyaŋara Makassans 2025. Photo: Andrew Curtis
P36 Learning with the Land: Learning with Respect with Dandenong Primary School students. Photo: Yanni
P37 Learning with the Land: Learning with Respect project team and special guests with Dandenong Primary School 2024 student leaders. Left to right: Lead Art Teacher Sara Djakovic, Professor Rita Irwin, Art Technician Melanie Attard, Research Assistant Priscilla Pettengell, Community Hub Leader Keery Gibson, Project Lead Dr Geraldine Burke, MUMA Senior Educator Melissa Bedford, Federal MP Hon Julian Hill, Principal Daniel Riley, First Nations Lead Nikki Browne, First Nations Educator Kursty Colemane, Studiolab Manager and Graphic Designer Chris Hanger, First Nations Lead Kylie Colemane and First Nations Lead Aunty Karan Kent with the Student Leaders. Photo: Yanni
P41 Nathan Beard, Tropical Flesh (iv) 2023, painted silicone, steel, 44 x 26 x 17 cm, Monash University Collection
P44-45 Hoda Afshar, Untitled 3, 4 and 6 2023, archival pigment print, 165 x 132 cm. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Hoda Afshar 2025
P47 Dhambit Munuŋgurr, Gunyaŋara Makassans 2025. Installation view, Awakening Histories. Photo: Andrew Curtis
P49 Susan Norrie, Flaunted Fleece 1984, oil on board, 187 x 125 cm. Gift through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program from Sid Myer AM, Rupert Myer AO and Samantha Baillieu AM in honour of their parents Sarah and Baillieu Myer AC
P52-53 Alicia Frankovich, Atlas of Anti-Taxonomies 2019–22, dye-sublimation prints on PVC, lightboxes, backlit polyester, video 180 x 240 cm large lightboxes; 100 x 200 cm small lightboxes; 180 x 240 cm large prints; 100 x 200 cm small prints Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2025
P58-59 MADA Drawing Class, Image Economies
P61 Future Selves: Portraits with Ross Coulter, Education Lab
P62 Architecture, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture: Positions and Dialogues in Architecture. Photo: Christian Capurro
P66 Top: Stolon Press artist talk for MADA students Bottom: Architecture, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture: Positions and Dialogues in Architecture workshop with Nusra Latif Qureshi
P67 Architecture, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture: Positions and Dialogues in Architecture workshop
P68-69 Rudi Williams: cameraless photography workshop, Ian Potter Sculpture Court
P71 Top and Bottom: Rudi Williams and students, Ian Potter Sculpture Court
P73 Top and bottom: Trent Walter and Nusra Latif Qureshi at Education Lab
P74-85 Kait James and tea towels by MITS students
P78 Malvern Primary students at a workshop with Nusra Latif Qureshi
P80-81 Opening Event: Image Economies and MUMA 50th Birthday Party Photo: Casey Horsfield
P82 Rose Nolan with the 50th birthday party cake. Photo: Casey Horsfield
P85 Top: ART+FILM: Juliet Carpenter, Cinema 2, Level 2, ACMI, Fed Square. Bottom: Artist Talks: Image Economies with Jathan Sadowski and Dr Melanie Oliver
P86 Top: Birdwatching tour, Monash Caulfield Commons. Bottom: MUMA Talks: Dreams of Colour, Dr Rebecca Coates, David Egan, Nusra Latif Qureshi and Professor Alison Ross
P89 Same Page Art Book Fair, Gerturde Contemporary
P90 Visitors at Awakening Histories opening. Photo: Kenneth Suico
P92 Into the Archive, featuring D Harding
P94-95 Future Selves: Portraits with Ross Coulter, Education Lab. Photo: Christian Capurro
P96 Shelley Lasica: WHEN IM NOT THERE. Photo: Jacqui Shelton
P102-103 Stolon Press: Flat earth opening
Back cover Installation view, Nusra Latif Qureshi: The House of Irredeemable Objects. Photo: Christian Capurro
REPORT 2025