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Curating the COFA Collection

Article released: Tuesday, 01 September, 2009

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Curating the COFA Collection features exceptional pieces from the College’s extensive art collection.
Not only do many of the artists featured have a connection to the College of Fine Arts (COFA), but they represent the broad spectrum of leading Australian artists. The exhibition includes work from senior Australian artists such as James Gleeson and Robert Klippel, Mambo artist Chris O’Doherty (aka Reg Mombassa), different generations of Papunya artists, and contemporary trailblazers such as Rosemary Laing, Julie Rrap and The Kingpins. International luminaries Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso are also represented in the COFA Collection.
Curating the COFA Collection has been put together by curatorial students from COFA lead by Felicity Fenner, Senior Curator at Ivan Dougherty Gallery. The show is an academic project which forms part of the Exhibition Management and Curatorial Studies subject in COFA’s Master of Art Administration. The exhibition is a University Art Museums Australia exhibition project showcasing the research-intensive and collection-based programs of eight of Australia’s leading university art museums: University of Melbourne, Monash University, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, University of Western Australia, Curtin University, University of South Australia and University of New South Wales.