Curator Talk

Curator Talk

Jul 11, 2022

Join Buxton Contemporary curator Jacqueline Doughty for a talk on our current exhibitions. Discover the expansive sculptural environment in Susan Jacobs: The ants are in the idiom and ruminate on its web of visual riddles. In Still Life, imagination and empirical...
Architect Talk

Architect Talk

Jul 5, 2022

Join Sarah Hurst, Associate Director at Fender Katsalidis for a tour of Buxton Contemporary. As a key team member on the architectural redevelopment of Buxton Contemporary, she will lend her professional insights into the creative direction and development of the...
University of Melbourne Open Day

University of Melbourne Open Day

Jul 1, 2022

Enhance your University of Melbourne Open Day experience with a visit to Buxton Contemporary, where exhibition programs invite consideration and appreciation of the practices of contemporary artists. READ MORE No bookings...
Artist Floor Talk: Susan Jacobs

Artist Floor Talk: Susan Jacobs

May 31, 2022

2:15 – 3:15pm. Register here. This artist floor talk with Susan Jacobs will give insight into the development of her exhibition ‘The ants are in the idiom’. Her largest solo commission to date, commissioned specifically for Buxton Contemporary, this...
Interrogating the Past: First Nations Artists and Collections

Interrogating the Past: First Nations Artists and Collections

Apr 27, 2022

Join us for a panel discussion with Observance exhibition artists Julie Gough, Lisa Hilli and Angela Tiatia, moderated by Hannah Presley, exhibition co-curator and Senior Curator, Museums and Collections at the University of Melbourne. The research of historical...

Buxton Contemporary acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we work, learn and create, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples, and the wider Kulin Nations. We acknowledge their continuing care for Country and recognise that Australia’s First Peoples art and cultural practices have thrived here for millenia.