EVENTS

Our calendar of events is updated regularly with new public programs that respond to our current exhibitions.

PAST PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Art and Science in Conversation: Ethnobotany and Entheogens, Saturday 1 October

Art and Science in Conversation: Ethnobotany and Entheogens, Saturday 1 October

An Introduction to Culinary Mushroom Cultivation, Saturday 1 October, 2:30pm

An Introduction to Culinary Mushroom Cultivation, Saturday 1 October, 2:30pm

Art and Science in Conversation: Analogy and Metaphor <br> Saturday 20 August, 2pm

Art and Science in Conversation: Analogy and Metaphor
Saturday 20 August, 2pm

Artist Floor Talk: Lou Hubbard, Saturday 23 July, 2pm

Artist Floor Talk: Lou Hubbard, Saturday 23 July, 2pm

Curator Talk, Saturday 30 July, 11:30am

Curator Talk, Saturday 30 July, 11:30am

Architect Talk, Sunday 31 July, 11:30am

Architect Talk, Sunday 31 July, 11:30am

University of Melbourne Open Day, Sunday 21 August, 11am – 5pm

University of Melbourne Open Day, Sunday 21 August, 11am – 5pm

Artist Floor Talk: Susan Jacobs, Saturday 11 June 2:15pm

Artist Floor Talk: Susan Jacobs, Saturday 11 June 2:15pm

Interrogating the Past: First Nations Artists and Collections — PANEL DISCUSSION

Interrogating the Past: First Nations Artists and Collections — PANEL DISCUSSION

Observance — Artist Floor Talks

Observance — Artist Floor Talks

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{~~~} … , … ; x Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock

POETRY READING – NEW CONSTELLATIONS, curated by Justin Clemens

POETRY READING – NEW CONSTELLATIONS, curated by Justin Clemens

POETRY READING – selected works by Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk

POETRY READING – selected works by Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk

PERFORMANCE – Lisa Radford and Sam George, The Dugong Sublime (Hotel Sorrento)

PERFORMANCE – Lisa Radford and Sam George, The Dugong Sublime (Hotel Sorrento)

Writing & Concepts Lecture series: Tim Woodward

Writing & Concepts Lecture series: Tim Woodward

Artist floor talk: Sunday 9 February – 11.30am

Artist floor talk: Sunday 9 February – 11.30am

PERFORMANCE – Between appearances: the art of Louise Weaver, Saturday 14 December 2pm

PERFORMANCE – Between appearances: the art of Louise Weaver, Saturday 14 December 2pm

Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism book launch: Thursday 24 October, 6pm

Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism book launch: Thursday 24 October, 6pm

UNTOLD @ Buxton Contemporary, Tuesday 15 October 6pm

UNTOLD @ Buxton Contemporary, Tuesday 15 October 6pm

Public Lecture: ‘A Friend to Artists: Jim Ede and Modern Art’, Thursday 3 October 4pm

Public Lecture: ‘A Friend to Artists: Jim Ede and Modern Art’, Thursday 3 October 4pm

Dylan Martorell Performance: Saturday 21 September, 11am – 2pm

Dylan Martorell Performance: Saturday 21 September, 11am – 2pm

Art and Australia Issue Five launch ‘Brutalism’ – Thursday 19 September, 5.30pm

Art and Australia Issue Five launch ‘Brutalism’ – Thursday 19 September, 5.30pm

Dylan Martorell Performance: Friday 18 October, 1pm – 4pm

Dylan Martorell Performance: Friday 18 October, 1pm – 4pm

In Conversation: Mikala Dwyer, Justene Williams and Olaf Nicolai – Tuesday 3 September, 6pm

In Conversation: Mikala Dwyer, Justene Williams and Olaf Nicolai – Tuesday 3 September, 6pm

Writing & Concepts Lecture series, Patrick Hartigan, Saturday 7 September 3pm

Writing & Concepts Lecture series, Patrick Hartigan, Saturday 7 September 3pm

Triadic dance of the secondaries, Performance: Sunday 18 August, 2pm

Triadic dance of the secondaries, Performance: Sunday 18 August, 2pm

Bauhaus Now! Film Program

Bauhaus Now! Film Program

Writing & Concepts Lecture Series, Autumn Royal and Lucy Van, Thursday 8 August 6pm

Writing & Concepts Lecture Series, Autumn Royal and Lucy Van, Thursday 8 August 6pm

Open House Melbourne: Saturday 27 July & Sunday 28 July

Open House Melbourne: Saturday 27 July & Sunday 28 July

Research Seminar with Dr Margaret MacNamidhe: Thursday 27 June, 6.30pm

Archie Barry: National Anthem Performance Program

Archie Barry: National Anthem Performance Program

Panel: Art, Politics and Agency, Wednesday 19 June 5.30-7pm

Panel: Art, Politics and Agency, Wednesday 19 June 5.30-7pm

CoVA Graduate Academy, ‘Puzzles & Problems with Art Appropriation’: 30 May, 3-5pm

In Conversation: Stephen Bram, John Nixon and Rose Nolan – Saturday 1 June, 11.30am

In Conversation: Stephen Bram, John Nixon and Rose Nolan – Saturday 1 June, 11.30am

Eugenia Lim: National Anthem Performance Program

Eugenia Lim: National Anthem Performance Program

FiX performance at Buxton Contemporary – Monday 13 May, 5pm

FiX performance at Buxton Contemporary – Monday 13 May, 5pm

‘Surpassing Modernity’ by Professor Andrew McNamara: Public Lecture, Thursday 9 May 6pm

‘Surpassing Modernity’ by Professor Andrew McNamara: Public Lecture, Thursday 9 May 6pm

In Conversation: Saturday 23 March 11:30am

In Conversation: Saturday 23 March 11:30am

Art Anywhere Symposium: Friday 22 March 9.30am – 5.30pm

Art Anywhere Symposium: Friday 22 March 9.30am – 5.30pm

It’s Academic: Art Publishing inside & outside the institution – Thursday 21 March 6pm

It’s Academic: Art Publishing inside & outside the institution – Thursday 21 March 6pm

Artist floor talk: Saturday 9 February – 11.30am

Artist floor talk: Saturday 9 February – 11.30am

Gender + Art in Asia: Wednesday 30 January – 2.00pm

Gender + Art in Asia: Wednesday 30 January – 2.00pm

Artist floor talk: Saturday 15 December – 11.30am

Artist floor talk: Saturday 15 December – 11.30am

Panel: Gender and Indonesian Contemporary Art, Wednesday 28 November, 12–1pm

Panel: Gender and Indonesian Contemporary Art, Wednesday 28 November, 12–1pm

Visual Thinking Strategies Session at Buxton Contemporary: Saturday 20 October – 11.00am

Visual Thinking Strategies Session at Buxton Contemporary: Saturday 20 October – 11.00am

Watching Ronnie: Thursday 18 October – 6.30pm

Watching Ronnie: Thursday 18 October – 6.30pm

Sheridan Palmer, ‘Disequilibrium: Presence/absence in the art of Tony Woods’: Thursday 4 October – 6.00pm

Sheridan Palmer, ‘Disequilibrium: Presence/absence in the art of Tony Woods’: Thursday 4 October – 6.00pm

Writing & Concepts Lecture Series, Alicia Frankovich: Thursday 27 September – 6.00pm

Writing & Concepts Lecture Series, Alicia Frankovich: Thursday 27 September – 6.00pm

In Conversation: Tuesday 25 September – 5.30pm

In Conversation: Tuesday 25 September – 5.30pm

Response Talks: Thursday 13 September – 6.30pm

Response Talks: Thursday 13 September – 6.30pm

‘Into The Void’ Film Screening: Thursday 6 September – 6.00pm

‘Into The Void’ Film Screening: Thursday 6 September – 6.00pm

Tony Garifalakis book launch: Thursday 23 August – 6.00pm

Tony Garifalakis book launch: Thursday 23 August – 6.00pm

What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives Book Launch: Thursday 16 August – 6.00pm

What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives Book Launch: Thursday 16 August – 6.00pm

Artist floor talk: Saturday 11 August – 11.30am

Artist floor talk: Saturday 11 August – 11.30am

Melbourne Art Week, Ronnie van Hout talk: Friday 3 August – 11.00am

Melbourne Art Week, Ronnie van Hout talk: Friday 3 August – 11.00am

Absolute Humidity Book Launch: Thursday 2 August – 10.30am

Absolute Humidity Book Launch: Thursday 2 August – 10.30am

Open House Melbourne: Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 July

Open House Melbourne: Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 July

Antipodean Perspective Book Launch: Thursday 26 July – 6.00pm

Antipodean Perspective Book Launch: Thursday 26 July – 6.00pm

Artist floor talk: Thursday 12 July – 6.30pm

Artist floor talk: Thursday 12 July – 6.30pm

In conversation: Thursday 21 June 6.30pm

In conversation: Thursday 21 June 6.30pm

Marco Fusinato Spectral Arrows performance: Saturday 9 June

Marco Fusinato Spectral Arrows performance: Saturday 9 June

In conversation: Thursday 7 June – 6:30pm

In conversation: Thursday 7 June – 6:30pm

Tessa Laird Book launch: Thursday 31 May – 6.30pm

Tessa Laird Book launch: Thursday 31 May – 6.30pm

In conversation: Thursday 24 May – 6.30pm

In conversation: Thursday 24 May – 6.30pm

In conversation: Thursday 17 May – 6.30pm

In conversation: Thursday 17 May – 6.30pm

In Conversation: Thursday 10 May – 6.30pm

In Conversation: Thursday 10 May – 6.30pm

emaj Journal launch: Thursday 3 May 6:30pm

emaj Journal launch: Thursday 3 May 6:30pm

In Conversation: Thursday 26 April 6:30pm

In Conversation: Thursday 26 April 6:30pm

In Conversation: Thursday 19 April – 6:30pm

In Conversation: Thursday 19 April – 6:30pm

In conversation: Thursday 12 April – 6:30pm

In conversation: Thursday 12 April – 6:30pm

Saturday 10 March

Saturday 10 March

Melbourne’s major new art museum draws upon the Michael Buxton Collection as a springboard for exhibitions, events, research, publishing and ideas.

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In true Pop Art fashion, Peter Tyndall sources gra

In true Pop Art fashion, Peter Tyndall sources graphic imagery from print media including advertisements, newspaper photography and cartoons.

Here, a 1950s-era comic book illustration features the lethal gaze of a man projecting laser beam x-ray vision from his eyeballs. Floating above, a speech bubble contains his signature symbol (a hanging work of art, which here has been flipped on its side).

You would be mistaken for thinking that Tyndall’s works are digital prints. Unlike his contemporary Pop Art-inspired peers however, he paints with acrylic his meticulous execution derivative of 50 years of rigorous studio practice.

Celebrating half a century of vision and talent, 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘺𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘭 opens Friday 9 December at Buxton Contemporary!

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Artwork Peter Tyndall, courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Amassing a cult following since his stellar rise i

Amassing a cult following since his stellar rise in the Melbourne art scene in the 1970s, Peter Tyndall is regarded by many as unique in his vision.

Senior Curator of Art Museums Samantha Comte writes, “This exhibition celebrates half a century of his constant, inventive permeations, looking at art, ourselves and the world, which we are eager to introduce to a new generation”.

𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘺𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘭 opens at Buxton Contemporary Friday 9 December.

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Artwork Peter Tyndall, courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

Announcing 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘺𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘭: the first major retrospective exhibition from one of Melbourne’s most influential artists.

Featuring over 200 works, the exhibition will include paintings, drawings, correspondence art and unseen works ranging back to the 1970s, drawing from @unimelb’s collection alongside works on loan from national institutions and private collections.

With a rigorous studio practice spanning 50 years, Peter Tyndall‘s expansive works contemplate the fundamental questions about the construction of meaning.

9 December 2022 – 16 April 2023

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Artwork Peter Tyndall, courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

🐜 Posted @withrepost • @artistprofile “It’s usually in early December that artists and critics are approached by newspapers and magazines to nominate their ‘exhibition of the year.’ I would like to step in early and state confidently that Susan Jacobs’s The Ants are In the Idiom, recently installed at Melbourne’s Buxton Contemporary, is my exhibition of 2022. To date, I have visited it five times.”

Peter Hill profiles Susan Jacobs, the artist behind his early-announced exhibition of the year, in our current issue. Talking with Jacobs via Zoom from her East London studio, Hill explores the figure of the artist as magician (and audience as “mark”), Jacobs’s early experience building and making with her father in Coffs Harbour, and a tendency in her work which Hill terms “neo-trompe-l’oeil.”

IMAGE: Susan Jacobs photographed by Louis Trerise, 2022

🐜 Marking the first major solo exhibition for a

🐜 Marking the first major solo exhibition for artist Susan Jacobs, 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘮 has now closed.

Drawing the viewer into a web of visual riddles, the exhibition could be interpreted as an allegory for the human desire to draw meaning from our surroundings.

Nothing captures this more than ‘Cope Tree’, a sculptural work inspired by a cluster of sycamore seeds Jacobs spotted on the pavement. Struck by its likeness to the word ‘cope’, she preserved it by casting it in bronze— a gentle message of reassurance from the universe during a time of collective hardship.

Reflecting back later, Susan writes “the temptation to form links where there are none is a human trait, both flawed and psychologically affirming”.

𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘣𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘮 was curated by Jacqueline Doughty.

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Image 1 and 3: Cope (Tree) 2018, photography Robert Glowacki

Image 2: Courtesy of the artist

🐜 4 days left to see 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘣𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘮, curated by Jacqueline Doughty…

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Installation details, Susan Jacobs: The Ants are in the Idiom, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 3 July – 30 October 2022 with Susan Jacobs, Market Mesh) 2020-2022, photography Christian Capurro.

🍄 5 days left to see 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 before it closes on October 30. Curated by Jacqueline Doughty.

🐜 @artandaustralia writes “To be immersed in

🐜 @artandaustralia writes “To be immersed in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘮… is to feel as though one is on an historical journey, taken back to the seventeenth century and its wrong-footed scientific assumptions and theories”.

In early scientific thinking, the reproductive behaviour of animals was widely misunderstood. Farmers would store their grain in barns that also housed an abundance of mice — and so the theory arose that baby mice spontaneously generate from wheat.

Jacobs’ installation ‘A Recipe for Mice’ combines undergarments and wheat grains in a clay pot. The recipe hails from the writings of Flemish mystic, philosopher, physician and chemist Jan Baptiste van Helmont, specifically his book ‘Oriatrike or Physick Refined’ (1662) housed in the @wellcomecollection in London.

𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘣𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘮 is on show until October 30, curated by Jacqueline Doughty.

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Image 1 and 2: Installation view, Susan Jacobs: The Ants are in the Idiom, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 3 July – 30 October 2022 with Susan Jacobs, A Recipe for Mice 2022, photography Christian Capurro.

🐜 Go behind-the-scenes into the making of an ex

🐜 Go behind-the-scenes into the making of an exhibition with Susan Jacobs.

Exhibiting now, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘮 features newly commissioned works by the Australian-born, London-based artist. Several years of studio experimentation led Jacobs to a playful space of articulating language through sculpture. On a deeper level, her exhibition can be read as an allegory for the human desire to draw meaning from our surroundings.

🔗 Watch the full artist film now at the link in our bio!

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Image 1: Installation view, Susan Jacobs: The Ants are in the Idiom, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 3 July – 30 October 2022 with Susan Jacobs, A Recipe for Mice 2022.

Image 2: Installation view, Susan Jacobs: The ants are in the idiom, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 3 June - 30 October 2022 with Susan Jacobs, Hindsight 20/20, 2022.

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