Design and Art Australia Online

Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW

Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Description

The Art Gallery of New South Wales began in the 1870s as an aspect of the Academy of Art. Later it became known as the National Art Gallery of NSW. This name persisted beyond Federation in 1901. It was given its present name in 1958.
It remains the principal collecting and exhibiting body in NSW and is governed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Act of 1980.

Website

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

Description

Website

http://cs.nga.gov.au/Default.cfm

Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Vic.

Description

The VCA Art Collection spans the entire history of the College and its predecessor, the National Gallery School of Art (first opened in 1867).

Comprising painting, sculpture, photography and works on paper, most works are by students, staff or alumni.

DAAO has a separate entry for The Margaret Lawrence Australian Ceramics Collection. It was bequeathed to the VCA Collection in 2004.

Website

http://www.unimelb.edu.au/culturalcollections/collections/visualarts.html#vca

The Margaret Lawrence Australian Ceramics Collection at VCA

Description

Held by Victorian College of the Arts

A Shelsher, S Manning, P Drysdale, N French, S Thomas, L Blakebrough, S Black, A Halford, K Pate, A Mercer, G Bish, Jenny John, S Shigeo, A Geroe, B Samuels, Koji Hoashi, P Rushforth, A Lowe, G Nichols, O Rye, S Bowers, G Wedd, S Benwell, B Swarbrick, Joe Szirer, A M Boyd, W M Boyd, H Hughan, R Preston, G Reynell, B Emmerichs, G Daly, David Ray, P Venables, A Peascod, D Halpern.

Note

The Margaret Lawrence Australian Ceramics Collection (MLACC) is an extensive collection of Australian ceramics with work dating from the 1920s until 2005, the time of Margaret Lawrence’s death at the age of 90. Bequeathed to the Victorian College of the Arts, the MLACC consists of over 2,000 pieces and is regarded as one of the largest private collections of Australian ceramics in the country.