Event Name The Art of Giving
Start Date Nov 27, 2023
End Date Feb 9, 2024
Duration 75 days
Description

Macquarie is a university of service and engagement. What better way to engage our students and staff and the many visitors to the Wallumattagal Campus than with the extraordinary depth and breadth of the Macquarie University Art Collection. Its presence is one of the most talked about features on campus.

The Art of Giving series has become a highlight in our exhibition calendar, featuring new donations that enriches the dynamism of the university art collection. The new acquisitions by donations have developed our arts and cultural ecology on campus. You get to explore and discover the art collection across the entire campus throughout our buildings including the library, hospital, chancellery and faculty areas. Art has become part of our everyday working environments that inspire creative thinking and different ways of learning.

Art engages our students, staff and the broader community through transformative learning and life experiences, the discovery and dissemination of ideas, and innovation underpinned by deep and varied partnerships.

David Aspden, Monika Behrens, Marion Borgelt, Judy Cassab, Michael Cusack, Adrienne Doig, Neil Frazer, Joe Furlonger, Craig Koomeeta, Tim Johnson, Ildiko Kovacs, Tom Loveday, Fiona Lowry, Michael McHugh, Alexander McKenzie, Jennifer Keeler-Milne, Nigel Milsom, Yessie Mosby, Larakin Munmun, Mary Brown Napangardi, Paul Newton, Susan Norrie, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, Margaret Olley, David Pallister, Gloria Petyarre, Emily Pwerle, Paul Ryan, Johan Tahon, Dick Watkins and Nawurapu Wunuŋmurra.

Image caption is:

Michael McHugh
Swimming in the Clouds 
2022
acrylic paint on canvas
200 x 600 cm (3 panels)
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Michael McHugh, 2023
Macquarie University Art Collection
Photograph by Effy Alexakis, Photowrite
Courtesy of the artist and Martin Brown Contemporary, Sydney