13 February - 13 April 2013
The Good Looking exhibition is an opportunity to see and celebrate this collection of official – and not so official – portraits.
Key works in the exhibition include an elegant oil painting of Lord Mayor Samuel Amess by much-loved Australian artist Tom Roberts; an atmospheric photograph of Robert O’Hara Burke (possibly the last taken before he set of with Wills on their ill-fated expedition across Australia); and Vivienne Shark LeWitt’s amusing portrait of office worker ‘Bob’, which inverts the formal protocols of official portraiture to give a more humdrum picture of a man involved in the work of Council.
Curated by Phip Murray
Phip Murray is a writer and curator. She is a history/theory lecturer in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT, an editorial member of the independent arts journal un Magazine, and until recently, was the director of West Space.
Phip’s recent curatorial projects include Tyger, Tyger, a new commissions series including projects by Philip Brophy, Constanze Zikos and Juan Davila and Time Has Come Today, an interdisciplinary artistic program exploring sound, moving image and performance projects.
Phip writes often about art: a major recent project included her book The NGV Story, commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria to commemorate its 150th anniversary.
Phip is an alumnus of 2011 AsiaLink Leaders’ Program and is currently participating in the Australia Council for the Arts’ Emerging Leaders’ Program.