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GEORGE PATON GALLERY ARCHIVES

GPG Archives from 1971-1990

The early archives of the George Paton Gallery are located at the University of Melbourne archives. To access archives or to obtain information on this period of the gallery’s history contact archives@archives.unimelb.edu.au or visit their website .

GPG Archives from 1990 to today

Exhibition archives from the more recent years of the George Paton Gallery’s history are located in the Union Archives at the Rowden White Library, second floor Union House, University of Melbourne. Documentation from exhibitions at the GPG will gradually accumulate on this page in the form of PDFs for each show from 2000 onwards.

Please contact Arts Programs Coordinator on 8344 5418 or email gpg@union.unimelb.edu.au if you have any queries regarding archive material.

Please click on the following PDF Resources below:

Catalogue of exhibitions from 1971-2021

GPG EXHIBITION ARCHIVE 2000 – 2020

2021

1a (entrance) The Renaissance of Earth, February-March 2021
Meezaan Dickinson
1b (main) ReSceneUnseen, February-March 2021
Rosanna Blacket, Freda Drakopolous, Julien Comer-Kleine, Iona Mackenzie and Jacq Wylestone
2 No. 13, March 2021
Chelsea Hickman
3a (entrance) Still Lives, March 2021
Jessie Turner
3b (main) Not a Musical, March 2021
Evelyn Pohl and Yundi Wang
4a (entrance) Limber, April 2021
Emily Simek
4b (main) Dis ~ Int ~ Er, April 2021
Skye Baker, Nina Prendergast and Ellen Sayers
5a (entrance) Photomap, April-May 2021
Elena Misso
5b (main) I Haven’t Mentioned Orange Yet, April-May 2021
Hannah Atherton, Madlena Kaindel, Angela Nolan, Alanna Paxton, Charles Robert, Chelsea Rosenbrock and Sabastian Zylinski
Curated by Angela Nolan
6a (entrance) Terrain, May 2021
YJ Fauzee
6b (main) The Language My Mother Speaks: Elements (iteration 2), May 2021
Samantha Bews, Neil Harrison and Denise Martin
The George Paton Gallery converts to online exhibitions through its GPGvirtual gallery
for the remainder of 2021 due to the COVID-19 lockdown in Victoria
1a GPGVirtual | liminal love spaces, Mudfest 2021
Aeva Milos
1b GPGVirtual | Nutrient Cycling, Mudfest 2021
Emily Simek
1c GPGVirtual | “Look Daddy I’m just like you” / Prim and Proper / Is this deep enough for you? Mudfest 2021
Emily Lewis
1d GPGVirtual | Make Yourself at Home, Mudfest 2021
Meredith Meisetchlaeger
1e GPGVirtual | Hermit / Homesick / Home Is Where The Heart Is, Mudfest 2021
Meezaan Dickinson
1f GPGVirtual | Washing Day, Mudfest 2021
Meredith Tyler
1g GPGVirtual | A House Tour, Mudfest 2021
Kitman Yeung
1h GPGVirtual | The Smell of Home, Mudfest 2021
Ebony Hoiberg
1i GPGVirtual | Map of Home, Mudfest 2021
Weiting Chen
1j GPGVirtual | Home Loss Vs Hope/ Home woven with DNA / Dressing the Psyche, Mudfest 2021
Lea Rose
1k GPGVirtual | Blaze, Mudfest 2021
Fiona Shewan
2 GPGVirtual | baby, it’s a new age, 2021
Isabel Wassman
3 GPGVirtual | Untitled (Gallery), 2021
Astrid Mulder
4 GPGVirtual | IN PROGRESS Venus in Tullamarine, 2021
Ella Howells, Cat Lawrence, Katie Paine and Charlie Robert
Curated by Cameron Hirst with Jeremy George
5 GPGVirtual | Interview | Exhibition I Can you keep me company for a little, 2021
Yuying Pang
6 GPGVirtual | Blinding Cyphers, 2021
Daniel Pilington
7 GPGVirtual | Sailing Stones in Death Valley, 2021
Simon Clark, Grace Culley, Mi-Mi Fitzsimmons and Nelle Rodis
Curated by Sujin Jung
8 GPGVirtual | Up in the Gallery, 2021
Curated by NWEB
9 GPGVirtual | ERINYS, 2021
Skye Malu Baker, Cade Burgess, Wandi Cao, Mia Carey, Nicholas Currie and Lorna Quinn
Curated by Cade Burgess
10 GPG Virtual | I Do Love, 2021
Fiona Shewan
11 GPGVirtual | Home Screen, 2021
Anna Jalanski, Lana Kotro, Thalia Livingstone, Anna McGirr, Stella Palmer and James Roche
Curated by Irregular Scheduled Programming

2020

1 silences between ticks of a clock: Absence and Erasure in an Age of Cultural Palimpsest, February 2020
Rosanna Blacket, Madeleine Lesjak-Atton, Nina Sanadze, Gail Smith, Tina Stefanou and Mimmalisa Trifilò
Curated by Matthew Siddall and Karl Halliday
2a (entrance) Potato, March 2020
VCA Art Breadth Students, winter 2019 and Summer 2020
Coordinated by Celeste Chandler, Andrew Seward and Ebony Truscott
2b (main) Against Rationale, March 2020
Madeleine Minack, Kaijern Koo and HeeJoon Youn
3a (entrance) The Renaissance of Earth, March 2020
Meezaan Dickinson
3b (main) SceneUnseen, March 2020
Rosanna Blacket, Freda Drakopoulos, Julien Comer-Kleine, Iona Mackenzie and Jacq Wylestone
The George Paton Gallery converts to online exhibitions through its GPGvirtual gallery
for the remainder of 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdown in Victoria
4 GPGvirtual | The Rehearsal, 2020
Evelyn Pohl and Yundi Wang
5 GPGvirtual | Untitled, 2020
Fiona Shewan
6 GPGvirtual | Time, 2020
Sixia Hu
7 GPGvirtual | A Network of Gestures, 2020
Corinna Berndt, Emma Berry & Liv Moriarty, Xanthe Dobbie and Olivia Koh
Curated by Mary-Louise Carbone
8 GPGvirtual | Interview with Jessie Turner, 2020
9 GPGvirtual | Feminism at the GPG, Interview with Caroline Phillips, 2020
10 GPGvirtual | Interview with NWEB, 2020
Interview with Hugo Blomley and Clara Joyce
11 GPGvirtual | Interbeing, 2020
Emily Simek
12 GPGvirtual | SceneUn, Video, 2020
Rosanna Blacket

2019

1 uncomfortable, February, March 2019
Isabella Frobel, Jordan Halsall, Jamie Harrop, Ariane Jaccarini, Taylah Kelly, Kaitlin Linke, David Lowe and Zea Rou
Curated by Kara Rodski
2 (entrance) Snapshots of Simultaneity, March 2019
Anna Kennedy
2 (main) Project of Colour, March 2019
Po Han Kung
3 (whole) Gnomon Experiments #3, March 2019
Lucia Rossi
4 undoing, April 2019
VCA Second Year Photography Students
5 The Union Art Collection, May 2019
Sam Petersen, I-yen Chen, Caitlin Patane, Julia Stewart, Kenneth Suico, Marcus Volz, Lauren Dunn, Miles Davis, Guy Grabowski, Ben Stephens, Belinda Reid, Tia Ansell, Casey Jeffery, John Elcatsha, Jemi Gale, Evan Whittington
6 (guild theatre) Equidistant Objects, May 2019
Melanie Irwin, Freya McGrath, Reis Lowe and Sandra Bridie
7 (entrance) Unknowable, July, 2019
Bethany Joyce
7 (main) 0600-1800, July, 2019
Scotty So
8 (entrance) The Emission of a Succession of Repetitive Beats, August 2019
Evan Whittington
8 (main) Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down, August 2019
Curated by Lisa Jacomos and Cathryn Ross
9 Mudfest Regeneration, August 2019
Maya Britbart, Meezaan Muzaffer, Brendan Pinches, Jordan Sibley, Kaijern Koo, Madeleine Minack, Raisa McIean, HeeJoon Youn, Jeanette Chan, Ramsay Mahony, Charanka Thavendran, Natasha Salkin
Curated by Clare Ellison Jakes
10 (entrance) That Time I was a Telemarketer, September 2019
Olivia Floate
10b (main) hous, September 2019
Jemi Gale, Rumer Guario, Jennifer Mathews and Brayden van Meurs
Curated by Jemi Gale
11 Public Broadcasting Part I, Politics, Art and Student Unionism, September 2019
Collaboration between Bus Projects and George Paton Gallery
12 Architecture as…, October 2019
Nick James Archer, Kari Lee McInneny-McRae, Simone Nelson, Siii Projects, Melbourne School of Design (MSD) students
Curated by Sebastian Haeusler and Alex Walker

2018

1 Trace-makers, February, March 2018
Nicholas James Archer, Sam Foster, Guy Grabowsky, Angela Louise Powell and Sienna Van Rossum
Curated by Danielle Fusco
2 (entrance) Presence, March 2018
Jean Baulch
2 (main)The Repositioning of Objects that Once Functioned, March 2018
Proud Award, 2017. Sean McDowell
3 (entrance) Your Neon Lights Will Shine, April 2018
Sue Beyer
3 (main) Alien Party in the Swamp, April 2018
Hadyn Allen, Mudfest Award, 2017
4 Amplified, Redefined: Protest for Change, April/May 2018
Curated by Wandi Cao, Amelia Saward and Ella Shi
5 #fromwhereIstand, May 2018
VCA MCA students
7 An exhibition in four acts 1, August 2018
Bryce Anderson, Victoria Ansell, Nicholas Archer, Lauren Brown, Angela Chauvin, James Cooper, William Hawkins, Nicholas Mullaly, Ellen Sayers, and Lalita Sherwell
Curated by Kara Elizabeth Rodski, Maria Litvinova and Jin Zhao Mentor: Chris Bond
8 An exhibition in four acts 2, August 2018
Moorina Bonini, Matilda Davis, Liam Denny, Carmen Keiso, David Lowe, Kari McInneny-Rae, Simone Nelson, Ellinor Pelz, Lorna Quinn, and Alexandar Ragg
Curated by Kiriaki Degrenis, Wendy Downs, and Kelly Yoon. Mentor: Bridie Lunney
9 (entrance) Meeting Place, August, September 2018
Michael Sandford
9 (main) Nothing ends or begins, August, September 2018
Marcelle Bradbeer, Jade Crumpler, Genevieve Douglas-Byrnes, and Caitlin O’Grady
Curated by Sophie Prince
10 (entrance) Small Rooms, September 2018
Louis Klee, Jack Palmer, and Eitan Ritz
10 (main) MU$CLE, September 2018
Amie Anderson, Giordano Biondi, Brand Me Baby, Jade Burstall, Vera Jasevski, Natalya Maller, Nico Reddaway, Rose Staff and Phil Soliman
Curated by Nico Reddaway
11 (entrance) Melbourne Lure, October 2018
Stepanka Cervinkova
11 (main) Grey Voices, October 2018
Yumemi Hiraki, Jacinta Keefe, Yesoi Ma and Kelly Yoon
Curated by Tahney Fosdike, Jacinta Keefe and Kelly Yoon
12 vas spirituale / a melissima by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, November 2018
Michael Graf

2017

1 Liminoid, February March 2017
Badra Aji, Trent Crawford, Tara O’Conal, Dalton Stewart and Hayley Tan
Curated by Kat Kohler
2a (entrance) I am not, March, 2017
Jessie McClure
2b (main) Inside the belly of the Cosmic Fish, March 2017
Jai Leeworthy
3a (entrance) An Outside Perspective, March 2017
Melody Spangaro
3b (main) Where the Wild Things Are, March 2017
Adam Beehre, Proud Award, 2016
4a (entrance) Visualisation of Mathematical, Algorithmic and Data-Derived Patterns and Structures, April 2017
Marcus Volz
4b (main) Informal Learning, April 2017
Coordinated by Kym Maxwell
5 Group Conversation, Australia’s Shame, May 2017
Curated by Sam Harrison
6 finding form, May 2017
VCA Sculpture and Spatial Practice students, curated by Aleks Danko
7a (entrance) inverse variation, May 2017
Jaime Powell
7b (main) museum of lost public notices, May 2017
Coordinated by David Dellafiora and Phil Edwards
9 Trust for One, July 2017
Teresa Hseih
10a (entrance) Space, Time and Rock ‘n’ Roll, August 2017
Penny Walker-Keefe
10b (main) Metasite, August 2017
Louis Cooper, Vi Macdonald, Kiah Pullens and Rachel Walker
Curated by Nick Archer
11 The Lurid World, August 2018
Tori Adams, Haydn Allen, Lief Chan, Marley Holloway-Clarke and Lara Navarro
Curated by Jasmin McNeill
12 Parameters/Frameworks, August, September 2017
Soma, Andrea Beck, Pattie Beerens, Evgenia Brodsky, John Canty, Zoe Clark, Elizabeth Cole, Alex Dillon, Noni Drew, Sandy Dunne, Robyn Eastgate, Ember Fairbairn, Georgia Herrod, Monique Jedwab, Emma Lamb, Ginny Laver, Martin Lee, Priya Namana, Hoa Nguyen, Gigi Panopoulos, David Porteus, Britt Putland, Marium Quettawala, Katie Stackhouse, Marlee Tant, Peter Toyne, Rebecca Willcox and Sandy Yates
Coordinated by Kate Just, Tully Moore, Veronica Kent, John Meade and Nadine Christensen
13a (entrance) The Course of Things, September 2017
Megan Kennedy
13b (main) By All Mens, September 2017
Kirsten Lyttle, Lara Chamas, T.R. Carter and Stephen Gilette, Peter Waples-Crowe, Samuel Condon, and Arie Rain Glorie
Participating Writers: Amelia Winata, Neika Lehman, Karen Maeda, Danielle Toua, Hanann Al Daqqa, and Ella Shi
Curated by Chiara Scafidi
14a (entrance) Atmosphere, October 2017
Alex Selenitsch
14b (Main) Poetry: A Text and Word-Based Exhibition, October 2017
Over 100 contributions of text-based art works, including poetry, performance, video, sculpture and sound installations from students through to seminal Australian concrete poets
Curated by Sandra Bridie
15 [Un]Made, October 2017
Bethan Cotterill, Suzy Faiz, Kath Fries, Szymon Dorabialski, James Thomson and Eila Vinwynn
Curated by Upasana Papadopoulos and Tama Woodbury, University of Sydney