The Cooper Review into Superannuation recommends Australians who manage their own super funds be banned from adding “collectables and personal use assets” to their portfolios and many artists and galleries are worried about the ramifications.
All paintings, fine art, coin and stamp collections, racehorses, exotic cars, boats, antiques, wine and golf club memberships sitting in any of the nation’s 423,000 self-managed super funds will have to be sold.
Read the full article in the Australian:
Other good articles in Lowenstein’s Arts Management April/May 2101. Tax_Matters_for_the_Arts_Apr_May_10
Many PGAV will be adversely affected by the proposed changes – see media release.
Charles McCubbin, artist, former Wellington Shire Councillor and environmentalist died in the Gippsland Base Hospital yesterday at 2pm.
The Gippsland Art Gallery is preparing to host an exhibition,Wildlife at Heart: A Retrospective from the 3rd of July to 15 of August with the exhibition opening event at 6pm on Friday the 9th of July.
Charles was the subject of a major exhibition at the Gippsland Art Gallery in 2008 titled From Fredrick McCubbin to Charles McCubbin and last in the line of the pre-eminent artist family.
His Grandfather, Fredrick McCubbin, 25/02/1855 to 05/04/1889, was a pioneer of the Heidelberg School of Australian Art and the first Director of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Charles McCubbin is represented in the collections of the Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, the LaTrobe University Museum of Art, National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, Wollongong University Museum of Art, Victorian State Government Art Collection, Hunt Botanical Library Pittsburgh United States of America, and private collection, amongst others.
(Thanks to Anton Vardy, Director of Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale)
It was a great couple of days with much inspiration and food for thought. For more information see Programs. PGAV Members will soon be able to access full notes and papers from the conference in the Resources section under Professional Development.
Guy Abrahams, formerly Director of Christine Abrahams Gallery has trained in the Al Gore programme. Guy was both inspiring and terrifying in his message of how the arts can contribute to the dialogue.
Dr Cathy Oke, Chair of Melbourne City Council’s Future Melbourne (Eco-City) Committee was another key speaker. She spoke of the positive actions the Council is taking to minimise its carbon footprint by 2020.
Andy Miller, Client Officer Organisations, Arts Victoria presented an outline of other peak service organisations and the functions they fulfill.
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Welcome to new member, Monsalvat.
The Barn Gallery at Monsalvat, which is also often used as a venue for concerts.
Today I visited the Victorian Tapestry Workshop for a sneak preview of a fabulous tapestry designed by John Wolseley being woven for Hamilton Art Gallery.
Daniel McOwan, Director of Hamilton Art Gallery, weaver Millie Fornby and VTW Administrator, Lily Fraser discuss the work in progress.
It was fascinating to see the large range of beautiful colours and textures and how the weavers are interpreting John's subtle watercolour sections.
Margaret Sinnott, Education Officer, with young participants in the Family Day.
I dropped into Warrnambool Art Gallery on Sunday and found it buzzing with people of all ages, artists and musicians.
Their Family Fun Day is run in partnership with Anglicare, and organised by Education Officer, Margaret Simnnott. Over 400 visitors came.
There were craft stalls, children's workshops, sausage sizzle, free afternoon tea, and music by Jonathan Cox. Children's artworks featured in postcards which you could post free anywhere in the world.
Current exhibitions include " "Picture Building", a special for students curated by ex-Education Officer Ron Quick. It addresses design elements in works drawn from Warrnambool's own collection.
Lovely to see people enjoying diverse activities in one of our great regional galleries.
Well done, Geelong Gallery! It’s now one of only a few Australian public galleries with its entire collection searchable on-line via the Gallery's website.
You can search the entire collection database (of well over 5,000 works of art) via artists' names, title, date, medium, credit line etc. And over 2,000 search results are accompanied by images.
Friendly rivalry between Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, and Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, at Morwell, keeps both of these PGAV regional galleries producing exceptionally high quality exhibitions and programmes.
A couple of weekends ago I visited Latrobe, which was in the last stages of preparation for the NETS Victoria-toured John Meade exhibition. I sat for a long while upstairs in "Tandeera" a lovely drawing and light installation - a collaboration between Aboriginal women of the region and Ian de Gruchy.
Travelling on to Sale, three stunning exhibitions were opened that night - Anne Zahalke's Hall of Mirrors - another NETS show, a multimedia artist/community collaboration by visiting Korean artist Aehee Park, and the rather eery sculpture of Natalie Ryan.
Next day I returned to Morwell for the opening of John Meade sculpture exhibition. And another chance to meet the artist. Again, this gallery had other major exhibition to be enjoyed, including Grafton's "2008 Jacaranda Drawing Prize".
We are so lucky to have exceptional galleries such as these in Victoria.
At the Opening at Morwell, John Meade talks about his work with Zara Stanhope, Curator.
Anne Zahalke and guests at the opening at Sale 5 Feb 2010
Jane Alexander has been appointed to the position of Director at Mornington Peninsula Gallery.
Congratulations Jane!
