The recipients of the 2018 RFS Acquisition Fund will be advised in early 2019.
ROBERT SALZER FOUNDATION ACQUISITION FUND
RSF Acquisition Fund
The Robert Salzer Foundation (RSF) provides the PGAV with $50,000 annually to enable eligible public galleries in Victoria to purchase two-dimensional works of art for their permanent collections.
Now in its thirteenth year, the Robert Salzer Foundation Acquisition Fund has provided $779,593 to assist the purchase of 197 works of art for public collections to the value of $1.67 million.
Significantly, the Fund has enabled public galleries to acquire key works for their collection that wouldn’t ordinarily be within their reach – including work by Eugene von Guerard, Arthur Streeton and Sir Sidney Nolan.
Works acquired through the Fund have featured in national touring exhibitions as well as permanent collection displays, enriching the lives of the more than 4 million visitors that attend public galleries across Victoria each year.
The Fund remains the only collection development grant available to public galleries anywhere in Australia.
2018 Recipients
2017 Recipients
The recipients of the 2017 RFS Acquisition Fund and the works they acquired are:
Ararat Regional Art Gallery to acquire Jemima Wyman, Domestic Rage , 2017, custom printed textiles, 143 x 199cm)
Gippsland Art Gallery to acquire Steaphan Paton MuraskinVII , 2017, etched colonial cotton canvas, 180 x 120cm.
Hamilton Gallery to acquire Jon Cattapan Imagine A Raft , 2011, oil on linen, 195 x 168cm.
Heide Museum of Modern Art to acquire two works by Zoe Croggon; Harp #2 , 2017, C-type photograph, framed, 80 x 86cm; and Plumb , 2015, C-type photograph, framed, 80 x 86cm.
Horsham Regional Art Gallery to acquire Destiny Deacon Smile , 2017 Lightjetprint AP1, 102 x 127cm (framed).
Koorie Heritage Trust to acquire Marlene Gilson Marngrook , 2017, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100cm.
Wangaratta Art Gallery to acquire Mohsen Meysami Between the Devil and the deep blue sea , 2016, hand stitching, embroidery on fabric, used/recycled Persian rug, 140 x 90cm.
Warrnambool Art Gallery to commission a painting about the Budj Bim landscape by artist Sam Leach. (Image: Indicative image: Sam Leach, Budj Bim landscape (working title), 2017/18, oil on linen.)
2017 ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
Jessica Bridgfoot
Curator, Bendigo Art Gallery
Mardi Nowak
Director, NETS Victoria
Dr Kent Wilson
Senior Curator, La Trobe Art Institute.
2016 Recipients
The recipients of the 2016 RFS Acquisition Fund and the works they acquired are:
![Belinda Fox, [Diptych] Still/Life VII (fill me up) & Still/Life II (too much) , 2016, watercolour and drawing on board.](https://pgav.org.au/img/7590/2970-640)
Ararat Regional Art Gallery
to acquire Jordan Marani,
Eiderdown II
, 2016, acrylic paint, pencil on polyester cotton handkerchiefs.
Benalla Art Gallery
to acquire Petrina Hicks, limited edition set of 12 photographs, 2005-2016. (Pictured:
Shenae and Jade
, 2005 from the series
Untitled
)
Geelong Gallery
to acquire Brook Andrew, set of 8 satirical photolithographs, 2016. (
Pictured:
Brook Andrew,
Bringing up the bodies Without fear or favour
, 2016, four-colour photolithograph with collaged photolithograph elements and hand colour; edition of 30 + A/Ps, 49.0 × 70cm)
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
to acquire Daniel Crooks,
Static No.21 (Double Helix)
, 2017, single channel high definition video.
Mildura Art Centre Gallery
to acquire Belinda Fox, [Diptych]
Still/Life VII (fill me up) & Still/Life II (too much)
, 2016, watercolour and drawing on board.
Monash Gallery of Art
to acquire Michael Riley, three photographs from the series
A Common Place: Portraits of Moree Murries
, 1990.
Warrnambool Art Gallery
to commission a portrait by Vincent Namatjira of Rex Battarbee. Image:
Vincent Namatjira,
Queen and me
, 40 x 40cm.
2016 ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
Tansy Curtin
Curatorial Manager, Bendigo Art Gallery
Melinda Martin
Director, Linden New Art
Anton Vardy
Director, Gippsland Art Gallery
Jemima Wyman, Domestic Rage , 2017, sewn custom printed textiles, 143 x 199cm (detail). Ararat Regional Art Gallery Collection. This work was acquired with the assistance of The Robert Salzer Foundation (2017). Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery.
