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

Recipients of the 2018 Robert Salzer Foundation Acquisition Fund and the works acquired:

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Benalla Art Gallery | Flooded, a painting by Ivan Durrant  

Geelong Gallery | Spring, a painting by Brett Colquhoun

Gippsland Art Gallery | God Only Knows, a painting by  Kevin Mortensen

Latrobe Regional Gallery | The Long Goodbye, a photograph by Pat Brassington

Monash Gallery of Art | The Cook, a photograph by Anne Zahalka on the last stock of Ilfachrome

Shepparton Art Museum | three photographs from the series A Series of Unwarranted Events by Hayley Millar-Baker

Shepparton Art Museum | Determination, a drawing on fabric by Pierre Mukeba

Warrnambool Art Gallery | four photographs from the series A Series of Unwarranted Events by Hayley Millar-Baker

2018 ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
Adam Harding, Director, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
Mardi Nowak, Director, NETS Victoria
Helen Rayment, Acting Director, RMIT Gallery

2017 Recipients

Recipients of the 2017 Robert Salzer Foundation Acquisition Fund and the works acquired:

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Ararat Regional Art Gallery | Jemima Wyman, Domestic Rage, 2017, custom printed textiles, 143 x 199cm.

Gippsland Art Gallery | Steaphan Paton MuraskinVII, 2017, etched colonial cotton canvas, 180 x 120cm.

Hamilton Gallery | Jon Cattapan Imagine A Raft, 2011, oil on linen, 195 x 168cm.

Heide Museum of Modern Art | 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 | Destiny Deacon Smile, 2017 Lightjetprint AP1, 102 x 127cm (framed).

Koorie Heritage Trust | Marlene Gilson Marngrook, 2017, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100cm.

Wangaratta Art Gallery | 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

Recipients of the 2016 Robert Salzer Foundation Acquisition Fund and the works acquired:

Jordan Marani, Eiderdown II, 2016, acrylic paint, pencil on polyester cotton handkerchiefs, 245cm x 170cm.
Petrina Hicks, A Selection of Works 2005-2016, 12 pigment prints on Hahnemuhle photo rag pearl paper (Edition 2 of 8, signed), 50cm x 50cm each. Shenae and Jade, 2005 from the series Untitled.
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)
Daniel Crooks, Static No.21 (Double Helix) , 2017, single channel high definition video.
Belinda Fox, [Diptych] Still/Life VII (fill me up) & Still/Life II (too much) , 2016, watercolour and drawing on board.
Michael Riley, three photographs from the series A Common Place: Portraits of Moree Murries , 1990.
Vincent Namatjira, Queen and me, 40 x 40cm.

Ararat Regional Art Gallery | Jordan Marani, Eiderdown II , 2016, acrylic paint, pencil on polyester cotton handkerchiefs. 

Benalla Art Gallery | Petrina Hicks, limited edition set of 12 photographs, 2005-2016. (Pictured: Shenae and Jade, 2005 from the series Untitled)

Geelong Gallery | 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 | Daniel Crooks, Static No.21 (Double Helix) , 2017, single channel high definition video. 

Mildura Art Centre Gallery | Belinda Fox, [Diptych] Still/Life VII (fill me up) & Still/Life II (too much) , 2016, watercolour and drawing on board. 

Monash Gallery of Art  | 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

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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.

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