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Monash University Museum of Art

Name: Monash University Museum of Art
Address: 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC, 3145, AU
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Ground Floor, Building F, Monash University Caulfield Campus. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm, Sat 12–5pm Free Entry

01/09/2026

Join MUMA to celebrate ‘50 Years/50 Works: A MUMA Collection Index’, a landmark publication reflecting on five decades of collecting, commissioning and exhibiting contemporary art at Monash University Museum of Art.

To mark the launch of the publication, MUMA will host an afternoon of rapid-fire, five-minute conversations between artists represented in the Collection and the writers who responded to their works, bringing the artworks alive.

Co-published by MUMA and Monash University Publishing, the book brings together 50 significant works from the University’s Collection alongside 50 newly commissioned responses by artists, writers, curators, academics and cultural practitioners, offering multiple perspectives on the Collection and its histories.

Saturday 5 September, 2–4pm
MUMA Caulfield
Free event
Register via link in bio

📚 On the day, receive 10% off ‘50 Years/50 Works’, or purchase the publication together with a MUMA tote for $80 (usually $99).

31/08/2026

Reminder | Wednesday 2 September 🌟 Join MUMA for free curatorial tours of Syncretic Wilds: Phasmahammer and Natasha Tontey as part of Kindred People Festival.

Following the tours, continue to Tanderrum dambali — a ceremonial gathering honouring Knowledge Holders, Elders and community that welcomes audiences to Boonwurrung Country and marks the opening of Kindred People.

🔗 Book via the link in bio

Image: Natasha Tontey, Primate Visions: Macaque Macabre 2024. Installation view, Syncretic Wilds: Phasmahammer and Natasha Tontey, Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne, 2026. Photo: Christian Capurro

29/08/2026

Wrapping up this year’s Education Artist-in-Residence program at MUMA, artist Raf McDonald presented the 'Exquisite Line' workshop, creating an evolving installation of eco-dyed, gestural lines in the Education Lab.

“Lines are inexhaustible and wonderful and can create expressive and active systems within the artwork. When we are young, we are taught to colour in between the lines—but what if we were taught to spill over the line onto the page? What new systems of activity can we create?” — Raf McDonald

Developed to coincide with Syncretic Wilds and partly inspired by the surrealist collaborative drawing game Exquisite Co**se, the workshop invited students to explore collaborative making and installation, considering how individual gestures can unexpectedly connect to form a collective work.

Using rice glue, students painted lines onto soda ash-treated cotton before immersing the fabric in a root madder dye bath. Once the glue was washed away, hidden lines were revealed—feathered, broken, swelling, gathering, extending and connecting.

A huge thank you to Raf McDonald for bringing this playful, tactile and joyous workshop to the school students visiting MUMA.

27/08/2026

MUMA x Kindred People Festival 🌟

On Wednesday 2 September, join MUMA curators for free guided tours of 'Syncretic Wilds: Phasmahammer and Natasha Tontey' to explore the exhibition while hearing more about the artists’ practices.

Both artists work within posthuman paradigms, crafting highly sensory performances, films and installations that offer alternative ways of remembering, relating and world-building.

The exhibition reflects on global Indigenous histories, bringing together two distinctive strategies of resistance across the Indo-Pacific through visual art.

After the tours, continue your Kindred People journey to Clayton campus for Tanderrum dambali — a ceremonial gathering that honours Knowledge Holders, Elders and community, and transforming familiar academic rituals through a Blak lens.

Meet at Megan Cope’s Weelam Ngalut (Our Place) at 4pm to hear from senior cultural custodians and artists as we welcome audiences to Boonwurrung Country and mark the opening of the festival.

We look forward to seeing you there 🌟

🔗 Book via the link in bio

21/08/2026

Join us to celebrate the launch of 50 Years/50 Works: A MUMA Collection Index 🎉

Reflecting five decades of collecting, commissioning and exhibiting contemporary art at Monash University Museum of Art, this landmark publication brings together 50 significant works from the Museum’s Collection alongside 50 newly commissioned responses by artists, writers, curators, academics and cultural practitioners, offering multiple perspectives on the Collection and its histories.

To mark the occasion, MUMA presents an afternoon of rapid-fire five-minute relay talks, pairing artists represented in the Collection with the writers who responded to their work in 50 Years/50 Works.

Featuring conversations with:

• Maree Clarke / Belinda Briggs
• Hoda Afshar / Myles Russell-Cook
• Darren Sylvester / Amelia Winata
• Atong Atem / Brendan McCleary
• Kathy Temin / Andrew Atchison
• Hayley Millar Baker / Paola Balla
• Nicholas Mangan / Melanie Oliver
• Kent Morris / Nikita Vanderbyl
• Pitcha Makin Fellas / Maya Hodge

The event opens with a reflection on the legacy of artist Vivienne Binns by MUMA Curator – Research Stephanie Berlangieri and artist Liang Luscombe, whose contribution to the publication responds to Binns’ work.

📚 On the day, receive 10% off 50 Years/50 Works, or purchase the publication together with a MUMA tote for $80 (usually $99).
Book now via the link in bio.

18/08/2026

Syncretic Wilds: Phasmahammer and Natasha Tontey is now open ✨

United by a playful intermingling of futurism and ancestral cosmologies, Phasmahammer and Natasha Tontey both employ storytelling to propose new imaginaries for living in difficult times.

They share a belief in the restorative possibilities of collective art-making with Phasmahammer framing performance as a form of ceremony and communal healing, and Tontey embracing collaborative traditions of Minahasan culture as a mode of reconnecting to the natural world.

Step into Syncretic Wilds at MUMA until 19 September 2026

Monash University Performing Arts Centres (MPAC)
✿ 𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖆 𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖞 ✿ PΉΛƧMΛΉΛMMΣЯ

Presented in partnership with MPAC for Kindred People

Images: 1-6, Natasha Tontey, Primate Visions: Macaque Macabre 2024. Installation view, Syncretic Wilds: Phasmahammer and Natasha Tontey, Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne, 2026. Photo: Christian Capurro. 7-12, Phasmahammer, Hininga 2026. Commissioned by Monash University Museum of Art. Installation view, Syncretic Wilds: Phasmahammer and Natasha Tontey, Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne, 2026. Photo: Christian Capurro

11/08/2026

Tomorrow at Caulfield, a full day of performances, presentations and conversations unfolds as part of the Q***r Creative Practices Symposium: Wetting, Wilds and Mirrors at MADA and MUMA.

The symposium takes Phasmahammer's current installation in Syncretic Wilds at MUMA as a springboard for discussions, screenings and new performances that engage with and complicate q***r embodiment, histories and aesthetics.

Join us to hear from Phasmahammer and experience a live activation in Syncretic Wilds.

Program
Wednesday 12 August

✨10–11am In Conversation: Justin Shoulder (Phasmahammer), June Miskell and MJ Flamiano

✨11.30am–1pm Presentations: Mel Deerson, Sary Zananiri, Archie Barry and Jeremy Eaton

✨2–3pm In Conversation: EO Gill and Frances Barrett

✨3.30–4.30pm Live Performances: Alexander Powers, Justine Walsh and Mira Oosterweghel

✨4.30pm Phasmahammer activation in Syncretic Wilds

✨5-6pm Reception at MUMA

Symposium Location
📍Lecture Theatre G1.04, Building G, Caulfield campus

🔗Register at link in bio🔗

Please note that due to unforeseen travel issues, the 2026 Margaret Plant Lecture, Living Legends by Jeannine Tang, has been postponed.

The Q***r Creative Practices Symposium: Wetting, Wilds and Mirrors is developed by Monash Fine Art and presented in partnership with MUMA.

Images: Phasmahammer, Hininga 2026. Commissioned by Monash University Museum of Art. Installation view, Syncretic Wilds: Phasmahammer and Natasha Tontey, Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne, 2026. Photo: Christian Capurro; EO Gill, The Wetting, 2026; Jeannine Tang. Photo: Matthew Petres

10/08/2026

Announcing ‘Outbound: Essays in Circulation’, a new MUMA series of texts that begin with an exhibition and move outward, circulating thought beyond the gallery.

In the first volume, ‘Speculative Ecology’, philosopher Claire Colebrook reopens ecology as a speculative question, challenging the assumption that nature, environment and humanity are self-evident foundations for politics and ethics. Against contemporary forms of ecological and political fundamentalism, she argues for worlds in which identities, environments and futures remain open to transformation.

Co-published with Perimeter Editions, the publication is produced in dialogue with ‘Syncretic Wilds: Phasmahammer and Natasha Tontey’ (18 July – 19 September 2026).

Find it in the MUMA shop, link in bio
$35

Series Editor: Stephanie Berlangieri
Design: Duncan Blachford and James Vinciguerra
Copyeditor: Linda Michael
Proofreader: Olga Bennett
Contributing Editor: Dan Rule
Photos: Perimeter Editions

05/08/2026

Congratulations to MADA graduate and Bachelor of Art History and Curating (BAHC) Intern Tabitha Glanville on receiving the 2026 Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Award.

Tabitha was recognised in ‘Hatched: National Graduate Show 2026’ at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) for her work ‘gyrr ngaya bina-guwal winangaylahna (I am listening now with different ears)’ (2025).

The Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Awards celebrate outstanding emerging artists from across Australia, with a total prize pool of $50,000.

We are delighted to see Tabitha’s practice recognised through this prestigious award and are proud to have supported her through the BAHC Internship program.

MUMA partners with MADA to host two BAHC traineeships each year, providing students with hands-on experience across museum operations, opportunities to engage with artists and curators, and insight into the work of a contemporary art museum.

Congratulations, Tabitha, on this outstanding achievement.

03/08/2026

Vale Vivienne Binns OAM (1940–2026)

MUMA is deeply saddened by the loss of Vivienne Binns OAM.

Binns was an important and singular figure in the history of Australian visual art. She tested the philosophical underpinnings of art itself and participated in the most significant cultural discourses of our times, from women’s social and sexual liberation to Australia’s identity in the Asia-Pacific region, often anticipating later developments.

In 2022, the MUMA team had the privileged of working with Binns to present the the first comprehensive retrospective of six decades of her multifaceted and innovative practice, ‘Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface’. A partnership between MUMA and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, the exhibition brought together over 100 works from collections across Australia.

Binns rose to prominence in the 1960s with psychedelic, proto-feminist depictions of sexuality and was a key figure in the Women’s Art Movement. She was involved in the development of community arts in Australia and was renowned for roving projects in the 1970s and 1980s that encouraged public participation in the arts. She was equally regarded for her painting practice, in which she considered identity, relationships and time through complex intersections of material, form and process.

The Monash University Collection is honoured to hold four of Binns’s work, including ‘Bathroom Tiles - Curtin ACT’ 1998 and ‘Floating’ 2000 from ‘In memory of the unknown artist’ series, the extensive body of work that memorises the unattributed works of designers and craftspeople that decorate and adorn the surfaces of our everyday lives.

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Thursday	10am - 5pm
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