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Monash University Museum of Art

Name: Monash University Museum of Art
Address: 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC, 3145, AU
Telephone: +61399054217
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Ground Floor, Building F, Monash University Caulfield Campus. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm, Sat 12–5pm Free Entry

16/10/2026

Announcing MUMA Editions: Pitcha Makin Fellas

To celebrate the newly opened exhibition, Pitcha Makin Fellas: Long time coming, not finished yet, MUMA is pleased to present two new limited-edition artworks and a collection of merchandise by the collective.

✨MUMA Editions x PMF✨

🔷'Aboriginal Dog' revisits the collective’s 2014 work of the same title, created in direct response to a racist slur graffitied within the Fellas’ community. Transforming an act of racism into an assertion of strength, the artists reclaim the language of the insult and redirect attention to the longstanding cultural relationship between Aboriginal people and dingoes.

🔷'Long time coming, not finished yet' reflects on the historical and political foundations of Treaty in Victoria and situates this moment within a much longer continuum of First Nations resistance and activism.

Edition of 25, each screenprint uniquely hand-painted by the artists, 50 x 70 cm. Now available for pre-order in the MUMA Shop, $400. Link in bio🔗

✨MUMA Merchandise x PMF✨

🐨The ‘We know where…’ series
🧡T-shirts $50
🧡Cotton cap $30
🧡Keyring $18
🧡Blackfella Time Clock $175

🔗MUMA SHOP in bio🔗

Each edition is printed by Negative Press and individually hand-painted by the artists.

15/10/2026

📚 We’re delighted to return to in 2026, joining a lineup of imprints, publishers and distributors committed to supporting artists, writers and thinkers. Presented by and , the Fair takes place 24–25 October at Gertrude Contemporary.

We’ll be bringing a selection of MUMA publications and presenting ‘Why Speculate? Critical Publishing in the Para-Academic Landscape’, a panel discussion exploring what publishing can do in the space between academia and the arts.

Panel | Why Speculate? Critical Publishing in the Para-Academic Landscape
Saturday 24 October
3.30–4.30pm

Moderated by Stephanie Berlangieri, MUMA Curator – Research, the discussion brings together Amy Stuart & Zenobia Ahmed from Discipline and Sarah Gory from Common Room to consider how publishing can create space for forms of research and writing beyond conventional academic and museum publishing.

See you at Same Page for a weekend of art books, conversations and launches.

editions

Same Page Book Fair 2026 Program link in comments

13/10/2026

NOW OPEN ✨ Pitcha Makin Fellas: Long time coming, not finished yet

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us over the weekend to celebrate the opening of ‘Pitcha Makin Fellas: Long time coming, not finished yet’.

Curated by Amanda Haskard (Gunaikurnai), the exhibition presents the distinctive storytelling of the Pitcha Makin Fellas. Through tongue-in-cheek humour and a collective voice, the artists speak up and speak back to racism, discrimination and the ongoing impacts of colonialism on First Nations people.

📍 On view at MUMA until 5 December 2026
🔗 Find out more about the exhibition via link in bio
🐨🧡

📸 Thomas McCammon Thomas

07/10/2026

THIS SATURDAY 🌿

Join us for a spring afternoon gathering to celebrate the opening of 'Pitcha Makin Fellas: Long time coming, not finished yet'.

The first career survey exhibition of this First Nations collective, celebrates the Pitcha Makin Fellas’ legacy of humour, resistance, community connection and care. The exhibition brings together new and existing works spanning brightly coloured paintings, hand-painted breastplates and an installation featuring the collective’s signature stamps.

The afternoon will feature an artist talk, barbecue, musical performance by Jack Shilvock and Rick Chew, and a Welcome to Country by Professor N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs AM.

Curated by Amanda Haskard (Gunaikurnai).

🔗 Register via the link in the comments

02/10/2026

OPENING SOON ✨ Pitcha Makin Fellas: Long time coming, not finished yet

☀️Join us Saturday 10 October for a Spring afternoon gathering of talks, music and community as we celebrate the opening of the exhibition

✨ 2.30pm Artist talk with the Pitcha Makin Fellas
✨ 3pm Official proceedings and barbecue
✨ Live music performance by Jack Shilvock and Rick Chew
✨ Welcome to Country by Professor N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs AM
✨ Opening address by artist, curator and writer Djon Mundine OAM

The first career survey of the Pitcha Makin Fellas brings together a decade of the collective’s work, celebrating their legacy of humour, resistance, community connection and care.

Featuring brightly coloured paintings, hand-painted breastplates, their signature stamps and a new commission exploring the activism that led to the Treaty with First Nations People in Victoria in 2025.

10 October – 5 December 2026
Curated by Amanda Haskard (Gunaikurnai)

22/09/2026

Join us to celebrate the opening of 'Pitcha Makin Fellas: Long time coming, not finished yet' on Saturday 10 October, 3–5pm.

The first career survey exhibition of this First Nations collective celebrates their legacy of humour, resistance, community connection and care.

A spring afternoon gathering in the MUMA courtyard will feature an artist talk, barbecue, musical performance by Jack Shilvock and Rick Chew, and a Welcome to Country by Professor N'arwee't Carolyn Briggs AM. The exhibition will be officially opened by artist, curator and writer Djon Mundine OAM.

📅 Saturday 10 October, 3–5pm
2.30pm – Artist talk by the Pitcha Makin Fellas
3pm – Official proceedings and barbecue

'Pitcha Makin Fellas: Long time coming, not finished yet' presents new and existing works spanning brightly coloured paintings, hand-painted breastplates and an installation featuring the collective's signature stamps. A major new commission explores the activism that led to the Treaty with First Nations People in Victoria in 2025.

Curated by Amanda Haskard (Gunaikurnai).

Exhibition dates: 10 October – 5 December 2026

This project is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

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

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