The Vizard Foundation
Art Collection of the 1990s
Australian Art and Artists from the Decade

Naomi Cass and Dr Chris McAuliffe explore the development of the
Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s in these two key essays.

Naomi Cass

Vizard's Ark: a purposeful collection

Making a collection of contemporary art is akin to creating a vessel to ferry a selection of art and ideas from the present to the future. As there are no hard and fast rules governing the policy or process of collecting art, there are many types of vessel that...
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Chris McAuliffe

An '-ism' free zone: Australian art of the 1990s

Underpinning the Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s were two simple assumptions: that the collection could tell the story of Australian art in that decade, and that the art works within it could tell the story of Australian culture and society. Conversations among committee members dwelt on the...
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