The College joins fellow institutions, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Victorian Bar and the Victorian Government in lending works to the exhibition, which will run until January 2016.
Trinity College’s Rusden Curator Dr Benjamin Thomas was one of several guest speakers from the lending institutions, who spoke of the importance of portraiture within the College's art collections and the interconnected stories that united the various works. The Warden, Professor Ken Hinchcliff, and his wife Carole also attended.
Artists Rick Amor and Juan Ford were also present, whose works are represented among the loaned portraits from the College’s collections by the portraits of the Fourth Warden, the late Professor Robin Sharwood AM, and Eighteenth Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Fay Marles AM, respectively.
‘Exhibitions such as this offer Trinity a wonderful opportunity to have our art works put before a broader audience’, Dr Thomas noted, ‘and it is wonderful to be able to share the riches of the College’s art collections, and marvel at the entwined stories and achievements of our alumni’.
As part of the new Gateway building, scheduled to be completed by August 2016, the College will benefit from a purpose-built art gallery and the all important collection storage areas to ensure it is provisioned to care for its collections in the future.
‘The new spaces will really raise the bar in terms of the standard of presentation and collection management that the College can offer’, observes Dr Thomas. ‘It will be an incredibly exciting next 12 months.’
Read more about Trinity College's art collection here
