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MUSE Issue 24, October 2019 Art. Culture. Issue 24 Antiquities. October 2019 Natural history. Until next time A word from the Director, David Ellis This is the last issue of Muse before We are fortunate to have benefited the Nicholson closes on 28 February from the extraordinary generosity 2020. We hope you will be able to of Neville Grace, whose bequest of join us for a number of public events 62 Australian impressionist paintings between then and now, including a have made a transformative impact closing party hosted by the Friends on the collection, many of which you of the Nicholson in February. Muse will be able to see in the opening suite Victorian era’s equivalent to lunar will take a break during an intensive of exhibitions. exploration, and its 1874 visit to period of exhibition development Sydney. Then there is the surprising until the next issue in May 2020, at As a harbinger of our new museum, interplay between big data and which time we will share up-to-the- this issue of Muse draws together small insects. minute details on the Chau Chak other insights from across the Wing Museum as it heads towards complexity of our collections. The During our consultation with opening. The September issue will latest in medical imaging technology Girringun artists we witness the commemorate the much-anticipated continues to expose secrets from strengthening connections to the opening in August. our antiquities collection, including past that are revitalising traditional the revelation that parsimonious artefact- and art-making practices, This issue brings us up to date ancient Greeks valued their olive oil and we observe insights into our with our regular feature on the too highly to commit unnecessarily European art via the Bauhaus as museum site. The builders, FDC, large quantities to the tomb. Our well as the op-kinetic art of Lily are making remarkable progress faded Mer-Neith-It-es coffin regains Greenham. despite inclement weather, and in its once-colourful surface, thanks to the process have broadened my a combination of elemental analyses I hope you enjoy this issue of Muse, technical terminology – in addition to and visualisation software. and we also look forward to seeing the better known ‘rained out’, I have you in the Nicholson Museum soon, added ‘winded out’ to my vocabulary. We will also share different scales at an event or as a visitor before we Nevertheless, even before the of scientific journeys – from filtering close on 28 February. building is finished, we are benefiting out microbes (and in the process from the impact of the museum’s identifying the existence of viruses) David Ellis significantly raised profile on the to learning of the extraordinary Director, Museums and cultural landscape of the University. voyage of HMS Challenger, the Cultural Engagement Sydney University Museums Education and Public Programs Muse is edited by Luke Parker. Comprising the Macleay Museum, To book a school excursion, an adult education Nicholson Museum and University Art Gallery tour or a University heritage tour This issue contains names and images of people +61 2 9351 8746 who have died. We acknowledge that, for some The Macleay Museum and the University Art [email protected] people and communities, these may cause distress Gallery are now closed as we prepare for the and sadness. Where possible, cultural permission opening of the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Macleay Museum to publish has been sought. +61 2 9036 5253 The Nicholson Museum is open until 28 February [email protected] Produced by Marketing and Communications, 2020: Monday to Friday, 10am to 4.30pm and the University of Sydney, September 2019. 19/7933 the first Saturday of every month, 12 to 4pm. Nicholson Museum ISSN 1449-0420 ABN 15 211 513 464 Closed on public holidays. In the southern entrance to the Quadrangle CRICOS 00026A +61 2 9351 2812 General admission is free. +61 2 9351 7305 (fax) Forest Stewardship Council (FSC®) [email protected] is a globally recognised certification Become a fan on Facebook overseeing all fibre sourcing standards. and follow us on Twitter. University Art Gallery This provides guarantees for the sydney.edu.au/museum +61 2 9351 6883 consumer that products are made [email protected] of woodchips from well-managed forests and other controlled sources Sydney University Museums Administration with strict environmental, economical +61 2 9351 2274 and social standards. +61 2 9351 2881 (fax) [email protected] In this issue Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold series in the Bauhaus Now! exhibition at Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, photograph © Christian Capurro 2 News 12 Trawling for knowledge: 22 A collector’s gift HMS Challenger Highlights from a most generous 3 Chau Chak Wing Museum update Passing through Sydney in 1874, bequest to the University For the first time since the scientific expedition left Art Collection. construction began, our interior lasting impressions. spaces begin to take shape. 26 Drawing on the past 14 Bauhaus Now! Research illustrators are 4 Pinned down: big data and A new exhibition in Melbourne returning the colour to the entomology examines the ongoing influence long-faded patterns on a coffin in ‘Data miners’ show what can be of the Bauhaus on contemporary the Nicholson Museum collection. accomplished by applying data artists. analytics to an insect collection. 31 Making history 18 Hidden depths See what our guests and staff 6 Intergenerational consultations CT scanning of a Greek lekythos have been up to. Through art and artefact (oil or perfume vessel) has making, Girringun artists are uncovered a curious secret. 32 Find your muse strengthening links to the past. Upcoming events and programs. 20 The engigmatic Lily Greenham 10 Simply ingenious: The legacies of an overlooked Chamberland’s filter candles artist come into focus. An important invention of the 19th century, these modest porcelain cylinders transformed public health, hygiene and scientific study. Detailed view of filter candles 1884–1938. Manufacturer: Hippolyte Boulenger & Co, France. Havyatt Instrument Collection, donated 2019, Macleay Collections, SC2019.22-24 On the cover: CT slice of White-ground lekythos, Athens, Greece, 470-430 BC, donated by the National Archaeological Museum of Athens 1948, Nicholson Museum, NM48.15 News Welcome to Shuxia Chen, China Gallery Curator We are very pleased to welcome Shuxia Chen to the team as curator for the Chau Chak Wing Museum’s China Gallery. Shuxia joined us in May and replaces Dr Stephen Whiteman of the Power Institute, who at the end of last year took another role at the Courtauld Vale Jane Mathews AO NSW’s first female Crown Prosecutor in 1977 Institute of Art in London. The museum has lost a generous donor, and a judge of the District Court in 1980, Shuxia is an art historian and the University an illustrious alumna. In the first female judge in NSW. In 1987 she and curator of Asian art 2008 Jane Mathews generously donated two was appointed the first female judge of the with a Master of Arts in Art significant Emily Kame Kngwarreye paintings, Supreme Court of NSW, and in 1994 became History from the University one of which (pictured, UA2008.53) will be a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. of Sydney and a Master of included in the introductory exhibition of In 2001 she retired from the Federal Court Studio Art (Honours) from the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Jane was a and became an Acting Judge of the NSW Sydney College of the Arts. trailblazer in the legal world and a notable Supreme Court. In 2005 she was made an She recently completed supporter of the arts. She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia. her PhD on Chinese photography groups in the 1980s, at the Australian National University. Shuxia’s research has been published in journals icluding Trans-Asia Photography Review, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Made in China and Artforum. Since 2007 she has worked with a range of museums and galleries in China and Australia as a curator and exhibition manager. She has already made a significant impact on the development of the opening exhibition for the Blue Water Empire increasing opportunity to take control. China gallery. It was exciting to see Macleay Honorary Mabuiag Elder and linguist Ephraim Bani Associate Dr Leah Lui-Chivizhe during the guided audiences in Francis Calvert’s recent airing of Blue Water Empire, the documentaries. His son, playwright and Torres Strait-set dramatised documentary actor Jimi Bani, features in Blue Water written by, directed by and starring a highly Empire. As producer/director/actor Aaron talented group of Torres Strait Islanders. Fa’Aoso said of the expansive history, Film history was made in the Torres Strait which stretches from the 1700s through to in 1898 with the first ethnographic footage the present day, it is “the tip of a massive ever filmed at Mer. Photographer Frank ‘iceberg’ – it’s only the start of a whole new Hurley’s 1926 silent film Hound of the Deep set of stories Australia is yet to know”. Dr was also shot in the Torres Strait, as was Lui-Chivizhe, who is a historian at Sydney, is Chips Rafferty’s 1954 King of the Coral Sea. close to publishing her history of turtle-shell By the 1980s, Torres Strait Islanders had masks and Islanders in the Torres Strait. 2 Order Architects architect; and Juliette Churchill, the University’s Chau Chak Wing Campus Planning Manager. Museum update In addition to viewing the overall building visible at that time, the DRP _ was particularly concerned with inspecting the concrete sections poured specifically to test the We have entered a new and exciting phase in the colour and texture of the distinctive construction of the Chau Chak Wing Museum, with cantilevered top ‘box’ section.
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