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As an inventor as well as composer, Percy
Grainger’s musical practice was never
constrained by tradition or convention.
The result was his construction of
instruments that ranged from the weird to
the wonderful.
Ian Potter Museum of Art
University of Melbourne
800 Swanston Street
Melbourne
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Tue-Fri
Sat & Sun
Sat 15
10am-5pm
12-5pm
12-9pm
Led by artist and researcher Dr Laura
Woodward, students from Sculpture &
Spatial Practice at the Faculty of VCA and
MCM, and Mechanical Engineering at the
Melbourne School of Engineering, combine
their talents to produce works inspired
by Grainger’s roving imagination. Step
inside the University’s Ian Potter Museum
of Art to encounter kinetic mechanical
instruments, interactive sculptures and
responsive installations that are by
turns playful, confronting, tender and
experimental. In sum, a grand assemblage
of moving parts as complex and surprising
as the mind of Grainger himself.
ENCOUNTERING GRAINGER THROUGH
ENGINEERING AND SCULPTURAL PRACTICE
EXHIBITORS
CREDITS
Danielle Cheng
Maggie Clare
Sam La Marca
Nicola Lewis
Jessie McClure
Kate McGain
Qalissa Othman
Yuval Rosinger
with Laura Woodward
Acknowledgements
Simone Slee, Head of Sculpture & Spatial
Practice, Faculty of VCA and MCM, University of
Melbourne and Jan Murray, Head of the School
of Art, Faculty of VCA and MCM, University of
Melbourne
Laura Woodward has created sculptural
kinetic installations for exhibitions around
Australia, and lectures in the School of
Art at the Faculty of VCA and MCM,
University of Melbourne.
Collaborative Input
Dr Colin Burvill, Design Discipline Leader in
the Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Melbourne and Associate
Professor Neil McLachlan, Melbourne School
of Psychological Sciences, University of
Melbourne.
Technical and resource-based support
Jamie O’Connell, Dr Tim Edwards, Mark
Friedlander and other staff in the Faculty of VCA
and MCM Teaching Workshop, University of
Melbourne
Ian Potter Museum of Art support
Jacqueline Doughty and Samantha Comte
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Image: Laura Woodward, Gyre 2015 (detail)