About
The Manningham Art Collection was established in 1994, evolving from the art collection of the former City of Doncaster & Templestowe. The collection has a diverse array of locally significant artworks, predominantly landscapes and still-life paintings by relatively minor artists that represent the cultural fabric of the region’s community. The collection has become recognised for its representation of contemporary ceramic art, having grown in large part through acquisitions from the biennial Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award.
Our collection
The Manningham Art Collection was established in 1994, evolving from the art collection of the former City of Doncaster & Templestowe. The collection at this time consisted of a diverse array of locally significant artworks, predominantly landscapes and still-life paintings by relatively minor artists, that represented the cultural fabric of the region’s community. Over the last two decades, the collection has become recognised for its representation of contemporary ceramic art, having grown in large part through acquisitions from the biennial Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award. The work of the mid- to late-twentieth century collective Potters Cottage is well represented in the collection, and it is also home to the Walker Ceramic Award collection, representing graduate ceramics work from across Australia from 1977 to 1994. The collection also includes a series of works by contemporary Victorian Aboriginal artist like Peter Waples Crowe, Lee Darroch and , as well as number of public artworks, including by artists such as Inge King, Deborah Halpern, Michael Bellemo and Catriona Macleod, Tanya Court and Cassandra Chilton, and Cameron Robins.
