Visual Arts Foundation

Objectives

The ANU Foundation for the Visual Arts was created to offer continuing support for the ANU School of Art and scholarships for students of the visual arts, the Drill Hall Gallery and the ANU Art Collection.  For more than 60 years the ANU has been building a collection that reflects major developments in Australian art. Several major works have been donated by friends of the University.

Download the Visual Arts Foundation brochure PDF (163KB).

Support the Foundation

Enquiries about sponsoring an activity or making a gift are warmly welcomed. Donors become part of a proud tradition of shared and lasting commitment between the University and the wider community supporting the visual arts in Australia.

See more information on ways you can support the Foundation through the ANU Endowment for Excellence.

Recent Activities

2008 Visual Arts scholarship
The scholarship was awarded to Aimee Fitzgerald to undertake a degree in Photomedia at the ANU School of Art.

The inaugural Visual Arts scholarship, 2007 
The scholarship will be offered annually by the Foundation to attract the best young artists from around Australia to come to Canberra and study at the School of Art.  As the Foundation grows, it hopes to offer more than one scholarship each year.  

In 2007 the inaugural scholarship was awarded to to Alyssa Coursey to undertake a degree in Photomedia at the ANU School of Art. 

Supported the Three Creative Fellows exhibition at the Drill Hall Gallery, 2007 
This exhibition featured works by Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Narritjin Maymuru, who were awarded an Australian National University Creative Arts Fellowships in the 1960s and early 1970s. The art of these three artists focuses on the connection between country and personal creativity. Important key works have been loaned from national institutions, the National Museum of Australia, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Nolan Gallery and private collectors.

Board Members

Professor David Williams AM (Chair)
Mrs Claudette Chubb
Mr Giles Pickford
Mr Henry Ergas
Mr Mick Allworth
Mr Gordon Bull
Ms Nancy Sever
Mr Martin Gascoigne
Ms Joan Uhr (ex-officio)

Contact the Foundation

Professor David Williams AM
Foundation Chair
T: 02 6125 1460
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