Contact: Jane Kneebone
Deloitte
Media and Communications Director
0416 148 845

Deloitte has enlisted the curatorial services of Maudie Palmer, Director TarraWarra Museum of Art, to create an exhibition of contemporary art for Deloitte’s Melbourne premises within the Queen Victoria building.

The artists chosen and the works selected have defined what the exhibition has become. Every work is desirable. The art has transformed the corporate environment, changing the ambience through its materiality, colour and beauty.

This exhibition is the second in a series for our Melbourne office in 2006/07 and features paintings and sculptures by some of Australia’s leading artists.

A diverse selection of forty-seven paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints by outstanding Australian artists, all of whom combine a brilliant understanding of colour with a desire to explore elements of abstraction, are in the exhibition. It provides a distinctive glimpse of that which constitutes Australian art now.

"This exhibition brings together the work of fifteen artists from those at the beginning of their careers, such as Samuel Tupou, Donna Marcus and Joanne Mott, to others with many years of experience like Robert Owen, Hilarie Mais and Robert Jacks, the artworks range accross a variety of media with a common theme of abstraction and concentration upon colour" said curator, Maudie Palmer.

"The exhibition also challenges the distinction between painting and sculpture, incorporating a number of painted three-dimensional works on wood and perspex."

Frank Ford, Victorian managing partner, said "the exhibition is innovative and contemporary which will provide our people, our clients and visitors with the opportunity to engage with and view a broad variety of work during the duration of the exhibition. Level 14 of the QV building provides an excellent space for artists to showcase their work, whilst simultaneously enthusing our people about the endless possibilities contained within contemporary art."