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Still from Rarranhdharr - Late dry season - The Mulka Project 2020 - a beach camp and vehicle filmed from above, multiple tyre tracks form a pattern in the sand

Established at the foundation of UTS in 1988, the UTS Art Collection contains over 850 works of art in a diverse range of media including prints and drawings, paintings, site-specific installations and sculptures, and a growing collection of digital and new-media works.

About the Collection

UTS values and nurtures artistic expression and aims to foster an understanding of society and culture through the acquisition, care and interpretation of contemporary art.

View highlights from the UTS Art Collection

 

Banner image: Still from Rarranhdharr - Late Dry Season, 2019, Patrina Munungurr and Ishmael Marika (The Mulka Project), UTS Art Collection, commissioned 2019

Recent Acquisitions

A large horizontal video screen showing a blue, white and black grpahic image. People walk in the foreground below the screen.
 

Kent Morris

Barkindji Blue Sky - Ancestral Connections, 2021
HD Video
14 minutes 45 seconds

UTS Art Collection, commissioned 2021
Accession number: 2021.002
© Kent Morris. Photo Jacquie Manning

The work of Barkindji artist Kent Morris reveals the continuing presence and patterns of Aboriginal history, culture and knowledge in the contemporary Australian landscape, despite ongoing colonial interventions in the physical and political environments. This video commission by Kent Morris refers to the Barkindji Ancestral constellation story of the two kiinki’ngulu sisters, who appear as two white cockatoos (Corellas) in the sky, representing the clouds of Magellan. This story connects Barkindji people to ancestors and the cosmos in a cultural continuum of shared knowledge that reinforces spiritual cohesion and connection. Barkindji Blue Sky - Ancestral Connections can be viewed on the UTS Broadway Screen. In 2022, two additional photographic works from the original Barkindji Blue Sky - Ancestral Connections series were acquired for the Collection and are currently displayed in the UTS Chancellery.

Hannah Brontë

POWA WAVE, 2022
HD Video with sound
5 minutes 49 seconds

UTS Art Collection, commissioned 2022
Accession number: 2022.003
© Hannah Brontë. Photo Jacquie Manning

Hannah Brontë is the sixth artist to be commissioned for the UTS Broadway screen, a program of site-specific digital art commissions by leading Australian artists located in UTS Central (Building 2).

There are now 2.7 million surfers nationally and yet being a Queer surfer is still considered dangerous and taboo. Being a woman in the surf, let alone a Queer woman, takes a sport so freeing and transcendent and makes it a radical act of defiance. POWA WAVE is a Queer romance that follows two lovers in the waves. They joyfully and powerfully walk on water, connected to each other and the ocean. Water supports them completely, letting them be weightless and held in their love and wild Queer joy. The lovers wear sweet suits, costumes that adorn Queer bodies to make the world gentler. The sweet suits are love letters to the camp history of wearable art and are decorated with the incantation ‘me and my love are safe in the waves’. POWA WAVE is the freedom to repaint the world with the beauty and complexity of people in love. You are close enough to smell the salt. - Hannah Brontë

A large screen in a public space shows an image of two people holding hands against a sunset and palm tree scene. Two people in the foreground of the screen walk past.