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W.E.McMillan Collection – 1980’s RMIT Gold and Silversmithing
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Mark Edgoose, Teapot, 1984, silver, steel, pyrex, 23x26x11cm. Photo: courtesy RMIT University Art Collection
Map reference number: 73
RMIT University
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Building 80, Level 2, Room 7
Swanston Academic Building,
​427–433 Swanston St,
Melbourne


30 August
6–7pm

Artist/s: Emeritus Professor Robert Baines 


The third lecture in an a series that explores the W.E.McMillan Collection of jewellery, silverware and precious objects, award-winning pieces by Gold and Silversmithing students of the School of Art dating back to the1960s. This lecture will delve into the expanding practice of RMIT Gold & Silversmithing students of the 1980s.

About the Artist

Robert Baines is an Emeritus professor of RMIT University where is lectured and led Gold & Silversmithing. His knowledge of the W.E.McMillan collection, its student artists, its history and its importance is considerable. Robert Baines work is collected in numerous international museum collections, including National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. He is the recipient of international awards, amongst them the Bayerischer State Prize (2005) and Friedrich Becker Prize (2008) from Germany; and the Cicely and Colin Rigg Craft Award (1997), the richest craft prize in Australia. In 2017, he was shortlisted for the LOEWE Prize
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