Nicole Polentas, Daskalopetra (Bracelet and Plinth) 2008, Sterling silver, copper, paint, image, plastic, 13.5x11x5.5cm. Photo: Image Courtesy RMIT Collection

W.E McMillan Collection
RMIT Gold & Silversmithing 2000s Lecture

Emeritus Professor Robert Baines 

Sat 14 September, 3-4pm

at 

RMIT University

Building 80, Level 2, Room 2
445 Swanston St
Melbourne 3000

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

The fifth lecture in a series that explores aspects of the W.E McMillan Collection of jewellery silverware and precious objects.

(ABOUT THE ARTIST)
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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.