(P)recollection

(P)recollection offers a mapping of collection practices pre-dating the opening of MAMA in 2015, curated by MAMA member and friend of the Museum, Sally Denshire. The exhibition considers collection building as part of the civic development of Albury from the 1940s, through to the establishment of Albury Regional Art Gallery and the ambitious and impactful commissioning and collection approaches of the 1980s and 90s, led by then Director, Audray Banfield. Denshire weaves narratives based in art historical, social and personal contexts, taking an embedded view of the growth of the city’s art collection.

(P)recollection is presented as part of nginha: gathered here, a season of programming offering new perspectives on the MAMA collection.

This exhibition draws on research by curator Sally Denshire, undertaken while compiling the Museum history page.

About the curator
Sally Denshire is an occasional poet living in Albury on Wiradjuri land and an active member of the MAMA community. Denshire has always been interested in how people used to live and at one time considered doing Museum Studies. Instead, she became an occupational therapist, established the Youth Arts Program at Camperdown Children’s Hospital in Sydney and served for twenty years as a founding occupational therapy academic on Charles Sturt University’s Albury Campus. Her autoethnographic PhD using assemblage, was obtained from the University of Technology Sydney, where it featured on the Chancellor’s List.

Featured artists
Auriel Alford
Mavis Courtney Avery
Alan Thomas Bernaldo
Gordon Bennett
Jack Bennett
Magdalena Bors
Harold Pierce Cazneaux
John Coburn
Olive Cotton
Noel Counihan
Ian Fairweather
Mary Jane Griggs
Isabella Huntington
Aimee Keynes
Eileen Mayo
Tommy McRae
Tracey Moffatt
Tim Moorhead
Deborah Paauwe
John Peart
Gloria Petyarre
John Rigby
Beth Turner
Harry Twomey