COMMISSIONS & ACQUISITIONS

The Ian Potter Foundation has funded significant art acquisitions, and through The Ian Potter Cultural Trust has funded two commission series: one for music composition and one for moving image works. Each commission series offered major awards to established individual artists to create specific works in a particular art form. The commission series have each spanned 10 years.

Sculpture Acquisitions

In the 1980s, The Ian Potter Foundation supported the acquisition of a series of sculptures to assist Australian sculptors and acquire works of excellence for the NGV. Six pieces were commissioned: Les Kossatz Hard Slide (1980), Augustine Dall-Ava An Obscure View (1981), Geoffrey Bartlett The Messenger (1982), Stephen Killick The History of the Handshake (1984), Clifford Last Metamorphosis (1984) and Fiona Orr Isomorphic Impressions (1985).