Michael Buxton donates art collection to University of Melbourne
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020
The Melbourne property developer Michael Buxton has donated his $26 million contemporary art collection to the University of Melbourne.
The collection of 300 includes the likes of Bill Henson, Howard Arkley, Patricia Piccinini and Rosalie Gascoigne which will be housed in a purpose-built art gallery, the Michael Buxton Centre of Contemporary Art, at the university’s Southbank Campus (formerly the Victorian College of the Arts).
Buxton will fund the build and manage it with his family for 20 years.
The founder and chief executive of MAB Corporation did not go to Melbourne University. He went to RMIT.
The collection began in 1995, with the decision to buy multiple works from a handful of Australian artists.
Jonathan Chancellor
Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.
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