Lyon Housemuseum
The Lyon Housemuseum is a hybrid residence and contemporary art museum located in Melbourne, Australia.[1] The Housemuseum displays the Lyon Collection of Australian contemporary art in a purpose designed building.[2]
The building is open to the public for pre-booked guided tours, school visits and other events on designated days each year.
The Housemuseum also hosts a series of public talks and lectures on contemporary art, architecture, art history and museology which are open to the public. The annual Housemuseum Lecture is published in the form of a small book. The first book in this series, Meaning in Space by Leon van Schaik,[3] was published in 2011.
Collection
The Lyon Collection has been developed by Melbourne collectors Corbett Lyon and Yueji Lyon over a more than 20-year period.[4] It represents key aspects of Australian contemporary art practice from the early 1990s to the present. It comprises over 300 artworks including paintings, sculpture, installation works, photography and video work.[5] There are more than 50 artists currently represented in the Collection including internationally recognised Australian artists Howard Arkley,[6] Patricia Piccinini,[7] Callum Morton, Brook Andrew,[8] Shaun Gladwell and Daniel von Sturmer.[9]
Building design
The Housemuseum building was designed by architect Corbett Lyon and his architectural firm Lyons[10] between 2003 and 2005. The building was completed in November 2008 and opened to the public with its first exhibition in 2009.
Inspired by visits he had made as a student to the Sir John Soane's Museum in London and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice,[11] Lyon designed the new building to explore the relationship between art and living and ideas of public and private space.[12]
The design juxtaposes museum spaces with domestic spaces to create a blurring of conventional readings of museum and house, and creates a scenographic setting for the display of works from the Collection.
The interior of the building is lined with timber panels onto which texts created by the family have been printed.[13] The exterior of the building is clad in black zinc.
The front fence displays the two street names of the building's corner address. These are rendered in 2 metre high letters using decorative corbelled brickwork.[14]
In 2010 the Housemuseum won the Australian Institute of Architects' Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award, Victoria's highest design award for residential architecture.[15]
References
- ^ "Lyon Housemuseum on Artabase". Artabase.net. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "About the Collection". Lyon Housemuseum. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Meaning in Space". ArchitectureAU. 2012-08-06. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Art & Australia magazine | Vol 47 No 3 Autumn 2010: Domesticating art: The hybridised form of Melbourne's Lyon Housemuseum, Michael Fitzgerald". Artaustralia.com. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Artists & Works". Lyon Housemuseum. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Arkley Works". Arkley Works. 2010-06-30. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Patricia Piccinini : Home Page". Patriciapiccinini.net. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Brook Andrew". Brook Andrew. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Selected works". Daniel von Sturmer. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Lyon Housemuseum » Lyons Architecture - Melbourne, Australia". Lyonsarch.com.au. 2010-06-26. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Guggenheim". Guggenheim-venice.it. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Lyon Housemuseum / Lyons". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Lyon Housemuseum / Lyons Lyon Housemuseum - Lyons – ArchDaily". Archdaily.com. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ "Lyon Housemuseum by Lyons Architects". Dezeen. 2010-06-26. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- ^ Jayne D'Arcy. "The element of surprise". News.domain.com.au. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
Bibliography
van Schaik, Leon (2011). Meaning in Space - Housing the Visual Arts, or Architectures for Private Collections. Melbourne, Australia: Lyon Housemuseum