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Gallery transforms into Australia’s first photography museum

After 30 years of championing contemporary Australian photography, the Monash Gallery of Art will become the Museum of Australian Photography.

6 Mar 2023

Celina Lei

Visual Arts

Installation view of ‘About face: are you a boy or a girl?’ artwork by Tamara Dean at Monash Gallery of Art 2023. Photo: J Forsyth.

The Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) has announced that it will become known as the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) after 30 years of advocating for the arts and championing Australian photography.

The Gallery was established at a time when it collected and exhibited works including, but not limited to, paintings, sculpture and photography. Now, rebranded as MAPh, it is the first of its kind in Australia to exclusively dedicate its knowledge and expertise to the collection of Australian photography.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.