Art of the Body: Health, Beauty, and Desire

Specimens of corporeal wonder and disease from the university’s medical collection, and the artistic responses they provoke. The body in art and science.

Entry to the exhibition is free, except during Friday 18–Sunday 20 January (when you’ll need a festival ticket).

Curated by Dr Malcom Bywaters

A University of Tasmania University Museum of Art and Sciences pilot exhibition project

Presented in partnership by Mona Foma, Launceston College, the Launceston Big Picture School, and the University of Tasmania School of Medicine, Launceston Clinical School, College of Health and Medicine

Includes human specimens, objects, artworks and teaching materials on loan from the University of Tasmania R.A. Rodda Museum, Library Special and Rare Collections, Fine Art Collection, John Elliott Classics Museum, School of Physical Sciences Collection and the Rock Library and Geological Museum