Guided Tour of Historic Fairview House & Art Collection (expired event)

Art collector Thomas Murrell will host four personally guided tours of his private art collection and historic house, Fairview of Subiaco.

The focus of the collection is South Australian and West Australian women artists from the 1850s to the present day, which are housed in a 110-year-old heritage home in Subiaco. The collection is eclectic and multi-generational.

Until recently, there was no unifying theme or cohesive pattern and structure to the collecting - and it is all the more interesting as a result. The Fairview Art Collection defines a great injustice and dichotomy: a man promotes his profession to the world via the outside design features of a prominently positioned house, while inside the talents and efforts of invisible women lines the walls.

Each tours will last two hours. The tour times are 10am, 12 noon, 2pm and 4pm. A professionally produced and published catalogue will also be available for sale.