In 2023, Andrew Rogers generously gifted 31 sculptures, valued at $6.1 million, to the Deakin University Art Collection. This generous donation is the largest philanthropic gift to the University Art Collection and is an historically significant contribution to the University. Using this exhibition as a starting point, read about the significance of the sculptures as you start your self-guided tour through the works on display at the Melbourne Burwood campus.Exhibition Introduction:The collection of sculptures presented across the Deakin University’s Burwood campus represents a comprehensive overview of artist Andrew Rogers’ career. With works dating from 1993 to 2021 this campus-based exhibition surveys Rogers’ artistic development through differing styles, approaches and techniques providing a comprehensive reflection of an artist’s output over a lifetime. This collection of large-scale public artworks are an important research and educational tool representing the artist’s changing methodologies, identity, subject, forms and materials over time. Deakin University is now the only location where you can view the development of his artistic career in this way.  This exhibition embodies Rogers ongoing interests in patterns of nature, beauty, humanities struggles and the importance of life itself as a creative force and energy.Rogers’ critically acclaimed sculptures and photographs are exhibited internationally and held in numerous private and prominent public collections around the world. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Deakin University in 2020 for his distinguished contribution to contemporary art and for his significant support of the Art Collection.“Andrew Rogers is an exceptional Australian sculptor who enjoys strong - and growing - recognition for his commitment to making real, in a material sense, his ideas about the power of energetic form in a communal context.  Andrew Rogers’ reputation as one or our truly great, and most innovative, sculptors, whose works are seen and admired by huge passing crowds every day, from Melbourne and Canberra to New York and far beyond, is justly deserved.”  Dr Gerard Vaughan AM, 2024Acknowledgements:All works are copyright of Andrew Rogers and courtesy of the artist and Dominik Mersch Gallery Sydney and Scott Liversey Gallery. For further information and enquiries artgallery@deakin.edu.au