Exhibition: 31 March to 27 May 2001. Assembled from the early 1950s to 1998, the Orica collection is now one of Australia's most extensive corporate collections.
(In 1971 Imperial Chemical industry of Australia and New Zealand changed its name, becoming ICI Australia Ltd. The chemical manufacturing company produced products such as paints, explosives and fertilisers. In 1998 ICI Australia changed its name to Orica Limited. The original aim was to compile significant works from each period of Australian art. Late in 2001, the big auction houses submitted tenders for the sale but Kerry Stokes stepped in and bought the lot for $13.2 million. Although Stokes said the works would join the 1800 paintings held by his Australian Capital Equity group, he later decided to keep 115 of the most expensive and sell the rest.)