Introduction

The Chartwell Collection seeks to promote enquiry and understandings about the significance of contemporary visual arts practice and process. There is a desire to facilitate wide interest and respect for the thinking involved in its making and viewing.
There is also a commitment to the significance of the visual arts to general creative thinking.

The Chartwell Collection celebrates:

• The achievements of visual artists
• The public art gallery functions
• The contribution of the visual arts to growing the culture
• Increasing understandings of the psychological and conceptual benefits available to everyone via the visual arts.

Understand the Gallery of Art as a Gymnasium for the Mind.