Exhibitionist: This portrait of his dean by a senior lecturer in visual arts at Avondale has featured in an exhibition that challenges the form itself. The Grotto Project: Exhibition is based on Andy Collis’s Doctor of Philosophy thesis. Curator Dr Sean Lowry of The University of Newcastle’s School of Drama, Fine Art and Music invited local artists and students to address the question about what constitutes portraiture in the expanding and interdisciplinary world of contemporary cultural production. So, the exhibition, held on the university’s Central Coast campus this past weekend, featured not only painting—such as Andy’s portrait of Associate Professor Daniel Reynaud—but also installation, performance, new media and sculpture.