About

The project began as a collaboration between researchers at the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum, together with input from the holder of a private collection of artworks painted in the village of Batuan in central Bali. Funding was provided by these institutions and the Australian Research Council as a Linkage Grant. Continued funding and resources including platform hosting are provided by the University of Sydney.

We are grateful to all the participating institutions for their support and assistance. The Bali Cultural Service (Dinas Kebudayaan Bali) has provided valuable input into the project and granted permission to include the relatively unknown public collections in Bali, especially that of the Museum Bali, the island's most important cultural repository. The incorporation of a database of works which belonged to the collection of Leo Haks further enhanced the scope of the project.

The initial project was led by the University of Sydney's Adrian Vickers and Peter Worsley, together with Siobhan Campbell and staff from Australian Museum, in particular Stan Florek. The late Thomas Freitag played an indispensable role in the whole project. The website uses Heurist database software, and derives from the latest versions developed by Ian Johnson and programmed by Artem Osmakov. The current and previous website versions were designed by Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, based on an original design by Steven Hayes with programming by Steve White and initial design by Ireneusz Golka. Bruce Granquist, James Watson and Safrina Thristiawati carried out important research support in the original building process.

Further reading: Vickers, Adrian. “Visual Methods and the Study of Balinese Art Collections.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 51, no. 3 (2020): 321–42. [doi:10.1017/S0022463420000478].

Copyright

The Virtual Museum of Balinese Painting is a completely non-commercial research site. We hold no copyright in the artworks presented here, and for any further use or reuse, you must contact the owners of these works and the artists or other copyright holders. Many of the institutions that provide material to the Virtual Museum do so under a Creative Commons license.

The Virtual Museum presents its material for free non-commercial cultural use. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.