Morwell's La Trobe Regional Art Gallery is hosting the Charles Sturt University (CSU) exhibition of major works selected from its extensive collection which has grown from four hundred works in 1993 to almost two thousand. Exhibition curator Thomas Middlemost says, “This is the first full and considered viewing of the artwork, which normally hangs in public spaces on CSU’s four main campuses in Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo and Wagga Wagga. Contrasts is an exhibition about the nature of institutional collecting as much as Australian art history. It examines the birth and expansion of CSU through the artwork collected by its predecessor institutions". Mr Middlemost says, "This is not a collection formed with a single vision but a compilation of a number of contrasting personalities, artistic styles and defunct collections. Setting artworks against each other to do battle or to make love makes for interesting viewing," he said.