Category Archives: Events

Virtual Lecture | Mavis Ngallametta’s Emotional Ecology – Sally Butler | QAGOMA

July 16, 2020Events

VIRTUAL LECTURE: MAVIS NGALLAMETTA’S EMOTIONAL ECOLOGY 10.30am, Sat 18 July | Online via Zoom | FREE | BOOK NOW Hear from Sally Butler, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Queensland, as she discusses Mavis Ngallametta’s later large canvas paintings through the lens of emotional ecology. Discover how Mavis Ngallametta’s paintings reflect an intimate, emotional knowledge of her country, functioning more as spiritual portraits of place rather than landscapes, through the unique methods she used to personalise the locations she portrayed. Free / Bookings Required / This event is a webinar. Participant’s webcam and microphone will be disabled. Proudly presented by HSBC. Check out […]

Videos online from The Australian Object: Material Culture in Context symposium

May 1, 2020Events, Resources

The Australian Object: Material Culture in Context October 3-4 2019 National Art School, Darlinghurst This two-day symposium presented new scholarly research on the material culture of Australia. It addresses the rich diversity of objects and the processes, knowledge, and meanings embedded therein. Our purpose is to revitalise the discourse on marginalised media and quotidian culture and bring sc holars, artists, curators and collectors into productive dialogue. Focusing on making meaning through materials, this symposium reinforces the National Art School’s core emphasis on object-led art practices and histories. Despite renewed interest in material culture, the conversation about objects often remains siloed […]

Online panel discussion | The Art Newspaper – The future of museums, exhibitions and the objects they display

May 1, 2020Events, Resources

“NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE an online panel organised by The Art Newspaper and Factum Foundation With Il Giornale Dell’Arte. The panels can be watched on YouTube at 17.00 BST (so not great for Aus/NZ but hopefully the recordings may be made available). Friday 1st May: The Future of Museums, Exhibitions and the Objects They Display. (Chaired by Sir Charles Saumarez Smith CBE) Saturday 2nd May: The Circulation of Objects: the Politics of Recording, Training, Preserving and Sharing. (Chaired by Simon Schaffer) Sunday 3rd May: An Intimacy with the Physical World: New Technologies Generating New Knowledge. (Chaired by […]

COVID-19 PANEL DISCUSSION | FLATTENING THE CURVE | UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

April 17, 2020Events

The first in a new series of discussions with eminent thinkers and scientists on COVID-19, which continues to rapidly change our world. In Life Beyond Coronavirus: The Expert View, the wider implications of the COVID-19 pandemic is explored. The discussion brings in a range of leading experts to consider the impacts on the economy, education, public life, and our politics and culture. In episode one, Professor Shitij Kapur (Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences) and panellists Professor Sharon Lewin, Professor James McCaw, Professor Ian Harper and Professor Joy Damousi discuss the issue of flattening […]

Know My Name Edit-a-thon Sydney

March 2, 2020EventsEvents, Feminism

Learn to create new Wikipedia pages about female creators to celebrate International Women’s Day About this Event Date And Time: Sat 7 March 2020, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm AEDT Location: Dixson Room, State Library of NSW, Macquarie St, Sydney, NSW 2000 Just 18 per cent of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to female artists and creators, that number is even lower. Wikimedia Australia is partnering with the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name project to enhance the understanding and appreciation of work by Australian artists who identify as women. On the weekend of International Women’s Day, join us […]

SYMPOSIUM | COLIN MCCAHON CENTENARY | MONASH ART DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE | MELBOURNE

January 31, 2020Events

A half-day symposium celebrating the life and legacy of New Zealand’s most significant painter, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon Centenary Symposium Saturday 15 February, 12.30 – 5.30pm Monash Art Design & Architecture Building G, Lecture Theatre G1.04, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East Tickets Join Monash Art Design & Architecture for a half-day symposium to celebrate the life and legacy of New Zealand’s most significant painter. By the time of his death in 1987, Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was hailed as a leading Antipodean modernist. After failing to find an audience for much of his career, his numerical and text-based compositions, and his […]

Symposium | Unlocking Creativity: Artists’ and Architects’ Estates | 19-20 November | University of Melbourne

November 8, 2019Events

Symposium | Unlocking Creativity: Artists’ and Architects’ Estates exploring the enduring cultural significance of artists’ and architects’ estates in Australia Dates: Tuesday 19 – Wednesday 20 November 2019 Venue: William Macmahon Ball Theatre (Rm 107), Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne Cost: FREE The symposium will present recent research on creative estates and expand on current studies of the careers of creative individuals and their societal impact. The symposium will address four broad themes: (1) Heritage spaces: artists’ and architects’ houses and studio (2) Archives, endowments and other legacies (3) Securing the future: women and creative estates (4) Estate planning for […]

Symposium | Art, Digitality and Canon-making? | University of Sydney

October 11, 2019Events, Exhibition

This is the second iteration of Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories at the University of Sydney. Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories 2019: Art, Digitality and Canon-making? Friday 18 – Saturday 19 October Symposium will be held at the University of Sydney Exhibition opening at the Cross Art Projects For further information click here To register click here The Wind in the Trees: From Tradisexion to Womanifes Friday 18 October ‘Art, Digitality and Canon-making?’ keynote lecture with Flaudette May Datuin For further information click here To register click here

Public Lecture | A Friend to Artists: Jim Ede and Modern Art | Thursday, 3 October, 4pm | Buxton Contemporary

September 27, 2019Events

Join Dr Amy Tobin, Curator of Exhibitions, Events and Research at Kettle’s Yard; Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Cambridge, UK for a public lecture A Friend to Artists: Jim Ede and Modern Art at Buxton Contemporary, Thursday, 3 October, 4pm. This talk is an introduction to Kettle’s Yard and its curator H.S. Jim Ede (1896-1990). It considers Ede’s life and his relationship to Modern Art, particularly his unique understanding of the imbrication of art and life. Ede described himself as a ‘friend to artists’. Dr Tobin will discuss Ede in relation to the world he created for […]

Symposium | Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy | University of Melbourne

September 23, 2019EventsPrints, Symposium, University of Melbourne

A symposium celebrating 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships 30 September – 2 October 2019 This symposium, Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy, celebrates 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships by focussing on three broad themes – print exhibitions, print collections and print presses – and seeks to trace the influence of philanthropy in shaping Australasian print culture. In one of the largest gatherings of print scholars, curators, artists and printmakers ever seen in Australia, a range of topics will be addressed from historical and contemporary perspectives. These include: […]