Category Archives: Events

Sheridan Palmer – Disequilibrium: Presence/absence in the art of Tony Woods, October 4, Buxton Contemporary

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Histories and Theories of Sound Lecture 6pm Thu, 04. Oct Buxton Contemporary Dodds St and Southbank Blvd Southbank, VIC FREE As part of the ongo­ing lec­ture series, His­to­ries and The­o­ries of Sound, Dis­ci­pline and Liquid Archi­tec­ture present Dr Sheri­dan Palmer’s ​‘Dis­e­qui­lib­rium: Presence/​absence in the art of Tony Woods’, fol­lowed by dis­cus­sion with Doug Hall AM. During the 1960s the Tas­man­ian artist TONY WOODS (1940 – 2017) emerged as a rare talent in the Aus­tralian art scene. An advo­cate of modernism’s plu­ral­ism, his bold fig­u­ra­tion, vig­or­ous abstract for­mal­ism, irreg­u­lar shaped can­vases that often incor­po­rated col­lage and the ready­made, was a syn­the­sis of Amer­i­can […]

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Talking Writing: Pasifika – Writing NSW, September 13

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September 13 6:30pm–8pm Join Indigenous-Pasifika artists Amrita Hepi, Brian Fuata, Emele Ugavule, Latai Taumoepeau and Winnie Dunn for a talanoa about Australian arts and literature, in which race, class, culture, faith, gender and sexuality intersect.   Location: Information and Cultural Exchange 8 Victoria Rd, Parramatta (Corner Villiers St), NSW Pasifika Image credit: Brian Fuata, 2015, photo by Manuela Barczewski, image courtesy of Chisenhale, London

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Booklaunch – What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives – Buxton Contemporary, August 16, 6-8pm

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From Power Publications: Please join us in Melbourne for the launch of our latest publication What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives Edited by Adam Geczy and Mimi Kelly LAUNCH AND RECEPTION 6-8pm, Thursday 16 August 2018 Buxton Contemporary Dodds St &, Southbank Blvd Southbank VIC 3006 The book will be launched by Edward Colless Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. This event will bring together a dynamic discussion chaired by Dr Edward Colless, with Adam Geczy, Sean Lowry, Mimi Kelly, Hannah Mathews, Jill Orr and Mark Shorter. Light refreshments will follow the panel discussion.   Register to preorder your copy to pick up at […]

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‘Antipodean Early Modern’ – Launch – Ian Potter Museum of Art, July 19th 6pm

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Join us for the launch Antipodean Early Modern: European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200-1600, edited by Anne Dunlop. Venue: Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne Date: 19th July, 6pm. In 2015 Margaret Manion curated an exhibition An Illumination: the Rothschild Prayer Book & other works from the Kerry Stokes Collection c.1280-1685 here at The Potter. An extensive series of lectures accompanied the show. Antipodean Early Modern is a publication of the case studies presented in this series of talks. A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century Germany, an altarpiece by […]

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From Melancholy to Euphoria and More: Visual Representations of Emotions in Persian Illustrated Manuscripts

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The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation presents: A Free Lecture by Dr Stefano Carboni, director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia: From Melancholy to Euphoria and More: Visual Representation of Emotions in Persian Illustrated Manuscripts 6pm-7pm Wednesday 27 June at the University of Melbourne The common perception about Persian miniature painting – better described as book illustration because almost invariably it has a textual, literary or oral context – is that it is elegant, colourful, rather formal in composition, and overall restrained in the way the characters are emotionally involved in a particular moment of the story. Persian […]

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“Talk, The Talk” Lecture – University of Melbourne – Friday 27th April, 5-6.30pm

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The “Talk, The Talk” lecture series and Art Curatorship Partnership (ACP) PROJECTS invites you to join Dr. Anthony White, Senior Lecturer at The University of Melbourne and Ms. Sim Luttin, Curator and Gallery Manager at Arts Project, in a discussion on some of the myths and stereotypes that have been applied to the work of Outsider artists. Entitled ‘Outsider Art: Contemporary Considerations’ this topic will include artists who have experienced disability, mental issues and other forms of marginalization over the last 100 years. It will also entail a presentation reflecting on the role of supported studios, focusing on Arts Projects […]

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‘Risk Anything!: Modernist Women between Centre & Periphery’ at UNSW Sydney, Friday 6 April

Conference, Events

Dear friends & colleagues,   I’m pleased to invite you to attend a one-day interdisciplinary symposium, ‘Risk Anything!: Modernist Women between Centre & Periphery’ at UNSW Sydney, Friday 6 April.   This symposium brings together papers exploring risk, women and modernist culture, especially research dedicated to women who have traversed the ‘risky’ division between centres of modernism – Britain, Europe, and the United States – and so-called ‘peripheries’.    The event will conclude with a public keynote lecture from Associate Professor Natalya Lusty (University of Sydney): ‘From Sexual Abstinence to Hymenectomy: Risk and Failure in Modernist Radical Feminism’.   The event is free, but please register […]

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