Keynote address for the 7th Annual Conference of The International Art Market Studies Association | Franchesca Cubillo

Franchesca Cubillo, Executive Director, First Nations Arts and Culture, Creative Australia, to present the keynote address
for the 7th Annual Conference of The International Art Market Studies Association at the University of Melbourne
Multiple Art Markets in an Expanding World: Artists, Agents, Networks, Exchange

Wednesday 10 July 2024 5.30 pm – 7.00 pm AEST, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne

 

TIAMSA Conference Melbourne 2024 is delighted to announce Franchesca Cubillo, Executive Director, First Nations Arts and Culture, Creative Australia, as the 2024 keynote speaker for the 7th Annual Conference of the International Art Market Studies Association at the University of Melbourne on Wednesday 10th July 2024.

Franchesca Cubillo is a proud Larrakia, Bardi, Wardaman and Yanuwa woman from the Northern Territory and is the Executive Director of First Nations Arts and Culture at Creative Australia. Prior to this appointment she was Senior Curator of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia (2009–20) and was responsible for the establishment and ongoing management of 11 permanently-dedicated Indigenous Australian art galleries, the largest display of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in the world and established, developed, and delivered the national/internationally recognised Wesfarmers Indigenous Art Leadership/Fellowship Program (2009-20).

In 2006, she undertook a Churchill Fellowship to investigate international responses to the repatriation of ancestral remains of Indigenous nations worldwide. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Aboriginal Affairs, Honours in Anthropology from the University of Adelaide and is a PhD Candidate at the Australian National University. Franchesca has held numerous board and committee positions, notably as the inaugural Chair of the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundations since 2012, overseeing its phenomenal growth in both scale and reputation, has published extensively, and presented on subjects including the repatriation of Australian Indigenous ancestral remains, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, culture, museology and curatorship.

Franchesca was Senior Curator of Aboriginal Art and Material Culture at the Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Artistic Director at Tandanya – National Aboriginal Cultural Institute and the Manager Repatriation Unit and the Head of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Program and Senior Curator at the National Museum of Australia. Franchesca was the inaugural Curator of Aboriginal Anthropology at the South Australian Museum, where she assisted in the redevelopment of the Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery. She has recently returned from Hawai’i, as the Artistic Director of Delegation responsible for the Australian Delegation at the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture (FESTPAC), the largest gathering of First Nations peoples in the Pacific.

Francesca’s 2024 TIAMSA Melbourne keynote lecture will be free and open to the public and will take place on Wednesday 10th July 5.30 – 7.00 pm AEST in the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne.

Please register your attendance (in person or online) via the Eventbrite booking page.

Franchesca’s keynote lecture is presented in conjunction with the 7th Annual Conference of The International Art Market Studies Association, a free international research conference hosted by the University of Melbourne from 10– 13 July 2024. For further information and to register your attendance for the conference’s full schedule of sessions and events, click here

TIAMSA Conference Melbourne 2024 is proud to acknowledge the generous support of The Australian Institute of Art History in presenting the TIAMSA Conference Melbourne 2024 Keynote Lecture.

Media and other enquiries can be directed to: 2024melbourneconference@artmarketstudies.org

Posted by TIAMSA Conference Melbourne 2024, 7 June 2024