Dominion Press, [Mr and Mrs Harold Wright at Sir Lionel Lindsay’s exhibition, London], 1946,
silver gelatin photograph, Reg. no. 1986.0037 16/180, University of Melbourne Archives
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: the complex links between Australia and Britain’s print networks, experimentation in ‘DIY’ print practices, local post-war print communities in Melbourne, examinations of the habits of print collectors, the latest in-depth research on eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century printed images and their provenance, as well as a major focus on the evolving role of the master-print workshop in an Australian context.
The symposium is free but bookings recommended as seating is limited. For bookings, full program, and further information see the website: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/e/prints-printmaking-and-philanthropy
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Roger Butler (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra)
Roger Butler AM is the Senior Curator of Australian Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Australia. During his 38 years at the National Gallery, he has established the foremost collection of prints, posters and book arts of the Australasian region. He has written widely on Australian prints, curated exhibitions and lectured on the subject as well as participating in arts organisations.
A past President of the Print Council of Australia (1986-90), Roger Butler is the initiator and has been the convenor of the Australian Print Symposiums held at the National Gallery regularly since 1989. In 1997 he initiated the WEB access project http://www.australianprints.gov.au, in 2001 The Gordon Darling Fellowship for the study of Australasian Prints, and in 2002 the Gordon Darling Graduate Internship. All are key initiatives in making the Australian print collection at the National Gallery widely known and accessible.
David Maskill (Victoria University, Wellington)
David Maskill (Harold Wright Scholar 2003), was senior lecturer in art history at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand from 1993-2019. He has published a series of articles on Harold Wright in The Journal of the New Zealand Art History, the Melbourne Art Journal and Print Quarterly. He is also a print collector.
David Maskill’s keynote presentation is the 2019 Ursula Hoff Lecture
Irena Zdanowicz
(Independent curator and writer, formerly National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
Irena Zdanowicz is an independent curator and writer, formerly Senior Curator, Prints and Drawings Department, National Gallery of Victoria. A graduate of the University of Melbourne, from 1968 until 2001 she worked as a curator at the National Gallery of Victoria, first in the Department of Decorative Arts and then in Prints and Drawings, where, for the last twenty years, she was Senior Curator and Head of department. Since leaving the NGV she has continued to work as a curator and writer. In 2003 she collaborated (with Stephen Coppel) on the Fred Williams catalogue for the British Museum, and in 2007 curated the Masters of Emotion: Exploring the Emotions from the Old Masters to the Present for Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, and wrote the accompanying catalogue. Since then she has worked on two major projects: an online catalogue raisonné of the prints of Rick Amor, and part two of the Bea Maddock catalogue raisonné (i.e. her work from 1984 to 2016). The first part of the Amor catalogue (intaglios) was published in July 2017, and the online catalogue raisonné of the late work of Bea Maddock is now being constructed.
Ted Gott (Senior Curator of International Art, National Gallery of Victoria)
Ted Gott has curated and co-curated 25 exhibitions, including The Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay (2004), Kiss of the Beast: From Paris Salon to King Kong (2005), Modern Britain 1900-1960 (2007), Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire (2009), Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine (2010) and Napoleon: Revolution to Empire (2012). He has published widely on Australian, British and French art. In 1991 he curated the exhibition The Enchanted Stone: The Graphic Worlds of Odilon Redon at the National Gallery of Victoria. He is currently writing a new biography of Odilon Redon for Reaktion Press, Lon
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