3 - 5pm Round Table Forum 

With representatives from national cultural institutions, private collectors and independent makers. Speakers include: Alison Alder, Carol Wells, Nathan Woolley, Mini Graff, Nick Henderson, Libby Stewart, Michael Evans, Jason Wing, Kylie Message, Guy Hansen, Alex Torrens, Emily Catt,  Justine van Mourik, Chris Chapman, Kate Ross, Roger Butler, Rebecca Gibbs, Costa Nikolakopoulos, Ivo Lovric, Nigel Lendon, Tim Bonyhady, Charlotte Craw.

 

6pm Keynote: Ms Carol A. Wells, Director, Centre for the Study of Political Graphics, USA

Roger Butler, Senior Curator of Australian Prints and Drawings, NGA

Associate Professor Kylie Message, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, RSHA, ANU

 

5.45 / 7.15 Up Against the Wall – Projections on the ANU School of Art front façade

 

Picturing Politics is a symposium structured to debate and discuss current research and activity regarding political printed graphics and the contested space of their production, dissemination and collection. Delivered from the perspectives of collector, curator and academic the symposium features presentations by Carol A. Wells, Roger Butler AM and Associate Professor Kylie Message. 

 

Keynote: Can Art Stop a War and Save a Planet?

Carol A. Wells is an activist, art historian, curator, lecturer and writer and the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Political Graphics in the United States. The CSPG is an educational and research archive with more the 85,000 domestic and international human rights and protest posters going back to the 19th century. Her articles on art and politics have appeared in numerous publications and catalogues, including Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change. 

 

A Place for Posters

Roger Butler has established the foremost collection of prints, posters and book arts of the Australasian region. The collection now numbers over 37,000 prints from Australia (including Aboriginal Australia), Aotearoa New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. The Drawing collection holds over 30,000 works, including watercolours and artist’s sketchbooks. Butler has written widely on Australian prints, curated exhibitions, lectured on the subject as well as participated in arts organisations. 

 

Curatorial activism & contemporary cause-based collecting at the National Museum of American History 

Associate Professor Kylie Message is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research investigates the role that museums play as sites of cultural and political exchange. Her new book series, Museums In Focus, challenges authors and readers to radically rethink the relationships between cultural and intellectual dissent and crisis and debates about museums, politics and the broader public sphere.

 

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!