Plant Sensibilia at Canberra Spinners and Weavers
Event
Activity description In partnership with the Canberra Spinners and Weavers, and 2026 Craft + Design Canberra Festival, please join us for the final Plant Sensibilia event for Living City: People, Plants, and Place, presented by Dr Rebecca Mayo. Visit the Canberra Spinners and Weavers new dye…
Art & Design Forum | Emily Hunt
Lecture/seminar
Poppets and Puppets: Articulations of Analog and Animistic Intelligence with Emily HuntEmily Hunt creates ornamental, figurative ceramics. Her history as a rare book dealer has informed her encyclopaedic approach to her art making. Through drawing, painting, etching, and ceramics, Hunt investigates…
Peripheral Visions
Lecture/seminar
The periphery is always someone else’s centre, and the distinctions constructed in our field between the local and the international have always been rather awkward. Furthermore, rural or urban conditions of production don’t necessarily contradict those we find in the big city or in the centre.…
Art & Design Forum | Freddy Tsimba and Cecilia Järdemar
Seminar
Material Witnesses: Freddy Tsimba in conversation with Cecilia Järdemar Internationally acclaimed Congolese sculptor Freddy Bienvenu Tsimba is known for his powerful works created from found and discarded materials, including bullet casings, keys, spoons and machetes. Born in Kinshasa,…
Circulating Empire Eugenics: Masculinity & Maternity c.1900
Art forum
In 1888, two major figure paintings were acquired from the Paris Salon for the nascent Art Gallery of New South Wales. What role might Gaston La Touche’s First Born (L’Acouchée, 1887) and François Sallé’s The Anatomy Lesson at the École des Beaux-Arts (1888) have played in the early visual…
Art & Design Forum | Yixin (Leo) Chen
Art forum
A Study of Creative Approaches in Multi-colour Clay 3D Printing: From Invisible Rules to Material ImageHDR Confirmation of Candidature PresentationThis research explores the expressive possibilities of material images through multi-colour clay 3D printing. It grows out of my ceramic practice and an…
Art & Design Forum | Gillian Daniel
Art forum
Making Waves: Long Nineteenth-Century Maritime Pictures and the Straits of Malacca and SingaporeHDR Oral Presentation This dissertation will examine maritime pictures of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore made in the British empire during the long nineteenth century. By ‘maritime pictures’,…