Past events
Art & Sex: Leah Emery
Art forum
Leah Emery appropriates pornographic images which highlight the awkward and bizarre fare that consumers of pornography are regularly offered. Contemporary erotic bodies in popular culture are typically tanned, taut, manipulated, shining and hairless and as such are eerily alike. Collecting and…
Ariadne’s Thread: The Forensic Art of Provenance
Workshop
Anne Halpern, Senior Provenance Researcher for the National Gallery in Washington Joint Seminar hosted by School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics and Centre for Art History & Art Theory The provenance, or ‘biography’, of an artwork or object is a hierarchical form of classification…
1/2014: Visual Arts Graduate Season
Gallery
This series of exhibitions brings together the work of students completing their studies in the Graduate research program at the ANU School of Art. The work they present in these exhibitions at the School of Art Gallery is characteristically diverse, involving a spread of disciplines and thematic…
Russell Baldon
Art forum
Fringe Forum Russell Baldon grew up in the central valley of California where he designed and built wooden toys for his family-owned company. Upon moving to San Francisco in 1984, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in furniture from the California College of Arts and Crafts. He went on to receive a…
Art & Sex: Peter Maloney
Art forum
Peter Maloney has been a practising artist since the mid 1970s when he was taught by artists Bea Maddock and Gareth Samson. Their influence left a lasting urge to create works infused with existential problems of occupying a body subject to the vagaries of sex, health, shifting vitality and…
Cao Zhenrong and Cao Hong – Chinese “Qinhuai” Lantern masters
Art forum
Fringe Forum The Cao family, from Nanjing, has long been renowned for its kite and lantern makers. In 1949, at five years of age, Cao Zhenrong began learning his art in the family workshop. In 1964 however, amid a “Party Rectification” campaign, the workshop was closed, and Cao was sent to be a…
Art & Sex: Frank Bongiorno
Art forum
The Sex Lives of Australians Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – The Sex Lives of Australians charts the changing sex lives of Australians. Tracing the story from Botany Bay to the present-day, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another…