Past events
Tracing the Grain: Locating the life of the tree in the woodblock | Julian Laffan
Gallery
The grain of trees evident in both woodblocks and prints are an under-acknowledged record of aesthetic co-production between human artists and more-than-human beings. Whilst there is literature centred on the relief woodcut print and the resulting visual communication, there is a significant gap in…
Seminar Series | Anna Parlane
Seminar
Consigning Anarchistic Noise to the Prison-house: Slave Pianos in Historical Context In a purposefully misleading statement, the Melbourne-based art/music collective Slave Pianos (formed 1998 by Rohan Drape, Neil Kelly, Danius Kesminas, and Michael Stevenson) described themselves in 2000 as “a…
Seminar Series | Keren Hammerschlag, Martyn Jolly & Georgia Pike-Rowney
Seminar
"Led by the Beam": The Phenomenon of William Holman Hunt's The Light of the World William Holman Hunt’s The Light of the World (1854, 1857 and 1903) was more than just a Pre-Raphaelite painting declaring the religious symbolism of light, it was also a global event, transfixing audiences…
An Everyday Militarisms Anzac Day Walk & Picnic
Workshop
What exactly do we eat when we eat a biscuit? Join us on Anzac Day for a potluck picnic and taste workshop. We will walk along the new 3km trail commencing at Gubbuh Gubbuh (Middle Head) on unceded Borogegal land (Sydney), NSW. Ship biscuits and Anzac biscuits will be supplied for…
Seminar Series｜Rebecca Edwards
Seminar
Anne Dangar at the National Gallery of Australia Anne Dangar (1885–1951) occupies a unique position in art history as one of Australia’s most important, yet underacknowledged modern artists. Almost a century ago in 1930, she moved permanently to the artist colony Moly-Sabata in France, established…
Seminar Series | Anthony Gardner
Seminar
Art in an Age of Perpetual Distraction We live in an age of perpetual distraction. Think of our compulsions for social media. Or the algorithmic marketing that seeks to lure our focus from website to website and product to product. Or the pervasiveness of mobile technologies and rapid editing that…
Soil Breathes | Sophia Dacy-Cole
Gallery
You are invited to commune with the local soils. These artworks were all made in collaboration with the soils I steward at Wamboin, a short drive from here. Myself and my workshop participants have used scientific tools as tools of soil communion and intimacy. We have used microscopes and…