The Art Theory Workshop presents a lively program of public lectures and talks by notable local, interstate and international members of the arts community. The SoA Annual Lecture is held each October while Art Forum is held weekly during semester.

2009 Art Forum
Lectures are held in the School's Lecture Theatre from 1 - 2pm and members of the public are cordially invited to attend.

Wednesday 2 September Dr Flossie Peitsh; Holly Brackman
Flossie Peitsch’s practice includes installation, performance, new media, photography, home craft and collaboration as ‘splace’.

Holly Brackmann is Professor Emerita of Textiles and Art History at Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA. She will speak about her book ‘The Surface Designer’s Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, Painting and Creating Resists on Fabric’.

Thursday 3 September Dawn Detarando
Dawn Detarando’s current body of work deals with a personal narrative of migration. Dawn co-runs and operates a successful tile making and public art business, Voyager Art and Tile, and is a Visiting Artist in the Ceramics Workshop.

Wednesday 9 September Barbara Campbell
Barbara Campbell works primarily in the medium of performance. Her recent project “1001 Nights cast”, drew on the format of “1001 Nights” in a continuous series of nightly live webcast performances between 2005 and 2008. Barbara is visiting the School of Art as part of Beginning Middle and End to conduct experimental drawing workshops.

Thursday 10 September Andrew Nicholls
Inspired by the links between blue and white china dinnerware and British imperialism, Blue Australian references the way the blue and white medium has been used historically to articulate colonial narrative. Andrew Nicholls’ works draw upon this legacy to explore anxiety and melancholia implicit in postcolonial Australian culture.
Blue Australian is on show at Craft ACT from 10th September - 17 October

Friday 11 September Special Forum – Emmanuel Garibay
Prominent Filipino painter Emmanuel Garibay will speak about his work. Mr Garibay’s visit is supported by the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines.

Wednesday 16 September Dr Owen Rye
Owen Rye has worked in many aspects of ceramics including archaeology, teaching, making and exhibiting, delivering workshops, curating, organising conferences, writing books and articles. He taught at Canberra School of Art in the early 1980s. His talk will reflect on his diverse career.

Thursday 17 September Anne-Marie Jean
Anne-Marie Jean graduated from the ANU School of Art in 1996. She moved to New Zealand in 2000 and uses both North and South island landscapes as inspiration for her work. Anne-Marie is a Visiting Artist in the Painting Workshop.

Wednesday 23 September Gilles Aubry
Gilles Aubry is a Swiss sound artist, composer & musician. He uses field recordings, computer programming, surround sound, hacked electronics and improvisation to create live performances, sound installations, CD and radio pieces. Grrounding is a new live set based on sound recordings collected at several European airports.

 
Thursday 24 September Isobel Crombie
Isobel Crombie is Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria. Her publications include “Body Culture: Max Dupain, Photography and Australian Culture”, a study of the relationship between the work of Max Dupain and the body culture movement of the interwar period.

Friday 25 September Special Forum – EJ Lightman and Anne O’Callaghan
Canadian artists EJ Lightman and Anne O’Callaghan are in Canberra as part of an exchange project between The Tree Museum in Canada, the Glassworks Canberra, the School of Art and Craft ACT. They will be making site based work in Namadji and will be visiting the Printmedia Workshop.

Wednesday 14 October Professor Tony Capon & Dr Jane Dixon
Sydney’s Contested Landscapes: A Research Project and Field Study 2010
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Tony Capon and Jane Dixon will discuss the way in which this project brings creative artists and scientists together to address the impact of climate change on communities in Western Sydney, exploring contests between housing, agriculture, roads, industry and their implications for the health of people and planet.

Wednesday 14 October ANNUAL LECTURE
Dr Ann Stephen - Narelle Jubelin & the looting of modernism
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Hedley Bull Centre (Building 130) 6.30 pm
Despite successive efforts to mark the demise of modernism and its museums,some of the most interesting contemporary art returns to haunt the hallowed sites and ruins of 20th century modernism. In recent projects that revisit, resurrect or reinvent modernism, such as the installations of Narelle Jubelin, the art of the ‘60s has come to assume considerable significance.
Dr Ann Stephen is Senior Curator, University of Sydney Art Gallery and Art Collection.

Thursday 15 October Penny Cain
Penny Cain is a cross-disciplinary artist who works primarily with video, photography and installation. Since graduating from the ANU School of Art in 2001 Penny has had a prolific practice and has recently shown work in Beginning Middle and End.

Wednesday 21 October Liam Dee
Liam Dee is currently a visiting fellow at the School of Art after working as a lecturer in design history and theory at the University of South Australia. His current research interests include time and culture, aesthetic consciousness and negations of art, the latter being the basis of a book project.

Thursday 22 October David Broker & Barbara McConchie
David Broker, Director of Canberra Contemporary Art Space and Barbara McConchie, Director of Craft ACT, will discuss practical issues relevant to everyone who is getting ready to embark on their post-art school careers.

Program details for the lectures are subject to change.

Enquiries: (02) 6125 5810