Public Talks
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.
2010 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 21 April Diana James – The Colour of Song
Tonal chords of colour in western Expressionism and Western Desert art.
Dr Diana James’ recent book Painting the Song about arts on the APY Lands was published in 2009. The Anangu artists’ say painting the Tjukurpa (Dreaming) song of the land is only possible for people who hear music when they see country. These artists’ perception is synaesthetic: hearing the song produces visual images of country; seeing painted symbols invokes a chorus of many voices flooding the brain with song. This seminar explores the synaesthetic connectivity of colour with song and music in the art of Paul Klee and Western Desert acrylic painting of the APY Lands.
Thursday 22 April Joseph Cavalieri
New York Glass artist Joseph Cavalieri’s mission is to take painted stained glass out of the church and into peoples homes. He works in highly detailed multi layered glass panels with imagery of Bart and Lisa on the cross, baby Maggie being reincarnated and fables inspired by French poet Jean de La Fontaine.
Wednesday 28 April Floortalk: Savanhdary Vongpoothorn
Note venue: ANU School of Art Gallery
Born in Laos in 1971, renowned artist Savanhdary Vongpoothorn now lives and works in Canberra. Her highly detailed work acknowledges a range of influences, including Lao textiles, calligraphy, aspects of the Australian landscape and Aboriginal art. Her work can be seen in Ephemeral but Eternal Words: Traces of Asia, currently on show in the ANU School of Art Gallery.
Thursday 29 April Maureen Williams
Maureen Williams is a highly respected glass artist who is currently visiting the Glass Workshop. Williams is known for her blown glass vessels that incorporate her painted images within the glass. Her work addresses issues of landscape and the natural environment.
Wednesday 5 May Peter Adsett
For the past 20 years Peter Adsett’s practice has been committed to 'abstraction' that is beyond picturing. For Adsett, painting is an inherently political act, a process that allows him to literally enact conflict resolution and cross-cultural dialogue. Peter is a Visiting Artist in the Painting Workshop.
Wednesday 12 May Kate Murphy
Kate Murphy graduated from the ANU School of Art in 1999 and since that time has established herself as a highly regarded artist. She works with video and addresses aspects of self portrait in her art. Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne and the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane as well as internationally. Kate’s most recent exhibition was at BREENSPACE in Sydney.
Thursday 13 May Hamilton Darroch
Ham Darroch works in sculpture, performance and drawing. His practice explores personal commentaries on everyday objects, movement, place, and perception. His performances create interactions with the public to investigate various tensions between the physical and psychological. Ham will speak about his own practice and his experiences working with other artists such as Bridget Riley, for whom he has worked as an assistant since 2006.
Wednesday 19 May Sarah Scott
Disintergration and Regeneration: Art and life in the Darwin region.
The period between 2005 and 2008 witnessed an unprecedented flowering of Darwin’s cultural scene. At the same time, it also saw the Federal Government’s emergency intervention into indigenous communities, and the hospitalisation in Darwin of Jose Ramos Horta after an assassination attempt in February 2008 brought the politics of East Timor directly to the city’s doorstep. Sarah Scott will describe the unique interplay between art, the natural environment, culture and politics in Darwin during this complex time.
The period between 2005 and 2008 witnessed an unprecedented flowering of Darwin’s cultural scene. At the same time, it also saw the Federal Government’s emergency intervention into indigenous communities, and the hospitalisation in Darwin of Jose Ramos Horta after an assassination attempt in February 2008 brought the politics of East Timor directly to the city’s doorstep. Sarah Scott will describe the unique interplay between art, the natural environment, culture and politics in Darwin during this complex time.
Thursday 20 May Ampersand Duck
Renowned book artist and blogger Ampersand Duck (also known as Caren Florance) describes herself as an ‘artist who likes to play with books in many ways, from wayward bibliographical musings through to altering found and newly-printed pages’. She will discuss the intricacies and curiosities of book art.
Wednesday 26 May Chris Fortescue
Chris recently completed a PhD at the School of Art and is currently a Visiting Artist in the Sculpture Workshop. His practice embraces sound, installation, animation, web-art and photomedia. He has exhibited extensively and has been collected by major institutions.
Thursday 27 May Ilona Romule
Ilona Romule is a ceramicist from Riga, Latvia. Her slip cast porcelain figures are internationally recognised and she renowned for her use of semi-erotic imagery. Ilona is a Visiting Artist in the Ceramics Workshop.
Program details for the lectures are subject to change.
Enquiries: (02) 6125 5810
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