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Dates & Times
Thursday 31 October
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Location
NGV Australia, Federation Square
The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square
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Inspired by Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou and Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic, on display at NGV Australia, explore contemporary artists, writers and thinkers whose work features the same figures again and again. How do these representations subvert traditional notions of the muse?
Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.
This event will be Auslan interpreted.
Featuring
Maria Quirk
Dr Maria Quirk is the Project Officer for Research and Acquisitions at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). A historian of women's and art history, she has previously held academic positions at the University of Queensland and Deakin University, and is a former State Library of Queensland research fellow.
Maria's research has previously appeared in Woman's Art Journal, The Journal of Victorian Culture and Visual Culture in Britain. Her first monograph, Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England: The Hustle and the Scramble was published by Bloomsbury in 2019.
Susan van Wyk
Susan van Wyk is the Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria. Since joining the NGV she has worked on more than sixty exhibitions of Australian and international photography.
Her most recent project is the exhibition and accompanying catalogue Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou. Over a thirty-year career Susan has published widely on photography, and is the author of a number of books including No Standing Only Dancing: Photographs by Rennie Ellis, The Paris End: Photography Fashion and Glamour, and she was co-author of Colony: Australia 1770-1861, Follow the flag: Australian artists at war and Second Sight: Australian Photography in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Eloise Grills
Eloise Grills is a writer and visual artist living on Dja Dja Wurrung land. Her collection of illustrated nonfiction, big beautiful female theory, was shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize and the Indie Book Award for Illustrated Nonfiction.
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Maria Tumarkin
Maria Tumarkin writes books, essays, reviews, and pieces for performance and radio; she collaborates with sound and visual artists and has had her work carved into dockside tiles. She is the author of four books of ideas. Her fourth (and latest) book Axiomatic won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award (US), the Stella Prize, and the Prime Minister’s, NSW and Victorian Premiers’ Awards. Axiomatic was named a New Yorker Top 10 Book of 2019.
Maria is a recipient of the 2020 Windham Campbell Prize in the category of nonfiction. She holds a PhD in cultural history and teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Melbourne.
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