Across March we’ll be Reading the City; shining a light on the many ways we understand and talk about Melbourne itself. From the city as an abstract concept to the physical landscape in all its permutations, we’ll be hearing from visual artists and architects, policy makers and designers, novelists and historians. The City of Literature becomes the focus, and you’ll never read it the same way again.
Art on the City
Chaired by Chris McAuliffe, Harriet Edquist, David Hansen, Cat Poljski and Jan Senbergs discuss how artists go about interpreting the city. What are the challenges of depicting Melbourne through art? How do they see the city as an imaginative space?
Dr Chris McAuliffe is Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at The University of Melbourne. Prior to that he was for ten years a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne.
Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University.
Over the course of his career Dr David Hansen has curated or managed more than 80 exhibitions, including landmark projects such as John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque (2003), The Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial (1993) and The Face of Australia (1988).
Cat Poljski is a printmaker who works from her studio on Lygon Street and has just returned from New York City where she continues to “Trace Space”.
Jan Senbergs is an artist who lives in Melbourne and has held regular one-man exhibitions since the early 1960s.
This is a free event. Booking recommended.
176 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne
Victoria 3000
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