Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 07 March
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Angus Trumble, Senior Curator of Paintings for the Yale Centre for British Art, provides some pointers
on the finger, in a collision between art and science, history and pop culture. From Guernica to the Sistine Chapel, Trumble offers a witty and perverse look at matters digital.
In conversation with David Hansen
Featuring
Angus Trumble
Angus Trumble is the author of The Finger: A Handbook and Brief History of the Smile.
Angus Trumble is the youngest of four brothers and was born and raised in Victoria. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, and of New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where he was a Fulbright Scholar in 1994–95. From 1996 to 2001 he was Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide, and since 2003 has been Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.
David Hansen
David Hansen has worked as a regional gallery director, a State museum curator and an art auction house researcher and specialist; in 2014 he was appointed Associate Professor at the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at the Australian National University.
With over 35 years’ experience in the visual arts and museums sector, Dr Hansen has curated more than 80 exhibitions, while his writings on art have been widely published in newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, exhibition catalogues and books. The catalogue of his 2017 National Portrait Gallery exhibition Dempsey’s People won the 2018 William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History.