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Symposium — The Edwardians: secrets and desires
Friday 24 September 2004
Paul Mellon
Centre for Studies in British Art London UK
in conjunction with
Menzies Centre
for Australian Studies London UK
Edwardians: secrets and desires symposium
National Gallery of Australia
12 and 13 March 2004
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A Symposium was held at the National Gallery of Australia in conjunction
with the exhibition on Friday 12 March and Saturday 13 March 2004.
International Keynote Speakers were Professor Kenneth McConkey, Dean of School
of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University who presented a paper
entitled British and American artists in Paris 1890–1910 and
Christine Riding, Curator, Tate Britain, who presented Old masters and
Edwardian portraiture: Gainsborough’s Blue Boy.
Other speakers included:
- Dr Anne Gray, Assistant Director, Australian Art, National Gallery of
Australia, and the curator of the exhibition
Art and Artifice;
- Dr Ann Galbally, Associate Professor, School of Art History, Cinema, Classics
and Archeology, University of Melbourne
The Outsider. Charles Conder's European reputation;
- Dr Ted Gott, Senior Curator, International Painting and Sculpture, National
Gallery of Victoria
Collecting Edwardian art for the NGV;
- Angus Trumble, Yale Centre for British Art, USA
Edwardian Colonial Baroque: The Portrait of Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham
by John Singer Sargent;
- Ron Radford, Director, Art Gallery of South Australia
Federation Landscapes;
- Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Senior Lecturer in History of Art, University of
Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Women of Today: female artists in the Edwardian era;
- Professor Sasha Grishin, Convenor, Art History, Australian National University
Australians Abroad;
- Dr Andrew Montana, Lecturer, Art History, Australian National University
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For further information:
Dr Anna Gray Assistant Director,
Australian Art, NGA
Susan Herbert Head of Education
and Public Programs, NGA
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