Curious Corner: Babies in Arms

Nature with Carol Cains
Nov 2024

Carol Cains, Senior Curator, Asian and Pacific Art, on Nature, which focuses on the natural world as inspiration for artists. Carol introduced Nature and led a conversation about the ways that artists have responded to the natural world.

Masami Teraoka with Kira Godoroja-Prieckaerts
Oct 2024

Kira Godoroja-Prieckaerts, Kenneth E. Tyler Assistant Curator, International Prints and Drawings, on Masami Teraoka’s printmaking practice. This talk delved into the influences of Japanese ukiyo-e prints and American Pop art on Teraoka’s work, with a particular focus on printmaking techniques employed in his Hawaii Snorkel Series, 1992-93, published by Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, New York.

Australian Art with Deirdre Cannon
Sep 2024

Deirdre Cannon, Assistant Curator, Australian Art, highlighting Australian artists in the national collection. This talk delved into the work of Australian artist Jenny Watson, focusing on her large-scale painting, The horse hospital, 1983.

Anni and Josef Albers with Imogen Dixon-Smith
Aug 2024

Imogen Dixon-Smith, Kenneth E. Tyler Curator, International Prints and Drawings, on the life and work of Anni and Josef Albers. This talk delved into Josef's experimental process of colour theory and Anni’s exploration of pattern making and weaving, practices influenced by their time with the Bauhaus.

Photography with Anne O'Hehir
Jun 2024

Anne O’Hehir, Curator of Photography, International Art, on photographic works in the national collection. This talk featured the 19th-century botanical cyanotype photographs by British artist Anna Atkins and Anne Ferran’s Untitled photogram seriesd.

A Century of Quilts with Alice Rezende
May 2024

Alice Rezende, Curatorial Assistant, Australian Art, on A Century of Quilts. This exhibition showcased exceptional examples of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century quilts made using techniques including crazy quilting, hexagonal, log cabin and tumbling block piecing, embroidery, and appliqué.

Vincent Namatjira: Australia in Colour with Bruce Johnson-Mclean
Apr 2024

Assistant Director of First Nations Engagement and Head Curator of First Nations Art, Bruce Johnson-McLean, Weirdi, Birri-Gubba peoples, on Vincent Namatjira, the first Indigenous artist to win the Archibald Prize. This talk focused on Namatjira as a subversive and witty portraitist.

Deep Inside My Heart with Lucina Ward
Mar 2024

Lucina Ward, Senior Curator, International Art, on Deep Inside My Heart. This exhibition delved into the works of prominent female artists who use representations of the body to express themes of politics, gender and identity.

Surrealism with David Greenhalgh
Feb 2024

David Greenhalgh, Kenneth E Tyler Assistant Curator, International Prints & Drawing, on the Surrealist works of art in the national collection, including René Magritte’s Les Amants [The lovers] 1928 and Hannah Höch’s Imaginäre Brücke [Imaginary bridge] 1926.

Making it Modern with Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax
Sep 2023

Dr Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax, Curator, Australian Prints & Drawings, on Know My Name: Making it Modern. This talk focused on the recurring themes of childhood and play in the prints and paintings of Australian artist Ethel Spowers.