Entwined: knowledge & power in the age of Captain Cook The Portico Library 23 Aug – 13 Oct 2018 Conceived and curated by Dr Helen Idle in collaboration with Dr Peter Kilroy, Menzies Australia Institute, and James Moss The Portico Library. The motivation for this exhibition was to bring The Portico Library’s first edition of…
Who is exploring where
A response to Sidney Nolan painting – see the image Explorer and Township here at the Sidney Nolan Trust website. —- This small white face here, almost hovering at the edge of town, draws me back to her time and again. Her bright green shawl brushes down the side of one cheek, perhaps in preparation for…
Killed in Action 4 July 1918
Ernest Roger Kelly, of North Fremantle, was killed outright in the Battle of Hamel, in France on 4 July 1918, aged 23. A letter dated 22 February 1919 was sent to his father Andrew and mother Elizabeth Mary in reference to the late No.7492 Private E.R. Kelly, 44th Battalion. In part it read: ‘I am…
Cotton to Gold
Two Temple Place Museum | Cotton to Gold: Extraordinary Collections of the Industrial North West The light glances off the copper/brass sailing ship weather vane as it shivers in the light cold wind of February, sitting high atop Two Temple Place beside the Embankment. The Thames River flowing out to sea can be sensed just…
My wander through ‘Australia’
The article via the link below comes from a paper I delivered at the Art and Diplomacy II Symposium convened in response to the ‘Australia’ exhibition in autumn 2013. ‘Australia’ was curated by the Royal Academy and National Gallery of Australia and raised many an eyebrow from local and Australian critics – for different reasons….
Scotland decides
Polls showing it’s too close to call on this last day before the referendum. As we hear, it is estimated that 97% of eligible voters have enrolled to make their historical mark. My Highland friends and family are saying Yes to Independence from the Tories of the South – which will leave us in a…
Crossroads in Tampere
Tampere township in Finland was the host city for 450 international delegates attending the Association for Cultural Studies 10th Crossroads conference in Cultural Studies July 2014. As part of the UTS Transforming Cultures and Friends posse presenting papers under the organising theme of Hometown, I presented a paper ‘Making up Hometown’ session entitled Where are you…
Right is Wrong
Coming up at the Bildmuseet in Umeå, northern Sweden, an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art spanning four decades from the M+ Sigg Collection. Opens 8 June until 12 October 2014. Curated by Lars Nittve, Pi Li and Katarina Pierre in collaboration with Uli Sigg. Follow this link to the website here I’ve been working with…
19th Biennale of Sydney
Ann Lislegaard, Norway: lives and works in Copenhagen & NYC Time Machine, 2011 at Carriageworks Lislegaard explains: an animated talking fox-like creature is projected into a folded mirror box.The fox-like creature delivers a stuttering account of a visit to a distant future. Throughout this story, the voice and the the narrative, seems on the edge…
Scott Ludlam tells it like it is
Senator Scott Ludlam ‘Welcome to Western Australia’