Talks & lectures
My public speaking experience includes lectures, panel talks and in-conversations on everything from peer-led learning to digital rights and contemporary arts practice. Audiences have included art sector peers, university students, young people and the general public.
Australian Museums & Galleries Association National Conference, Newcastle, nSW - 16 May 2023
Panel talk (chair): “Speaking Up: Reflecting on the National Gallery of Australia’s pilot program supporting critical young voices.”
A NEW APPROACH WEBINAR: Enduring Foundations, Bold Ambitions - 19 October 2021
For more about A New Approach and this webinar, see my post.
Clockwise from top left: Kate Fielding, CEO, A New Approach; Cara Kirkwood, Head of Indigenous Engagement & Strategy, National Gallery of Australia; Professor John Daley AM; me.
ART COLLECTOR: Pull focus Interview. Abdul Abdullah & Abdul-Rahman Abdullah - 24 August, 2021
I couldn’t say no to the opportunity to talk with Abdul Abdullah & Abdul-Rahman Abdullah for Art Collector’s Pull Focus series.
These are two artists whose work I hugely admire and respect but it was their friendship and brotherly love - and their creative relationship - that was the biggest joy to learn more about. Their exhibition Peripheries was held at Moore Contemporary in Perth in August-September 2021.
CHURCHILL CHAT: Equity, Inclusion & the impact of COVID on the Arts Sector - 30 August 2021
For more information about this Churchill Chat, see my post.
Australian Museums & Galleries Association National Conference - 9 June 2021
In June 2021 I was a guest speaker at the AMaGA National Conference in Canberra (7-10 June), which was themed “Creating the Future: Trust, Diversity & Imagination.”
My talk reflected on the findings in my Churchill Fellowship and the MCA GENEXT impact report. It was titled: “Trusting the leaders of tomorrow, today: on the importance of youth-led arts learning programs.”
SAMAG PANEL TALK - 15 JUNE 2020
In June 2020 I was invited by Sydney Arts Management Group (SAMAG) to reflect on my Churchill Fellowship experience as part of the panel talk, Bringing it home: Innovation & ideas from the Churchill Fellowship, which was held via Zoom during the COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney (my presentation begins at 29:45).
I was joined by my fellow Fellows Morwenna Collett and Patricia Adjei, who also received arts-related Fellowships in 2018.
TE TUHI TALKS, August 2017
In August 2017 I spoke at Te Tuhi in Auckland as part of their annual Talks Series. This hour-long talk about peer-led learning and partnership projects reflected on my experiences working on the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project in London; piloting Kaldor Public Art Project’s Regional Youth Engagement Program; and my current role as Young Creatives Coordinator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
The talk was followed by a workshop with youth educators and public programmers from across New Zealand.
KALDOR PUBLIC ART PROJECT 30 - Marina Abramovic: In Residence, 3 July 2015
ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES: Fresh Faces - New thinking on portraiture Symposium, 9 August 2014
A symposium presented as part of the public program accompanying the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s Archibald Prize exhibition.
My paper, 'This book is not what I’m looking for in a book of portraits!’: reflections on 21st Century Portraits’ reflected on the institutional and theoretical concerns that informed the development and publication of 21st Century Portraits.
As a book produced by the National Portrait Gallery London, what were some of the political and curatorial considerations that shaped its making? As a survey of contemporary art made since the year 2000, what were some of the significant social, geo-political and art historical developments that had to be addressed?
In researching, considering, debating and ultimately writing about this diverse collection of portraits, I suggest that 21st-century portraits – the publication and the art – are ultimately studies, not of the sitter, but of this particular 21st-century moment and its viewer.
