We Need to Talk About Art: Writing around Contemporary Art
When: Saturday 15 October, 2pm - 3pm (1hr inc. Q&A)
Where: Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Cost: Free
All sorts of writings appear in and around contemporary art - sometimes in the artwork itself, more often supporting it, analysing it, and sometimes in the form of critical appraisal.
Julie Ewington will explore what writing can do to open up conversations about contemporary art: to help us talk about what we see, to think through how art strikes us. Writing is an excellent way to think through art encounters, and in this talk Julie will consider several distinct types of art writing: for exhibition wall texts and catalogues; what interview texts can tell us; and why honest criticism is important.
Julie Ewington is a curator, writer and broadcaster based in Sydney. Her chief pleasure as a curator is working closely with artists, assisting them to bring their particular version of the world, and their fresh ideas about it, to new audiences and new conversations.
From the mid-1980s Julie worked as a curator in Australian galleries and museums. Between 2001-2014 she led the Australian Art department at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and was a contributing curator for Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art between 1996-2012, working with both Southeast Asian and Australian artists. Recent curatorial projects include The Sculpture of Bronwyn Oliver, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria (2016); Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism, at ACCA, Melbourne (2017); and The Housing Question: Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin and Sherre DeLys, for Penrith Regional Gallery. (2019).
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