ArlisANZ 2024 Conference
From Science to Art: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions at UNSW Library ArlisANZ (Arts Libraries Society / Australia and New Zealand) 2024 Conference BEING SEEN, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney; 28 November 2024 Abstract: UNSW Library’s Exhibitions Program establishes the Library as a cultural centre point on campus where students, researchers, and the broader community intersect....
Curating Multisensory and Food-Based Art
On 21 September 2022, I presented the talk “Curating Multisensory and Food-Based Art” at the Museum & Galleries of NSW’s event, SPARK: Museums. Ideas. Connections., at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This talk surveys curatorial projects staging multisensory encounters where audiences see, hear, feel, smell, and sometimes taste the artworks on show. It...
Affect and food art
Paper presented at Higher Degree Research Conference (Panel 5: Cultures; Performances; Mediations), UNSW Art & Design, 24 October 2019. Abstract: This art theory PhD examines instances of food art of the 20th century and its proliferation in 21st-century experience-based and immersive art practices. I propose that by employing edible materials, artists activate multisensory experiences that challenge the primacy of optical...
Lecture: Backing Yourself As An Artist
Invited Lecturer, Backing Yourself As An Artist: Professional Development Short Course, convened by Suzanne Davey & Dr. Therese Kenyon, Eramboo Artist Environment; 9 March 2019 Synopsis: As visual artists and craftspeople we occasionally need a boost to deepen our resilience and ability to sustain our art/craft practice. Eramboo is conducting this cultural development course during...
Seer as Seen: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of reversibility applied to food-art
Paper presented at Higher Degree Research Conference (Panel 4), UNSW Art & Design, 4 September 2018. Abstract: This PhD research addresses modern and contemporary practices of food-art, analysing the rationales and aspirations that motivate artists, past and present, to incorporate edible materials into art. To do this, the project investigates philosophical debates regarding hierarchies of the senses,...
Lecture: Still Life Talk at Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery
I have been invited to speak about the history of the still life at Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery on Saturday 12 April at 2pm. The talk is special event for the exhibition The Last Supper by Ken + Julia Yonetani which features a 9-metre banquet table cast from salt. I will be speaking about the...