Jillian Bradshaw Memorial Lecture
Dr Jillian Bradshaw began her teaching career at St Hilda's Girls School.
In 1970 she was appointed as a tutor in the Department of French Studies at the University of Western Australia. During this period she completed her Ph.D. and was subsequently offered a lectureship in the Department of French at Wollongong University in 1976. In 1978 she travelled to Paris where she studied at Ecole du Louvre. On her return to Australia she was offered the position of Senior Tutor in the Department of Art and Design at WAIT, a position she held until her untimely death in Morocco in 1983.
Jillian Bradshaw was a much loved and admired teacher and colleague whose intellectual rigour was matched by a finely honed wit and a deep and genuine compassion for others.
2010
Tony Godfrey
Degas: My Contemporary
Tony Godfrey is Professor of Fine Art, University of Plymouth. He has taught at Yale, New York and Oxford Universities and at Sotheby's Institute since 1989. Since 1978 he has published extensively on contemporary art and been a regular contributor to exhibition catalogues and periodicals including Art in America, Art Monthly, and The Burlington Magazine. His Painting Today was published last year by Phaidon Press. Other books include Conceptual Art (1998) which is still in print and has been translated into French, German, Greek, Japanese and Korean, Drawing Today (1990) and The New Image: Painting in the 1980s (1986). Drawing on Degas' (1834 - 1917) obsession with the body, process and his desire to make his own museum, the lecture will re-evaluate Degas by comparing him with several contemporary artists.
20 October 5.30 for 6pm
Art Gallery of Western Australia Theatrette (James Street entrance)
This is a free public event
Booking essential: Phone: 92662273
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Past Lectures
- 2007 Dr Raphael Cuir, What doesn't kill us makes us stronger
- 2006 Dr Rex Butler, UnAustralian Art
- 2005 Professor Hubert Besacier, The House in Contemporary French Art
- 2004 Andrea Zapp, Networked Narrative Environments as an Aesthetics of Dislocation and Difference
- 2003 Judy Watson, learning from the ground up
- 2002 Victoria, Vesna, From Bodies to Networks to Nano Systems and Back
- 2001 Susan Cohn, techno craft
- 2000 Dr. Betty Churcher, Communicating: Doing it the Hard Way
- 1999 Rachel Weiss, Some Notes on the Agency of Exhibitions
- 1998 Elizabeth Gertsakis, East Meets West: Fragile Moralities and Art's Idealism
- 1997 Dick Hebdige, Syndrome X: Autobiography and Vertigo
- 1996 Tracey Moffatt, An Illustrated Lecture on her Work
- 1995 Nola Farman, Electronic Technology and the Circuitous
- 1994 Narelle Jubelin, An Illustrated Lecture on her Work
- 1993 Dr. Zoe Sofoulis, Interdictions, Intersections, Interfacings:Women, Technology, Art and Philosophy
- 1992 Carol Rudyard, Unfamiliar Objects; Interior Views; Aspects of Video Installation Work
- 1991 Helmut Lueckenhausen, Culture in the Making
- 1990 Dr Robyn Maxwell, Indian Textiles in Southeast Asia
- 1989 Thomas Gibbons, Vorticism and Gnosticism
- 1988 Julie Lewis, Kathleen O'Conner: A Further Impression
- 1987 Humphrey McQueen, Image Design and Ideology in Australian Postage Stamps
- 1986 Fred Cress, A Painter's View
- 1985 Dr Ursula Hoff, AM OBE, The Landscapes of Arthur Boyd
- 1984 Peter Fuller, Art in 1984
Curtin University of Technology acknowledges the generosity of Mr. & Mrs. Armstrong, parents of the late Jillian Bradshaw, in providing funds to endow public lectures on art and design by distinguished visiting speakers.
