Monochrome Painting Between the East and West - David Thomas
In this JAHM Session, David Thomas, RMIT Emeritus Professor in the School of Art, unpacks ideas of complexity, time and perception in relation to Monochrome Painting. David considers the relationship between content and materiality, between something and nothing and explores the differences between the approaches of the East and West.
The Jewish Concept of Nothingness - Paul Forgasz
In this JAHM Session, hear renowned scholar historian and academic, Paul Forgasz, present an exploration of the intriguing Jewish mystical idea that the Divine exists only in ‘nothingness ’, which is the beginning of everything that is something.
Can an Ultramarine Monochrome be a Self Portrait? - Charles Justin
Charles Justin AM - architect, art collector and co-founder of JAHM entered a painted ultramarine, blue monochrome self-portrait in 2025's Archibald Prize. It is titled SELFIE: Self Portrait as a Variation on the Theme of Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs. This talk explores the purpose of a painted portrait in an age where 92 million Selfies are posted online every day. In this context, Charles' examination of his self-portrait, speculates on what is relevant today in a painted representation of an individual.
Three Threads of Abstraction - Jarrod Haberfield
Join Jarrod Haberfield, scholar and critic, as he delivers an illustrated lecture that reveals his passion for abstraction. In this lecture he will explore and explain the three threads of abstraction – minimalism, chromatics and markmaking, revealing the layers that can be found in works that may on initial inspection seem impenetrable, yet reward a closer look.
Artists and the Built World - Jarrod Haberfield
Following his previous sell-out talks on collecting and house museums at JAHM, Jarrod Haberfield joins us again to present the diverse and unexpected responses to the built world by a broad selection of the world’s contemporary artists.
GESAMTKUNSTWERK: The House-Museum as a Total Work of Art - Jarrod Haberfield
Jarrod Haberfield is an architect, educator and scholar with abiding interests in architecture and museology. Hear Jarrod share his ruminations on how we engage with art in the highly personalised and visually distracting world of the house-museum, compared with the rarefied, distraction-free world of the institutional art museum.