May
26
7:30 PM19:30

ARCHITECTURE and IDENTITY with Graham Burrows

Jackson Clements Burrows Architects (JCB) is a multi-disciplinary practice specialising in architecture, interior design, and urban design. The studio works across a diverse range of sectors, including residential, commercial, educational, institutional, civic, and public projects.

Join Co-founder and Director Graham Burrows as he presents a selection of JCB’s work, highlighting how each project thoughtfully responds to its context, place, and purpose while expressing a distinctive architectural identity.

In recognition of its design excellence, JCB has received numerous industry awards and accolades.

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Jun
16
7:30 PM19:30

When is a picture a portrait? John Gollings on portraiture

‘This lecture covers a vast range that no one image could indicate and even these composite images can’t do justice to.'  - John Gollings 

Join John Gollings as he explores what portraiture is and attempts to determine when  a portrait is not a portrait and when  a picture is  in fact a portrait?.

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Jul
21
7:30 PM19:30

Max Dupain: A ‘snapshot’ of Australia’s renowned photographer (1911 – 1992). With Adrian Boddy


Three things matter to me as far as photography is concerned: light, optics and the chemical follow up — but light is the vital part. I adore it.

(MD, ABC Radio tape, 183)

 

Dupain was never a ‘snap-shooter’. His informed understanding of light, form and subject precluded any casual approach. His was a deliberate ‘art’ — despite personal reluctance to apply the term to his own work. In later life he referred to his surreal works of the 30’s as ‘arty crap’.

‘Style’ was also a term he disliked. Early in his career he dismissed the soft toned romanticism of Pictorialism. Dupain’s vision and output was always that of a modernist.

This talk recognises his photographic excellence whether the subject was:

- Still life studies

- The street

- The human condition in all its diversity

- The natural Australian landscape

- Industry

- architecture – historic or contemporary

 

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May
5
7:30 PM19:30

COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY with Dr Milton Harris and Penny Harris

Join collectors Dr Milton Harris and Penny Harris as they present insights into the 35 year collecting practice of contemporary photography. Their 200 work collection of national and international artists is one of Australia’s major private collections of photography. Milton and Penny will explore why they chose to focus on photography and the features of their particular passion. Milton’s experience includes membership on the board and acquisitions committee of Monash Gallery of Art, now the Museum of Australian Photography/MAPh.

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Mar
24
7:30 PM19:30

THE POWER OF THE IMAGE - Charles Justin

From the cave paintings of 40,000 years ago to the ubiquity of images on social media today, the image has shaped how humans think, remember and believe. Our brains respond to images more strongly than text.

Join Charles Justin as he unfolds the evolution of image making, the changing technologies that fostered the spread of images and the psychology that underpins the power of the image.

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