A workshop for University of Sydney students, focused on D Harding's Spine.
“Art in Place” is a workshop program that aims to bring student attention to the important artworks by Indigenous artists on campus, to reflect on their mediation of place, and to provide a platform for students to write and publish their reflections.
It is a collaboration between the Power Institute and Honi Soit, the weekly print and digital student newspaper of the University of Sydney.
The first Art in Place workshop took place on 18 and 19 August 2022, and focused on the campus artwork ‘Spine’ by Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal artist D Harding.
The participants in the workshops produced a set of short reflections on D Harding’s artwork, which were subsequently published as a lift-out poster in Honi Soit.
You can see the poster below, and on Honi Soit’s website.
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Stephen Gilchrist
Lecturer in Indigenous art, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Ann Stephen
Ann Stephen is the Senior Curator, University Art Collection, at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney. Ann's curatorial career over four decades has been in public and university museums. She joined Sydney University Museums as the senior curator of the University Art Gallery in 2009 and has been responsible for the University Art Collection and developing the art exhibition and publication program. As President, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (2011–14), Ann has been a mentor for early career academics as well as many colleagues in art history and art curatorship. She has curated many exhibitions including those accompanying the following publications including ‘Bauhaus Diaspora’, ‘Modern Times’ and ‘Modernism & Australia’ & her monograph on Ian Burn, ‘On looking at Looking’. In 2015 she was invited to join the Scientific Committee of the European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. She has been awarded two ARC grants and many prizes for her publications. She was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2009. Since 2014, she has been chair of ‘Art Monthly Australasia’.