Past events

A man looks at an abstract artwork

Wed, 24 September 2025

12:30PM

Big Power Talks #2

Leighlyn Aguilar, Taleah Rust, and Valesca de Jongh

Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.

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A photograph of two men looking at artworks in the exhibition "JW Power: Art, war and the avant-garde"

Wed, 17 September 2025

12:30PM

Big Power Talks #1

Deena Loukadellis, Dominique Park, and Raha Shahidi

Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.

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Roger Nelson

A presentation on the recently recovered artist Diem Phung Thi, and on the implications of their remarkable work for art history in Southeast Asia. 

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Fri, 5 September 2025

9:45AM

JW Power and Interwar Abstraction

Deborah Barnstone, Donna West Brett, Rebecca Edwards, Giles Fielke, Kate Kangaslahti, Sophie Matthiesson, Keith Rathbone, and Anthony White

A symposium exploring the radical ideas underpinning avant-garde art in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. 

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The Archive in Diaspora

Mon, 1 September 2025

9:00PM

Curating New Perspectives

A new suite of student-led exhibitions

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Geometric instruments still life, ogee panel, c. 1939 [oil on board, PW1961.119.1,  Chau Chak Wing Museum]

Mon, 1 September 2025

9:00PM

JW Power: Artist, Benefactor, and Legacy

The Schaeffer Fine Arts Library is honoured to present an exhibition "J.W. Power: Art, war and the avant-garde", curated in collaboration with the Chau Chak Wing Museum and Fisher Library, celebrating the life and legacy of JW Power.

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Wed, 27 August 2025

5:00PM

Immersion

Wenqi Tan, Chris Chesher, and Ben Joseph Andrews

The first session of Screen Cultures, a new research forum focused on the forms and futures of the screen.

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Our Sydney Asian Art Series Scholar in Residence Dipti Khera unpacks the visual world of vijnaptipatra, and the little known histories of early modern and colonial India that they contain.

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Internship

Alisa Prasnicki, Lily Tucker, and Yueqing Xu

The Schaeffer Fine Arts Library's inaugural research interns present on their work exploring and cataloguing the Library's rich art archives.

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Thu, 12 June 2025

1:00PM

In sight, out of mind

Irina Harris and Alexander Howard

A lecture from psychology professor Irina Harris about the limits of conscious perception, with a response from scholar of literature and film, Alexander Howard.

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