Talks and lectures
Portraits from the collection
Gallery staff talk about their favourite portraits in the collection
Wednesdays 5.30pm
- 24 March Sheona White, senior coordinator of public programs: Grace Cossington Smith, The sock knitter
- 31 March Brian Ladd, head of public programs: William Dobell portraits
- 7 April Josephine Touma, coordinator of public programs: Nicolas de Largilliere, Portrait of an officer
- 14 April George Alexander, coordinator of public programs: Gerhard Richter, Ema (nude on a staircase)
- 21 April Leeanne Carr, coordinator of secondary education programs: Hugh Ramsay, The sisters
- 28 April Zoë Cooper, Public Programs: Margaret Preston, Self portrait
- 5 May Chye Lim, coordinator of Asian education programs: Zhang Xiaogang, The boy who sticks out his tongue
- 12 May Amanda Peacock, coordinator of Aboriginal education programs and contemporary programs: Agnolo Bronzino, Cosimo 1 de’Medici in armour
- 19 May Jonathan Cooper, manager of information: Francis Bacon, Study for self-portrait
- 26 May Suzie Rugg, public programs: Grace Crowley, Portrait of Lucie Beynis
Lunchtime lecture series: Eyes on the prizes
Stories behind the Archibald, the Wynne and the Sulman
Fridays, 1pm
- 9 April Jonathan Biggins, actor and broadcaster: The ayes follow you around the room: how the trustees, packers and people vote for the Archibald
- 16 April Helen Campbell, assistant curator, Australian prints, drawings and watercolours: The Wynne Prize and the Australian landscape
- 23 April Steven Miller, archivist: Awarded by an artist, not by a panel: the story of the Sir John Sulman Prize
Note: these talks and lectures do not involve entry into the Archibald Prize exhibition.
IMAGE: Actor, director and writer Jonathan Biggins
