Australian art specialist, academic and media commentator Dr Chris McAuliffe will deliver the 2008 Mayne Centre lecture at UQ this week.
Dr McAuliffe’s speech, “That was now, this is then: past and present in Australian art history”, will take place at the UQ Art Museum on Tuesday, October 14 at 6pm.
“It is a peculiarity of Australian art history that the debate on the relationship between past and present is a heated one,” Dr McAuliffe said.
“The present may affirm the past without subsuming it to its own interests. And the past can still demand that we redefine the present.”
UQ Art Museum Director Nick Mitzevich said the annual lecture was an important part of the University calendar, and had to potential to make a genuine contribution to visual arts practice and history.
Dr McAuliffe is Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at The University of Melbourne and was previously a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne for 10 years.
He has researched and written extensively in the area of contemporary art, and is the author of Art and Suburbia, Linda Marrinon: let her try and Jon Cattapan: possible histories.
He is also a regular media commentator on the arts and currently appears on ABC TV’s Sunday Arts program.
The Mayne Centre Lecture is a free public event, and is generously sponsored by Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane.
The UQ Art Museum is open daily from 10.00 – 4.00pm, with free parking on weekends.
Media: Gillian Ridsdale at the UQ Art Museum (07 3346 7793, g.ridsdale@uq.edu.au)
