Australian Impressionism - Seminars and Symposiums: Recent Episodes
National Gallery of Victoria
Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director, National Gallery of Victoria, introduces us to the extraordinary landscapes of Jane Sutherland.
Jane Clark, Deputy Chairman, Sotheby's Australia, discusses Arthur Streeton's work from the Hawkesbury district.
Michael Varcoe-Cocks, Conservator of Paintings 1850-1950 at the National Gallery of Victoria, discusses the conservation of Australian Impressionist paintings.
Dr Leigh Astbury, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Monash University, introduces the Box Hill landscapes and the artists' pursuit of truth in nature.
Daniel Thomas, retired art museum curator and director, walks us through the sea-side paintings of the Sunny South and the Mentone period.
Terence Lane, Curator of the Australian Impressionism exhibition, brings together Heidelberg, Grosvenor Chambers, and the 9 by 5 Impression exhibition.
Dr Andrew Brown-May from the School of Historical Studies at The University of Melbourne discusses the way in which the city of Melbourne was portrayed by Australian Impressionist painters.
Freelance Historian Humphrey McQueen discusses the art of Spain and its influences on Tom Roberts' work.
Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, explains how the artists in the Australian Impressionism exhibition (NGV Australia, 2007) became grouped generically as Australian Impressionists.