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Confirmed speakers include:
Keynote address - Andrew Sayers
Vernon Ah Kee, Kim Akerman, Liam Brady, John Carty, Wally Caruana, Carol
Cooper, Mary Eagle, Julie Gough, Jenny Green, Gordon Hookey, Mary Anne Jebb, Philip Jones, Sylvia Kleinert, Susan Lowish,
Ingereth Macfarlane,
Howard Morphy, Luke Taylor, June Ross and others
To see a preliminary program, list of abstracts
and associated exhibition
A two-day inter-disciplinary symposium exploring Australian
Indigenous drawing collections and practices of the past
and present. The symposium seeks to examine the collaborative
links beween the production of drawing and the communication
of Indigenous knowledge that informs anthropological method.
Drawn Together turns its attention to the
significant history of Indigenous drawing production and
collection within Australia. It will embrace an expanded
definition of drawing practices and assemblages to incorporate
a variety of media, across diverse spatial and temporal
frameworks. An important focus of the symposium will be
the contribution that Indigenous drawings have made in the
theoretical and methodological developments of Australian
anthropology and art historical disciplines. Numerous drawing
collections have developed in the course of past research
and today they remain as important archives of collaborative
engagement and knowledge production. To this extent drawing
may be conceptualised in a number of ways, as a process
of thinking, as a means of communicating and as a site for
cross-cultural exchange. Moreover, drawing has a strong
presence in contemporary Indigenous visual culture and constitutes
an important approach for artists working across multiple
media. How might we discuss drawing collectively as a process
of art practice, as a research tool, and as a source and
storehouse of ideas, observations and knowledge? How might
we explore drawing as a process of thinking through, sharing
and understanding? Drawn Together aims to explore these
and other ideas.
Artists, anthropologists, art historians, archaeologists,
museum and gallery curators and historians, are amongst
those for whom the event promises to be a stimulating exchange
of ideas. The symposium welcomes papers which bring renewed
emphasis to the themes outlined above.
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