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Drawn Together
a two-day interdisciplinary symposium

Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 May 2007
Convened by Ursula Frederick

 

Drawn Together Preliminary Program (download PDF)

 

Day 1 — Monday 28 May 2007

8:30-9:15 Coffee and tea on arrival and registration

9:15-10:30 Opening of Symposium,
Keynote Address: Andrew Sayers, National Portrait Gallery
Howard Morphy, Research School of Humanities, ANU

10:30-10:45 Morning tea
Session:
Chair: Daphne Nash

10:45-11:00 Ursula Frederick
Searching for Scribble: The archaeology of drawing

11.00-11:30 Ingereth MacFarlane
Drawing over the Lines: Contexts and capacities of Indigenous art production on the overland telegraph line in the early twentieth century

11:30-12:00 June Ross
Drawing in the Past: Dry pigment motifs in Central Australian rock art

12:00-12:30 Liam Brady
Illustrating a Pattern: Integrating Torres Strait Islander drawings and rock-paintings in an interregional context

12:30-1:30 Lunch

Session:
Chair: Pip Deveson

1:30-2:00 Jenny Green
Drawing lines in the sand – co-speech graphics, gesture and sign in Arandic sand-drawing narratives

2:00-2:30 Julie Gough
Drawn together ~ pulled apart : Artist’s talk

2:30-3:00 Vernon Ah Kee
Artist’s talk

3:00-3:30 Afternoon tea
Session:
Chair: Cath Bowdler

3:30-4:00 Kim Akerman
Keeping Track – iconography and mnemonics in the art of Butcher Joe Nangan

4:00-4:30 John Carty
Jesus was a Turkey: Matthew Gill’s Stations of the Cross

4:30-5:00 Mary Anne Jebb
Drawn in to Jack Wherra’s carved narratives

 

Day 2 — Tuesday 29 May 2007

Session:
Chair: Nic Peterson (to be confirmed)

9:30-10:00 Philip Jones
‘The Trajectory of an Ancestor’: N.B. Tindale’s collections of crayon drawings

10:00-10:30 Howard Morphy
Drawing out the Difference - the place of the Berndt crayon drawings in the recent history of Yolngu art

10:30-11.00 Morning tea

Session:
Chair: Diana Young

11.00-11:30 Carol Cooper
More than ‘the exact words’, William Barak’s drawings and the recounting of Kulin stories to A.W. Howitt

11:30-12:00 Sylvia Kleinert
The Creative Space of Cross Cultural Exchange: drawings by aboriginal children

12:00-12:30 Mary Eagle
William Monop’s Sketchbook and Daisy Bates

12:30-1:30 Lunch

Session:
Chair: Sophie MacIntyre

1:30-2:00 Susan Lowish
Chinese Whispers: Wanjina drawings in the State Library of Victoria

2:00-2:30 Gordon Hookey
Artist’s talk

2:30-3:00 Steve Russell
Artist’s talk

3:00-3:30 Afternoon tea
Session:
Chair: to be confirmed

3:30-4:00 Luke Taylor
Kuninjku pencil drawings

4:00-4.30 Wally Caruana
Drawing and Thought: Processes of visualisation and abstraction afforded by the medium of drawing

5:00-6:00 Drinks and Informal discussion at Opening of Drover’s Drawings (ANU School of Art Foyer gallery)