Thursday 5th and Friday 6th January, 2012
9.00am – 4.30pm
Dechaineaux Lecture Theatre
Centre for the Arts
Hunter Street, Hobart
Phone 03 6226 4300 to register your interest or email Brigita.Ozolins@utas.edu.au
This 2 day symposium will introduce you to the concept of wilderness and theories about landscape art and the environment. It features 11 illustrated lectures by highly regarded Tasmanian artists, writers and other experts:
Dr Natasha Cica, Director, Inglis Clark Centre for Civil Society & author of Pedder Dreaming: Olegas Truchanas and a lost Tasmanian Wilderness
Dr Jane Deeth, Director, New Audiences for Art & author of Looking at Landscape
David Edgar, artist and arts administrator
Dr Julie Gough, artist and Honorary Research Fellow at UTAS, James Cook and Charles Sturt Universities
Richard Hale, Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service Officer
Dr Roslynn Haynes, Honorary Research Fellow, School of English, Journalism and European Languages & author of Tasmanian Visions: Landscapes in writing, art and philosophy
Amy Jackett, PhD candidate
David Keeling, artist, 2006 Glover Prize winner and 2010 Wynne Prize finalist
Greg Lehman, Indigenous Visiting Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies, Canberra
Prof Jeff Malpas, School of Philosophy, international expert on the concept of ‘place’
Terence Munday, artist and 'Master of Fine Arts' candidate
You can download the program overview here. (PDF 285KB)
Image Credit: Brigita Ozolins, Orb, 2008