Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy A symposium celebrating 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships 30 September – 2 October, 2019 Forum Theatre, Arts West, The University of Melbourne Prints, Printmaking SYMPOSIUM and Philanthropy PROGram A symposium celebrating 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and DAY ONE Monday 30 September William Holmes Scholarships 8.30 – 9.00 am Registration Presented by the Australian Institute of Art History 9.00 – 9.15 am Introduction and Welcome Professor Su Baker, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Community and Cultural Partnerships, with assistance from The University of Melbourne’s and Director of Centre of Visual Arts (CoVA), The University of Melbourne Students and Scholarly Services Associate Professor Christopher Marshall, Chair, The Harold Wright and 30 September – 2 October, 2019 The Sarah & William Holmes Scholarships Selection Committee, The University of Melbourne 9.15 – 10.15 am Session One – Prints & Experimentation Chair: Julie Irving, Lecturer, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne Dr Jane Eckett, Art History Program, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne Can a visionary act of philanthropy transform print scholarship and curatorial practice? This symposium will Hirschfeld-Mack’s monotypes as an index of modernist migration explore this question. Celebrating 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships, Dr Anna Parlane, Art History Program, School of Culture and Communication, Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy will focus on three broad themes: print exhibitions, print collections and The University of Melbourne “Collapse of Mirror City”: Fact, fabrication and the newspaper print in Michael print presses – and also seek to trace the influence of philanthropy in shaping Australasian print culture. In one of Stevenson’s Call Me Immendorff, 2000 the largest gatherings of print scholars, curators, artists and printmakers ever seen in Australia, a range of topics will be addressed from historical and contemporary perspectives. These include the complex links between 10.15 – 10.45 am Morning Tea Australia and Britain’s print networks, experimentation in ‘DIY’ print practices, local post-war print communities 10.45 – 11.45 am Masterclass One – Contemporary Master Printing: Jason Phu and Kitikong in Melbourne, examinations of the habits of print collectors, the latest in-depth research on eighteenth-century Tilokwattanotai and nineteenth-century printed images and their provenance, as well as a major focus on the evolving role of the Chair: Dr Alison Carroll, independent curator, writer, arts manager, educator master-print workshop in an Australian context. 11.45 am – 12.45 pm Keynote One – Roger Butler AM, Senior Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Australia Chair: Professor Ian McLean, The Inaugural Hugh Ramsay Chair in Australian Art Acknowledgment of Country History, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional and continuing 12.45 – 1.30 pm Lunch custodians of the land on which this symposium will take place. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging, and through them, to all Indigenous Australians. 1.30 – 2.15 pm John Wolseley, Artist, presents Harold Wright’s Lecture on the Etchings of Charles Meryon Leigh Scott Room, Level One, Baillieu Library Cover image: British Museum Print Room 2.30 – 3.45 pm Session Two – Melbourne’s Self-Printing Tradition Chair: Associate Professor Justin Clemens, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne Convenors: Alison Inglis, Victoria Perin and Kerrianne Stone Victoria Perin, PhD Candidate, Art History Program, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne Contact Alison Inglis, Associate Professor, Art History program No gods, no master-printers: Melbourne prints in the late 1960s [email protected] Dr Tim Wright, Independent Writer +61 3 83447448 Migrating Ears https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/e/prints-printmaking-and-philanthropy Lizzie Boon, Artist and Independent Writer ‘John Nixon – printmaker’ 2 PRINts, PRINTMAKING AND PHILANTHROPY A symposium celebrating 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and Holmes Scholarships The University of Melbourne 3 3.45 – 4.15 pm Afternoon Tea 1.30 – 2.30 pm Lunch 4.15 – 5.15 pm Masterclass Two – Master printers then and now: Janet Dawson and Trent Walter 2.30 – 3.45 pm Session Five – Print Presses Chair: Dr Susan Lowish, Senior Lecturer, Art History, School of Culture and Chair: Victoria Perin, PhD Candidate, Art History Program, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne Communication, The University of Melbourne Dr Denise Salvestro, Chair, Artback NT 5.15 – 6.30 pm Welcome Drinks and Book Launch of Horizon Lines: Marking 50 years of print The introduction of Printmaking to Northern Australian remote Indigenous artists scholarship – the impact of workshops, symposia and projects facilitated by Northern Editions Foyer, Art West, The University of Melbourne Print Workshop Dr Denise Salvestro’s attendance at the symposium has been generously supported by Trinity College, Speaker: Dr Jenny Spinks, Hansen Senior Lecturer in History, School of Historical The University of Melbourne and Philosophical Studies, The University Melbourne 6.30 – 7.30 pm Keynote Two – David Maskill, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Dr Julie Gough, Curator, Indigenous Cultures, Tasmanian Museum and Art The Ursula Hoff Lecture 2019: Harold Wright (1885–1961), print dealer, scholar, Gallery, Hobart educator, collector and philanthropist memory imprint reprint: the dialogic potential of colonial art David Maskill’s attendance at the symposium has been generously supported by the Ursula Hoff Institute 3.45 – 4.15 pm Afternoon tea and the S. R. Stoneman Foundation and Sofitel Melbourne on Collins. Introduction: Graham H. Ryles OAM KSJ, Chair, The Ursula Hoff Institute 4.15 – 5.15 pm Session Six – American Connections Chair: Dr Lisa Beaven, Lecturer, Art History, La Trobe University Chair: Cathy Leahy, Senior Curator, Prints and Drawings, the National Gallery of Victoria David Greenhalgh, Curatorial Assistant, the Kenneth Tyler Collection, the National Gallery of Australia Travelling through images: David Hockney in Mexico DAY TWO Tuesday 1 October Dr Petra Kayser, Curator, Prints and Drawings, the National Gallery of Victoria 9.45 – 10.00 am Introduction and Welcome Making a mark: Jim Dine in the National Gallery of Victoria Gwenda Thomas, Director Scholarly Services, University Librarian, The University of Melbourne 5.15 – 6.00 pm Break 10.00 – 11.15 am Session Three – Print Collectors: A Conversation 6.00 pm – 7.30 pm Keynote Three Chair: Alisa Bunbury, Grimwade Collection Curator, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Chair: Associate Professor, Alison Inglis, Art History Program, School of Culture The University of Melbourne and Communication, The University of Melbourne Kerrianne Stone, Curator, Prints for Students and Scholarly Services at Irena Zdanowicz, Independent curator and writer, formerly Senior Curator, The University of Melbourne Prints and Drawings the National Gallery of Victoria Orde Poynton: An omnivorous print collector From page to screen: The catalogue raisonné in the digital age Brent Harris, Artist and Printmaker The Artist as Collector Rev. Ian Brown, Collector and Philanthropist The Private Collector DAY THREE Wednesday 2 October 11.15 – 12.00 Morning Tea 9.45 – 10.00 am Introduction and Welcome Associate Professor Alison Inglis, Art History Program, School of Culture and 12.00 – 1.30 pm Session Four – Britain / Australia Print Exchanges Communication, The University of Melbourne Chair: Professor Rex Butler, Professor of Art History and Theory, Monash University 10.00 – 11.15 am Session Seven – Collections / Exhibitions I Professor Ken Gelder, Professor of English and Theatre Studies, Chair: Dr Vivien Gaston, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Culture and School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne Communication, the University of Melbourne Dr Rachael Weaver, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne Laurie Benson, Curator, International Art, the National Gallery of Victoria The colonial kangaroo hunt in lithography and book illustrations A passionate obsession, Charles Keene and the Lindsays Rebecca Edwards, Sid and Fiona Myer Curator of Ceramics and Design, Lisa Sullivan, Senior Curator, Geelong Gallery National Gallery of Australia A prized history – Geelong Gallery’s print collection ‘Stricken with the influence of Brangwyn’: the etchings of Frank Brangwyn in Australia and his Australian followers. Gerard Hayes, Pictures Librarian, the State Library of Victoria New directions in collecting: artists’ prints at the State Library of Victoria Dr Sheridan Palmer, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne 11.15 – 11.45 am Morning Tea Der erste stein des anstosses – the first stone of impact: European and British cultural forces that shaped Ursula Hoff between 1929 – 1949. 4 PRINts, PRINTMAKING AND PHILANTHROPY A symposium celebrating 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and Holmes Scholarships The University of Melbourne 5 11.45am – 12.45 pm Session Eight – Eighteenth-century prints Chair: Dr Matthew Martin, Art History and Curatorship program, School of Culture and Communication, The University