Selected conference papers, guest lectures and public talks
2005
Respondent to Bob Ellis, Sites of communication 2, Art Gallery of
New South Wales, 8 - 19 March 2005
‘In a New Light’, National Library of Australia and ANU School of Art, Art forum, 9 March 2005
‘Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography,
National Gallery of Australia and ANU School of Art, Art forum,
13 May 2005
‘Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography’, A Passion for
Research symposium, National Gallery of Australia, 18 June 2005
2004
‘In a New Light: Australian Photography 1930s-2000’, National Library
of Australia and ANU School of Art, art forum, 2004
‘Performing Photography’, Visiting Scholars Program, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, 9 September 2004
‘Thinking about looking’, Keynote address, Art Educators Conference, Australian National University, 16 July 2004
‘In a New Light’, Camera with a conscience, Australian Institute of Professional Photographers conference, University House, 24 October 2004
2003
‘Still time. Photographs by David Moore’, National Gallery of Australia,
27 February 2003
‘Seeing and not knowing’, Sites of communication, symposium organized
by National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery of Australia, 15 March 2003
‘The presence of the past’, Keynote address, Albury City Art Gallery, 5 July 2003
‘Man with a camera: Frank Hurley’, Screensound, 11 and 16 August 2003
‘Photography, History and the National Library’s Collections’, National Library of Australia and Canberra School of Art, Art Forum, 15 October 2003
‘In a New Light’, Women Archives Project, National Library of Australia, 3 December 2003
2002
‘Frank Hurley: an introduction’, National Library of Australia,
17 August 2002
‘Slow release: Recent photography from New Zealand’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 13 August 2002
‘The observer and the observed: Photographs by Bill Brandt’, National Portrait Gallery, 20 October 2002
‘Photography, love and loss: Margaret Michaelis’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, 23 October 2002
2001
‘Polly Borland and Walter Barnett’, National Portrait Gallery,
24 March 2001
‘Portraiture in extremis’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 19 September 2001
‘Berlin 1933: Photographs by Margaret Michaelis’, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, October 2001
2000
‘Olive Cotton’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 May 2000
‘Mirror with a memory’, National Portrait Gallery, 17 May 2000
‘Photography and barbarism’, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000
Opening speaker Olive Cotton exhibition, National Library of Australia, 12 July 2000
‘Olive Cotton: An introduction’ National Library of Australia, 25 July 2000
1998
‘Margaret Michaelis: Life and Work’, ANU Art History Graduate Seminar
Program, May 1998
1997
‘Margaret Michaelis’, National Gallery of Australia, 17 April 1997
Mixed Messages in Documentary Photographs in the Art Museum, Centre for Contemporary Photography, 26 July 1997
‘The reflecting eye’, National Portrait Gallery, November 1997
1996
‘New Technologies: Old Tricks?', Tasmanian School of Art, University
of Tasmania, Launceston, May 1996
‘Mixed messages in documentary photographs', Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, July 1996
‘Olive Cotton's landscapes', Photography and the Landscape Public Forum, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, October 1996
‘Cazneaux in Close-up', National Library of Australia, November 1996
1994
`The Valuer's Perspective' Taxation Incentives Scheme for the Arts
Seminar, National Museum of Australia, 1994
1993
`Photography and China', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 1993
1992
`Searching for Geoffrey Powell', Centre for Photography, Melbourne,
1992
1991
`Geoffrey Powell: A Worker Photographer', Art Association of Australia
conference, Canberra, September 1991
`Modernism and Nationalism: Max Dupain's Australia', seminar on Max Dupain, Australian National Gallery, November 1991
1989
`Variations on the Original' at More Than Meets the Eye : Managing
Archive Collections of Photographs, State Library of New South
Wales, Sydney; repeated BHP Theatrette, Melbourne, May 1989
1988
`Contemporary Australian Photography' and 'The Australian National
Gallery Photography Collection' at APSCON '88, Canberra (Australian
Photographic Society Conference), 1988
1986
`Tina Modotti and Olive Cotton' and 'Positive Images: 1970s Photography',
'Paint, Fabric and Clay' Conference, Canberra College of Advanced
Education, 14-15 February 1986
`Recent Australian Photography: strains of naturalism'. Artist's week, Adelaide Festival, 1986
`Photography at the Australian National Gallery', Sydney College of the Arts, 21 August 1986
`Recent Australian Photography'. Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 5 September 1986
`Photography Collection at the Australian National Gallery: Its Past, Present and Future', organized by the Victorian Centre for Photography, held at Victoria College (Prahran Campus), Melbourne, 26 September 1986
1985
`Corporate decisions and the landscape: the photographs of Jon Rhodes
and Virginia Coventry'. Landscape/photography forum, Tasmanian
School of Art, Hobart, 27 July 1985
`Jon Rhodes: Just another sunrise?' Art Association of Australia Conference, Melbourne, August 1985
1984
`Carol Jerrems: the politics of consent'. Art Association of Australia
Conference, Canberra School of Art, August 1984
1983
`Wolfgang Sievers and Australian Photography'. Art Association of
Australia Conference, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, September
1983
In addition, I have regularly given numerous lectures at tertiary institutions both locally and interstate, as well as floor talks on various art exhibitions to students and the general public.