Infinite Women

Emily Sullivan, assistant curator of contemporary international art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, joins us to discuss the artist Louise Bourgeois, her work and the largest exhibition dedicated to the artist ever in Australia, Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? at the AGNSW through 28 April 2024.

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Emily-Sullivan-on-Louise-Bourgeois-.pdf

Read more about Bourgeois on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/louise-bourgeois/

Danielle Scrimshaw, author of She and Her Pretty Friend: The Hidden History of Australian Women Who Love Women, to chat about swimmer Harriet Elphinstone Dick and Alice Moon, their gym in Melbourne and telling queer histories.

More about the book: https://ultimopress.com.au/products/she-and-her-pretty-friend

Read the interview transcript

Read about Harriet Elphinstone Dick on the Infinite Women site⁠

Lucina Ward, Senior Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to talk about German-American multidisciplinary artist Kiki Smith. Smith is one of the artists featured in Deep inside my heart exhibition, which is at the NGA through 19 May 2024. Deep inside my heart is part of the larger Know My Name initiative at the NGA, focused on women artists.

More about the exhibition: nga.gov.au/exhibitions/deep-inside-my-heart/

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lucina-Ward-on-Kiki-Smith.pdf

Read more about Kiki Smith on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/kiki-smith/

Angelique Joy, an artist and PhD candidate at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), joins us to talk about Ada Lovelace, who was writing code for computers before they even existed. We also chat discuss how to make modern technology more inclusive, biases in coding and the implications of artificial intelligence.

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Angelique-Joy-on-Ada-Lovelace-transcript.pdf

Read more about Ada Lovelace on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/ada-lovelace/

Dr. Tamara J. Walker, author of Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad, to talk about journalist, civil rights activist and adoption advocate Mabel Grammer.

Buy the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635185/beyond-the-shores-by-tamara-j-walker/

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Tamara-J-Walker-on-Mabel-Grammer-transcript-.pdf

Dr. Kiera Lindsey, South Australia's History Advocate, joins us to talk about her new biography Wild Love: The ambitions of Adelaide Ironside, the first Australian artist to astonish the world. Dr. Lindsey also delves into the complexities of, and need for, speculative biography to tell marginalised stories.

Buy the book: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Kiera-Lindsey-Wild-Love-9781760296759

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kiera-Lindsey-on-Adelaide-Ironside-transcript.pdf

Read more about Adelaide Ironside on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/adelaide-ironside/

Novelist Sherilyn Decter, author of the Bootlegger Chronicles, Rum Runners Chronicles and Moonshiner Mysteries series, joins us to chat about Prohibition in the 1920s United States, and the women who defied it in spectacular fashion.

More on Sherilyn's books: https://sherilyndecter.com/books/

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sherilyn-Decter-on-the-women-who-defied-Prohibition.pdf

Sara Hardy, author of The Unusual Life of Edna Walling, joins us to talk about the iconic, queer English-Australian landscape designer.

Buy the book: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Sara-Hardy-Unusual-Life-of-Edna-Walling-9781741142297

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-Hardy-on-Edna-Walling-transcript.pdf

Read more about Edna Walling on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/edna-walling/

Dr. Kaley Butten, a Research Scientist with CSIRO, joins us to talk about pharmacologist and physician Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, who prevented thousands of birth deformities and whose work led to stricter safety regulations in the U.S. and beyond.

Read more about Kelsey on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/frances-oldham-kelsey/

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kaley-Butten-on-Frances-Oldham-Kelsey.pdf

Dr. Shelley Stamp, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon and Lois Weber in Early Hollywood. She joins us to discuss Lois's career and how her personal story reflects the history of early Hollywood, especially for women writers, directors and actors.

Read more about Dr Stamp and her work: shelleystamp.net

Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Shelley-Stamp-on-Lois-Weber.pdf

Read a short biography of Weber on the Infinite Women site, writteny by Dr Stamp for the Women Film Pioneers Project: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/lois-weber/