Learn more about Brisbane-based artist Ryan Presley’s ongoing project 'Blood Money' (2010–present), which deals with representation and exchange. In his exhibition at the IMA, 'Prosperity', Presley reimagines our figureheads on Australian banknotes as the heroes and warriors of Aboriginal history, including Pemulwuy, Dundalli, and Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Hear from Presley, in conversation with exhibition curator Madeleine King.

'Seeing in Blak and White; On a Scale of One to 1788 How Authentic Are You?' What influence does the collection of historical cultural material in both art and natural history museums have on contemporary Aboriginal art today? How are artists challenging the palette of what is 'acceptable' Aboriginal art? In this third In Colour talk at the IMA.

The series opens with a debate that will help us find an answer to the question: is contemporary art chromophobic? Two experts on aesthetics, Professors Susan Best and Andrew McNamara, will go head-to-head on whether colour still matters in contemporary art. And for a quick warm up to the evening’s official proceedings, join In Colour curator, Madeleine King, for a look at colour’s decline in contemporary art, in pictures.

Artists are always falling prey to something or other. Censorship, curators, bad lighting, jet lag, bigotry, cultural prejudice, institutions in particular, and The Institution At Large.

This talk traces the role and political rationale of self-marginalisation within the moral economy of contemporary art.

08/11/2016

In the fifth lecture in our 'The Artist As…' series, co-presented with Curatorial Practice at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Brook Andrew reflects on his collaborations and interventions in museums both in Australia and internationally. Andrew examines the important role his own extensive archive plays within these works, and what led him to collect in the first place.

13/09/2016

In the fourth lecture in our year-long series 'The Artist As…' co-presented with Curatorial Practice at Monash Art Design and Architecture, Associate Professor Tara McDowell will focus on the ‘artist as initiator’.

24/08/2016

Writer/artist, poet and researcher Rachel O’Reilly’s discusses her ongoing collaborative project in 'Frontier Imaginaries: No Longer at Ease', 'The Gas Imaginary' (2011-).

26/05/2016

Hookey and Aird discuss Hookey's commission for the exhibition 'Frontier Imaginaries'. The work is part of an ongoing series of 10-metre long canvasses that re-imagine the history of Queensland from an Indigenous perspective. Hookey has set up a studio in the gallery and is continuing to work on the ambitious painting during the exhibition.

02/06/2016

Guerrero (Colombia, 1983) is the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate in London. From 2011-2014 he was the Associate Artistic Director and Curator at TEOR/éTica, an independent not-for-profit art space founded in 1999 in San José, Costa Rica.

30/03/2016

Curator Emily Pethick speaks about the artist as collaborator through examples from The Showroom, a non-profit independent contemporary art space in London, UK. She will discuss some of the artists’ projects produced that have involved diverse forms of participation, as well as in relation to how the organisation works with artists through co-production.

12/04/2016