National Gallery of Australia | LECTURE SERIES | 2009

Where are those McCubbin recipes for a good loaf or apple pie? McCubbin gave up baking for painting and teaching art. Margaret Fulton, Australian food and cooking writer, speaks about food of the Federation period, and shares some time-honoured recipes.

Quiltmaker and author, Margaret Rolfe, discusses styles and techniques of some Australian quilts in Airing of the quilts.

John Olsen in conversation on his attitude and approaches to drawing.

Angelo Candalepas, Candalepas Associates, an award–winning Sydney practice whose work is extensively published in books and journals. Angelo is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at UNSW and a frequent commentator on industry practice.

Philip Thalis, Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, a Sydney–based firm that explores the specificity of each site and program within its broader urban and geographical context.

PHOOEY Architects are engaged in the cultural identity of our sustainable future, actively exploring resilience, comfort and aesthetic strategies that incorporate a campaign of awareness, feedback design, recycled form and a re–value of consumption waste. Their work has been described as ugly, fabulously whimsical, a billboard for sustainability, trash, glamour!

Dr Tony Milner, Basham Professor of History, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Australian National University, explores the relationship between textiles and power in the Malay kingdoms.

Knitta Please founder and yard-bomber, Magda Sayeg, discusses the curious convergence of knitting and graffiti, exploring the social implication of street art in our urban environment.

Artist Nell discusses her work The perfect drip 1999 in the exhibition Soft sculpture.

Inge King discusses her work Wandering angel 2000