Details
Free, no booking required
NGV Education Theatre
180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC, Australia
Dates
Sun 17 May 11am – 12pm
This event introduces the NGV Exhibition Archive, an evolving digital resource preserving the afterlives of exhibitions.
Attendees will learn about different approaches to archiving exhibitions and how graphic design, photography and publishing shape the way exhibitions are recorded and interpreted. The NGV Exhibition Archive is an active site of research revealing the visual and textual history of exhibition making.
Participants
Maria Quirk
Dr. Maria Quirk is Curator, Collections and Research, at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). A historian of women’s and art history, she has previously held academic positions at the University of Queensland and Deakin University, and is a former State Library of Queensland research fellow. Maria’s research has previously appeared in Woman’s Art Journal, The Journal of Victorian Culture and Visual Culture in Britain. Her first monograph, Woman, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England: The Hustle and the Scramble was published by Bloomsbury in 2019.