Creative Conversations | Anne Ferran
Schedule
Sun Oct 27 2024 at 11:00 am to 02:30 pm
UTC+11:00Location
Parkes Place East, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2600 | Canberra, CT
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Creative Conversations: Anne FerranAt the Gallery
Sun 27 Oct 2024, 11am – 2.30pm
Gallery 24, Australian Art (Level 2)
https://nga.gov.au/events/creative-conversations-anne-ferran/
Free, booking essential.
11am–11.30am: Anne Ferran in conversation with Shaune Lakin in Gallery 24
11.30am–12pm: Collection Study Room viewing
1pm–2.30pm: Cyanotype and Frottage workshop
Join leading Australian photography artist, Anne Ferran in conversation with Shaune Lakin (Senior Curator, Photography) followed by a hands-on cyanotype and frottage workshop.
Ferran’s practice unpacks the residues of Australian colonial past, with a particular interest in the lives of women and children. Both intellectually and emotionally engaging, her photographs have delved into histories of incarceration in prisons, asylums, hospitals and nurseries. They play with invisibility and anonymity and are often haunted by things unseen.
Starting in Gallery 24, the conversation will focus on Ferran’s photogram series Untitled 1998. In this series, she employs the photogram technique, in which the material object is placed directly onto photographic paper and subjected to light.
In the Collection Study Room, you will then have the opportunity view the series Soft caps 1995, which is not currently on display. Ferran will also show examples of work by other women photographers who have inspired her practice, including Anna Atkins’ botanical cyanotypes.
The conversation will be followed by a workshop with the artist exploring how the techniques of frottage and cyanotype photographic prints can be used to create lasting records of intimate and personal histories.
Creative Conversations is suitable for people of all ages and abilities. All children must be accompanied by a participating adult. No previous experience required.
This program can be Audio Described for people who are blind or with low vision, and Auslan interpreted. Please email [email protected] to book this service.
Anne Ferran, image supplied by the artist. Photographer: Sandra Barnard.
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Where is it happening?
Parkes Place East, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2600Event Location & Nearby Stays:
