FREE | Friday Art Talks Joseph McBrinn on Anne Dangar, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett

Name: FREE | Friday Art Talks Joseph McBrinn on Anne Dangar, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett
Start: 2025-04-11T12:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-04-11T12:45:00+10:00
Location: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Schedule

Fri Apr 11 2025 at 12:00 pm to 12:45 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Canberra, CT

Join art historian, Dr Joseph McBrinn, for a talk focused on Anne Dangar and her circle of friends, including Irish modern artists Mainie Jellett (1897–1944) and Evie Hone (1894–1955).
Like Dangar, Jellett and Hone travelled to France in the 1920s and 1930s to study modern art. They studied with André Lhote before becoming followers of Albert Gleizes and staying at Moly-Sabata. Jellett and Hone returned to Ireland before Dangar moved permanently to the artist community in 1930, but the artists remained in contact and two postcards written by Hone to Dangar are included in the exhibition Anne Dangar.
In this talk, Joseph will speak on the influential role Jellett and Hone played in the development of modern art in Ireland and how this parallels Dangar’s influence in Australia.
Dr Joseph McBrinn is an Irish art historian with expertise in a broad range of art, design, craft, film, fashion, textiles, photography, architecture and popular culture. Joseph has held teaching positions at the Schools of Art in Dublin and Belfast and has written and lectured in Britain, Europe and North America on Irish design and craft. He sits on the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of the Association of Art Historians (AAH) and serves on the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Modern Craft and The Irish Arts Review. His most recent publication is the single-authored, peer-reviewed monograph, Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men & the Culture of Needlework, which was published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2021. Joseph’s current book project, Evie Hone and the International Avant-Garde, is forthcoming from Four Courts Press.
Friday Art Talks is a free weekly program. Hear from artists, curators and experts on the works in our collection and exhibition program. This talk is part of a series focused on the major exhibitions Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar on display in Gallery 12 until the 27 April 2025.