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We are honoured to present our line-up of evening speakers for Oatlands Art Retreat 2024
Julie Gough
Julie Gough is an installation, sound, and video artist, writer, and a curator of First People’s Art and Culture at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. Gough’s research and art practice involves uncovering and re-presenting subsumed and often conflicting histories, often referring to her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia) in 1965, and has lived mostly in Tasmania since the end of 1993. Julie is Trawlwoolway through her maternal family, and her Traditional homeland is Tebrikunna in far north eastern Lutruwita / Tasmania.
Julie holds a PhD from the University of Tasmania (2001), Masters degree (Visual Arts) University of London (Goldsmiths College, 1998), BA (Visual Arts) Curtin University West Australia (1994), BA Honours (Visual Arts) First Class, University of Tasmania (1995) and BA (Prehistory/ English Literature), University of West Australia (1987).
Since 1991 Julie has exhibited in 29 solo and 181 group exhibitions including: Rivus: Biennale of Sydney, 2022; Ever Present, National Gallery of Australia and National Gallery of Singapore, 2021-2022; Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2021; Eucalyptusdom, Powerhouse Museum, NSW, 2021; TENSE PAST, TMAG, 2019; Divided Worlds, Adelaide Biennial, 2018; Defying Empire, NGA (National Gallery of Australia), 2017; THE NATIONAL, Museum of Contemporary Art, NSW, 2017; With Secrecy and Despatch, Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2016; UNDISCLOSED, NGA, 2012; Clemenger Award, National Gallery of Victoria, 2010; Biennale of Sydney, 2006; Liverpool Biennial, UK, 2001; Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995. Gough’s works are held in the permanent collections of The National Gallery of Australia, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Art Gallery of South Australia, The Art Gallery of West Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, National Museum of Australia, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Launceston.
Learn more about Julie's work and biography at her website
Julie will be speaking at 6:30pm on Sunday November 17, 2024 . Locals can book to attend Julie's talk by clicking HERE
Neil Haddon
Neil Haddon is a British-Australian artist whose diverse body of work reflects his experience of migration and explores themes of displacement and identity. Drawing from his own biography and Tasmania's colonial history, Haddon employs a 'migratory aesthetics' characterized by a collage-like approach to painting.
Based in Tasmania since 1996, Haddon previously resided in Barcelona, Spain, where he exhibited regularly with leading commercial gallery, Galeria Carles Poy. His paintings, which range from hard-edge geometric abstraction to expressive figuration, have been showcased in over 100 exhibitions across Australia, Europe, and the USA. Notable exhibitions include 'Theatre of the World' at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) and La Maison Rouge in Paris, as well as 'Strange Trees' at The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), and 'Contemporary Encounters' at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne.
Neil’s paintings are held in permanent collections around Australia and internationally. These include the National Gallery of Victoria, The City of Whyalla Collection, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, University of Tasmania Fine Art Collection, Devonport Regional Gallery, Artbank, Sydney, Coleccion Sunyol, Barcelona, Spain, and The British Council, Barcelona, Spain.
A recipient of numerous awards, including the Hadley Art Prize, the Glover Prize, the Whyalla Art Prize, and the Tidal Art Prize, Haddon's paintings have also been selected for esteemed national art prizes such as the Sulman and Wynne Prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Arthur Guy Memorial Prize at Bendigo Art Gallery.
Haddon holds a PhD from the University of Tasmania, where he serves as Associate Head of Art at the School of Creative Arts and Media and Coordinator of the Painting Studio.
See more of Neil's work here: https://neilhaddon.com.au/
Neil also has a show at Bett Gallery in Hobart from August 2-24, 2024:
Mat Hinds
Mat Hinds established Taylor and Hinds Architects with Poppy Taylor in 2011. The multi-award winning practice is recognised for their sensitive, functional, and site-specific work. Their cultural heritage projects, in particular the krakani-lumi for wukalina Walk with The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, have garnered national and international awards.
The architecture of Taylor and Hinds seeks to delve into the social and historical communal fabric of Tasmania and to address the complex questions of civics, landscape, identity and history that are particular to the Tasmanian condition.
Taylor and Hinds has been shortlisted twice for the Royal Academy Dorfman Award, and the Swiss Architectural Award in 2021. The Italian periodical Domus nominated Taylor and Hinds as one of the top practices worldwide in 2020. In 2024, Vogue Australia named Taylor and Hinds in their VL50 List of the Australia's top creative talent.
See more of Taylor and Hinds Architects work at their website.
Alan Townsend
Alan Townsend is a heritage consultant with Southern Midlands Council and a wallpaper historian. He also recreates historical wallpapers and has produced work for the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the National Trust.
Alan is interested in the stories hidden - both literally and figuratively - within the walls of our houses. A raconteur and Oatlands local, he is currently writing a book that tells the story of Tasmania's social history through the wallpaper colonial Tasmanian's used in their homes.
Read an ABC interview with Alan about his work here.