29 August Lecture and 30 August Special Interest ½ Day
This month ArtsNational Shoalhaven is privileged to have Vivienne Lawes for two lectures: our monthly lecture and our Special Interest Day. An art historian, art market analyst and curator/ writer, Viv Lawes combines a hands-on career in the art business with research and teaching in Higher Education at several London-based universities. Her courses include The Art Market, History of Western Art and Design 1350-1970, and Asian Art. Viv has curated numerous exhibitions of Southeast Asian contemporary art in London and Singapore. We are excited to have her here this month – come and enjoy the lectures and meet fellow art lovers!
The Honourable East India Company: East-West Trade 1600-1800, Chinese Export and Chinoiserie
29 August 2024 – 7.30pm
Berry Uniting Church Hall, 71-77 Albert Street Berry
This lecture explores how the East India Company developed its methods of trade and facilitated the increasingly sophisticated and profound exchange of ideas between East and West. It focuses on textile design as the vehicle for this analysis, but also includes other materials, such as wallpaper, porcelain and furniture, as well as the vast commercial trade in spices and tea. Concentrating at first on the 17th century textile trade with India, the lecture then turns to the 18th century and the trade with Imperial China.
Visitors are welcome. Visitors $25 and Student Visitors $15, tickets can be purchased at the door and include a glass of sparkling wine.
Special Interest ½ Day – Aesthetic Movement and The Arts & Crafts Movement
30 August 2024 – 10:00am – 1pm
Berry Uniting Church Hall, 71-77 Albert Street Berry
This half-study day explores the idea that the Aesthetic Movement and the Arts & Craft Movement were two sides of the same coin: Design Reform. The sense that the 19th century did not have its own identity, and was a maelstrom of competing revivalist styles, gave rise in the aftermath of the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the determination to find aesthetic codes that represented modern Britain.
9:45am Doors open
10:00 – 11:00am Lecture 1: Freedom in Reform: The Aesthetic Movement (c.1860-1890)
11:00 – 11:30 am Morning Tea
11:30 – 12:30 pm Lecture 2: Integrity in Reform: The Arts & Crafts Movement (c.1870 –1900)
ArtsNational members $20 and $35 for Visitors. Morning Tea included.
Purchase tickets through Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.com/CSWMU. Further details of this ½ day lecture can be found at: https://www.artsnational.au/societies/shoalhaven/
Maebehe Garcia
Publicity Officer
ADFAS Shoalhaven
