We look different, but we are the same. ADFAS Shoalhaven is now known as ARTSNATIONAL Shoalhaven. Together as one community around Australia, we contribute to wider engagement in and enjoyment of the arts, by inspiring the interest of all generations. Our lectures are:
- diverse illustrated presentations across a broad spectrum of arts related fields;
- delivered by renowned experts sourced locally, the UK and Europe; and
- a friendly convivial hospitality setting for members, their friends and the community, to discover and connect with the arts and each other.
In 2024, we will commence our 34th year of offering members and guests programs of informative and interesting lectures covering a range of subjects relating to fine, decorative, contemporary and creative art forms. We will host nine lectures, and an interest half-day, with presenters from the U.K. and Australia who are art professionals chosen for their expert knowledge in their fields. The monthly meetings are a wonderful and informal way to make friends and to get to know others in the community. The meetings are usually held at the Berry Uniting Church Hall in the historic township of Berry.
Membership for the year is $150. New members are always welcome. For more information on joining ANShoalhaven go to www.artsnational.au and look under the Societies tab for Shoalhaven or go to Trybooking to join today https://www.trybooking.com/CNISV..
Australian Painters of WWI presented by Richard Travers
Don’t miss our 22 February lecture, at 7.30pm, at Berry Uniting Church Hall, 71-77 Alfred Street, Berry.
This lecture presents a review of the achievements of Australian artists painting during the Great War, from Tom Roberts, George Coates and Arthur Streeton, who served as wardsmen in a military hospital in London, to Hilda Rix Nicholas, who suffered great personal loss, to George Lambert, who painted Anzac Cove in 1919, to Grace Cossington Smith, who recorded life on the home front.
Richard Travers practised as a trial lawyer for more than 40 years. He was a member of the New South Wales bar and a partner in national law firm, Clayton Utz. He taught administrative law at the UNSW Law School. As historian, Richard Travers is the author of several books, including ‘Diggers in France: Australian Soldiers on the Western Front’, and ‘Above the Mists of Ages: The Anzac Legend in Historical Practice’, to be published later this year.
Visitors $25 and Student Visitors $15.
Future ARTSNATIONAL SHOALHAVEN lectures
21 March 2024 – David Worthington: Damien Hurst and Contemporary Art
2 May 2024 – Karen Pearlman: Telling Our Stories
30 May 2024 – Andy McConnell: The Genius of Rene Lalique
27 June 2024 – Claudia Chan Shaw : Collectomania: The Mind of the Collector
1 August 2024 – John Stevens : The Architecture of Mughal India: Palaces, Mosques, Gardens and Mausoleums
29 August 2024 – Vivienne Lawes : The Honourable East India Company: East-West Trade 1600-1800, Chinese Export and Chinoiserie
3 October 2024 – Rosalind Whyte: Constantin Brancusi
7 November 2024 – Paul Chapman: Picasso’s Guernica.
