TAASA seminars
Baoping Li, Ancient Chinese ceramics seminar, May 2009. | Photograph: Ray Fulton
A series of lectures and seminars focusing on contemporary and historical Asian art, hosted by The Asian Arts Society of Australia and the Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery.
Past seminars and lectures:
2012
17th Century Japanese Ceramics | Saturday 28 April 2012 | 2.30-3.30pm | Queensland Art Gallery Lecture Theatre.
A seminar exploring 17th Century Japanese ceramics, illustrated by pieces from public collections and the private collection of James MacKean.
2011
Threads: Textiles seminar | Saturday 1 October 2011 | Cinema B, Gallery of Modern Art
A seminar which explored Contemporary Asian textiles in the exhibition ‘Threads: Contemporary textiles and the Social Fabric’ on display in the Gallery of Modern Art. Speakers included: Mary Jose, Fabric of Life; Liz Williamson, Woven in Asia; and Ruth McDougall, Associate Curator, Asian and Pacific Art.
Laos and Indo-China Silver | Saturday 2 April 2011
Presented by John and Marilyn Bee, Queensland Art Gallery Lecture Theatre
2010
Hmong Costume Art | Saturday 14 August 2010
Presented by Maria Friend
Queensland Art Gallery Lecture Theatre
2009
Asian textiles | Saturday 26 September 2009
Queensland Art Gallery Lecture theatre | 1.00–4.00pm
1.00–1.15pm Introduction
1.15–2.00pm Marjorie Morris (traveller and textile collector in South-East and Central Asia): Central Asia — A Look at the Silk Road.
2.00–2.45pm Dana McCown (curator, researcher and textile artist): Telia Rumal: an extraordinary but neglected group of textiles from South India.
2.45–4.00pm Miranda Wallace (curator of the ‘Easton Pearson’ exhibition): Floortalk — Seeing the world through Easton Pearson’s fashion.
Ancient Chinese ceramics | Saturday 9 May 2009
Queensland Art Gallery Lecture theatre | 1.00–4.00pm
1.15–2.00pm Baoping Li (Australian Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of Queensland): The archaeology and art history of Chinese ceramics and their cultural significance.
2.00–2.45pm Bob Maher (former diplomat with extensive experience in the Far East): Unique song ceramics from a collector’s perspective.
3.00–3.45pm Ruth McDougall (ACAPA): Introduction to and tour of the Queensland Art Gallery's Chinese ceramics collection.
2008
A newly-revealed cache of antique pictorial silk textiles from the collection of the National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh
| Saturday 18 October 2008 | Presented by Gill Green, TAASA Vice President and Honorary Associate at the Department of Art History and Film Studies, University of Sydney.
Textiles reveal much of the cultural history of the times in which they were prepared. These silk textiles were prepared in the traditional way in which Muslim women made their headscarves, by a resist-dye patterning method. But the patterning is manifestly non-traditional as they feature recognisable figurative motifs — animals, buildings, transport and mythical beings. This presentation focuses on the motifs' sources and then proposes a radical theory as to why and for whom they were created.
