Lunchtime Seminars, Thursday, Term 1, 2023
Venue: Lecture Theatre P152 (and online*)
Time: 12 noon - 1PM
 

Thursday 2 March

Louise Palmer  |  ALSO HER DAUGHTER

In this talk on the recent site-specific installation ALSO HER DAUGHTER, part of Scape 2021-2022, artist and teacher Louise Palmer reflects on the power of naming, and its ability to shift meaning. ALSO HER DAUGHTER refers to the inscription on Kate Sheppard’s grave, located in Addington cemetery, Ōtautahi, Christchurch. The peculiar, somewhat off-hand phrasing opens the door to think about all those who could be considered Sheppard’s daughters; a whakapapa of feminist belief, which stretches beyond Sheppard.

Louise Palmer is a New Zealand artist currently based in Ōtautahi, Christchurch where she is a Senior Lecturer in sculpture at the Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury and a Master of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. She exhibits, and has curated exhibitions, in New Zealand and Australia. Her research draws on sculptural conventions such as casting and site specificity, with significant temporary projects and publicly sited works in NZ.

Thursday 9 March

Clive Humphreys  |  Between Showers – paintings from the last three years

Since moving from Dunedin to Waiheke Island in 2019, Clive Humphreys has focused his art practice on a small area of native forest that sweeps down to the shoreline at Whakanewha Regional Park and Bird Reserve. This talk will track the development of his response to the environment from black and white watercolour paintings and charcoal drawings to coloured acrylics on canvas and consider the compositional and application challenges he encountered in this shift.

Clive Humphreys is a painter and printmaker whose work is represented in many private and public collections, including Auckland City Gallery, Te Papa Wellington, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Hocken Library and Christchurch Art Gallery. His fascination with watercolour is the result of a research visit to London in 2012. His technical development of watercolour and acrylic application is crucially informed by his stencil-making experience in printmaking. Clive graduated from Kingston College of Art and Design, London, in 1970. Since then he has worked and exhibited extensively. He was a Principal Lecturer and Acting Head of School at the Dunedin School of Art. In 2015, he was the recipient of a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award and in 2020 was awarded an Honorary Master of Fine Arts.

Thursday 16 March

Jill Sorensen  |  Re-cognising the suburban home as a site of radical multispecies entanglement

Located at the intersection of participatory art practice and new materialist approaches to agentic engagement, this lecture proposes and invites discussion on the potential for experiential creative research methodologies to reframe mundane interactions of suburban life as dynamic human-nonhuman interrelationship and radical entanglement. This discussion is grounded, physically and philosophically, in the creative research project the Domestic Hub, an ongoing recalibration of coexistence within home and garden in suburban Tāmaki Makaurau in Aotearoa, New Zealand. 

Dr Jill Sorensen completed a PhD, titled Between Elsewhere and Away: Small Acts of Cohabitation, at Massey University College of Creative Arts in 2021. She also holds an MFA (1st class honours) from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (2002), and a BFA from The University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, Australia (1991). Recent exhibitions include: I See You See Me See You, PhD examination event; the Domestic Hub, Owairaka, Auckland, 2020; To Dream While Waking (Wilderness of Things), a participatory installation at the 2019 Art Association of Australia & New Zealand (AAANZ) conference Ngā Tūtaki -Encounter/s: Agency, Embodiment, Exchange, Ecologies; I Don’t Know If The Water Knows How She Will Make Her Way To The Sea, a participatory Installation and presentation at Grounding Story: 7th Biennial Conference Of The Association For The Study Of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia and New Zealand; RM Conversation Pit, a RM Archive Residency Project, 2018/ 2019; Significant Others, Whangarei Art Museum, 2017.

Thursday 23 March

Denys Watkins  |  Around the World in 40 Minutes

I have been constructing, painting and developing images and objects for over five decades. This talk is a clipped romp through some of the paths and tracks that have led me to this present state, from narrative identities to an outcome that could be described as intuitive and devoid of primary external reference.

Denys Watkins is a significant figure in New Zealand art history, featuring in the major anthologies of New Zealand art, including 250 Years of New Zealand Painting (Docking, Dunn and Hanfling), The Big Picture: A History of New Zealand Art from 1642 (Keith) and New Zealand Painting: A Concise History (Dunn), and with work is in all major New Zealand public collections, including Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Conceptual, pop and abstract art have variously informed phases of his work, along with diverse cultural references beyond the western art canon. He lives in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, and taught at the Elam School of Fine Arts for 31 years.

Thursday 30 March

Tim Croucher (in conversation with Ed Hanfling)  |  Philosophies of Doing: Art as Research

Tim Croucher will talk with Ed Hanfling about the “researchification” of artistic practice within the art school context – what caused it and what it causes. They will consider the implications of this academic framework for pedagogy and, in particular, the range of possible problems and strategies associated with describing a “methodology” for studio practice and for engaging in critiques. 

Tim Croucher has been living in Hamilton for over 30 years and making and exhibiting paintings from there. He has been involved in a committee that instigates, curates and funds large public sculpture projects, in the development of an annual Street Art Festival, he’s looked at zillions of NCEA level 3 and Scholarship Painting folios, had some exhibitions in NZ and China in collaboration with artists from there, and taught Painting, Drawing and Installation at undergraduate and postgraduate levels since late last century at Waikato Institute of Technology.

Thursday 6 April

Pennie Hunt and Stefan Roesch  |  Pathways in TV & Film - Ōtepoti Dunedin

Pennie will show one of her recent award-winning short films followed by a Q&A and a discussion of how Ōtepoti Dunedin is fostering emerging filmmaking talent. She will be joined by Stefan Roesch from Film Dunedin & Film Otago Southland. 

Pennie Hunt began writing and directing films during her nine years living and working in Germany. Her German language shorts have won awards across several international festivals, as did her most recent short Milk, made here in Dunedin. With a slate of female-centric screenplays across several genres, Pennie is a storyteller committed to fostering under-represented voices in the Otago Southland region. Her debut feature film Tandem is currently in development, as is her local online series Dog Town. 

*Seminars can also be accessed online via this link: Online link Dunedin School of Art Public Seminar