Packsaddle Annual Lecture Series
Since 2018 Packsaddle has funded three lectures each year:
- F T Wimble Lecture on prints and printmaking
- Howard Hinton Lecture on early Australian art
- Chandler Coventry Lecture on contemporary Australian art
F T Wimble Lecture on prints and printmaking
2023 Cecelia Heffer, Senior Lecturer Fashion and Textiles at UTS, and Clint Harvey and Caren Florance 2022 Dr Peter Edwell of Macquarie University - The Case that Stopped the Nation - the 1944 Archibald
Prize was awarded to William Dobell 2021 Joanna Mendelssohn - Lionel Lindsay: Printmaker - the art and history of printmaking 2019 Michael Kempson Convenor of Printmaking Studies at UNSW and Director of Cicada Press. 2018 Shane Carmody, historian University of Melbourne
Howard Hinton Lecture on early Australian art
2021 Glenn Cook, Margaret Olley’s Interiors: vibrant colour and intimate spaces. 2019 Ann Louise Willoughby, author of Nora Heysen, A Portrait 2018 Angus Trumble Director, National Portrait Gallery
Chandler Coventry Lecture on contemporary Australian art
Anne Ryan - Curator of Australian Art discussing the 2023 Wynne Prize
2024 Anne Ryan - Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales 2018 Alison Kuber - Editor of Vault, Australasian Art and Culture Magazine
2019 John McDonald – art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald
With John McDonald are Packsaddle co-presidents Moira Lloyd and Glenda Kupczyk-Romanczuk plus Angus Nivison and Michelle Schouten.
The 2021 FT Wimble Lecture on Lionel Lindsay: Printmaker - the art and history of printmaking was presented by Joanna Mendelssohn, the author of two books on Lionel Lindsay’s prints, and one biography, Lionel Lindsay: an artist and his family. As we sat amidst the amazing travelling exhibition from the Maitland Regional Art Gallery of Lionel’s works Joanna’s words had extra resonance.
At centre, NERAM Director Rachel Parsons with two Packsaddlers providing colour at the 2021 Margaret Olley Interiors lecture.