The New England Regional Art Museum is presenting the third of its inaugural series of public lectures which explore Australian and international artistic practices and history.
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Angus Trumble, director of the National Portrait Gallery, will present the Howard Hinton Lecture “Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Wombat: A Pre-Raphaelite Mania in Victorian Britain” on Thursday, November 22, at 6pm.
Mr Trumble has a long-standing fascination with both the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the common Australian wombat. The lecture will unpack how the short-legged marsupial entered the imagination of 19th-century English artists and poets.
“We are so thrilled to have such an esteemed curator, writer, and speaker come to present this lecture at NERAM,” NERAM director Rachael Parsons said.
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“Mr Trumble is well known for engaging lectures, and the topic is so curious. How does the wombat feature in an art movement occurring thousands of kilometers from its natural habitat? I for one am thoroughly intrigued, and looking forward to having my understanding of art history challenged and expanded.”
Angus Trumble has been Director of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra since 2014. He was previously Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, and, before that, Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.
He is the author of Love and Death: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria and Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. In November 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
The Packsaddle lecture series brings leading art and cultural speakers to NERAM. They examine concepts and ideas emerging from national discussions and research in the arts that are relevant to the gallery’s collections.
This lecture, named for NERAM’s seminal Howard Hinton Collection, focuses on art history, and is held in November to coincide with Hinton’s birthday.
The story of the Howard Hinton Collection is one of the greatest acts of philanthropy in Australian art history.
Howard Hinton was born in England in 1867, and came to Australia at the turn of the century. Between 1929 and his death in 1948, the retired shipping company director bought and donated over 1000 artworks to the newly built Armidale Teachers’ College.
These great artworks were hung on the walls of lecture theatres, offices, libraries and hallways throughout the building, often providing young students from rural and regional NSW’s first ever experience of the visual arts.
Hinton’s collection remains one of the most significant art collections in the country, and is now housed at NERAM.
In February 2018, NERAM opened HINTON: Treasures of Australian Art, a salon hang display of 132 works from the Hinton Collection. The lecture will be held amongst these important artworks.
Date: Thursday 22nd November 2018, starting at 6pm
Tickets: $15/ $10 Friends of NERAM
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