Now you see me: Collecting and exhibiting women's art

Saturday, 31 May, 2-3pm

Join Elspeth Pitt (Senior Curator, Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia), Clothilde Bullen (Manager Art, Culture and Collections, Edith Cowan University), Lee Kinsella (Curator, Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, UWA),  and moderator Professor Barbara Bolt, as they discuss issues that guide the collecting and curatorial presentation of womens’ art, including projects such as KNOW MY NAME: Australian Women’s Art and Lines in the Sand: Women from the West. 

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Clothilde Bullen

Clothilde Bullen (OAM )is a Wardandi (Nyoongar) and Badimaya (Yamatji) Aboriginal curator, writer, and advocate with almost three decades of leadership in the arts and cultural sectors. She is currently the Manager Art, Culture and Collections at Edith Cowan University, having previously been the Curator and Head of Indigenous Programs at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), and prior to that as the Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Clothilde is also the Chair of the National Association for the Visual Arts Board.

Barbara Bolt
Barbara Bolt is an artist, theorist and a writer and a Professorial Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne. She recently returned to Perth for its blue skies, azure sea and dramatic sunsets following a long career as an artistic research leader at the VCA. Her publications include two monographs, Art Beyond Representation (2004) and Heidegger Reframed (2011), and five co-edited books. She has been a finalist in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Award, The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and the Alice Prize.

Elspeth Pitt
Elspeth Pitt is Senior Curator, Australian Art, at the National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra. She specialises in modern and contemporary art, including performance, conceptualism and visual poetry. She has held curatorial, honorary research and academic roles at The Australian National University, University of Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum.

Lee Kinsella
Lee Kinsella is Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at The University of Western Australia. Raised on Yued Country in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia, she has curated and managed exhibitions at Australian state and national public institutions, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Australian War Memorial and The National Film and Sound Archive (formerly ScreenSound Australia). Kinsella has written catalogue essays, articles and contributed to several books on Australia art.

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Image Credit:  Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Event, 2023, Photography: Liv Gavranich