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Emily: the impossible modernist
John McDonald and Dr Margo Neale with Virginia Trioli
Emily Kame Kngwarreye series, 28 September 2008
ABC journalist Virginia Trioli discusses the work of artist Emily Kngwarreye with Sydney Morning Herald art critic John McDonald and National Museum curator Margo Neale. Does Emily’s work compare with modernism? Is it considered abstract expressionist?
Emily Kame Kngwarreye series
- Emily: the impossible modernistJohn McDonald and Dr Margo Neale with Virginia Trioli
- Janet on the spotJanet Holmes à Court and Dr Margo Neale
- ‘Why do those fellas paint like me …?’ Emily Kame Kngwarreye symposium welcome and introductionDennis Grant, Dr Margo Neale and Agnes Shea
- The impossible modernist: an ‘outsider’ viewProfessor Akira Tatehata, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
- The possible modernist: an ‘insider’ viewDr Ian McLean, University of Western Australia
- Late-style modernist: a ‘boundary rider’ viewDjon Mundine, Campbelltown Arts Centre
- An artist first and foremostChristopher Hodges, Utopia Art Sydney
- Emily Kame Kngwarreye: her place in Australian artSusan McCulloch
- A new ritual in contemporary Aboriginal artDr Sally Butler, University of Queensland
- Emily as located historian: the Camel Lady narrates a history of discovery without 1788Professor Ann McGrath, Australian National University
- Emily Kngwarreye’s practice of painting: an international perspectiveProfessor Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh, United States
- Japanese responses to the Emily exhibitionChiaki Ajoika, Hitomi Toku and Mayumi Uchida
- New directionsGwen Horsfield and Chrischona Schmidt, Australian National University
