Packsaddle annual lecture series
Since 2018 Packsaddle has funded three lectures each year: The F T Wimble lecture on prints and printmaking; the Howard Hinton lecture on early Australian Art; and the Chandler Coventry lecture on contemporary Australian art.
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.
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 Dobell2021 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
At centre, NERAM Director Rachel Parsons with two Packsaddlers providing colour at the 2021 Margaret Olley Interiors lecture.
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
Anne Ryan, Curator of Australian Art discussing the 2023 Wynne Prize
Chandler Coventry Lecture on contemporary Australian art
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