Lectures

The following is a selection of the topics I have spoken on recently. Lectures can be either 60 or 90 minute long, and can be delivered online or in person.

For short courses and lecture series, click here.

Australian Art

• The Australian Landscape from Glover to Olsen

• Jeffrey Smart: his art and its influences

Modern Art

• Italian Futurism: Speed, dynamisms and the fight at La Fenice

• Modern art in Germany from Kirchner to Kiefer

• The pigment revolution: Chemistry and the birth of modern art

• Paul Cezanne: Composition, colour and technique

• Henri Rousseau: An unexpected master

The Art of the Low Countries

• Breakfast: Still life in the Dutch Golden Age

• Forging Vermeer: The story of Hans van Meegeren

• Jan Van Eyck and the mastery of light

• Rogier Van der Weyden and the triumph of Gothic painting

Italy

• Murder and mayhem in Medieval Florence

• Masaccio and the invention of perspective

• Geometry in Italian Renaissance Art

• Lorenzo Ghiberti: Master sculptor of the early Renaissance

• The architects of Florence from Arnolfo di Cambio to Brunelleschi

• The Renaissance Genius: Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca

Contemporary Art

• “The Venice Biennale: Modern and contemporary art in Venice”

• El Anatsui

• Georg Baselitz

• The Guerrilla Girls

• Recycle Group

• Yayoi Kusama

• Tracey Moffatt

• Fairs and festivals: From Venice to Ballarat