Making Of Session w/ Ellie Buttrose
Event description
Join us for a night of incredible insight and exploration of the arts with the first guest of our 2025 ‘Making of’ series; One of Australia's leading curators of visual art - Ellie Buttrose.
Through this platform we invite celebrated arts professionals and artists to share their early career explorations, as well as the significant opportunities, processes and decisions that've nurtured their growth in the industry.
Ellie Buttrose is the Curator of Contemporary Australian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA); Curator of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia; and Curator of Archie Moore: kith and kin at the Australia Pavilion, 2024 Venice Biennale, which received the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Her recent curatorial projects at QAGOMA include: Living Patterns 2023 that featured artists who use abstraction as both a political and formal device; Embodied Knowledge 2022 a survey of contemporary Queensland art co-curated with Katina Davidson; Work, Work, Work 2019 that examined the intersection of civic and artistic labour; and Limitless Horizon: Vertical Perspective 2017, which reconsidered the impact of drone vision on contemporary art through First Nations and East Asian painting traditions.
WHEN: Thursday 3 April | 6:00PM - 7:00PM
WHERE: Griffith University Lecture Theatre Space (next to Griffith University Art Museum)
FREE | ALL WELCOME
Limited capacity - please secure your tickets!
Photographer: Joe Ruckli / Image courtesy: QAGOMA
The 2025 'Making of' series is presented in partnership between Outer Space and the Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM).
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