Join Gregory O’Brien, Larissa Behrendt and Jamie Clennett as they explore the notion of memory and history, and examine the role art plays in the documentation and retelling of our personal and collective histories.
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Gregory O’Brien is a Wellington-based writer and painter whose recent collection of poems, Whale Years, traces his recent travels in the Pacific region. As well as writing poetry, essays and non-fiction books, O’Brien was curator at City Gallery Wellington between 1997 and 2009. During this time he wrote or co-wrote books about artists including Colin McCahon, Ralph Hotere, Fiona Hall, Rosalie Gascoigne and Noel McKenna. In 2012 O’Brien was awarded a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement.
Larissa Behrendt is professor of Indigenous Research and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is a regular columnist for The Guardian and has published numerous textbooks on Indigenous legal issues. She is also the author of two novels:Home, which won the 2002 David Uniapon Award and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers’s Prize for Best First Book (South-East Asia and South Pacific); and Legacy, which won the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. She is the Ambassador of the Gawura Aboriginal Campus at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney and a board member of the Sydney Story Factory, a literacy program in Redfern. She was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year Award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year.
Tasmanian Jamie Clennett is a designer, animator, illustrator and author whose graphic novel, The Diemenois, was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award in 2016 and took home silver at The Ledger Awards. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in 2002, Clennett has worked extensively in Australia and the UK for clients such as CSIRO, The Red Cross, Picasso Pictures, Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical, SBS, and the BBC. The Diemenoisis his first book.
David Carter is Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Always Almost Modern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity (2013) and Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies (2006), and editor of numerous books including Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing (2007). His new book, Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace, will be appearing from Sydney University Press later in 2017. From 2002 until 2016 he directed the Australian Studies in China program for DFAT’s Australia-China Council, and in 2016-2017 he was Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at Tokyo University.
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