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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Open in MapsGregory 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.
David Carter is a Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Queensland. His current research projects include a history of middlebrow book culture in Australia and a study of American editions of Australian books. David is also a judge of the annual Patrick White Award and chair of the national Board of Management for AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature.
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.
