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This lecture discusses the development of maps of the world from the earliest civilisations to the most recent digital creations. They show gradual improvement for purposes of shipping, trade and national sovereignty. This evolution of maps includes more accurate coastlines, the addition of longitude and latitude and the placement of a consistent North; however, maps […] |
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The pivotal role of leading art critic and historian Allan McCulloch in establishing the Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre is examined in this lecture. The Gallery moved to its current location at Civic Reserve in 1990 and now boasts a significant collection of over 1,900 artworks, including paintings, drawings , prints and sculptures, with a focus […] |
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Pieter will share his techniques for capturing extraordinary images for Sir David Attenborough and National Geographic from playful macaque monkeys to majestic cassowaries in Australia. From playful Macaque monkeys in China to majestic Cassowaries in Northern Australia, the lecture will be illustrated with segments from Pieter’s nature documentaries. Dates and Locations Wednesday 1 April 2026 […] |
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Clarice Beckett is famed as much for her misty evocations of Melbourne as she is known for her tragically short life. Cold-shouldered by much of the art establishment due to her ties to the controversial art-theorist Max Meldrum, she nonetheless held twelve solo exhibitions between 1923 and 1933. Equally tragically, much of her output was […] |
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For centuries, artists have engaged with an influenced fashion. So too have art forms such as painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography. Dates and Locations Wednesday 17 June 2026 Geelong (VIC) Click on the location above for more details and to book tickets. 
This lecture examines style icons in the inter-war years and the early 1950s: Grace Kelly, Fiana Vreeland, the Duchess of Windsor and others. Dates and Locations Wednesday 17 June 2026 Geelong (VIC) Thursday 18 June 2026 Melbourne (VIC) Click on your preferred location above for more details and to book tickets. |
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Pieter will share his techniques for capturing extraordinary images for Sir David Attenborough and National Geographic from playful macaque monkeys to majestic cassowaries in Australia. From playful Macaque monkeys in China to majestic Cassowaries in Northern Australia, the lecture will be illustrated with segments from Pieter’s nature documentaries. Dates and Locations Wednesday 1 April 2026 […]
This lecture examines style icons in the inter-war years and the early 1950s: Grace Kelly, Fiana Vreeland, the Duchess of Windsor and others. Dates and Locations Wednesday 17 June 2026 Geelong (VIC) Thursday 18 June 2026 Melbourne (VIC) Click on your preferred location above for more details and to book tickets. |
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Pieter will share his techniques for capturing extraordinary images for Sir David Attenborough and National Geographic from playful macaque monkeys to majestic cassowaries in Australia. From playful Macaque monkeys in China to majestic Cassowaries in Northern Australia, the lecture will be illustrated with segments from Pieter’s nature documentaries. Dates and Locations Wednesday 1 April 2026 […] |
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Pieter will share his techniques for capturing extraordinary images for Sir David Attenborough and National Geographic from playful macaque monkeys to majestic cassowaries in Australia. From playful Macaque monkeys in China to majestic Cassowaries in Northern Australia, the lecture will be illustrated with segments from Pieter’s nature documentaries. Dates and Locations Wednesday 1 April 2026 […] |
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Describing herself by writing, “I am a museum”, Peggy Guggenheim’s life took a clear path, from setting up a commercial gallery in London, going on a single-minded shopping trip to Paris in the late 1930’s even as the German tanks were rolling in to the suburbs, to escape (with her selection of European artists) to […] |
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Describing herself by writing, “I am a museum”, Peggy Guggenheim’s life took a clear path, from setting up a commercial gallery in London, going on a single-minded shopping trip to Paris in the late 1930’s even as the German tanks were rolling in to the suburbs, to escape (with her selection of European artists) to […] |
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Pieter will share his techniques for capturing extraordinary images for Sir David Attenborough and National Geographic from playful macaque monkeys to majestic cassowaries in Australia. From playful Macaque monkeys in China to majestic Cassowaries in Northern Australia, the lecture will be illustrated with segments from Pieter’s nature documentaries. Dates and Locations Wednesday 1 April 2026 […] |
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Pieter will share his techniques for capturing extraordinary images for Sir David Attenborough and National Geographic from playful macaque monkeys to majestic cassowaries in Australia. From playful Macaque monkeys in China to majestic Cassowaries in Northern Australia, the lecture will be illustrated with segments from Pieter’s nature documentaries. Dates and Locations Wednesday 1 April 2026 […] |
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This leading cinematographer tells how he descended almost 4000 metres below the waves to film the wreckage of the Titanic, for James Cameron’s 3-D IMAX documentary Ghosts of the Abyss. Pieter will tell of his exhilaration and initial apprehension at journeying so far beneath the ocean’s surface in a submersible craft. We’ll see segments of […] |
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Pieter will share his techniques for capturing extraordinary images for Sir David Attenborough and National Geographic from playful macaque monkeys to majestic cassowaries in Australia. From playful Macaque monkeys in China to majestic Cassowaries in Northern Australia, the lecture will be illustrated with segments from Pieter’s nature documentaries. Dates and Locations Wednesday 1 April 2026 […] |
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A many-headed beast that emerged from the (supposed) civilising, enlightened spirit of the Napoleonic Revolution, Charlie will discuss the inception and concept of the Biennale in 1895 when cultural tourism events were springing up around Europe. Attracting a crowd of 224,000 visitors, and only pausing during the two world wars, the Venice Biennale has become […] 
The celebrated controversialist, Christopher Hitchens, once wrote that a first rate bust up requires one of at least two things: a clash of strong personalities, and a conflict of principles. The history of art is peppered with first rate bust ups: between the Renaissance artists, Brunelleschi and Ghiberti, between Constable and Turner in the early […] |
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Without the help of some supremely talented artists, sculptors, draughtsmen and engravers, the practice of medicine would not have advanced as rapidly as it did. This talk examines the mutual benefits that art and medical science have bestowed upon one another; it refers, as one would expect, to the art of great Renaissance masters such […] |
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This lecture considers some of the more unusual uses of portraiture from building an encyclopaedia of the tattoos that recorded Russian prisoners’ crimes to demonstrating the effects of genetics. These uses are only two examples from a range of artists producing startling portraits for reasons that may be amusing, profoundly moving and completely unexpected. Dates […] |
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Describing herself by writing, “I am a museum”, Peggy Guggenheim’s life took a clear path, from setting up a commercial gallery in London, going on a single-minded shopping trip to Paris in the late 1930’s even as the German tanks were rolling in to the suburbs, to escape (with her selection of European artists) to […] |