I'm available to speak about China and/or Chinese contemporary art to student or interest groups and can tailor a presentation to the needs of your particular sector. My experience includes designing and delivering lectures and workshops for teachers and secondary students; lectures for undergraduate and postgraduate university students in Sydney, London, Melbourne, Shanghai and Beijing; lectures for interest groups; panel discussions; exhibition floor talks, and conference presentations and keynotes.
Talks can be delivered in person, or using Zoom or other appropriate platforms.
Recent experiences include:
- Guest lectures for MA students at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; UNSW; Sydney University; China Women's University, Beijing; and Sotheby's Institute, London
- A talk about contemporary directions in Chinese porcelain for members of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2024
- A talk for Western Sydney University IAC Art Talks Series in 2023: 'Half the Sky: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Women Artists (available on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgJqrZApxic)
- An online talk for 'Stepping Out: Female Identities in Contemporary Chinese Art' at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg in 2023: 'Understanding Gendered Materiality and Motherhood in Contemporary Chinese Art' with artist Liu Xi (available on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Mggy9XVnI)
- Lectures for TAASA members, Sydney in 2019 and 2021
Lectures to NGV Members and volunteer guides about the exhibition 'A Fairy Tale in Red Times' in 2019
Lectures on contemporary Chinese art for the Royal Asiatic Society in Beijing and Shanghai in 2018
Member of panel discussing Chinese art and culture at Peking University's Yenching Academy Global Symposium in 2018
Opening talks for solo exhibitions of Yang Yongliang at Sullivan & Strumpf, Sydney, Hu Qinwu, Liu Zhuoquan and Gao Ping at Niagara Galleries, Melbourne and Gao Ping at Vermilion Art, Sydney, and a floor talk for the exhibition of Chinese women artists, 'Sworn Sisters', at Vermilion Art Sydney
Opening address for an exhibition of works by Shen Jiawei at the University of Western Sydney's Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture in 2018
Book talks at the Beijing Bookworm (2016）Vermilion Art (2016) and Wollongong Art Gallery (2018)
Guest lectures for teachers and students at government, Catholic and independent schools
