Venue: Singapore Theatre, Melbourne School of Design
Presenters: Dr Sarah Thomas
This public lecture explores the significance of mobility to an understanding of visual culture in the colonial period, focusing in particular on the works of art produced on board Matthew Flinders' inaugural circumnavigation of Australia between 1801 and 1803: by British landscape painter William Westall (1781-1850), and Austrian botanical artist, Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826).
Dr Sarah Thomas not only considers the status of the traveling artist as eyewitness in the period, but also examines the mobility of visual culture itself, and the implications for art history in a globalised world. The Art of Travel in the Name of Science considers the inherent contradictions between mobility and place as they condition our understanding of the art of exploration.
from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/7084-the-art-of-travel-in-the-name-of-science
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