Rita Angus: Life & Vision Symposium

Te Papa, in association with the Friends of Te Papa, presented a one-day symposium on 13 September 2008, in association with this exciting exhibition.

The whole day has been recorded. You can listen to each individual presentation that is listed below. The work to make these recordings available is still in progress. We will add links to this page as soon as new ones will be available.

• Welcome and introduction: Jonathan Mane-Wheoki and Professor Lydia Wevers

• Session 1: Individual presentations from:
  • Mary Kisler
    • Symbolising the ascetic – the medievalist tendency in Rita Angus's art practice
  • Professor Wystan Curnow
    • Angus and modernism
  • Dr Jo Drayton
    • Framing lives: the art of biography
  • Professor Michael Dunn
    • Rita and Theo: background to a portrait

• Session 2: Individual presentations from:
  • Ron Brownson
    • Monument/Self-portrait/Motion - the late landscapes of Rita Angus
  • Bronwyn Lloyd
    • The dream children: Rita Angus's sun goddesses
  • Dr Richard Lummis
    • Grinding lines: about the portraits of Rita Angus

• Session 3:
  • Artist’s Roundtable with Robin White, Julian Dashper, and Séraphine Pick
  • Insights from exhibition co-curators William McAloon and Jill Trevelyan