Upcoming Program
MUMA Talks: Dreams of Colour
Wednesday 3 September
6–7pm
MUMA Foyer
Free entry, all welcome
Light catering is provided
About the program
Join artist Nusra Latif Qureshi for a wide-ranging discussion on the emotional and political aspects of colour in art. In this panel conversation, Qureshi is joined by Alison Ross, Professor of Philosophy and aesthetics at Monash University, Monique Woodward, Co-founder of Wowowa Architecture and 2024 Dulux Colour Awards Judge, and David Egan, Fine Art Lecturer at Monash University and author of Colour Handling, to consider the ways that colour is used to shape the worlds we inhabit and imagine.
This conversation will be moderated by MUMA Director, Dr Rebecca Coates.
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MUMA Talks: Dreams of Colour is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Nusra Latif Qureshi: The House of Irredeemable Objects
Image: Nusra Latif Qureshi, Boat People 2007 (detail). Monash University Collection
Biographies
Dr David Egan
Artist and Lecturer, Monash University
David Egan is an artist and lecturer at Monash University. Central to his work as an artist is a commitment to a practice of painting and an ongoing enquiry into acts of looking and the materiality of images. David approaches painting as a procedure of ‘colour handling’ and considers the inherent paradox of this term—that colour is a neurological phenomenon which cannot be touched or handled—as fertile ground from which to interrogate some of the conceptual, emotional and spiritual registers of the medium. David's book of essays on colour in painting, Colour Handling, was published by Discipline in 2022. David received his PhD from Monash University in 2022.
Nusra Latif Qureshi
Artist
Born 1973 in Lahore, Pakistan, Nusra Latif Qureshi studied at the National College of Arts in Lahore where she originally trained in the traditional art of Mughal miniature (musaviri) painting. Arriving in Australia for postgraduate study in 2001, Qureshi completed a Master of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in Melbourne, where she has lived and worked ever since.
Qureshi’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at prominent institutions including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, AU; 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, AU; Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, AU; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, US; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US, among others.
Alison Ross
Professor of Philosophy, Monash University
Alison Ross is currently the Executive Director for the Humanities & Creative Arts at the Australian Research Council. Her research has been primarily in the discipline of philosophy where she has focused on the semantic impact of aesthetic experience on understanding the world and acting in it. Her books include: Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Image (2014), Jacques Rancière and the Contemporary Scene (2012) and Revolution and History in Walter Benjamin (2018).
Monique Woodward
Principal and Creative Director Wowowa Architecture & Interiors
Monique Woodward, FRAIA, is Principal and Creative Director of Melbourne based practice, WOWOWA Architecture & Interiors.
Working from Collingwood on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people, our team of twelve architects and designers craft concept-rich, joy-sparking places, as generous to the public as they are to the planet.
Our work is playful, bold, colour-drenched, and unmistakably Australian, with a love of narrative that never takes itself too seriously. We are deep listening storytellers, firmly believing that great design starts with careful custodianship and architectural advocacy. Sustainability and inclusivity is baked into every part of our process, expressing spatial politics through robust, inspired placemaking.