Seeking VDL in the northern hemisphere
with Dr Julie Gough, Churchill Fellow 2024
Wednesday 16 September, 10.30am
Central Gallery, TMAG
Dr Julie Gough, First People’s Art and Culture at TMAG, will share insights from undertaking in 2025 a Wendy Dodd Churchill Fellowship to locate and research colonial correspondence about Tasmanian Aboriginal people in UK and Irish archives.
Julie Gough is an artist, writer and curator. Her research and artwork most often focuses on impacts and legacies of colonisation. Gough’s maternal Briggs-Johnson-Gower family have lived in the Latrobe region of Lutruwita (Tasmania) since the 1840s, with Tebrikunna in north east Lutruwita their Traditional, Trawlwoolway, Country.
Since 1994 Gough has exhibited in more than 220 exhibitions. Publications include Tense Past (Tebrikunna Press, 2021, 2023), Fugitive History (UWA Press) and Shale (A Published Event) in 2018.
Gough holds a PhD and BA Hons. from UTAS, Visual Arts (2001, 1995), MA (Visual Arts) University of London, Goldsmiths College (1998), BA Visual Arts (Curtin University, 1995), BA Prehistory and English Literature (University of West Australia, 1987).
This is a FREE event and you are welcome to bring non-member friends. For organisational purposes, please let us know you are coming.
