eX de Medici: Beautiful Wickedness

227 226 EX DE MEDICI: BEAUTIFUL WICKEDNESS Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees Professor Emeritus Ian O’Connor AC, Chair Liz Pidgeon, Deputy Chair Dr Bianca Beetson The Honourable Martin Daubney AM KC Gina Fairfax AC Catherine Sinclair Paul Taylor Executive Management Team Chris Saines CNZM, Director Simon Elliott, Deputy Director, Collection and Exhibitions Tarragh Cunningham, Assistant Director, Development and Commercial Services Duane Lucas, Assistant Director, Operations and Governance Simon Wright, Assistant Director, Learning and Public Engagement Indigenous Advisory Panel Avril Quaill, Chair Nancy Bamaga Dr Bianca Beetson Helena Gulash Jyi Lawton Stephanie Parkin Louisa Warren David Williams Exhibition Curator Samantha Littley, Curator, Australian Art Curatorial Manager Peter McKay, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art Ellie Buttrose, Acting Curatorial Manager, Australian Art (September 2022 – January 2023) Curatorial Volunteer Sally Stewart Curatorial Assistance Adam Ford, Assistant Curator, Indigenous Australian Art Natalie McCarthy, Curatorial Coordinator Project Team Kate Mathers, Exhibitions Manager Teresa Nielsen, Project Coordinator and staff Michael O’Sullivan, Design Manager Rebekah Falk, Senior Exhibition Designer Melissa Gore, Exhibition Designer Jenna Hoskin, Senior Graphic Designer Chris Booth, Installation Coordinator Sebastien Foucault, Workshop Manager and staff Amanda Pagliarino, Head of Conservation and Registration Tiffany Noyce, Senior Registrar, Exhibitions Samantha Shellard, Conservator, Works on Paper Dominic King, Assistant Conservator, Works on Paper Emma Schmeider, Registrar, Collection Rebecca Johnson, Assistant Registrar, Exhibitions Amanda Buxton, Assistant Registrar, Exhibitions and staff Amelia Gundelach, Media Manager Bronwyn Klepp, Head of Marketing Kylie Lonergan, Head of Business Development and Partnerships and staff Kelly Hughes, Executive Advisor, Directorate Dan Cameron, Senior Communication Officer Julie Gervais, Senior Communication Officer (January – July 2023) and staff Julie Walsh, Foundation Manager Dominique Jones, Philanthropy Manager and staff Judy Gunning, Information and Publishing Services Manager Kristen Hayden, Library Technician (until August 2022) and staff Izabella Chabrowska, Manager, Retail Store Operations Tony Parker, Manager, Retail Sales and staff Tamsin Cull, Head of Public Engagement and staff Terry Deen, Head of Learning and staff Morgan Strong, Digital Transformation Manager and staff David Woldt, Head of Information Management and Technology and staff Publication Editing Rebecca Mutch, Editor Design Jenna Hoskin, Senior Graphic Designer Artwork photography Natasha Harth, Senior Photographer; and Merinda Campbell, Photographer (unless otherwise credited; all other photography credited as known) Artist studio photography and filming Jeremy Virag, Cinema Technical Officer; Josh Thies, Cinema Technical Officer; Peet Gardner, Cinema Technical Coordinator Image assistance Chloë Callistemon, Assistant Photographer; and Joe Ruckli, Assistant Photographer Selected bibliography Cath Charlton, A/Librarian (Collections) Proofreading Rosemary Peers Contributors Dr Andrea Bubenik is a Senior Lecturer in Art History, The University of Queensland (UQ). Her research and teaching focuses on Renaissance and Baroque art, especially links between art and science, histories of printmaking, court cultures and collecting, and theories of reception. Her books include The Persistence of Melancholia (2019), Perspectives on Wenceslaus Hollar (2016) and Reframing Albrecht Dürer (2013). She was the curator of the exhibitions ‘Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond’ (2017) and ‘Five Centuries of Melancholia’ (2014), both held at the UQ Art Museum. In her curating, Andrea explores the afterlives and migrations of images, and ways of creating and enlivening dialogues between historical and contemporary art. Dr Ted Gott is Senior Curator, International Art, at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne. Ted began his career as Curator of Prints and Drawings at the NGV and has held roles as Curator of European Art at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and Senior Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. He has published widely on Australian, British and French art and curated or co-curated numerous major exhibitions, including most recently ‘Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection’ (2022). His groundbreaking exhibition ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS’, staged at the National Gallery of Australia in 1994, examined the virus’s devastating effects, associated homophobic attitudes and the new visual culture that emerged globally in the face of the AIDS pandemic through compelling artworks by more than 100 Australian and international artists. Dr Marianne Horak is an Honorary Fellow at the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC), Canberra. After completing her PhD in Switzerland, she joined ANIC in 1982. In 2001, Marianne became head of the Lepidoptera unit at ANIC, a position that she held until her retirement in 2010. She has continued as Chief Editor of the Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera book series, played a leading role in the establishment of the website Australian Moths Online , and, together with Dr Ted Edwards, instituted regular ‘Moth Weekend’ workshops. Marianne also established the Australian Lepidoptera Research Endowment to facilitate studies of Lepidoptera in ANIC. In 2008, Marianne won the inaugural Westwood Medal for her comprehensive monograph Olethreutine Moths of Australia (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), published in 2006. In 2019, she was awarded the Karl Jordan Medal by the Lepidopterists’ Society, the first woman to receive this honour. Samantha Littley is Curator, Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and the curator of ‘eX de Medici: Beautiful Wickedness’. Samantha has enjoyed a varied career as a curator, writer and educator at a range of cultural institutions, including the Australian War Memorial, National Gallery of Australia and Australian National University, Canberra. From 2003 to 2008, she was Curator of Australian Art to 1970 at the Queensland Art Gallery. In this role, she curated the retrospective ‘Making it Modern: The Watercolours of Kenneth Macqueen’. As Curator at UQ Art Museum (2010–18), her exhibitions included ‘Conflict: Contemporary Responses to War’ (2014), ‘Light Play: Ideas, Optics, Atmosphere’ (2015), ‘Peter Hennessey: Making it Real’ (2015) — awarded Best University Art Museum Exhibition Catalogue at the 2016 AAANZ Conference — and ‘In Site: Process, Performance, Documentation’ (2018), co-curated with Michele Helmrich . In 2019, Samantha completed her Master of Art History and Curatorial Studies (Advanced) at the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, Australian National University. She worked independently while completing her studies, curating the career survey ‘Lincoln Austin: The Space Between Us’ (2021) for Ipswich Art Gallery. Dr Jenny McFarlane has curated diverse public collections in the ACT, including the Canberra Museum and Gallery, the ACT Legislative Assembly, and the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House (proppaNOW’s ‘Insurgence’ exhibition, 2013). She is currently the Canberra Health Services Curator of Arts in Health, where she is responsible for commissioning artists and fostering partnerships. She is the author of Concerning the Spiritual: The Influence of the Theosophical Society on Australian Artists 1890–1934 (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2012), and the co-author of ‘Arts + Health: New Approaches to Arts and Robots in Health Care’, a paper presented at HRI '20: 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge, UK. In 2013, she curated the major survey ‘Cold Blooded: eX de Medici’ for the Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, and in 1996, she co-curated ‘60 Heads: eX de Medici’ with Jane Barney for Canberra Contemporary Art Space. Chris Saines CNZM is Director, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.