Public Talks
Upcoming Tour
Explore the architectural traditions of Scandinavia focusing on the life and legacy of Jørn Utzon and his contemporaries, tracing the ideas that shaped some of the 20th century’s most significant buildings.
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Upcoming Lecture
New lecture
“Passages through the Unconscious”
on Salvador Dalí and Architecture to be held here at the Gala-Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain, 1 October 202, 17:15pm
Art Gallery of NSW Art Appreciation Lecture
Salvador Dalí: painting the unconscious
Discover how Salvador Dalí transformed the unconscious into art. Dalí’s extraordinary technique turned dreams, phantoms, and irrational objects into luminous visions. Drawing on his own writings, including 50 Secrets of Magical Craftsmanship, this lecture reveals how Dalí fused reason with delusion, and observation with invention, to make visible the mechanics of thought itself.
Art Gallery of NSW
Wednesday 17 June 2026, 6–7pm
Thursday 18 June 2026, 1–2pm
Recording Available on AGNSW Members Website
Art Lecture:
Surrealism’s Slippery Surface
Join Surrealism scholar Simon Weir for an engaging exploration of Surrealism’s profound philosophical and psychological dimensions. We’ll trace how André Breton, Salvador Dalí, and especially René Magritte advanced automatism from its roots in spiritualism to a powerful means of accessing the unconscious, shifting from physical techniques like automatic writing toward deeper psychological insights that could be communicated through text, image, object, cinema and architecture.
https://mosmanartgallery.org.au/event/art-lecture/
Learning Curve Lectures
René Magritte: The Treachery of Images
The Art Gallery of NSW, November 2024.
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Lectures Now on Youtube !
Watch Lecture Part 1
Watch Lecture Part 2
Listen:
Interview about Learning Curve Lecture Series on East Side Radio, 1 November 2024.
The Art Gallery of NSW Members Instagram post of a snippet of the talk.