Pubilc Talks





Lecture on Salvador Dalí and Architecture to be held here in at the Gala-Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain in September 2026…. details coming soon.


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 Websise

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.
Sold Out

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.