Speakers for this event

• Jan Griffiths

  Jan Griffiths

  I was born in Kununurra and I went to school in Broome. I first began work as a trainee broadcaster and journalist in 1990. I also did a few months at the Waringarri Aboriginal Arts Centre and enjoyed the little time I spent there. I’ve worked at the Wyndham Super Market and Tuckerbox store in Kununurra for several years. I’ve been painting on and off for a few years now. I’m carrying on my parents, Peggy and Alan Griffiths’ stories that were handed down to my parents and then to me. Both my parents are famous artists in the Kimberley but most importantly, they are my traditional teachers. I too can keep our tradition alive and hand the stories of our ancestors and how our country came to be, down to the next generation and generations to come. I do this with great pride and honour. I am now exploring ceramics (having recently completed a residency at the JamFactory in Adelaide SA and Midland Art Centre WA in 2017) and I am now exhibiting my work in clay as well as on canvas.

• Jane Sawyer

  Jane Sawyer

  Jane Sawyer is an exhibiting artist and educator. Her initial degree in art education led to further specialist workshop training with Andrew Halford, Australia (1982-85) and Shussai-Gama, Japan(1985-87). She established studios in Edinburgh, Scotland (1987-1990) and Melbourne, Australia (1990-present) and established Slow Clay Centre in Collingwood, Melbourne (2012 - present). Jane undertook post graduate academic re-search at RMIT University (Melbourne) and holds an MA by Research in Fine Art (Ceram-ics) entitled “The Evocative Object” which investigated the power of the functional object to communicate through the sense of touch. Her ceramic practice has taken her around the world, including residencies and exhibitions in UK, Denmark and Japan and her work has received many awards and is held in institutional and private collections. Jane has served on the board of Craft Victoria, is a board member of The World Crafts Council - Australia, and is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. Through Slow Clay Centre (Melbourne), an independent ceramics eduction centre, she aspires to share knowledge and create a community that enriches the local and national ceramics land-scape.

• Jeff Malpas

  Jeff Malpas

  Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Latrobe University. He was founder, and until 2005, Director, of the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. He is the author or editor of 21 books with some of the world’s leading academic presses, and has published over 100 scholarly articles on topics in philosophy, art, architecture, and geography. His work is grounded in post-Kantian thought, especially the hermeneutical and phenomenological traditions, as well as in analytic philosophy of language and mind, and draws on the thinking of a diverse range of thinkers including, most notably, Albert Camus, Donald Davidson, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. He is currently working on topics including the ethics of place, the failing character of governance, the materiality of memory, the topological character of hermeneutics, the place of art, and the relation between place, boundary, and surface. click here to go to Jeff’s website