At the present moment India’s indigenous and regional artists (often termed ‘Adivasi’ and ‘folk artists’) are forging a new place in contemporary platforms in India and around the world.
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Date: 9 July 2024
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Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre
Carole Douglas began working with Aari artisans in Gujarat almost 30 years ago. In this illustrated talk, and using actual examples, she will trace the origins of this embroidery style and offer insights into its current status both as a ‘folk' art and as a high end fashion statement.
Date: 22 July 2024
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Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre
In the mid-1990s I was given a copy of the radar image of the Angkor region taken from the Space Shuttle which decisively showed the actual, vast urban extent of Angkor. The Greater Angkor Project has been an international, collaborative and interdisciplinary program to study that settlement.
Date: 10 August 2024
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Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre
This half day symposium organised by the TAASA NSW Ceramic Study Group on the beauty and utility of East Asian tea wares will explore how the rich variety of ceramic tea wares has developed over time in response to different and evolving tea drinking traditions in China and Japan.
Date: 22 August 2024
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Location: Adelaide
This illustrated talk highlights two historic oriental carpets that have their origins in the Islamic world but have found their way to Europe and then to Australia. Each has an established provenance and an extremely interesting life story.
Date: 10 September 2024
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Location: Private Venue
Leszek Galezia has generously offered to open his home to TAASA members to view his extensive and impressive collection of antique and contemporary Burmese lacquer betel boxes, offering vessels and storage containers; Buddhist statues, shrines and manuscripts; textiles; silver lime boxes and ceramics – amongst other objects.
