Recent TAASA Events

Recent Events

Below you will find a list of recent TAASA Events. To keep up to date with the latest TAASA events, please visit our TAASA Events page.

4A.I.: ELSEWHERE IN INDIA

Tour by Thea-Mai Baumann, Artistic Director and CEO of 4A; together with artists Murthovic and Thiruda

Date: 29 October 2024
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
This exhibition will focus on sustainable museum practices, highlight artistic interventions with artificial intelligence by the Asian diaspora, and seek to redefine heritage and cultural objects held in public collections.

Tour of ‘Transformation / Henka’

A retrospective of the work of Mitsuo Shoji at the Rochfort Gallery, North Sydney

Date: 22 October 2024
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Rochfort Gallery
Invitation from the TAASA NSW Ceramic Study Group

'Henka / Transformation' is a solo retrospective exhibition currently on at Rochfort Gallery, North Sydney by 78 year old Japanese born artist Mitsuo Shoji. Learn about some of his ideas and inspirations in a floor talk by his wife, Christine Shoji.

LEE UFAN: QUIET RESONANCE

Exhibition tour with Melanie Eastburn, Senior Curator of Asian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Date: 18 October 2024
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Art Gallery of NSW
Within spaces designed by the artist, the exhibition Lee Ufan: Quiet Resonance distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of new paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery.

Textiles of Lombok: Revelations Over The Past 50 Years

The NSW Textile Study Group invites you to this lecture with Robyn Maxwell

Date: 8 October 2024
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre
Although centrally situated in the Indonesian archipelago, Lombok has attracted relatively little attention from textile scholars, the largely Muslim Sasaks being widely viewed as rather dull relations of their exuberant Hindu Balinese neighbours across the strait to the west. This richly illustrated lecture will hopefully dispel any notion of Sasak woven textiles as monotonous and inconsequential. And in doing so, provide some understanding of the roots of those Sasak textile traditions that survive in Lombok today.

TRADITIONAL KOREAN GARDENS: SYMBOLISM AND LITERATURE

Lecture by Jill Matthews, author of 'Korean Gardens: Tradition, Symbolism and Resilience'

Date: 30 September 2024
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre
Although Korean gardens share some characteristics with Chinese ones they have many uniquely Korean qualities. There is a long tradition of gardening for beauty and pleasure on the peninsula.

A COLLECTION OF BURMESE LACQUER AND OTHER WORKS OF ART

An invitation to TAASA members only to a private viewing

Date: 10 September 2024
Time: -
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.

A TALE OF TWO ‘PERSIAN’ CARPETS

TAASA in partnership with the Adelaide Society of Collectors invites you to a lecture by Dr Susan Scollay

Date: Aug 22, 2024
Location: Adelaide

Beauty and utility: East Asian tea wares

TAASA NSW Ceramic Study Group Invitation

Date: Aug 10, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

THE GREATER ANGKOR PROJECT: AN OVERVIEW

Roland Fletcher, Professor of Theoretical and World Archaeology, University of Sydney

Date: Jul 22, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

‘The Art of Aari – Keeping the Chain Intact’ with Carole Douglas

NSW Textile Study Group Invitation

Date: Jul 9, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

INDIA’S REGIONAL ARTISTS CONFRONTING THE CONTEMPORARY CANON

Replacement for Lecture 5 in The Arts of India series

Date: Jul 1, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

Invitation from the CSG for a Members-Only Tour of the Exhibition ‘Villages and Empires: Ancient Cultures of the Middle East’

FULLY BOOKED

Date: Jun 6, 2024
Location: Chau Chak Wing Museum, University Place, The University of Sydney

ON TRADITION: 
Contemporary Art from Indonesia

Exhibition Guided Tour with Elly Kent

Date: Jun 4, 2024
Location: Delmar Gallery

Maharaja Portraits and Painted Photography: Towards an Aesthetics of Dissonance

The Arts of India Zoom Series

Date: Jun 3, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

‘INTERWOVEN JOURNEYS: The Michael Abbott Collections of Asian Art’

Plus TAASA AGM and BOOK SALE

Date: May 23, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

Lao Textiles: Contemporary Developments and Change

Date: May 14, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

Maharani Gayatri Devi: Abiding Symbol of a Bygone Age

The Arts of India Zoom Series

Date: May 6, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

Jain Pilgrimage Art: New Perspectives

The Arts of India Zoom Series

Date: Apr 8, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

Porcelain Renaissance: Sin-Ying Ho’s ‘New Export China’

Zoom Lecture with Alex Burchmore

Date: Mar 18, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

Colours of Nations: the 3rd Biennale of Natural Dyes

Presented by Liz Williamson to the Textile Study Group

Date: Mar 12, 2024
Location: National Trust Centre

The Life of the Buddha through Gandharan Art

The Arts of India Zoom Series

Date: Mar 4, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

Celebrate Lunar New Year with TAASA

Date: Feb 15, 2024
Location: Palace Restaurant

Tour of Asian Collection Highlights

Date: Feb 2, 2024
Location: Powerhouse Museum

AN INVITATION FROM TAASA to OUR END OF YEAR PARTY

Date: Dec 7, 2023
Location: Korean Cultural Centre

Japan and Indonesia: Four Centuries of Textile Exchange

by Dr. Maria Wronska-Friend

Date: Nov 14, 2023
Location: National Trust Centre

LIVING WITH TEXTILES

with Christina Sumner

Date: Sep 12, 2023
Location: Private Venue

EXHIBITION GUIDED TOUR

brick, vase, clay, cup, jug

Date: Aug 22, 2023
Location: Art Gallery of NSW

EXHIBITION GUIDED TOUR

Chinese Toggles

Date: Aug 3, 2023
Location: Chau Chak Wing Museum, University Place, The University of Sydney

SACRED SITES OF ASIA 5

Potala: The Sacred Palace of Tibet

Date: Jul 17, 2023
Location: Online via Zoom

THE SUZANI ENIGMA

with Ross Langlands

Date: Jul 11, 2023
Location: Nomadic Rug Traders

INVITATION TO A TOUR OF ASIAN ART

in the North Building Building, AGNS, with Senior Curator Melanie Eastburn

Date: Jun 20, 2023
Location: Art Gallery of NSW

SACRED SITES OF ASIA 4

Feminine Power and Masculine Desire in the Yogini Temples of India

Date: Jun 5, 2023
Location: Online via Zoom

‘MY LATEST BOOK’ PLUS TAASA AGM AND BOOK SALE

Three authors present their latest publications.

Date: May 31, 2023
Location: National Trust Centre

CREATION THROUGH TRADITION

Japanese Textile Design and Techniques

Date: May 11, 2023
Location: Masuda Gallery, Space 145

SACRED SITES OF ASIA 3

The Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar

Date: May 1, 2023
Location: Online via Zoom

SACRED SITES OF ASIA

A Series of Monthly Zoom Lectures

Date: May 1, 2023
Location: Online via Zoom

A KOREAN CERAMIC COLLECTION

Date: Apr 20, 2023
Location: Private home

SACRED SITES OF ASIA 2

Borobudur: Texts and Images

Date: Apr 3, 2023
Location: Online via Zoom

TÜRKIYE’S RICH HERITAGE

Date: Mar 27, 2023
Location: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts

SACRED SITES OF ASIA 1

The Origins of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion: The Kitayama Temple-Palace Complex in 14th-century Kyoto

Date: Mar 6, 2023
Location: Online via Zoom

Indian Contemporary Textiles

Artisan Handmade Textiles with Liz Williamson

Date: Mar 3, 2023
Location: National Trust Centre

“Made in China”

Symposium Invitation

Date: Feb 18, 2023
Location: National Trust Centre

Celebrate Lunar New Year at Tran’s, Mosman

with a Modern Vietnamese Menu

Date: Jan 29, 2023
Location: Tran’s Restaurant

An Invitation from TAASA to Our End of Year Party and Bazaar

Date: Nov 24, 2022
Location: National Trust Centre

Charkha and Kargha Exhibition

with Dr Pedrum Khosronejad

Date: Nov 15, 2022
Location: Powerhouse Museum

Living with Textiles

with Sandy Watson and Margaret White

Date: Nov 8, 2022
Location: TBA

CAMBODIAN INSIGHTS

Part Three

Date: Nov 7, 2022
Location: Online via Zoom

CAMBODIAN INSIGHTS

Part Two

Date: Oct 31, 2022
Location: Online via Zoom

CAMBODIAN INSIGHTS

Part One

Date: Oct 24, 2022
Location: Online via Zoom

CAMBODIAN INSIGHTS

A Three Part Zoom Lecture Series

Date: Oct 24, 2022
Location: Online via Zoom
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