The Scheme was a Blueprint for Future Development Programs, designed in collaboration between Simon Browne and Agatha Gothe-Snape, 2015 (photo by Simon Browne).

The Scheme was a Blueprint for Future Development Programs, designed in collaboration between Simon Browne and Agatha Gothe-Snape, 2015 (photo by Simon Browne).
The Scheme was a Blueprint for Future Development Programs, designed in collaboration between Simon Browne and Agatha Gothe-Snape, 2015 (photo by Simon Browne).

Phip Murray

Phip Murray is an independent writer and curator and History/Theory Coordinator for RMIT’s Interior Design program in the School of Architecture + Design. Previous roles include Director of West Space (2008-12) and Visual Arts/New Media Associate Producer for the Next Wave Festival (2006).

Phip writes often about art, including catalogue texts, artist profiles and other art criticism. She also writes frequently for the National Gallery of Victoria including the books: Frederick McCubbin: The North wind (2015), a book exploring new research into one of McCubbin’s most iconic but mysterious history paintings; Loti Smorgon: A Life With Art (2015), a profile of the art collector, philanthropist and great advocate for Australian contemporary art; and The NGV Story (2011), a history of the NGV published on the occasion of the NGV’s 150th anniversary.

Phip is also Chair of un Projects, publisher of un Magazine, an independent contemporary art publication that responds to projects particularly in the independent and artist-led spaces and which fosters an experimental approach to writing about art.

Phip is currently researching the highly expressionistic and idiosyncratic art criticism of the Melbourne-based colonial writer Marcus Clarke, who brought bunyips into the NGV.

Venue: RMIT Design Hub, L3 Lecture Theatre

Date: 5pm, Thursday 5th May

Link to Facebook event

 

WRITING & CONCEPTS: Lecture Series
Produced by Jan van Schaik. 5:00pm Thursdays, March > October 2016. RMIT Design Hub
http://designhub.rmit.edu.au/exhibitions-programs/writing- and-concepts-lecture-series
https://www.facebook.com/ WRITINGANDCONCEPTS/

WRITING & CONCEPTS is a free public lecture series designed to explore the potential of writing as both a process and an outcome.The lectures will alternate between practitioners for whom the written form is their primary professional output and practitioners whose work manifests as exhibitions or events within the domain of contemporary art.