10 DAYS ON THE ISLAND FESTIVAL FLOOR TALKS

Jon Cattapan
1pm Saturday 17 March
Cattapan lives in Melbourne where he is principal lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts. As one of Australia's leading painters, he exhibits nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include the major survey exhibition The Drowned World: Jon Cattapan works and collaborations at the Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, in 2006.

As an artist, Cattapan has practiced in Melbourne, Sydney, New York, Baroda (India), Seoul (Korea), and Castelfranco Veneto (Italy). His paintings and drawings are predominantly of urban spaces, reflecting his response to the complex, energetic and increasingly global nature of cities worldwide.

Dr Anne Morrison
12pm Saturday 24 March
Morrison lives in Forth, Tasmania. As a practicing artist she has exhibited in Australia and overseas. Solo exhibitions include Cluster at Despard Gallery, Hobart, 2003 and Haven at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia 2004. She is well known to the Devonport Regional Gallery having exhibited there in 2002 in the solo show Body and Land and through her more recent employment as Public Programs Coordinator from 2005 - 07. Intimate and Distant Landscapes is the result of Morrison's long standing interest in artists who respond to place and she will speak about the curatorial journey traveled during the past 18 months.

Intimate and Distant Landscapes draws from the work of five Australian artists: Jon Cattapan, Dorothy Napangardi, Judy Watson, Sue Lovegrove and Jonathan Kimberley. Morrison will talk about the ways in which these artists combine intimate and distant perspectives of a landscape they are close to, and how they use the process of painting as a means to evoke an experience of a particular place.

Events are free. For further information contact the Gallery on 03 6424 8296 or [email protected]