Talks | Robert Rooney at CCP

Robert Rooney: A Night of Talks

Robert Rooney Children, Hawthorn East 1 1958, courtesy the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney. Image via http://www.ccp.org.au/news.php?id=200

As part of the 
Centre for Contemporary Photography’s new exhibition Robert Rooney: The Box Brownie Years 1956-58 CCP is holding a night of talks.

Artist Philip Brophy, writer and curator David Homewood and Martyn Jolly, Head of Photography and Media Arts, ANU School of Art, will speak on and around the work of Robert Rooney.

Children and adolescents are often seen as ragged kid-flaneurs, re-mapping familiar urban or suburban spaces. Using a diverse range of historical Australian sources, Martin Jolly will explore these secret, under the adult radar, territories and trajectories.

Martyn Jolly is Head of Photography and Media Arts at the ANU School of Art. He is an artist and writer. His book Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography came out in 2006. 

A consideration of noncomposition in the conceptual art of Robert Rooney, David Homewood’s talk will discuss the negation of artistic intention in Rooney’s work from the late 1960s and early 1970s. It will focus in particular on the serialised depiction of the commonplace in several of his photographic works.

David Homewood is a writer and curator who lives in Melbourne.

David Homewood’s talk will discuss the negation of artistic intention in Rooney’s work from the late 1960s and early 1970s. It will focus in particular on the serialised depiction of the commonplace in several of his photographic works.

Philip Brophy writes on painting among other things. philipbrophy.com

A discussion will follow, lead by the exhibition curators, Maggie Finch and Patrick Pound.

Date: Wednesday 24 April 6—8pm

Venue: Centre for Contemporrya Photography, Kerr St, Fitzroy

Bookings: Bookings advised at trybooking,com

More information on the CCP website

Entry by gold coin donation