SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

In association with the exhibition Tokujin Yoshioka: Waterfall
an immersive installation
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation presents

Caroline Baum in conversation with
Associate Professor, Bonnie English

Thursday, 24 November 2011
6 – 8 pm

Bonnie’s new book, Japanese Fashion Designers, will be launched by Dr Gene Sherman AM

The book will be is available for purchase and signing on the night.

Exhibition dates:
7 October – 17 December 2011

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Speakers:

Bonnie English is an Associate Professor in Art and Design Theory and past Deputy Director (Staffing; and Teaching & Learning) at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane. Her research has focussed on the inter-relationship of fashion design and fine art throughout history. Bonnie co-curated, and edited an exhibition book, Tokyo Vogue: Japanese and Australian Fashion (Brisbane City Hall Gallery, 1999), the first major fashion exhibition of contemporary Japanese fashion ever held in Australia. In 2004, she produced the CD ROM entitled Japanese Postmodernist Fashion: art, tradition, culture held in university libraries and used as a teaching and learning resource.

Caroline Baum is a respected journalist and broadcaster who has worked for the BBC, ABC TV, ABC Radio and Foxtel on a wide variety of arts programmes. She contributes to the Sydney Morning Herald and national publications. She was the founding editor of Good Reading magazine, cowrote and co-produced a documentary for SBS TV on crime writer Arthur Upfield and is currently developing several documentary projects through her company, Two Heads Media. Caroline hosts talks at arts festival around the country and has been a judge for several major literary awards.