SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation proudly presents

The Artist and portraiture

Please join Angus Trumble, Director, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, who, in conversation with Gene Sherman, will examine how Shaun Gladwell works to establish new perspectives within the field of contemporary portraiture.

on Saturday, 28 March 2015
4–6 pm
Conversation to commence at 4.30 pm.

at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16–20 Goodhope Street
Paddington NSW 2021

Light refreshments will be served.

RSVP by Tuesday, 24 March 2015
02 9331 1112 or bookings@sherman-scaf.org.au

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Angus Trumble is Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia. He was previously Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of A Brief History of the Smile (2003), and The Finger: A Handbook (2010). His latest book (co-edited with Professor Andrea Wolk Rager of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio), Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, was shortlisted for the 2013 Spears Book Awards in London. Angus is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The Burlington Magazine, The Paris Review, Esopus Magazine, and the Australian Book Review.

Image:
Shaun Gladwell
A Portrait of Nancy-Bird Walton, 2015
C-type photograph
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation