Curating Collections Series: Curating with Prints with Lisa Sullivan and Katarina Paseta, Geelong Gallery

Thursday 6 Mar 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

This series provides curatorial students, emerging curators and the public with the opportunity to learn about working with collections of historical objects. Invited curators discuss the practicalities of developing, planning, and installing exhibitions, collection management, programming, and working with historical objects in their care. After the presentation there will be the opportunity to discuss and share learning and ideas.

In the inaugural session in this series, join Geelong Gallery Senior Curator Lisa Sullivan and Curator Katerina Paseta as they share behind-the-scenes insights on recent print exhibitions:  

Cutting Through Time—Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print (18 May to 28 July 2024)
Curated by Lisa Sullivan, this exhibition examined the influence of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) on the famed contemporary Australian painter and printmaker, Cressida Campbell (born 1960), and on the groundbreaking modernist painter and printmaker, Margaret Preston (1875–1963). The exhibition presented their work in the context of their love of, and the influence on their work of, the serene aesthetics and sophistication of historical Japanese ukiyo-e woodcut prints.

A People’s Press—Noel Counihan (2 November 2024 to 10 March 2025) Melbourne-born artist Noel Counihan (1913–1986) maintained a personal and artistic commitment to political and social justice throughout a lifetime punctuated by some of the most challenging and defining events of the twentieth century. This exhibition presented a selection of prints by Counihan—and his collaborators—that focussed on the historical events and relationships that informed his political and artistic life.

Lisa Sullivan is Senior Curator at Geelong Gallery where she leads the delivery of the exhibition program and contributes to the development, research and interpretation of the collection. Since joining the Gallery in 2005 she has curated and/or project managed over 250 exhibitions including the biennial Geelong acquisitive print awards. Prior to joining Geelong Gallery she was the Collections Curator at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at The University of Melbourne. Lisa completed postgraduate studies in Art Curatorship and Museum Management at The University of Melbourne, and in 2003, was the Harold Wright and Sarah and William Holmes Scholar at the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum.  

Katarina Paseta is Curator at Geelong Gallery, where for the past three years she has predominantly worked on the cataloguing, housing and interpretation of the Colin Holden Collection of Australian and European prints. Katarina has worked in curatorial, exhibition and collection management roles at Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art; Monash University Museum of Art; and the Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Cinema Studies) from La Trobe University; a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Art Curatorship and Museum Management) from the University of Melbourne; and is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Arts (Research), at the University of Melbourne. 

Your ticket includes tea or Market Lane coffee served before the presentation, and time to browse our exclusive range of books, gifts, and homewares at TJC Emporium.

This event is presented on-site at The Johnston Collection. Please see your ticket for details. NOTE: Tickets for this event do not include access to our exhibition-house, Fairhall. Guided tours of the current exhibition can be booked separately.

This program is generously supported by The Sir Wilfred and C H (Roger) Brookes Charitable Trust.

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Image: Margaret Preston, Fuchsia and balsam 1928, hand-coloured woodcut, Geelong Gallery, Purchased

Book Tickets

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Concession $23.00

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Tertiary/Secondary Student $10

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