Join a free curator floor talk to explore the exhibition J.W. Power: Art, War and the Avant-Garde.
This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of Sydney-born artist, John Joseph Wadell Power (1881-1943), Australia’s avant-gardist of the inter-war years.
In this floor talk, exhibition curator Dr Ann Stephen will discuss the life of JW Power and how his experiences in World War I and connections with the Avant-Garde influenced his art in the interwar period.
Ann Stephen is the senior curator of the University of Sydney Art Collections and curator of the exhibition J.W. Power: Art, War and the Avant-Garde. Ann's curatorial career over four decades has been in public and university museums, and since joining the University of Sydney in 2009 she has been responsible for the University Art Collection and developing the art exhibition and publication program.
Ann was President, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (2011–14) and she has an established national and international publishing record in modernism and conceptual art and in 2015 was invited to join the Scientific Committee of the European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism Studies.
She has been awarded multiple ARC grants and many prizes for her academic work; and was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2009. Since 2014, she has been chair of Art Monthly Australasia.
Header image: Oil painting; [Self portrait]; circa 1920; Power, Dr John Joseph Wardell; PW1961.8
