Exterior view of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, with the new SANAA-designed building, Naala Badu (left), and the original building, Naala Nura (far right), 2022, photo © Iwan Baan
President: Her Excellency, Lynette Wood, Ambassador
Claire Barbillon, Ecole du Louvre, director
Magali Melandri, Musee Quai Branly, Head of Oceania
Catherine Nicholls, Lyon Biennale, Curator
Guillaume Piens, Art Paris, director
Anne-Solene Rolland, INHA, Director

Australian Embassy, Paris, France@Simon Patching
President: Her Excellency, Lynette Wood, Ambassador
Claire Barbillon, Ecole du Louvre, director
Magali Melandri, Musee Quai Branly, Head of Oceania

Australian Embassy, Paris, France@Simon Patching
President: Suzanne Cotter, MCA Director
Raphael Coulhon, Embassy of France
Kerry Gardner, AM
Alison Kubler, Vault Magazine, Chief Editor
Janet Laurence, Artist
Barbara Moore, Sydney Biennale, CEO

Museum of Contemporary Arty, Australia @ Brett Boardman Photography
FIONA HENDERSON
NATIONAL ART SCHOOL

Talk: Joyce Lubotzky (Au) / Aude Bourguine (Fr)
GEORGIA MUSUMECI
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

Talk: Ethel Carrick & P. Fox (Au) / Christo & Jeanne Claude (Fr)
Paper (400 words) – Video (7′)
President: Tony Ellwood AM, National Gallery of Victoria, Director
Myriam Boisbouvier-Wylie, French Australian Cultural Exchange Foundation, Chair
Krystyna Campbell Pretty AM, Member of the Foundation Council and the Trustee
Kerry Gardner AM, Australian Institute of Art History, board director
Dr Ted Gott, National Gallery of Victoria, Head of International Art
Anne Wallace, artist

DANIEL GLOVER
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Emile Gallee (Fr) vs. Yhonnie Scarce (Aus)
Published Paper in ISFAR Newsletter (Dec 2024) – Video (7′)
TILLY POLHMANN
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Élisabeth Sonrel (Fr) vs. Thea Proctor (Aus)
Published paper in ISFAR newsletter (Dec 2024) – Video (7′)
Introductory speech: Dr Nick Mitzevich, National Gallery of Australia, Director
President: Dr Deborah Hart, National Gallery of Australia, Head of Australian Art
Karine Mauris, Embassy of France in Australia, Cultural Attache
Janet Laurence, artist
Russell Storer, National Gallery of Australia, Head of International Art
Terence Maloon, Drill Hall Gallery, Director

Ramingining artists, Djon Mundine, Bandjalung people, The Aboriginal Memorial, 1987–88, purchased with the assistance of funds from National Gallery admission charges and commissioned in 1987. Collection National Gallery of Australia.

POPPY THOMSON
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Cathryn Boch (Fr) vs. Bonita Ely (Aus)
Poppy is the gallery manager at Deutscher Hackett.
She is a CulturePlus board director.
Poppy holds a honours degree in art history and curatorship at the Australian National University.
IMOGEN KING
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Hubert Robert (Fr) vs. Jonathan Jones (Aus)
Imogen is currently completing her PhD at the University of Sydney, studying Eighteenth-century French women and their relationship to print culture. She is a 2023 Power Institute’s Paris Residency fellow.

President: Maud Page, Art Gallery of NSW, Deputy Director and Director of the Collections.
Dr. Mark De-Vitis, University of Sydney
Jackie Dunn, AGNSW, Head of International Art
Danie Mellor, artist
Barbara Moore, Sydney Biennale, CEO

Exterior view of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, with the new SANAA-designed building, Naala Badu (left), and the original building, Naala Nura (far right), 2022, photo © Iwan Baan

SHANTI SHEA AN
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Henri Matisse (Fr) vs. Hilda Rix Nicholas (Aus)
Video (15′) – Motivation letter
Shanti is an artist living and working in Sydney. She is also teaching at the National Art School.
Shanti website: https://santisheaan.com
She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) and a Master of Art History & Curatorial Studies (Advanced) from the Australian National University, School of Art & Design.
Sadhbha Cockburn, NAS
Amelia Pontifex, Monash
Jennifer Yang, USYD
Is organised by
In partnership with
The Embassy of France in Australia