Pierre Bonnard: a Melbourne Masterclass series

Anthony White is an Associate Professor in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on the history of modern and contemporary art. He has published several books, including Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism (Routledge, 2020), and his writing on modern art has been published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals. He is a frequent recipient of research awards from the Australian Research Council (2018, 2012, 2007) and has held several appointments at major institutions including Harvard, New York University and the Centre of Visual Art at the University of Melbourne.

Jane Eckett is an art historian, curator and Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Masters of Letters (MLitt) from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from the University of Melbourne, awarded in 2017. Her research focuses on modernist sculpture, public art and memorials, diaspora art and émigré networks. She has worked as a sessional lecturer in art history at the University of Melbourne since 2010 and regularly speaks in public, most recently delivering the 2019 annual Duldig Lecture.

Emerging from the discipline of painting Lisa Radford explores the shared socio-political space between images, place and people. Conversation and collaboration form the fundamental basis of her processes as means for creating iterative and generative texts, exhibitions and seminars that span a range of media including painting, publishing, performance and installation.

Nick Selenitsch is an artist and Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, where he works in Critical and Theoretical Studies (CATS) and Painting. Recent solo exhibitions include Australian Crawl, Savage Garden, Melbourne, 2022, Nick Selenitsch – Form & The Universe of Colour, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, 2021; and, &, Sutton Gallery, 2021. Nick Selenitsch is represented in Australia by Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.

Donald Bates is a registered architect in Australia and the UK and is the Director of LAB Architecture Studio. LAB Architecture Studio are the architects of Melbourne’s award-winning Federation Square.  The works of LAB have been exhibited in museums and exhibitions across Australia, Europe and the USA, and have been published in more than 50 international publications. Professor Bates has lectured extensively in both an academic and professional capacity, with more than 140 lectures across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia in the last 20 years. He has been the subject of numerous interviews, in print, radio and television.

Olivia Meehan is an art historian who makes connections between art, literature, nature and gardens across continents and through centuries. Olivia received her MPhil and PhD in the History of Art from the University of Cambridge, King's College. Her graduate research focused on the circulation of cultural material and ideas in early modern Europe and Japan. Since graduating she has worked in museums and galleries, and as a lecturer and tutor in the History of Art.