FEAST FOR THE SENSES

Art, Wine and Food Dinner at NG Art Gallery and Mission Restaurant Bar.

UP AND COMING FEASTS SEPTEMBER:

Tuesday 21st September 2010
Head Chef David Lovett
6.30 for 7.00pm, $70 per person

The Chair of the Blake Prize Dr Rod Pattenden in conversation with Artists Rodney Pople and Fiona White (Winner of the 2010 Blake Prize For Human Justice) on Art As Irritation Or Inspiration - The Blake Prize And The Social Role Of Art. There will also be an artist talk with Mai Nguyen-Long!

UP AND COMING FEASTS OCTOBER:

Tuesday 12th October 2010
Head Chef David Lovett
6.30 for 7.00pm, $80 per person

Food Writer & Author John Newton in conversation with Celebrated Foodie Maggie Beer, NAS Lecturer Dr Michael Hill & Food Writer Victoria Alexander on The Belly Rules the Mind: The Iconography of Food – What’s in a Saying? In celebration of the SMH International Food Festival.

PREVIOUS FEASTS:

Tuesday 31st August 2010
Arts Writer Elizabeth Fortescue will be in conversation with Sculpture by the Sea Founding Director David Handley and Sculptors Ron Robertson Swann and Bjorn Godwin on What is... And what isn’t... Sculpture? There will also be an artist talk with Jane Gillings!

Tuesday 10th August 2010
Arts Writer Elizabeth Fortescue in conversation with celebrated artists Janet Laurence & Julie Rrap on The Alchemy of Art, Science, Memory and Imagination.
There will also be an artist talk with Patricia Casey!

Tuesday 20th July 2010
In association with Lesley McKay bookshop & Harper Collins - Journalist David Marr in conversation with author Peter Rose discussing Peter’s witty and seductive new novel – Roddy Parr. Plus artist talk by Tracy Luff.

Tuesday 29th June 2010
Dr Rod Pattenden, chair of the Blake Prize for Religious Art in conversation with crown prosecutor & photographer Mark Tedeschi QC and Archibald prize winner Adam Cullen on: Feast for the Censors - Clashes between Photographers, Art and the Law.

Tuesday 8th June 2010
Author Murray Waldren in conversation with brothers and Dog Trumpet band members Peter O'Doherty and Chris O'Doherty* (aka Reg Mombassa) on Scores, Sketches and Notes on Canvas. Includes a live performance of tunes from their latest album, River of Flowers. Plus an artist talk by Lizzie Buckmaster Dove.

Wednesday 19th May 2010
Richard Morecroft in conversation with artists Wendy Sharpe, Jason Benjamin, Sarah Rhodes, Anne Zahalka and writer Alice McCormick (The Artist’s Lunch) on The Silhouette of Appetites in Love, Food, Sex & Art.

April 10
ABC Radio journalist Simon Marnie in conversation with, drummer of The Go Betweens Lindy Morrison & artist Susan O'Doherty on Assemblage & The Perfect Woman.

March 10
Richard Morecroft in conversation with Sydney Morning Herald art critic John McDonald and Richard Neville, publisher and editor of the infamous Oz magazine on: Popular Culture Controversy

March 10
Richard Morecroft in conversation with MCA curator Glenn Barkley, Dean of the Sydney College of the Arts, Colin Rhodes & Campbelltown Arts Centre Indigenous curator Djon Mundine on Ingenious or Genius - The Spirit of Art

February 10
Richard Morecroft in conversation with Euan Macleod, Lucy Culliton & Ann Thomson on Painting En Plein Air with Friends

January 10
In conversation with David Larwill, Greg Weight & Paula Duncan on: Shared Experiences - New Horizons & including a preview of the documentary A shared Canvas by filmmakers Anna Cater & Helen Barrow.

October 09
Nicky Ginsberg in conversation with Australian scientist (CSIRO) Dr Denis Anderson and film Director Stefan Moore on: Honeybee Blues, saving the European Honeybee from annihilation. Two course Mediterranean Feast accompanied by wines from the Margaret River wine region WA, generously sponsored by West Cape Howe.

October 09
Richard Morecroft in conversation with the Director of the SMH International Sydney Food Festival, Joanna Savill, author & food writer John Newton and Senior Curator of the Casula Powerhouse Paul Howard on: My heart, my food, my country. Five course degustation menu, accompanied by wines from Canowindra in the central ranges of NSW, generously sponsored by Falls Wines Vineyard Retreat.

September 09
Richard Morecroft in conversation with the Chair of the Blake Prize Rod Pattenden, ABC journalist & 2009 judge of the Blake Prize Stephen Crittenden & Professor Anita Taylor, Director of the National Art School on: Prizing the Spirit: Art, Art Prizes and the changing nature of spirituality in Australia.

September 09
Feast for the Senses Dinner
Richard Morecroft in conversation with celebrated artists Luke Sciberras and Gria Shead on: The Two of Us - Romancing Hill End

August 09
Feast for the Senses Dinner
Richard Morecroft In conversation with Bernard Ollis, former Director of the National Art School and Archibald Winner Wendy Sharpe on: Studios at Home & Abroad

August 09
Feast for the Senses Dinner
Richard Morecroft in conversation with celebrated artists John Firth Smith and Peter Kingston on: Synesthetic perceptions in Art. Live music performance by Diane Weston

July 09:
Feast for the Senses Dinner
Nicky Ginsberg in conversation with internationally renowned composer Peter Sculthorpe with acclaimed Australian writer David Malouf on: A Life as a Score... on a page amongst Words in support of MS Research 5 Million Foundation. Live performance by the Sydney Omega Ensemble in support of MS Australia's F5 Million Foundation

July 09:
Feast for the Senses Dinner
Justin Miller Chairman of Sotheby's on: Buying Collecting and Investing In Art. Lives Blues Harmonica Performance by renowned musician & composer Jim Conway in support of MS Australia's F5 Million Foundation

June 09:
Feast for the Senses Dinner
Richard Morecroft in conversation with Alasdair Foster, Director of the Australian Centre for Photography, Head On photographic portrait prize curator Moshe Rosenzveig and 2009 winner of Head On, photographer Gary Heary: Can photography access the real - Is there a definitive truth?

May 09:
Feast for the Senses Dinner
In conversation with Richard Morecroft, Anne Zahalka and James Powditch on: The Changing Face of the RSL

April 09:
Feast for the Senses Dinner
In conversation with Chairman of the Biennale Luca Belgiorno-Nettis and Publisher of Art & Australia Eleonora Trigabuff on: Underground to Aboveground Art on the Cutting Edge

March 09:
Feast for the Senses Dinner
Award winning artists Peter and Susan O'Doherty in conversation on: 'The Two of Us' - Shared Palette

February 09:
Feast for the Senses Dinner
Award winning artist Garry Shead in conversation with cartoonist and artist Eric Lobbecke on: Newsprint to Canvas

October 08: In conversation with food writer John Newton, sustainability expert, Michael Mobbs, Greens councillor Chris Harris, Powerhouse Museum curator, Anni Turnbull & artists Janet Laurence & Juliet Holmes a Court on: The Future of Food

Sept 08: In conversation with SMH art critic John McDonald & Director of The Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Kon Gouriotis on: State & Self-Censorship: Whose Voice?

Sept 08: In conversation with Rod Pattenden and the judges of the Blake Prize for Religious art on: Questioning the Gods: Judging the Blake

Sept 08: In conversation with Dr Rachael Kohn & artist Yaeli Ohana on art & spirituality.

July 08: In conversation with Dr Shirley Fitzgerald & artists Nicholas Harding & Eric Lobbecke on Sordid Tales of Chippendale

July 08: In conversation with Archibald winner Euan Macleod and editor of Artist Profile Magazine Paul Flynn on Artists and their Audience

June 08: In conversation with Radio National presenter Michael Duffy and AGNSW public programs coordinator Jethro Lynne on Cold War: Hot Heads and Art

June 08: In conversation with artists Lucy Culliton, Ann Cape and Kerry Lester on: Face to Face

May 09: In conversation with MCA curator Glenn Barkley and artist Idris Murphy on: How to see anew the landscape

May 08: In conversation with Sotheby's Managing Director Lesley Alway and Director of ArtBank, Geoffrey Cassidy on: Buying & Collecting Art

May 08: In conversation with Adrian Newstead, Director of Coo-ee Aboriginal Art & indigenous curator of Campbelltown Arts Centre, Djon Mundine & ABF member & distinguished author Jennifer Isaacs on: Aboriginal Art and the Yirrkala Community

April 08: In conversation with Bernard Ollis, Director of the National Art School & SMH art critic John McDonald on: Art and the Theatre of the Absurd

April 08: In conversation with Bernard Ollis, Director of the National Art School and Archibald Winner Wendy Sharpe on: The Two of Us

March 08: In conversation with the chair of the Blake Prize, Rod Pattenden and Father Peter Maher on: Art is a Blasphemy! A Pious Explanation

Nov 07: In conversation with landscape artist Mia Ng on: Of a Place

Nov 07: in conversation with prize winning artist Peter O'Doherty on: The Urban Landscape

Oct 07: In conversation with prize winning photographic artist Patricia Casey on: Home Alone - Art & Memories in Photography