NCB Upcoming events
24
Sep
2026
Fashioning the biography of Australian women artists: Dress and the self-portraits of Nora Heysen and Stella Bowen
Seminar
What can a self-portrait tell us about an artist’s life, and what happens when we look closely at what she chose to wear? Taking self-portraits by Nora Heysen and Stella Bowen in the National Portrait Gallery collection as its starting point, my project considers dress as a form of biographical…
03
Nov
2026
Vulnerable Life Writing: A conversation about the ethics, politics, and craft of telling hardship stories
Seminar
In this special seminar Dr Kim Huynh (ANU) will discuss the ethics, politics, and craft of telling hardship stories in a conversation with Emeritus Professor Christine Helliwell about Kim's latest book, My Old Man and Me: A story of escape, survival and caring.Kim Huynh is an author, senior…