Dr Sheridan Palmer, a curator and art historian, is the author of Centre of the Periphery Three European Art Historians in Melbourne (2008) and Argy-Bargy: Dean Bowen (2009). She will be discussing her current biography-in-progress of the Australian art historian, Bernard Smith who is recognised as the ‘father of Australian art history’, though his role and importance reaches well beyond that title. He was, for instance, one of the first doctoral students at the ANU, completing his thesis on European Vision and the South Pacific in the School of Pacific Studies in 1956.