Facture: Drawing Symposium 2025 

Anne Judell (Melbourne) | In person 

Liz Coats (Canberra) | In person 

Moderated by Margaret Roberts 

Sean O’Connell (Tasmania) | In person 

Pia van Gelder (Sydney) | In person 

Moderated by Ben Denham  

Dominic Terlizzi (New York)  | Zoom 

Osvaldo Budet (Sydney) | In person 

Moderated by Joe Frost 

Kirtika Kain (Sydney) | In person 

Krya Mancktelow (Brisbane) | TBC 

Moderated by Chelsea Lehmann 

Pricing 

All tickets, excluding online, include morning tea 

Full price – $100 

Alumni – $80 

Online – $50 

Student – $30 (includes drink voucher) 

Lives and works on the lands of the Yalukt Willam clan of the Boon Wurrung / Bunurong people of the Kulin nation (St Kilda, Melbourne) 

Anne Judell was the 2011 winner of the Dobell Drawing Prize awarded by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Respect for Anne’s work has grown over a career spanning more than four decades, as a solo exhibitor and through her presence in selected group exhibitions. Her entries have been included on many occasions as a finalist in the Wynne Prize, the Dobell Drawing Prize and the Blake Prize as well as in other prestigious competitions including the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award and Kedumba Drawing Award.  

Anne is represented in major private and public collections including the Australian National Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Parliament House Collection, Art Bank and regional galleries throughout Australia. Amongst the respected arts writers who have critically appraised her work are Christopher Allen, Prue Gibson, John McDonald and Matthew Westwood. 

Topic for the symposium– Anne will discuss her decades-long exploration of the patterns and forces of the natural world and pay homage to the artist who first inspired her. 

Lives and works on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country (Australian Capital Territory) 

Liz Coats has devoted her career to the exploration of colour in abstract painting as an embodied, material practice that brings organic and formal issues into relationship. Since the mid-1970s, colour has remained her central focus, in particular how it mediates her preoccupations with dimensional insight, transition and connectedness. 

Liz’s commitment to abstraction, and what it yields through its intense attention to colour, light and the sensory body, has withstood the vagaries of fashion and the gendered assumptions of the art world. Today this commitment seems all the more timely, grounded as it is in relationships, attunement to constant change and the enmeshment of the human and more-than-human worlds. Liz’s recent abstract paintings on board, paper, silk and linen, explore luminosity in botanical pigments, distilled by the artist from traditional extracts. 

Topic for Symposium – Liz will talk about the recent work of long-time friend and colleague, Margaret Roberts, together with a short description of her experiments with colour painting. 

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York 

Dominic Terlizzi is a Brooklyn based artist whose studio work includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation. He utilizes objects and textures to build imagery. Dominic recently exhibited at Craig Krull Gallery and Helen J Gallery in LA, My Pet Ram, Tappeto Volante, Field of Play, The Front, Good Naked, Underdonk, and Headstone Gallery in New York. International exhibitions include McBride Contemporian in Montreal, and NEVVEN Gallery in Gothenburg, Sweden.  

Dominic founded and directed St. Charles Projects in Baltimore City from 2015-2023 and is currently a co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York. He has been awarded the Triangle Workshop, PNC Transformative Art Prize, Belle Foundation Grant, and completed three public sculptures in Baltimore City. He earned a BFA from the Cooper Union, New York, 2003 and a Master of Fine Arts from the Hoffberger School of Painting MICA, Baltimore, 2008. Dominic is currently the Director of School at PI Art Center. 

Topic for Symposium – Dominic and Osvaldo will discuss transformations and voids found in objects and history through extending drawing approaches.   

Lives and works on the Kamberri region of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People 

Pia van Gelder is an electronic artist, researcher and historian at the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University. Their research investigates historical and contemporary conceptions of energy and how these shape our relationships with technologies, bodies and environments. Their scholarship has concentrated on the influence of esotericism on electronic instruments of the 20th century and their studio practice produces instruments for performance and installation contexts. Their current project The Energies Artists Say with co-editor Douglas Kahn, presents a methodology for understanding the polyvalence of energies in practices across the arts. 

Topic for Symposium – Pia will discuss drawing of electronic circuits and their curious divinatory elements in 20^th century radionics and their own work with electrodermal activity and audio synthesis. 

Lives and works on Luggermairrenerpairrer Country (Tasmania) 

Sean O’Connell is an artist exploring the internal world of matter and the movement of electrical energy and force. He uses alternative photographic techniques, electronic circuitry, noise, energetic structures and experimental processes to visualise and sonify these spaces of interest. His work is concerned with the realms of both matter and electricity, exploring the ways they each transform, modulate, and inform one another’s nature through their interaction. 

Sean lives on the central plateau of Tasmania, where his explorations are becoming ever more focused upon the energetic exchanges playing out within the subalpine landscape surrounding him. 

Topic for Symposium – Sean will explore traditional and extended practices that map connections and energetic exchange within abstracted landscapes. 

Represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 

Lives and works on Darug Country, (New South Wales) 

Kirtika Kain is an artist practicing on Darug Country, New South Wales, Australia. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2016 and was awarded the Bird Holcomb Scholarship to complete her Master of Fine Art in 2018 at the National Art School, Sydney. She was a recipient of the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award in 2017, the Art Incubator Grant and Dyason Bequest, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and a finalist in the Churchill Fellowship and numerous art prizes including Blacktown Art Prize (2017, 2019). Kirtika has been a finalist in the Create NSW Emerging Artist Fellowship at Artspace, a recipient of the Parramatta Artist Studio (2020, 2024) and an artist in residence at the British School at Rome (2019) and the Amant Siena Summer Residency (2022).  

Kirtika has recently exhibited in the projects Wake Up Call for my Ancestors, Oyoun, Berlin (2022) and Plea to the Foreigner, African Biennale of Photography, Mali, (2022) collaborating with Dalit artists and thinkers within India and the diaspora. She has recently shown a solo exhibition of works titled Blue Bloods at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (2023) and will be exhibiting a new commission for the 24th Biennale of Sydney in 2024. 

Topic for Symposium – TBC

Represented by N.Smith Gallery, Sydney 

Lives and works in Yugambeh  Country (Logan) and Meanjin Country (Brisbane) 

Kyra Mancktelow’s multidisciplinary practice investigates legacies of colonialism, posing important questions such as how we remember and acknowledge Indigenous histories. 

A Quandamooka artist with links to the Mardigan people of Cunnamulla, Kyra’s practice includes printmaking, ceramics, and sculpture – each applying a unique and distinct aesthetic. Kyra works with various materials to share her rich heritage, stories, and traditions to educate audiences and strengthen her connection to Country. Her printmaking explores intergenerational trauma as a result of forced integration on colonial missions, and her use of local materials in her sculpture, including clay, emu features, and Talwalpin (cotton tree), strengthens her connection to Country. 

Topic for Symposium TBC