The Lost Mother a recommended “Summer Read” in Victoria

I am very honoured to have been selected to be part of this program, in which libraries across Victoria encourage people to read the listed books.  Read more about the program here

December 14th, 2009 | Category: art, artists, books, libraries | 3 comments

Recent Speeches

I have posted some of my recent speeches:

AN ARTIST LOST: REDISCOVERING CONSTANCE STOKES
National Gallery of Australia, 17 November, 2009

DCA DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP BRIEFING
Review of EOWA and State of Play for Women at Work, Melbourne, Wednesday 25 November 2009

SWB 2009 OPENING
Opening Address, Serious Women’s Business Conference, Melbourne Convention Centre, Tuesday 10 November, 2009

THE STORY OF THE STORY
Talk [...]

November 29th, 2009 | Category: art, artists, equal pay, feminism, pay equity, women, women artists, women in business, women in politics, women's employment, women's leadership | Leave a comment

Launch(es) of The Lost Mother

The Lost Mother has been well and truly launched into the world with great events in Sydney and Melbourne as well as smaller events in bookshops in Canberra and elsewhere.  I will soon be posting photographs from these events on this site.  In Melbourne the Governor General, Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC launched the [...]

August 12th, 2009 | Category: Quentin Bryce, art, artists, books, women artists | Leave a comment

Review of The Lost Mother

Solace from a familiar portrait

Angela Bennie
The Australian
July 11, 2009

In its construction, its mosaic-like structures, its criss-crossing paths of cause and effect, what The Lost Mother ultimately reveals, thanks to Summers’s skill, is that a painting — or a book, or any work of art — is not just an accumulation or manipulation of paints or pencil or words on a page.

July 13th, 2009 | Category: Featured, artists, books, writers | Leave a comment
 
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