D Harding

Exhibition

Five Acts of Love

Artists: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Hoda Afshar, Megan Cope, Eugenia Flynn, D Harding, Saodat Ismailova, Khaled Sabsabi, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Yhonnie Scarce, Ali Tahayori and Hossein Valamanesh...
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ART#2 ACCA REGIONAL TOUR: Horsham

Venue Horsham City Oval, Firebrace Street, HorshamTime 2pm (Game starts 2.20pm)Talk Event: ACCA curator Hannah Mathews and Horsham Gallery director Adam Harding will discuss the motivations and development of the ART#2 projects with participating artists Nathan Gray, Agatha Gothe...
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Memo Review Issue 3: Maria Kozic

...and His Sons. Wang Bing’s latest film expands his brutal factory-world saga, and in fiction, Biddy Mahy follows an art history student watching his first love resurface—this time as Larry Gagosian’s teenage muse.This issue also features pieces on D Harding, Mark Rothko, Madonna Staunton, Sidney Nolan, reviews from across Australia, and much more.
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Five Acts of Love

June – 24 August 2025. Guest curated by Dr Nur Skhembi. Artists: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Hoda Afshar, Megan Cope, Eugenia Flynn, D Harding, Saodat Ismailova, Ali Tahayori, Larissa...
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Monstrous Patchwork: Paul Yore’s Textile Politics by Helen Hughes

Nations artists: D Harding’s embroidered Colour by number works from 2012, clearly inflected by their mother Kate Harding’s quilting practice, which was formally acknowledged in Harding’s 2021 survey Through a Lens of Visitation; [17] and Peter...
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1. Ron Robertson-Swann Vault 1980

...can use to describe how your perception of Vault changes as you move your body around it? Vault is abstract, hard-edged and brightly coloured. How might these structural qualities influence how the public find meaning to help them relate to the artwork...
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Defining Moments: Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS with Dr Ted Gott

...it was hard to open a newspaper in Australia, listen to a radio broadcast or turn on a television set without encountering some discussion of the ‘new’ disease AIDS and its causative factor, the HIV virus. In the same fashion, HIV/AIDS had come under scrutiny in many forms of cultural response from...
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Six Walks Episode Six: Christos Tsiolkas on silver screens Transcript

...laughter. I won’t confess that once I thought it was an enchanted realm. I’d already learnt to guard my secrets. I grew up in North Richmond, on Lincoln Street, and there were two reasons for coming into the city when I was young. Most Sundays, my parents would take my brother and I for a long walk...
Program

Defining Moments: Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS

...it was hard to open a newspaper in Australia, listen to a radio broadcast or turn on a television set without encountering some discussion of the ‘new’ disease AIDS and its causative factor, the HIV virus. In the same fashion, HIV/AIDS had come under scrutiny in many forms of cultural response from...
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Rewind: ACCA’s alchemy: Mikala Dwyer – Hollow-ware and a few solids

Hollow-ware and a few solids opened just as I began my new role, and it was a profound affirmation of the choice I’d just made. Mikala’s work...
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A Conversation with Richard Perram

...on the Visual Arts Board, approached me to see if I’d be interested in the role at ACCA.The position at ACCA had already been advertised, but I hadn’t applied. It turns out they had interviewed for the position but didn’t find anyone appropriate so Jan put my name forward as someone who...
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Six Walks Episode Four: Idil Ali on the Carlton Housing Estate Transcript

...and overlapping cultural, social, political, economic and historical paths. Idil Ali on the Carlton Housing Estate Before we begin our journey I’d like to acknowledge that we will be walking...
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Mind Over Modesty By Anna El Samad

...interesting. When I first began volunteering in art galleries I entered knowing that the way I looked, the way I dressed, my personal history and understanding of the world allowed me to have a unique view of things. People have a hard time imagining that we, Muslim women, have the audacity to choose how...
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Six Walks Episode Two: Sophie Cunningham on Royal Park Transcript

Albert Le Souef was the first residential manager at the Acclimatisation Society. He is the son of William Le Souef, who'd been a protector of the Aboriginal people of Goulburn and a long-time member of the Aboriginal Protection Board. These connections helped the younger Le Souef...
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Six Walks Episode One: Tony Birch on the Birrarung Transcript

The walk will be along a section of the Birrarung (Yarra River), from the Children’s Farm at Collingwood to the Fairfield Pipe Bridge and surrounding country. Now, this is the country of the Wurundjeri people of the greater Kulin Nation, and I’d like you to consider that each time that we walk...
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Tai Snaith: A World of One’s Own

...nbsp;Sanné’s website, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Prudence Flint, Architectural follies...
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Transcript: Monstrous Chorus: voices, sound, performance

...to be a rich and resonant discussion about the role of the voice in performance and sound practice. Before we begin, I’d like to acknowledge that Wurundjeri as sovereign custodians of the land upon which we meet, and also extend our respect to elder’s past, present and emerging, and to all First Nations...
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Feminism(s): Plural and Evolving

It is important to note, however, that the Indigenous population, male and female, were not granted the vote until 1962. Key Quotes “[i]t is hardly even possible to give...
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Six Walks Episode Three: Eleanor Jackson on art, motherhood and taking up space in the Melbourne Arts Precinct Transcript

...a two-year membership to the NGV. It was something his mother and sister did, apparently. Take tea and look at art with a baby sleeping in the pram. Before I’d actually had a child, I had visions of myself, finally unbound from the time constraints...
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In conversation: Frances Barrett and Annika Kristensen

...on a nexus of our senses, and that attunes us to both our conscious responses and unconscious intensities. Through my PhD research – a lot of which informs this project - I have proposed Meatus as a methodology for both listening and curatorial practice. Informed by Simon Soon’s argument...
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Roundtable Conversation: Frances Barrett with Felix Abrahams, Nina Buchanan, Hayley Forward, Brian Fuata, Del Lumanta, Claudia Nicholson and Sione Teumohenga

...really thought about ACCA as a blank slate that allows works to be positioned within it, whilst also acknowledging the space for what it is, which is quite reverberant, with some hard surfaces in it. You're not, without a lot of money and effort, going to overcome that stuff. And that's not really...