Melissa Ratliff and Francis E. Parker, Monash University Museum of Art
Reading Martin Boyd
March 31 - 4-6pm
Talk and discussion goes for an hour, with drinks after.
Melissa Ratliff and Francis E. Parker lead an open discussion about a series of six watercolours by Martin Boyd from 1961 that are held in the Monash University Collection. Depicting blonde white boys, observant donkeys, frolicking dolphins and a doorless castle, the pictures are both joyous and complex. Together we will ‘read’ these images in the double sense of ‘interpreting’ and ‘critiquing’, through the lenses of white gay mythologies and settler-colonial identity.
Melissa Ratliff and Francis E. Parker work at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) as Curator Research and Curator Exhibitions, respectively. MUMA is the custodian of the Monash University Collection.
Reading Martin Boyd
March 31 - 4-6pm
Talk and discussion goes for an hour, with drinks after.
Melissa Ratliff and Francis E. Parker lead an open discussion about a series of six watercolours by Martin Boyd from 1961 that are held in the Monash University Collection. Depicting blonde white boys, observant donkeys, frolicking dolphins and a doorless castle, the pictures are both joyous and complex. Together we will ‘read’ these images in the double sense of ‘interpreting’ and ‘critiquing’, through the lenses of white gay mythologies and settler-colonial identity.
Melissa Ratliff and Francis E. Parker work at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) as Curator Research and Curator Exhibitions, respectively. MUMA is the custodian of the Monash University Collection.
Martin Boyd, Untitled 1961
watercolour and pencil on paper 57.0 x 78.0 cm Monash University Collection, Donated by Carrillo Gantner through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2016