TO coincide with the current exhibition Imagining Ned at Bendigo Art Gallery, our higher education partner, La Trobe University, is offering a fully-accredited subject.
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"Exhibiting Culture: Imagining Ned" is a subject tailored to the multi-layered Imagining Ned exhibition currently on display at Bendigo Art Gallery.
Leading La Trobe scholars and industry experts will guide participants through an exploration of historical items rarely accessed by the public along with paintings, drawings, photographic works, film related material, sculpture and ceramics.
The subject will kick off with attendance at the performance of NED, a new Australian musical at Bendigo's Ulumbarra Theatre.
You will study the history and legend surrounding the Kelly Gang through original artefacts such as Kelly's famous armour, the death mask, the Jerilderie letter, weaponry, associated ephemera, and important works of art by Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Juan Davila, Norman Lindsay and others.
Academic elements of this interdisciplinary subject cover topics such as colonial crime and punishment, the archaeology of exhuming Kelly’s body from the grounds at Pentridge Prison and representations of the Kelly story through film and literature.
Lectures will be delivered by a range of La Trobe University experts including senior lecturer in history Dr Charles Fahey, head of La Trobe Law School Professor Patrick Keyze, La Trobe Law School lecturer Marc Trabsky, and senior lecturer in creative writing Dr Sue Gillett,
Special guest lecturers include head of cinema studies at RMIT University Dr Stephen Gaunson, Heritage Victoria senior archaeologist Jeremy Smith, and Doug Morrissey, whose book A Lawless Life is one of the most recent publications on the story of Ned Kelly.
As well as lectures and viewing of the exhibition Imagining Ned, participants will take part in practical art and creative writing workshops.
Exhibiting Culture: Imagining Ned is a truly unique opportunity to learn about the context and origins of one of Australia’s most enduring social myths.
Exhibiting Culture: Imagining Ned is fully embedded in the gallery’s exhibition and available to both La Trobe students and members of the wider public.
For more details, go to www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/study/accredited-subjects/imagining-ned