Join us to celebrate the launch of Natalya Hughes’s first monograph, published to accompany her Institute of Modern Art exhibition The Interior. Essayist Jacqueline Chlanda will be in conversation with Hughes on the exhibition, publication, and the importance of publishing to feminist art histories. The publication explores Hughes’s recent work that reappraises Freud and the modernist painters Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Willem de Kooning, and their complex female subjects. With essays by Susan Best, Chlanda, and Andrew McNamara, and an interview with Hughes by Elspeth Pitt (NGA). The Interior is designed by Evi O Studio, Sydney, and published by the Institute of Modern Art.
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Jacqueline Chlanda is Education Manager at UQ Art Museum, Meanjin/Brisbane. She previously worked at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and Griffith University Art Museum, Meanjin/Brisbane, and taught art history at UQ and QCA, both Meanjin/Brisbane. She has written for the Australian Book Review, Art Asia Pacific, and Fine Print, Milani Gallery and Box Copy.
Natalya Hughes is concerned with decoration and ornament and their associations with the feminine, the body, and excess. Through painting, textiles, and sculpture, she investigates society’s ‘problems’ with women, through the relationship between modernist painters Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Willem de Kooning and their anonymous women subjects, and Sigmund Freud’s case studies. She lives in Meanjin/Brisbane.
