Lecture Series: Artworks of significance: ideas, history, aesthetics and context

Delivered by significant national and local art theorists, writers, artists, curators and academics, the Drill Hall’s 2026/27 lecture series offers audiences informed, complex and rounded experiences of visual art. With topics spanning Yolŋu art and abstraction; the city of Siena; tradition in contemporary painting; local groundedness against global fascism in Contemporary Art and more, this dynamic series will spark your creative and cultural passion, stimulate and inspire.

Speakers: Louise Marshall, Mary Eagle, Howard Morphy, Gordon Bull, Jude Rae, Ian McLean, Brenda L Croft, Quentin Sprague, Jason Smith, Terence Maloon and more.