NEW DATE | Light from Tate: 1700s to Now in conversation
2–3pm
Event Details
Please note, this event was previously scheduled to be held 2–3pm Saturday 25 February and 2–3pm Sunday 26 February.
Join us for a captivating kōrero between Tate assistant curator Matthew Watts and Sophie Matthiesson, senior curator of international art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in which they illuminate the dynamic relationships between history, science, philosophy, technology and art in Light from Tate: 1700s to Now.
Matthew’s visit is supported by The British Council.
Image credit: JWM Turner, Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory)
- Date
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2–3pm
- Location
- Auditorium
- Cost
- FREE
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Matthew Watts is an assistant curator at Tate and has most recently curated the Turner Prize 2022. Working in the International Partnerships programme, he has co-curated a range of exhibitions including Light from Tate: 1700s to Now, Millais’ Ophelia and The Dynamic Eye. Matthew previously worked at the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; and was a board member of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Executive Committee.
Dr Sophie Matthiesson is senior curator of international art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and is the co-ordinating curator of Light from Tate: 1700s to Now. In her role at the Gallery she has curated Manpower: Myths of Masculinity (2021) and was co-ordinating curator of Enchanted Worlds: Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Art of Edo Japan (2020). She was previously curator of international art at the National Gallery of Victoria, where she co-curated Monet’s Garden (2014) and was a contributing curator to Van Gogh: The Seasons (2017), Degas: A New Vision (2016) and The Legacy of Catherine The Great (2015).