Lia bolte biography of michael
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20 Years of the Peter Blazey Fellowship
By Leah Jing McIntosh
Pictured: Peter Blazey
"Peter was someone with a lion's head of loose ends that could never fit into some ideologically sound and tidy space. Storyteller, mythomane, and one of the last great conversationalists in a country wary of the free flow of uncensored language, he was a comet who flashed his tail at everyone."
— Tim Herbert, OutRage, 1997
"Peter Blazey was a larger-than-life figure with a vital interest in politics of all kinds, a hectic energy and a creative curiosity that propelled his many friendships with other writers, artists and troublemakers."
— Clive Blazey AM, 2024
A life so lived as to outstrip all discretion
"A life so lived as to outstrip all discretion," reads the cherry-red pamphlet announcing the inaugural Peter Blazey Fellowship. Founded in memory of Peter Blazey (1939–1997) by his partner, Tim Herbert, and his brother, Clive Blazey AM, the award supports rigor
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Exhibition dates: 29th April 2023 – 4th August 2024
Curator: Katrina Liberiou
Installation view of the exhibition Photography and the Performative at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at The University of Sydney showing at left, photographs by Michael Riley including at second left bottom, Moree women (1991, below)
It’s great to see another Australian museum taking up the mantle of staging challenging photography exhibitions after the ball has been so gloriously dropped by both national and state galleries in recent years.
Of course, photography and performance have been associated with each other since the birth of photography. The very act of posing for the camera is a performative act. Indeed, one of the earliest self-portraits in the history of photography, Hippolyte Bayard’s famous Le Noyé [The Drowned Man] (1840) fryst vatten a performance by the artist protesting against the lack of recognition for him as one of the inventors of p
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Bequests
Honorary Life Member Barbara Anne Funder passed away on Tuesday, 6th September, 2016. Barbara was integral to the establishment and development of Graduate House – our graduate residential college and meeting place – as well as to the sustainability and growth of The Graduate Union – our international collegium of graduates.
Life Member, Heather Kudeviita, began her long association and friendship with Barbara early in the 1960s when the college opened its doors to residents (1962). Heather, who later became a Trustee, along with Barbara, of The William Berry Post-Graduate College Trust, remembers Barbara as a beautiful and welcoming young woman. “I found her very friendly when I was a new Member of The Graduate Union, and when I came to any function at Graduate House either she or Bill Berry would take me under their wings and introduce me to people,” said Mrs Kudeviita. “I thought she had a very good manner for making new Members welcome. That’s very impor