PUBLIC TALKS, LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

Gray, S., (2023) Interviewed by Dr Harriette Richards for
Critical Fashion Studies Podcast Season Two: Spotlight on Melbourne
Episode: ‘Clarence in The City’ on Clarence Chai, May 19 2023

Gray, S., (2023) ‘The Clarence Chai, archive in Melbourne’, RMIT Design Archives, May 26, 2023

Gray, S., (2023) ‘Clarence Chai, a ‘gentle’ pioneer of Melbourne alternative fashion’, The Johnston Collection and Melbourne Fashion Festival, March 10 2023

Gray, S., (2023) ‘Clarence Chai, a ‘gentle’ pioneer of Melbourne alternative fashion’, Textile Research Group, University of Melbourne, April 5, 2023

Gray, S. (2022) ‘Paul Yore, a personal view’, exhibition floor talk,
Paul Yore Word Make Flesh, ACCA, Melbourne, October 29, 2022

Gray, S. (2022) Exhibition floor talk, Thinking Through Pink, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, December 7, 2022

Sally Gray (2022) Guest lecture: ‘David McDiarmid: Art, Politics, Fashion and AIDS’, The David Roche Foundation, Adelaide, June 16, 2022

Sally Gray (2021) Presenter: ‘The Fashion for Fashion Exhibitions’
The Johnston Collection, Melbourne, March 18 2021

Sally Gray (2020) Presenter: ‘The Sydney Melbourne Thing: A speculative look at independent Australian fashion in the 1970s-80s’
The Johnston Collection, Melbourne, March 5 2020

Sally Gray (2020) Presenter: ‘Peter Tully and David McDiarmid: A lifelong creative and political friendship’, NGV, Melbourne, February 11 2020

Sally Gray (2020) Presenter: ‘Performing the Self – Fashion and Identity’ part of the series ‘Fashion Ideas’ curated by Dr Sally Gray in conjunction with the exhibition: Jenny Kee & Linda Jackson: Step Into Paradise”, Powerhouse Museum Sydney, February 18 2020

Sally Gray (2019) Curator and Moderator: Powerhouse Museum, MAAS series of public talks in association with ‘Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson: Step into Paradise’ Exhibition, October 24 2019, November 12 2019, February 18 2020

Sally Gray (2019) Presenter: ‘Managing the David McDiarmid Creative Legacy’, part of Artists and Architects Estates and Creative Legacies, University of Melbourne, 19-20 November 2019

Sally Gray (2019) Presenter: ‘Friends Fashion and Fabulousness’, part of the BE BOLD festival, Bowery Centre, St Albans, Melbourne, 14 October 2019

Sally Gray (2019) ‘Dr Sally Gray In Conversation with Laura Jocic’, about her book Friends, Fashion and Fabulousness: The Making of an Australian Style, North Fitzroy Library, Melbourne, July 30 2019

Sally Gray (2019) Co-presenter, ‘Queer Economies’, St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford convent, February 9 2019  – A multi-site curatorial project presented by Midsumma Festival in association with Bus Projects, Abbotsford Convent and the Centre for Contemporary Photography, with support from Perimeter Editions and the David McDiarmid Estate. Curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk and Madé Spencer-Castle 24 December, 2018—9 February 2019

Sally Gray (2019) Co-presenter, ‘Future Arts Leaders’ program, The Australian Council for the Arts, Hepburn Springs, Victoria, April 2019.

Sally Gray (2018) Co-presenter and co-designer, ‘Future Arts Leaders’ program, The Australian Council for the Arts, Adelaide , October 25-28 2018. 

Sally Gray (2018) ‘How Much Time Have We Got?’ part of, ‘Future Arts Leaders’ program, The Australian Council for the Arts, Adelaide , October 25-28 2018.

On 19th July 2018 Sally Gray was In Conversation with Jason Smith, Director Geelong Gallery – about her book Friends Fashion and Fabulous: The Making of an Australian Style – at the Geelong Regional Library and Heritage Centre, the ARM-designed “magic dome”.

Sally Gray (2018) “Researching the Visual, The Personal and the Political”. Invited presentation to the international symposium: “Fashion Studies: An International Perspective”, University of Technology, Sydney, April 7 2018

Sally Gray (2018) “The Full Spectrum: The Cultural Politics of Colour”. Public lecture, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong. April 4 2018

Sally Gray (2018) “ Unpacking Theory and Visualising Research”. Guest Lecture, University of Technology, Sydney, April 3 2018

Sally Gray (2018) Co-presenter and co-designer, ‘Future Arts Leaders’ program, The Australian Council for the Arts, Byron Bay, April 12-16 2018

Sally Gray (2017) “Thinking Leadership” part of ‘Future Leaders Program‘, Australia Council for the Arts, Byron Bay NSW, 12-16 April 2018

Sally Gray (2017) “The Political Economy of NOW’” part of ‘Future Leaders Program’, Australia Council for the Arts, Byron Bay NSW, 12-16 April 2018

Sally Gray (2017) “Gender Leadership and Power”, part of ‘Future Leaders Program’, Australia Council for the Arts, Byron Bay NSW, 12-16 April 2018

Sally Gray (2017) “David McDiarmid: Artist Activist”, lecture to launch David McDiarmid’s ‘Rainbow Aphorisms’ in the Public Realm, London, November 2017

Sally Gray (2017) “Radical Hope – What is Leadership?”, part of ‘Future Leaders Program’, Australia Council for the Arts, Geelong, Victoria, August/September 2017

Sally Gray (2017) “The Political Economy of NOW”, part of ‘Future Leaders Program’, Australia Council for the Arts, Gold Coast hinterland, Queensland, April/May 2017

Sally Gray (2017) “The Stereotype Threat”, part of ‘Future Leaders Program’, Australia Council for the Arts, Gold Coast hinterland, Queensland, April/May 2017

Sally Gray (2016-17) “Hand and Heart Shall Never Part: The Fashion Collaboration of Linda Jackson and David McDiarmid”, guest lecture series, University of Wollongong, and public curator talks, Wollongong Art Gallery, Sept 2016- February 2017

Sally Gray (2016) “A Course In Looking”, convenor and presenter, invited peer-to-peer object study with Roger Leong, Centre for Fashion, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, August 2016

Sally Gray (2016) “Curating as Creative Proposition”, Part One of “What is Curatorial Knowledge?” a three part presentation with Roger Leong and Laura Jocic, at ‘Fashioning Museums’ Conference, ANU Canberra, February 2016

Sally Gray (2015) ”Taste, Fashion and Grayson Perry” Public Program ‘Subversive Tour’ of Grayson Perry My Pretty Little Art Career, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, December 17 2015

Sally Gray (2015) “Men, Fashionability and Fabulousness”, panel presentation at ‘Men and Fashion: Contradiction or New Reality’, The Centre for Fashion, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Tuesday August 4 2015

Sally Gray (2014) “David McDiarmid Material and Idea”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, May 2014

Sally Gray (2013) “The Creative City: Clarence Chai and Melbourne”, part of ‘Producing Fashion: Melbourne/Antwerp’, RMIT, Melbourne, September 18 2013

Sally Gray (2012) “A Tale of Two [or three or four] Cities: Sydney Fashionability in the 1970s and 80s”, part of  ‘Stitches In time: [AD]Dressing History’, State Library of New South Wales, September 11 2012

Sally Gray (2012) “Some Rooms: Art Space and the Decorative in the Urban Queer World-making of David McDiarmid and Friends”, AAANZ conference, Sydney, July 2012

Sally Gray (2012) “Clarence Chai: A Life in Fashion” National Gallery of Victoria, curatorial symposium, June 2012

Sally Gray (2010) “Hand and Heart: Crafting Australian Fashion in the 1970s and 1980s”, AAANZ conference, Adelaide, December 2010

Sally Gray (2010) “Fashionability: Europe/Asia”, symposium, Institute of Advanced Studies, Warwick University, Coventry UK, May 25 2010

Sally Gray (2007) “[You Make me Feel] Mighty Real: David McDiarmid’s Art and the Space Within [the] House”. Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries conference, (Eds Naomi Stead, Jason Prior) UTS Sydney, February 20-21 2007

Sally Gray (2008) “Art, Craft, Fashion and Funk”, AAANZ conference, Brisbane, December 2008

Sally Gray (2008) “Africa, America, Britain, Australia: A Journey in Textiles”, curator talk, Wollongong City Gallery, February 2008

Sally Gray (2007) “Shaft’s Leathers: The Masculinity of John Shaft in Gordon Parks’1971 film, Shaft”, Fashion in Fiction Conference, UTS, Sydney, May 26-27 2007

Sally Gray (2007) “Lost in Music: Art and the Underground Dance Club”, guest lecture, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College, University of London, January 10 2007

Sally Gray (2006) “Cruising Urban Space; The City and the Queer Performative in 1970s and 1980s New York”, guest seminar, UTS School of Design, September 4 2006

Sally Gray (2006) “Down on the Street: The idea of “America” in David McDiarmid’s Life and Work”, Transnational Lives, Humanities Research Centre conference, Canberra, 26-28 July 2006

Sally Gray (2006) “Public Art and the Public”, guest speaker, D-Factory design series, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, November 2006

Sally Gray (2006) “Queer Space: The Case of the Paradise Garage”, Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference Freemantle, 2006

Sally Gray (2003)  “Connecting the Dots: Heritage, Identity, Interpretation and Cultural Planning – Looking at Wollongong and the Illawarra Escarpment”, Australia ICOMOS annual conference, Telling Tales: Interpretation in the Conservation and Design Process, Sydney, November 2003

Sally Gray (2003)  “Cultural Brokerage at Wollongong, Australia”, guest speaker, Creative Places and Spaces conference, Toronto, Canada, October 2003

Sally Gray  (2003) “David McDiarmid: A Life in Fashion – the Artist as Performative Persona”, Making an Appearance: Fashion Dress and Consumption, conference, University of Queensland, July 2003

Sally Gray (2003) “Design and Tasmania”, guest speaker, Leading Voices design seminar, Arts Tasmania, Hobart, February 2003

Sally Gray (2002)  ”In the Realm of the Lotus”, artist talk, Wollongong City Gallery, April 2002

Sally Gray (2001) “Sydney Airport Public Art Program”, guest lecture, Business Faculty, University of Technology Sydney, February 2001

Sally Gray (2001) “Sydney Airport Public Art Program”, public lecture, Architecture Faculty, University of Sydney, March 2001

Sally Gray (2000) “Sydney Airport Public Art Program”, public lecture, COFA, UNSW, October 2000

Sally Gray (1999) “A Summer Place”, curator talk, Manly Museum and Art Gallery, September 1999

Sally Gray  (1999) “China ’78: A Political Romance”, curator talk, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 1999

Sally Gray (1998) “Designing Australia: Modernity and the Stamp”, curator talk, Australia Post, Melbourne

Sally Gray (1998) “Public Art: Partnerships, Principles, Processes and Practicalities”, Arts Law Centre of Australia, Public Art Conference, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, June 1998

Sally Gray (1998) “David McDiarmid – Artist-Transgressor”, SWISH conference, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, February 1998

Sally Gray (1997) “Exhibiting Meaning: The Creation of Cultural Meaning Through Exhibition Development and Design”, Cultural Crossroads conference, Sydney, November 1997

Sally Gray (1997) “Collecting Difference – Operation Dragnet (Sylvia and the Synthetics collecting initiative) at the State Library of NSW” Museums Australia Annual Conference, Sydney, November 1997

Sally Gray (1997) “Resonance Refraction and Reflection: Exhibiting Social History”, Museums Making Meaning, Museums Australia State Conference, Sydney September 1997

Sally Gray (1996) “Aboriginal Reconciliation and Exhibiting Cultures”, Australians for Reconciliation Conference, Bathurst, NSW, October 1996

Sally Gray (1996) “Ways of Seeing: Aboriginal Viewpoint in Exhibitions of Australian Historical Materials”, Royal Australian Historical Society Annual Conference, Orange, NSW, October 1996

Sally Gray (1995)  “Exhibiting Surprise and Complexity: The New Museology and Beyond”, Museums Australia Annual Conference, Brisbane November 1995

Sally Gray (1995)  “Exhibiting Culture to the Year 2000 and Beyond”, guest speaker, State Library of NSW, Management Scenario Planning Conference, Sydney, October 1995

Sally Gray (1994)  “Culture and Futures – Beyond the Year 2000”, guest speaker, staff Enrichment conference, Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne, May 1994

Sally Gray (1992) “David McDiarmid and his Kiss of Light Works”, tour for Young Members Group, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney

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