Artists in Conversation: Lea Durie, Dianne Firth & Justin Wasserman

Overview

It is free, but registrations are required.

Join this special artist talk with Lea Durie, Dianne Firth and Justin Wasserman to learn more about their exhibitions, Threads and Traces, Poetry of the Lakes and Fortress.

Lea Durie, an artist based in Braidwood, New South Wales, considers the interplay between post-colonial land use, climate change and connections to place in her work. Lea investigates these ideas through sculpture, vessels, mark making and installation artwork with ceramics as the primary medium. 

Dianne Firth is an artist, landscape architect and academic and is Adjunct Associate Professor with the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. The Australian environment and collaboration with other artists such as poets, provide a continuing source of inspiration for her minimalist layered and stitched textile art.

Justin Wasserman was born in Zimbabwe in 1974. In 1988 his family relocated to Perth, Western Australia where he finished high school and completed university studies. In 2003 he moved to Canberra and began working for the Defence Department – a career that included postings as diverse as Washington D.C. and Bendigo, Victoria. In 2022 he returned to the ACT to work in the private sector. Justin works on his art in his spare time.