Tauranga Art Gallery director Alice Hutchison is pleased to announce the next guest speaker for the Claudia Jarman Memorial Lecture is Gabriela Salgado.

 

Salgago will discuss her perspective on the ‘Global South’ and the way that such a geopolitical trope has featured in her curatorial career abroad and in Aotearoa, including current role as Artistic Director at Te Tuhi in Auckland.

 

Gabriela Salgado is an Argentine-born curator. She has been based in London from 1995-2017, and holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art. She currently lives and works in Aotearoa New Zealand, where she is Artistic Director of Te Tuhi Contemporary Art. Gabriela has curated a large number of exhibitions and has lectured in over twenty countries. She specialized in Latin American art as curator of the Latin American Art Collection at Essex University, UECLAA (1999-2005) and was curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern (2006-2011). She curated La Otra Bienal in Bogotá, Colombia (2013) and the 2nd Biennale of Thessaloniki, Greece (2009) and acted as jury member for the Prince Claus Awards, Holland, and Videobrasil Festival, Brazil. In 2011 she set up ‘Transatlantic Connections’ a programme of creative exchanges for African and Latin American artists. 

 

Claudia Jarman (1908 – 1986) was a celebrated art and art history teacher. Arriving in Tauranga in 1939, she first taught at Tauranga District High School and from 1958 at Tauranga Girls’ College.

 

Jarman was also involved in the Tauranga Repertory Society and along with her husband Reginald was a foundation member of the Tauranga Chamber Music Society and the Tauranga Art Society.

 

The Claudia Jarman Memorial Lecture was started by her former student, Patricia Brooks, to continue Jarman’s passion for art education. The 2018 speaker was Reuben Patterson, a dynamic NZ artist known for his creations in glitter and diamond dust. In 2017, Rhana Devenport spoke about her ambitious international project: curating the New Zealand Pavilion for the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.less