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Artists: Anthea Gunn

Challenging Stories: Contemporary Responses to the Legacies of War

Opening: 27.09 Location: Salon Saigon 6D Ngo Thoi Nhiem, Ward 7, District 3, HCMC     A panel of artists Mai Nguyen Thi Thanh, James Nguyen and curator Anthea Gunn discuss contemporary art commissions at the Australian War Memorial (AWM) in Canberra that explore the legacies of conflict in the Asia-Pacific region and with a focus on a current project in Vietnam. One of a series of partnerships with organizations in Vietnam, Singapore, Papua New Guinea and South Korea, the AWM invited an artist from each country to spend four...

Anthea Gunn

Dr Anthea Gunn is Senior Curator of Art at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. She completed a PhD in art history for her thesis ‘Imitation, Realism and Australian Art in 2010’ at the ANU. Her thesis considered the artists known as the ‘Imitation Realists’ in the 1960s and examined their work in the context of local, national and international art. She has worked as a social history curator at the National Museum of Australia (2008-13) and has published in the Journal of Australian Studies, the Australian and New Zealand Journal...