the veil – artist panel
Join curator Hannah Presley for a panel conversation with the veil exhibiting artists Lisa Waup, Glenda Nicholls, Hannah Gartside and Hayley Millar Baker.
This will be a chance to hear from the artists about their practice as they discuss the ideas and connections made across the exhibition.
This is a free event, all are welcome.
Event Details
Saturday 28 June 2025
1–2pm
Gallery open from 11am
Access
Buxton Contemporary is fully wheelchair accessible. Find detailed information about building access and available resources on our Visit page. Please contact the gallery at buxton-contemporary@unimelb.edu.au or on 03 9035 9339 if you have any questions or would like to request an accommodation.
Lisa Waup is a mixed-cultural First Nations artist and curator, born in Naarm (Melbourne), whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses a diverse range of media including weaving, printmaking, photography, sculpture, fashion and digital art. With a deep connection to the symbolic power of materials, her work reflects her personal experiences, family history, Country and broader historical narratives. Through her practice, Waup weaves together threads of lost history, ancestral relationships, motherhood and the passage of time, culminating in contemporary expressions that speak to her past, present, and future.
Photo by Joseph Mayers
Glenda Nicholls is a Waddi Waddi, Ngarrindjeri and Yorta Yorta artist. Her cultural name is Jule Yarra Minj (little river girl) and her maternal Ngarrindjeri totem is the Writcharuki (willy-willy wagtail). Nicholls is a master weaver, constructing elaborate sculptural works that connect the present with her ancestral past. During her childhood she watched her mother and grandmother use suitable plants found around the local area to crochet, knit, sew and work on traditional crafts such as feathercraft and weaving. She applies cultural weaving techniques acquired from her ancestors alongside intimate knowledge of the waterways, plants and grasses on her Country. Nicholls is determined to share her cultural knowledge with younger First Nations generations, seeing this exchange as crucial to ensuring cultural practices survive into the future.
Photo by Wayne Quilliam
Hannah Gartside makes sculptures, installations and quilts using found fabric, worn clothing and the material detritus of the past. Looking backwards in order to move forwards, her works harness the potency and intimacy of these worn materials. Gartside’s artworks are both deeply personal and fiercely communal and address our psychological and familial inheritances. In her work she unpicks the way that these legacies (including, more broadly, living under patriarchy and in late-stage capitalism) haunt our experience of being alive. The artworks look for new ways of feeling, as expressed through narrative and visual storytelling and, occasionally, kinetic movement or touch. By employing labour intensive cutting and sewing processes, the works are imbued with tenderness, precision and devotion.
Photo by Jeremy Weihrauch
Hayley Millar Baker is a lens-based artist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is deeply influenced by her Aboriginality, belonging to the Gunditjmara, Djabwurrung and Nira-Bulok Taungurung peoples through her maternal lineage, and Anglo-Indian and Luso-Brasileiro ancestry on her paternal side. This union of cultural influences shapes her perspective, grounding her practice in the exploration of Indigenous resilience and the empowerment of ancestral connection.
Photo by Donna Sharrock
Image credit: Glenda Nicholls, The Reflection Net 2024 (detail). Jute, feathers, florist tape and wire.