The Australiana Fund’s 2023 Online Lecture Series will start with a talk on celebrated architect and artist, Marion Mahony Griffin, one of the first licensed female architects in the world. She was married to Canberra’s designer Walter Burley Griffin with whom she worked on a number of projects.
Speaker: Dr Anne Watson has had a long association with the Griffins including as curator/editor of the 1998 Powerhouse Museum exhibition/catalogue Beyond Architecture: Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin in America, Australia and India, editor of Visionaries in Suburbia: Griffin Houses in the Sydney Landscape (2015) and curator of Paradise on Earth (Museum of Sydney, November 2020-April 2021) celebrating the sesquicentenary of Marion’s birth. She has also written and lectured extensively on the history of the Sydney Opera House including as author of The Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House (2017) based on her 2014 PhD thesis.