Recent TAASA Events

Recent Events

Below you will find a list of recent TAASA Events. To keep up to date with the latest TAASA events, please visit our TAASA Events page.

VILLAGE WEAVING IN CAMBODIA – PAST AND PRESENT

NSW Textile Study Group Invitation

Date: 13 May 2025
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre
Gill will discuss her encounters with recent initiatives in maintaining traditional village silk weaving practices, particularly of the renowned weft hol (ikat), in Cambodia. The focus will be on the individuals and NGOs who are at the forefront of this support. Gill will highlight the continuity of techniques in both dyeing and weaving, despite rapid changes in society and economic circumstances.

Peranakans and Photography: Invention, Reinvention and the Camera’s Role in Cultural Disorder

Beyond the Lens Zoom Series

Date: 5 May 2025
Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Images of Peranakans from the dawn of photography to the present, expose the long and complex relationship between cameraman, camera and subject. The dynamic negotiations between these three principal elements produced diverse results.

THE 11th Asia Pacific TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART

A Lecture by Tarun Nagesh

Date: 23 April 2025
Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than 30 countries feature in the eleventh chapter of the flagship Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) exhibition series, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. The Curatorial Manager, Tarun Nagesh, will speak about the show before it closes on 5 th May.

Isidore van Kinsbergen: Photo Pioneer in the Dutch-East Indies

Beyond the Lens Zoom Series

Date: 7 April 2025
Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: Online via Zoom
This presentation will introduce the work of Van Kinsbergen and investigate how his images shaped the visual identity of the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch colonial government engaged him as a ‘scientific photographer’ to document, amongst other things, Javanese antiquities.

TAASA MEMBERS PREVIEW OF BONHAMS AUCTION

Date: 26 March 2025
Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Bonhams Auction House Sydney
On 2 and 3 April Bonhams is offering an important collection of Chinese textiles and official ceramics, the most comprehensive survey of later Chinese textiles to come to the market in Australia. It includes more than 40 formal and informal gowns, some attributed to the Empress Dowager Cixi’s wardrobe, and countless dress accessories including fan cases, purses, collars, hats, shoes, rank badges.

From Sarong to Sari: Rabindranath Tagore and the Batik of Java

NSW Textile Study Group Event with Maria Wronska-Friend

Date: 11 March 2025
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre
Following his 1927 visit to Indonesia, Rabindranath Tagore - the great Indian writer and artist - introduced the technique of Javanese batik to West Bengal. It evolved into a significant cottage industry, nowadays practised by several thousand people. The talk will be illustrated with batik saris made at Santiniketan in West Bengal.

TAASA VISIT TO APT11, QAGOMA, BRISBANE

Saturday 8 March - Sunday 9 March, 2025

Date: Mar 8, 2025
Location: QAGOMA

MYTHICAL BEASTS AND MORE

Ceramics Study Group Event

Date: Feb 24, 2025
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

VERGING ON MODERNITY: A RARE PAINTED BANNER FROM BURMA

Zoom Lecture by Gill Green

Date: Feb 17, 2025
Location: Online via Zoom

CELEBRATE LUNAR NEW YEAR – THE YEAR OF THE SNAKE

Celebrate Lunar New Year over a dinner with a modern Vietnamese twist at Tran's Restaurant in Mosman.

Date: Jan 21, 2025
Location: Tran’s Restaurant

TAASA’S END OF YEAR PARTY

Themed 'CHINA IN AUSTRALIA'

Date: Dec 5, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

YAYOI KUSAMA EXHIBITION NGV

Zoom Lecture by Wayne Crothers

Date: Dec 2, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

TURKISH OYA (NEEDLELACE): A VILLAGE WOMAN’S SECRET LANGUAGE

Lecture by Frances Ergen

Date: Nov 12, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

4A.I.: ELSEWHERE IN INDIA

Tour by Thea-Mai Baumann, Artistic Director and CEO of 4A; together with artists Murthovic and Thiruda

Date: Oct 29, 2024
Location: 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Tour of ‘Transformation / Henka’

A retrospective of the work of Mitsuo Shoji at the Rochfort Gallery, North Sydney

Date: Oct 22, 2024
Location: Rochfort Gallery

LEE UFAN: QUIET RESONANCE

Exhibition tour with Melanie Eastburn, Senior Curator of Asian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Date: Oct 18, 2024
Location: Art Gallery of NSW

Textiles of Lombok: Revelations Over The Past 50 Years

The NSW Textile Study Group invites you to this lecture with Robyn Maxwell

Date: Oct 8, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

TRADITIONAL KOREAN GARDENS: SYMBOLISM AND LITERATURE

Lecture by Jill Matthews, author of 'Korean Gardens: Tradition, Symbolism and Resilience'

Date: Sep 30, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

A COLLECTION OF BURMESE LACQUER AND OTHER WORKS OF ART

An invitation to TAASA members only to a private viewing

Date: Sep 10, 2024
Location: Private Venue

A TALE OF TWO ‘PERSIAN’ CARPETS

TAASA in partnership with the Adelaide Society of Collectors invites you to a lecture by Dr Susan Scollay

Date: Aug 22, 2024
Location: Adelaide

Beauty and utility: East Asian tea wares

TAASA NSW Ceramic Study Group Invitation

Date: Aug 10, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

THE GREATER ANGKOR PROJECT: AN OVERVIEW

Roland Fletcher, Professor of Theoretical and World Archaeology, University of Sydney

Date: Jul 22, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

‘The Art of Aari – Keeping the Chain Intact’ with Carole Douglas

NSW Textile Study Group Invitation

Date: Jul 9, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

INDIA’S REGIONAL ARTISTS CONFRONTING THE CONTEMPORARY CANON

Replacement for Lecture 5 in The Arts of India series

Date: Jul 1, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

Invitation from the CSG for a Members-Only Tour of the Exhibition ‘Villages and Empires: Ancient Cultures of the Middle East’

FULLY BOOKED

Date: Jun 6, 2024
Location: Chau Chak Wing Museum, University Place, The University of Sydney

ON TRADITION: 
Contemporary Art from Indonesia

Exhibition Guided Tour with Elly Kent

Date: Jun 4, 2024
Location: Delmar Gallery

Maharaja Portraits and Painted Photography: Towards an Aesthetics of Dissonance

The Arts of India Zoom Series

Date: Jun 3, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

‘INTERWOVEN JOURNEYS: The Michael Abbott Collections of Asian Art’

Plus TAASA AGM and BOOK SALE

Date: May 23, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

Lao Textiles: Contemporary Developments and Change

Date: May 14, 2024
Location: Annie Wyatt Room at the National Trust Centre

Maharani Gayatri Devi: Abiding Symbol of a Bygone Age

The Arts of India Zoom Series

Date: May 6, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

Jain Pilgrimage Art: New Perspectives

The Arts of India Zoom Series

Date: Apr 8, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

Porcelain Renaissance: Sin-Ying Ho’s ‘New Export China’

Zoom Lecture with Alex Burchmore

Date: Mar 18, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

Colours of Nations: the 3rd Biennale of Natural Dyes

Presented by Liz Williamson to the Textile Study Group

Date: Mar 12, 2024
Location: National Trust Centre

The Life of the Buddha through Gandharan Art

The Arts of India Zoom Series

Date: Mar 4, 2024
Location: Online via Zoom

Celebrate Lunar New Year with TAASA

Date: Feb 15, 2024
Location: Palace Restaurant

Tour of Asian Collection Highlights

Date: Feb 2, 2024
Location: Powerhouse Museum

AN INVITATION FROM TAASA to OUR END OF YEAR PARTY

Date: Dec 7, 2023
Location: Korean Cultural Centre

Japan and Indonesia: Four Centuries of Textile Exchange

by Dr. Maria Wronska-Friend

Date: Nov 14, 2023
Location: National Trust Centre

LIVING WITH TEXTILES

with Christina Sumner

Date: Sep 12, 2023
Location: Private Venue

EXHIBITION GUIDED TOUR

brick, vase, clay, cup, jug

Date: Aug 22, 2023
Location: Art Gallery of NSW

EXHIBITION GUIDED TOUR

Chinese Toggles

Date: Aug 3, 2023
Location: Chau Chak Wing Museum, University Place, The University of Sydney

SACRED SITES OF ASIA 5

Potala: The Sacred Palace of Tibet

Date: Jul 17, 2023
Location: Online via Zoom

THE SUZANI ENIGMA

with Ross Langlands

Date: Jul 11, 2023
Location: Nomadic Rug Traders

INVITATION TO A TOUR OF ASIAN ART

in the North Building Building, AGNS, with Senior Curator Melanie Eastburn

Date: Jun 20, 2023
Location: Art Gallery of NSW

SACRED SITES OF ASIA 4

Feminine Power and Masculine Desire in the Yogini Temples of India

Date: Jun 5, 2023
Location: Online via Zoom

‘MY LATEST BOOK’ PLUS TAASA AGM AND BOOK SALE

Three authors present their latest publications.

Date: May 31, 2023
Location: National Trust Centre

CREATION THROUGH TRADITION

Japanese Textile Design and Techniques

Date: May 11, 2023
Location: Masuda Gallery, Space 145

SACRED SITES OF ASIA 3

The Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar

Date: May 1, 2023
Location: Online via Zoom

SACRED SITES OF ASIA

A Series of Monthly Zoom Lectures

Date: May 1, 2023
Location: Online via Zoom

A KOREAN CERAMIC COLLECTION

Date: Apr 20, 2023
Location: Private home
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