TUESDAY 3 JUNE 2025

THE AUSTRALIAN IMPRESSIONISTS - A NEW ART FOR A NEW COUNTRY

PRESENTED BY GEORGINA BEXON

The story of the Heidelberg School – the first true Australian art form post-colonisation. In the late 1800s talented artists from Britain arriving in the new country sought a way to describe the exotic and alien landscape around them and seized on the new ideas and ambitions of French Impressionism for their task.  However their skill and imagination soon progressed this project far beyond their chosen model, deeply influenced by the remarkable light and space of Australia.

Georgina Bexon is an art historian specialising in South Asian art who has lived and worked in the UK, USA and Singapore. Her practice includes lecturing, writing, consulting and collecting and she has developed a network of gallery and artist connections in Europe, the USA and India, which she visits regularly.   Consultant Art Historian at the Oriental Club in London and an official tour guide at Tate Modern, Georgina is also a guest speaker on luxury cruise ships for whom she has developed a series of art talks relating to Asian and Pacific destinations. She has been a visiting lecturer at UK universities, presents talks at leading art institutions including Christie’s Education New York and the Museum of Modern Art, Moscow and speaks at international art conferences, most recently in New York, Paris and Lisbon. Georgina holds a BA in Art History from Southampton University, an MA in Arts Management and Policy from City, University of London and an MA in Art History from SOAS, University of London. Georgina is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Asiatic Society.