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Some of you may be interested in the following events.
Australian Centre for Asian Art and Archaeology
Seminar Series
Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney
VISIT
OF DR ANNABEL TEH GALLOP
Head of the South and Southeast Asia section, British
Library, London
Dr Gallop will be visiting Sydney as the Dr S.T.Lee Lecturer for 2007.
She will deliver The
Dr S.T. Lee Annual Lecture in Asian Art
& Archaeology on Tuesday 26
June at 4pm at the University.
PLEASE
SEE REVISED DETAILS BELOW
Dr Lee Seng Tee was born in 1923 in Singapore.
He is a director of the Lee Group of Companies – Lee Rubber Co., Lee
Pineapple Co., Singapore Investments, and the Lee Foundation, in the Republic of Singapore. He is a graduate of the Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania and has had a life-long
association with tertiary education. His father, Dr Lee Kong Chian, was
Chancellor of the University
of Singapore from
1962-1965. Lee Seng Tee has made many benefactions to Academic and Research
institutions worldwide. In addition to sponsoring the annual lecture in Asian
Art & Archaeology at the University
of Sydney, Dr Lee generously supports
the work of the Sydney University team at Angkor.
Dr Annabel Teh Gallop was brought up in Brunei Darussalam
and studied at Bristol University and at the School
of Oriental and African Studies, London University.
Her doctoral dissertation was
entitled Malay seal inscriptions: a study in Islamic epigraphy from Southeast Asia, and she is currently preparing
for publication a catalogue of Malay seals. She joined the British Library in
1986 as Curator for Indonesian and Malay, and is at present Head of the South
and Southeast Asia section. Her main research
interests are in Malay manuscripts, letters, documents and seals; chancery and
diplomatic practice in the Malay world; and the book arts of Islamic Southeast
Asia.
Dr Gallop has published three books: Early views of Indonesia: drawings from the British
Library (the British Library, 1995); The legacy of the Malay letter / Warisan warkah Melayu (published by the British Library for the
National Archives of Malaysia, 1994); and Golden
letters: writing traditions of Indonesia / Surat emas: budaya tulis di
Indonesia, with Bernard Arps (British Library; Jakarta: Yayasan
Lontar; 1991). She contributed the chapter 'Islamic manuscript art of Southeast Asia' to the 2006 catalogue Crescent Moon: Islamic Art and Civilisation in
Southeast Asia (Art Gallery of South Australia).
PROGRAMME
OF EVENTS
ACAAA Seminar
Date: Thursday 21 June 2007
Time: 4.00 pm –
5.30 pm
Location: Refectory,
Main Quadrangle, University
of Sydney
This seminar is free and open to the
public. Bookings not required.
Migrating manuscript art: Sulawesi
diaspora styles of illumination
Distinctive regional
styles of Islamic manuscript art from Southeast Asia have so far been
identified in Aceh; on the East Coast of the Malay peninsula in the states of
Terengganu, Kelantan and Patani; in the Brunei-southern Philippines
zone; and in various centres in Java. The subject of this seminar is a much
harder-to-define artistic school, manifest in a small number of illuminated
Qur’an manuscripts which originate from scattered locations in the Malay
world. The common thread appears to be the south Sulawesi diaspora of
Bugis/Makassar communities, and this hypothesis has been strengthened by the
recent appearance of an ‘anchor’ manuscript decorated in this Sulawesi style: a superb Qu’ran copied in 1804 for
Sultan Ahmad al-Salih of Bone.
Symposium
at the Art Gallery of NSW
Date: Friday 22 June 2007
Time: 1.00 pm –
5.00 pm
Location: Art Gallery
of NSW, Domain Theatre, Lower Level
3
Illuminating the Word: the art of the Qur'an in Southeast Asia
Throughout the
Islamic world, the finest illuminated manuscripts are copies of the Holy
Qur'an, as the supreme Book, the manuscript on
which the greatest resources, devotion, cost and effort would have been
expended in any Muslim court or society. This is also true for Southeast
Asia, and any study of Islamic manuscript illumination in the
Malay world should start with Qur'an manuscripts. Based on a survey of over 200
illuminated Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia held in public and
private collections, this lecture will describe the regional artistic schools
identified so far, and will also highlight areas in which we still know almost
nothing: who were the artists? how did they work? what materials and pigments did
they use? what words did they use to describe their art? and what is it that
makes a Qur’an from Southeast Asia so
distinctively ‘Malay’?
Dr Gallop’s talk
will be presented as
part of The Arts of Islam Symposium
in association with the Arts of Islam:
Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection exhibition of
Islamic Art, Art Gallery of NSW, 22 June – 23
September, 2007. THE SYMPOSIUM IS NOW FULLY BOOKED.
For more information see:- http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/events/cal/arts_islam_symposium
The
University of Sydney Dr S. T. Lee Lecture in Asian Art & Archaeology for 2007
Date: Tuesday 26 June 2007
Time: 4.00 pm –
5.30 pm
Location:
Refectory, Main Quadrangle, University
of Sydney
This lecture is free and open to the
public. Bookings not required.
Illumination: The art of the Malay letter
The art of the Islamic book in Southeast Asia is anchored to manuscripts of the
Qur’an – the supreme Book – for it is here that we find the
finest manifestations of manuscript art in the Malay world. The reverence
accorded to the Holy Book and its enduring and unchanging text accordingly
exercised a profoundly conservatizing influence on Malay book art. Thus
while the study of Islamic illumination in Southeast Asia has succeeded in
identifying a number of distinctive regional artistic schools, there has been
less success in tracing the chronological development of this art form.
On the other hand, the art of the
Malay letter, like many aspects of diplomatic practice, evolved relatively
quickly in constant response to external stimuli. Nearly one hundred
illuminated royal Malay epistles have survived, spanning a period of nearly
four centuries, originating from courts as far-flung as Ternate,
Aceh and Madura, and these letters can be studied alongside a similar number of
illuminated letters in Malay sent from European officials to Indonesian and
Malay rulers. This reasonably substantial body of evidence enables us to
begin to unravel and identify the various influences and cross-currents that
shaped Malay letter illumination, and to arrive at a preliminary mapping of the
evolution of the art of the Malay letter.
For further information please contact:
Gabrielle Ewington
Administration Manager
Australian Centre for Asian Art &
Archaeology
University of Sydney
02 9351 2870
0428 130
948
acaaa@arts.usyd.edu.au
Leonie Wittman
Chief Learning Design Officer
Learning Design and Resource Development
Centre for Learning Innovation
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