We have secured a priority group booking for a talk related to the Utamaro Japanese prints exhibition (February through May) at the Art Gallery of NSW. Following the one-hour talk, we are invited for refreshments in the Modern Australian gallery, or you may care to join a public tour of the Utamaro exhibition led by one of the Gallery’s art experts.

Early sign up is essential for this lecture event. Our group booking at member rates is only confirmed until February 12 and to attend as a group we must have your confirmation before then.

We will join Lecture 2 of the “Edo City: Crucible of Culture” series, given by Professor Bill Coaldrake, Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. This talk will focus on the Edo popular culture and the rise of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e or ‘pictures of the floating world’) as an art of mass consumption, depicting the daily life of the artisans and merchants and the women of the entertainment district.