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UWA Art History Professor Ian McLean will present the 2009 Daphne Mayo Lecture at The University of Queensland on September 23.

Professor McLean will discuss "How Aborigines invented the idea of contemporary art and other stories from the art world". His lecture will chart some key moments in the journey that the art world made in its conceptual transformation of Aboriginal art from an anachronistic primitivism to treasured items of contemporary art.

Professor McLean is the author of two books White Aborigines (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and The Art of Gordon Bennett (Craftman House, 1996). His important edited documentary history collection How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art a documentary history 1980-2006 (Institute of Modern Art and Power Publications, Sydney) will be published this year.

Daphne Mayo (1895-1982) was for much of her life Queensland's best known artist and passionate advocate for the arts. Her work includes the tympanum on the Brisbane City Hall and the Women's War Memorial in ANZAC Square.

WHEN: Wednesday 23 September, 6pm

WHERE: The University of Queensland Art Museum

Free event. RSVP [email protected]