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Quentin Sprague

Quentin Sprague is the author of The Stranger Artist, which won the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Nonfiction, and a monograph on the late Australian painter Ken Whisson. His art criticism appears widely, including regularly in The Monthly, as well as in monographs and exhibition catalogues published by the National Gallery of Victoria, Monash University Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. He has worked variously as a curator, an academic, an art coordinator and an artist, and lives in Canberra, on Ngunnawal Country.

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Events

Meet the author: Graeme Turner (ANU, Canberra)

ANU Cinema 153 Tangney Rd, Kambri Cinema (Lowitja O'Donoghue Cultural Centre), Acton, ACT

Graeme Turner will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on his new book Broken: Universities, Politics and the Public Good. A strong higher education system is fundamental to civil society. The...

Launch: Broken by Graeme Turner (Gleebooks, Sydney)

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, New South Wales

A strong higher education system is fundamental to civil society. The building of knowledge and the dissemination of information is vital to the proper functioning of our democracy. At the...

Launch: Broken by Graeme Turner (Readings, Melbourne)

Readings Carlton Woiworung Country, 309 Lygon St, Carlton, VIC, Australia

  Join us to hear Graeme Turner in conversation with Ben Eltham about Broken: Universities, Politics & the Public Good. In Broken, Graeme Turner examines the collapse of our Universities, from underfunding and over-reliance on...

Launch: Broken by Graeme Turner (Avid Reader, Brisbane)

Avid Reader 193 Boundary Street, West End, Queensland, Australia

ABOUT THE BOOK In Broken, Graeme Turner provides a reality check for those who imagine the academic life is one of privilege and leisure, laying bare the enormous challenges and...