Next date: Saturday, 20 April 2024 | 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Kendrah Morgan is Senior Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, where she joined the staff in 2003. She began her curatorial career at Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand, after previous roles in the commercial gallery sector and as a lecturer in art and design history.
Kendrah's lecture is titled - Mirka and Georges: A Culinary Affair
A beloved and central figures in the cultural life of Australia, Mirka Mora long captured the public imagination with her distinctive art and inimitable personality. Arriving in Melbourne from Paris in 1951, Mirka and her husband Georges contributed significantly to the local art and restaurant scenes and the city’s gradual transformation into a sophisticated metropolis. Their apartment at 9 Collins Street became a hub for the bohemian set, which transferred to Mirka Café in Exhibition Street in 1954 and their two subsequent restaurants, Café Balzac in East Melbourne and Tolarno French Bistro in St Kilda. This lectures opens with Mirka and Georges’ early lives and food experiences in France, then tells the stories of their celebrated hospitality in Australia and their intermingling of food, art, love and life. The culinary journey is interspersed with fascinating anecdotes, archival photographs, Mirka’s sensuous and colourful artworks.
When
Saturday, 20 April 2024 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location
The Lighthouse Baptist Church is in the ground of the Lighthouse Baptist School.
Lighthouse Baptist Church, 480 Norman Road,, Norman Gardens, 4701, View Map
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