IN CONVERSATION: EMMA FIELDEN AND ANNE RYAN

This conversation took place for The Sky Swallowed a Stone at UNSW Galleries, Sydney Australia, 20 September 2025.

Anne Ryan is Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where she has responsibility for the collection of Australian prints, drawings, and watercolours. Anne has organised a number of exhibitions and publications on historical and contemporary Australian art and artists. Her interests include modern and contemporary Australian painting, drawing and printmaking, with a particular interest in women artists. At the Art Gallery of NSW, she has curated the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial exhibitions ‘Drawing Out’ (2014), ‘Close to Home’ (2016), ‘Real Worlds’ (2020), and ‘Infinite’ (2024), and has curated the annual Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes since 2015.

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