Book Launch – Unseen by Penelope Jackson

About the Exhibition

Please join us for a conversation between Penelope Jackson and Helen Hughes to launch UNSEEN – a riveting look at art thefts, fakes, forgeries, vandalism, ‘disappeared works’ and more. Published by Monash University Press. Lauraine Diggins Fine Art 5 Malakoff St North Caulfield Wednesday 19 November 6pm for 6.30pm Please RSVP by Fri 14 Nov. RSVP HERE Dr Penelope Jackson MNZM is an award-winning art historian. She has published three books about art crime, including The Art of Copying Art (Palgrave Macmillan), which won Best Book in the 2023 Art Writing and Publishing Awards in the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. A former public art gallery director and curator, Jackson was awarded a Sir William Dobell Fellowship at the Australian National University in 2024 and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2023 for her services to art crime research and the visual arts. She is an Adjunct Research Associate at Charles Sturt University. Hilary Thurlow is a PhD candidate in Art History & Theory at Monash University, Naarm/Melbourne where her research focuses on the life and work of Cuban artist, Tania Bruguera. She is the Managing Editor of Memo Magazine and has contributed to Frieze, ArtAsiaPacific, and Art News Aotearoa. In 2023–2024, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chicago.