University of Tasmania, Australia

ArtsForum is a series of FREE public lectures held at the School of Visual and Performing Arts, Academy of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Inveresk. Both UTAS students and members of the general public are welcome to attend. Lectures are presented by staff, visiting scholars from Tasmania, mainland Australia and overseas, industry professionals and artists-in-residence.

About Paris

Recent recipient of a Rosamund McCulloch Paris Studio residency, Penny Mason will present an overview of the studio and the Cite Internationale des Arts as well as the residency experience. 

Since graduating from the Tasmanian School of Art in 1970, Penny Mason has participated in group shows and undertaken regular solo exhibitions. Recent solo exhibitions include; Sets & Series at Sidespace Hobart and Excess at the Academy Gallery, Launceston in 2006 and Vital Signs at Poimena Gallery, Launceston in 2002. She participates in an ongoing collaborative project with David Marsden and Sue Henderson under the name Art3 which presented Space Antics at Burnie Regional Art Centre in 2011. A second iteration of this project is to be presented as Swerve at Carnegie Gallery later this year.

Penny Mason is represented in public and private collections and is currently lecturer in Painting at the School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston.