Seidler Session 3: Art in Architecture

Sue Saxon, Bel Youssofzay and Jennifer Turpin in conversation. In our third Seidler Session, we engage in a discussion about art in architecture and its centrality to the work of Harry Seidler About our speakers: Sue Saxon is an artist, educator and academic engagement curator at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, whose career has focused on creating and interpreting encounters between art and the public. Jennifer Turpin is an artist with 35 years’ experience working in the public domain making site responsive artworks at the interface of art, science, environment and community. Bel Youssofzay is an architect and co-director of the architectural practice Youssofzay+Hart who have worked with many Australian and international art institutions to design galleries and exhibitions. Header image: Installation views from “Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler”, with artworks by Theo Van Doesburg, Josef Albers and "Portrait of Harry & Penelope Seidler" by Petrina Hicks, SMAC San Marco Art Centre, Venice, 2025. Photo: Enrico Fiorese. Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler was originally produced by the Chau Chak Wing Museum in collaboration with and presented at San Marco Art Centre, Venice in 2025. The presentation during the Venice Architecture Biennale of Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler, received support from John Kaldor AO, the ALBN Foundation, the Keir Foundation, the Sarina Russo Foundation, and the Turnbull Foundation. The Australian expanded exhibition of Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler, at the Chau Chak Wing Museum has received support from John Kaldor AO, the ALBN Foundation, the Sarina Russo Foundation, the Sherman Foundation, and the University of Sydney USA Foundation.