Author Tessa Laird

Tessa Laird

Tessa Laird is an artist, writer and Lecturer in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Her doctoral thesis on colour was published as A Rainbow Reader by Clouds in 2013. Her book on bats, part of Reaktion’s Animal series, is due for release in May 2018.

Sonic Disturbance and Chromatic Dissolution: The Cantrills remake Melbourne

November 2017

Screening Melbourne

This paper examines the work of Australian experimental film legends, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, who, over a fifty-year period, perfected a range of avant garde cinematic techniques including experiments...