In Conversation: Shireen Taweel and Anneke Jaspers

Join us on Saturday 8 August from 3pm for an in conversation between artist Shireen Taweel and Anneke Jaspers to celebrate the launch of the monograph ‘Shireen Taweel: The Trig Point’.

The monograph traces Taweel’s practice across copper, celestial navigation, sacred architecture, fieldwork, installation and speculative forms of embodied space. Published alongside major 2026 and 2027 exhibition iterations with the first one starting here at Mosman Art Gallery.

This project is supported by Creative Australia’s Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy (VACS) Major Commissioning Projects fund.

Shireen Taweel’s studio practice rests within a diasporic landscape of shared histories and fluid identities. Taweel’s work is deeply embedded in the materiality and cultural transmutation of copper. The development and research for her projects are often site-specific, working in collaboration with local communities, architecture and environment. She has had solo exhibitions most recently in San Francisco, USA (2025), Penrith Regional Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, NZ and Mosman Art Gallery.

Anneke Jaspers is Senior Curator, Collection, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Her recent curatorial projects include Collection: MCA x Tate (2026), Nicholas Mangan: A World Undone (2024), Adam Linder: Hustle Harder (2023), and Vivienne Binns: On and through the surface (2022). She has published widely on contemporary art and holds a PhD in Curatorial Studies from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.