PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY PODCAST
August 2024
In conversation with philosopher A. C. Grayling at the 2024 Sydney Writers Fest.
ALL about women fest
March 2024
Panellist: “influencers are the new public intellectuals”.
Guardian AUstralia: Grand Tour
September 2023
YouTube series about the history of the Grand Tour showcased in travel article from the Guardian Australia.
ABC iVIEW: Renaissance Italy
July 2023
Telling the story of renaissance artworks in Australian museums and galleries with ABC Education. Written and presented by Mary McGillivray.
inaugural Arts & Culture 100
June 2022
The Australian’s “The List” highlights the top 100 arts and culture workers “taking the creative industries into the future”.
Speaker at Association for Art History Conference
May 2022
Panellist for Professional Development Day for Doctoral and Early Career Researchers discussing how art historians can use social media to educate the public.
Speaker at MuseumNext Conference
January 2022
Originally presented at the MuseumNext Digital Marketing Summit in November 2021, “Museums on TikTok: Engaging Gen Z” is now up on YouTube!
Podcast: See Things Differently
November 2021
Part of the UK/AU Season supported by the British Council and the Australian Government, I chatted to Peter Tullin, Serial Creative Entrepreneur & Co-Founder of RemixSummit about TikTok and creative entrepreneurship.
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ABC News Article
August 2021
Interview with ABC Arts Writer, Hannah Reich for the Arts Show: “I describe [my TikTok] as a Zoomer outreach program for art history education … I love communicating the more stuffy side of art history to a Gen Z audience, in a fun way.”
Great Art Debate: QAGOMA
August 2021
Which is better, classical or contemporary? I debated Art Historian Dr Louise Mayhew as part of this fun and lighthearted online event for the Queensland Art Gallery.
Feature in the Weekend Australian
July 2021
Profile by arts writer Jane Albert: “When TikTok meets art history: Mary McGillivray is gaining traction among a young global audience hungry for an approachable way to understand art.”
Interview on ABC Radio National, The Art Show
June 2021
I spoke with the Art Show about Art History TikTok and “why the Gen Z platform is ripe for fine art”.
Feature in The Daily Telegraph
May 2021
Arts editor Elizabeth Fortescue spoke to me about the value TikTok can bring to art galleries and museums, as well as TikTok’s #MuseumMoment Livestream for International Museum Day.
Art History TikTok features in Artlander
Feb 2021
Tori Campbell writes about how Art History TikTok is “able to cultivate an entirely new community of art patrons, bringing cultural critique out of the ivory towers of museums and galleries onto screens around the world.”
The article features _theiconoclass along with several other fantastic art history TikTokers!
#LearnOnTikTok LIVE
Feb 2021
TikTok Australia invited me to do a livestream as part of their #LearnOnTikTok initiative! Just like one of my TikToks - but longer - my live was all about the most important questions to ask when looking at art.
In total, 33k people tuned in, many asking questions and giving their thoughts on the artworks I discussed.
Pedestrian Article
Jan 2021
I spoke to Pedestrian about why I’m making videos about art history on TikTok, what caused my first viral video to blow up, and my favourite TikTok trends of 2020.
Panelist at the AIDC 2021
Feb 2021
In March I will be speaking on a panel at the Australian International Documentary Conference, discussing short form non-fiction video content.
Art History TikTok New Years Zoom Event
Dec, 2020
With five other TikTokers (@umeboi, @caseylanderkin, @lmtweet, @arthistoryminutes and @artistcolette) I hosted an end of year zoom event to chat to our community of art and history lovers. The event was booked out, with a full zoom room of 100 people.
ABC’s The Art Of
2024
The Art Of tackles life’s biggest questions, and asks how art can help us find answers.
NVAEC 2024
January 2024
Presented paper at the National Visual Art Education Conference in Canberra: “TikTok helped me learn good: Communicating expertise in online video”
AIDC 2023
March 2023
Panellist on “Docs in the Age of TikTok” discussing quality nonfiction storytelling in a bite-sized, user-generated, algorithmic landscape, with literally seconds to hook audiences.