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Dr Elizabeth Farrelly
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| Councillor of the City of Sydney | |
| In office 1991–1995 |
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| Born | Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Political party | Elizabeth Farrelly Independents (2022–present) |
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Independent (1991–2021, 2022) Labor (2021) |
| Residence | Homebush, New South Wales |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney (PhD) |
| Occupation | Writer and academic |
Elizabeth Margaret Farrelly (born Dunedin, New Zealand), is a Sydney-based author, architecture critic, essayist, columnist and speaker who was born in New Zealand but later became an Australian citizen. She has contributed to current debates about aesthetics and ethics; design, public art and architecture; urban and natural environments; society and politics, including criticism of the treatment of Julian Assange. Profiles of her have appeared in the New Zealand Architect, Urbis, The Australian Financial Review, the Australian Architectural Review, and Australian Geographic.
Farrelly's range of interests and contributions are wide enough to have caused her to be described by broadcaster Geraldine Doogue as a "Renaissance woman". She was elected to the 2021 board of the National Trust of Australia (NSW).
Her portrait by Mirra Whale was a finalist in the 2015 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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Education and training
Farrelly was born in Dunedin, New Zealand and trained as an architect in Auckland. She left New Zealand in 1983 for London, moved to Sydney in October 1988 and became an Australian citizen in 1991. She holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Sydney. Her thesis examined of the intellectual, cultural and political background to development control in Sydney's city centre from 1900 to 1960.
Career
Architectural practice
Farrelly practised as an architect in London until 1988, working at Pollard Thomas and Edwards Architects, London; at JASMaD Architects, Auckland; and Warren and Mahoney, Christchurch.
Public service
From 1991 to 1995, she served as an independent on the council of the City of Sydney, and was a member of the Central Sydney Planning Committees, Chair of the Civic Design Sub-Committee, and member, with Paul Keating, of the Project Control Group for the East Circular Quay redevelopment, adjacent to the Sydney Opera House. Her interest focussed on the quality of the city's public spaces. She served as a juror for design awards such as Parramatta Design Excellence Awards and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards.
Farrelly ran as an independent in the 2022 Strathfield state by-election, coming in third place with 9.85% of first preference votes. She was also an independent candidate for the Legislative Council in the 2023 New South Wales state election.
Teaching
Farrelly has taught at the University of Sydney as well as the University of New South Wales where she is Associate Professor (Practice) in the UNSW Graduate School of Urbanism; the University of Technology, Sydney, where she was Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture; the University of Auckland; the Royal College of Art, London; the Humberside Polytechnic and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. Farrelly has set writing for Wikipedia as a task for post-graduate students, and has commented that its demand for every input to be traceable and published, enables "genuine crowd-sourcing of scholarship" and is both "a revelation and a revolution".
Public speaking
Farrelly has been invited to speak at a wide range of public events, including panels, symposia, conferences, and festivals. Examples include as speaker in 2004 and 2005 on "Sydney's Working Harbour" at the Working Harbour Forum in the Sydney Town Hall; in July 2007 at the Byron Bay Writers Festival; in May 2009 and 2013 at the Sydney Writers' Festival; in October 2010 and 2015 at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in the Sydney Opera House in October 2011 at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas; in October 2012 as panellist at the University of Sydney's Sesquicentenary Colloquium Dinner, where her topic was "Dreaming Spires: Architecture and the learning game"; in 2011 and 2012 as speaker at the Art After Hours program in the Art Gallery of New South Wales; in May 2012 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia on "Writing Architecture"; in August 2014 as keynote speaker at the Green Buildings Conference in South Africa; in October 2015 for the year's final Utzon lecture at the University of New South Wales on "Architecture and Morality," exploring the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in architecture; in 2015 at the New Zealand Institute of Architects and on "Beauty" at the St James Institute in Sydney; in 2018 on "Architecture, cities and houses, design, the arts, planning, the environment and social commentary" at Sydney University's Sydney Centennial Symposium: "Cathedral Thinking – Designing for the Next Century".
Elizabeth Farrelly Independents
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Elizabeth Farrelly Independents
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| Abbreviation | EFI |
| Leader | Elizabeth Farrelly |
| Founded | November 2022 |
| Preceded by | The Open Party |
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Elizabeth Farrelly Independents is a political party founded by Farrelly to compete in the 2023 New South Wales state election.
Farrelly utilised The Open Party, formerly known as Keep Sydney Open, to run at the election after the party largely became dormant.
Farrelly led the party's Legislative Council ticket at the election, receiving 1.32% of the total statewide vote.
Published works
Part books
- (1991) " 'Why Sydney Finds it so Hard to Shape Up,’ review of planning failures in Ultimo-Pyrmont" in Waterfront housing and inner city redevelopment: proceedings of the Sydney seminar, Lea, J.P. and Dalton S., (Eds), Ian Buchan Fell Research Centre, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, Sydney ISBN: 0855770228
- (1998) "Architecture and Urban Design" in The Best of Sydney, Ross Muller (ed), Sydney Morning Herald Books, Sydney, ISBN: 1862901236
- (2005) "Pipedreaming the Harbour" in Sitelines: aspects of Sydney Harbour: a collection of essays celebrating Sydney Harbour, Federation Trust, ISBN: 0975109405
- (2005) "Powerhouse, Dreaming House", in Yesterday's Tomorrows: the Powerhouse Museum and its precursors 1880-2005, Graeme Davison and Kimberley Webber (eds), Powerhouse Publishing with UNSW Press, Haymarket, NSW, ISBN: 0868409855
- (2006) "'Beauty, Exclusionism and Stuff; the basis of community?’" in Talking about Sydney: population, community and culture in contemporary Sydney, Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph and Carol Butler-Bowdon (eds), UNSW Press with Historic Houses Trust, ISBN: 0868409383
- (2008) "'Tall Tales', the advent of Sydney high-rise" in Modern Times: the untold story of modernism in Australia, Ann Stephen, Philip Goad and Andrew McNamara (eds) Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Victoria, ISBN: 9780522855517
- (2008) "Sidney Nolan" and "'The Corner Shop" in Australian Greats, Peter Cochrane (ed) William Heinemann Australia, North Sydney NSW, ISBN: 9781741665925
- (2009) "Sydney" in The Great Cities in History, John Julius Norwich (ed) London; New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, ISBN: 9780500251546
Awards for writing
- (1991) CICA International Award for Architectural Criticism (Paris)
- (1994) & (2002) Adrian Ashton Award for Architectural Writing
- (2001) Pascall Prize for Critical Writing
- (2002) Marion Mahony Griffin Prize
