'In The House of the Muses' is a portraiture exhibition by photographer Susie Hagon and artist Darian Zam, held at the BA in cooperation with the Australian Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Susie and Darian have combined their artistic talents to brilliant effect that enabled them to present a visual body of work themed on the cross-cultural exchange of knowledge and creativity.
Lorenzo Montesini, Chairman of the Australian Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Photographer Susie Hagon, a committee member of the Friends of the BA, travelled to Alexandria, Egypt, in April 2007 to take a series of portraits of faces of the BA, the result of which was a fascinating collection of people working in the Library from the professors of manuscripts, antiquities, architecture and science to the Chief Librarian and academics from all fields. They simultaneously worked on portraits of iconic and creative Australians in their various fields in order to mirror the Egyptian side of the oeuvre.