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Dr Sarah Scott

Lecturer, Liberal Arts

T: ( 02 ) 6125 8960

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E: sarah.scott@anu.edu.au

Research School of Humanities
College of Arts and Social Sciences

 

Qualifications:

PhD (Uni of Melb.) MA (Courtauld, London) BA (Hons.) (Uni of Tas.)

Short biography:

Sarah Scott was recently appointed Lecturer in Heritage, Museums and Material Culture at the Research School of Humanities (ANU). During the first part of 2009 she will be co-teaching the Museums and Collections: Key Concepts and Practices course with Kylie Message, co-ordinating and Lecturing in the Museum, collection, and heritage management course and co-convening the Research School of Humanities Public Culture Seminar program. Prior to her appointment at ANU, Sarah was a Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts and Humanities at Charles Darwin University (Darwin) for three years. She has also taught at Swinburne School of Design (Melbourne), the University of Melbourne (Art History and Australian Studies) and the Tasmanian School of Art. Sarah's PhD examined exhibitions of Australian art for Export to Europe during the 1950s and 1960s. She is currently completing research concerning the History of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.

Research Interests:

Australian Modernist Art and its representation

Art Patronage

Australian Indigenous Art and Culture

Public Art

Current Research Projects:

Book Chapter: the History of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards

Publication of  PhD thesis: The Politics of Patronage: Exhibitions of Australian Art in Europe 1956-1965.

Carnegie Corporation: Working on join article with Dr. Caroline Jordan re: 1941 exhibition.

The problems of expatriate Australian Art: Alannah Coleman's exhibition Australian Painting and Sculpture, London 1964.

Legacy of Empire: The Commonwealth Institute and Australian Participation in Commonwealth Exhibitions.

Whitechapel Revisited: Bryan Robertson Recent Australian Painting versus Bernard SMith's 'Antipodean Manifesto.' Clashing constructions of an 'Australian art tradition.'

 

 

Selected Publications:

Chapters in books

2008   'The relationship bewteen Modernist art and Indigenous art within Recent Australian Painting (1961) at London's Whitechapel Gallery.' Crossing cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence. Proceedings of the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art. Melbourne University Press: Carlton,  2009.

2008 'Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist Contemporary at the Tate Gallery
In Seize the Day, Monash University epress book chapter, ISBN (paperback): 978-0-9804648-0-1ISBN (web): 978-0-9804648-1-8

2004 >‘A New Commonwealth: The Exhibition Commonwealth Art Today and theOpening of the Commonwealth Institute' (1962)
  Exploring the British World:Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions, pgs 708-720. (eds. Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey and Stuart Mcintyre.), Melbourne:RMIT Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 0864593449

Journal articles

2004  ‘The Australia House Murals' Australian Studies, Vol 17, no 2, 2002 (published, London, December 2004). ISSN 0954-0954

2003 ‘Imaging a Nation: Australia's Representation at the Venice Biennale 1958' Journal of Australian Studies 79, p53-63. See http://www.api-network.com/main/pdf/scholars/jas79_scott.pdf
  

Catalogue essays

2007 ‘Shifting Territory’ in TogArt Contemporary Art Award, 2007, p.10-11.  ISBN 9780646477282. See:http://www.darwincitywaterfront.com.au/togart/downloads/Togart_Award07_catalogue.pdf.

2004 Interview with Tom Alberts: Solo exhibition Catalogue, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne.

Other

2008 ‘Roger Kemp’ by Christopher Heathcote, Australian Book Review, April 2008. 

2008  ‘Modern Times: The Untold Story of Australian Art' Australian Book Review, December 2008.

2008   ‘25th National and Torres Strait Islander Art Award 2008: review'
December 2008. Artlink Vol 28 no. 4. See http://www.artlink.com.au/articles.cfm?id=3190

2007 ‘Territorial’ Artlink, December 2007

2007 ‘TogART review’ Artlink, September 2007

2006

2006 ‘Udo Sellbach’ Artlink, December issue.  




2006  ‘Jeffrey Smart’, Australian Book Review, March 2006.

2005 ‘Irene Briant’ Catalogue Essay, Dick Bett Gallery, April, 2005.  

2005 Picturesque Pursuits, Australian Book Review, October 2005  

Disciplines:

Art History

Australian Studies

Museum Studies

 

Teaching:

MUSC8007: Museums and Collections: Key Concepts and Practices

MUSC8003: Museum, collection, and heritage management  

Conferences:

2009
‘Exotic Ethnography, Modernist Formalist Icon or
Aboriginal Art?: The Contrasts Between Global and AustralianExhibitions of Australian Aboriginal Contemporary' College Art College Art Association, Los Angeles 26-28 February

2008
‘Imaging Darwin' New Voices: New Visions. International
Australian Studies Association Annual Conference. 26-28 November 2008,Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

‘Public Art in Darwin' Alpha, Alpha, Alpha November Zulu. ArtAssociation of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, QUT,Brisbane 4-6 December.

The relationship between Modernist art and Indigenous culture within RecentAustralian Painting (1961) at London's Whitechapel Gallery. College Art History Association hosted by the University of Melbourne, 12-18 January.

2006
‘Post-Colonial identity issues and Contemporary Art Practice in the Northern Territory', Australian and New Zealand Art Association Conference:

Australian Regional Art, Reinventing the Medium, Monash University,Caulfield Campus: 7-9 December, 2006.

‘National Narratives: Australian Art Abroad during the 1950s and 1960s.Seize the Day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World, Museum of Victoria, 19-20 October, 2006.

2004
Aboriginal Art exhibitions and the reception of Recent Australian Painting atthe Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1961, Auckland, December 2004.

"A New Commonwealth": The Exhibition Commonwealth Art Today and theopening of the Commonwealth Institute (1962). British World Conference,University of Melbourne, July 2004.

2003
Australian Painting at the Tate Gallery, AANZ conference, Canberra,December 2003.

Recent Australian Painting and Australian Art in Europe, Larrikins in London, Symposium, Ivan Dogherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Sept. 5-6.

Dec 4-5: Constructing a National History at the Tate gallery, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra.

2002
New Visions. Australian Abstract artists in London 1955-65: Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

The Model Prison as Theatre, Islands of Vanishment conference, Port Arthur Tasmania.

2001
‘Forever Heidelberg': Sir Robert Menzies and the Australian selection for the 1958 Venice Biennale. -Art Association of Australia and New Zealand hosted by the School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, Melbourne University.

2000
Patrons of the Metropolis: Artists of the Periphery? A re-appraisal of Australian Art Surveys in 1960's London. BASA ‘Comings and Goings'conference held at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College,London.


‘Politics, Patronage and the Formation of an Australian Art Canon' - CuriousEyes: Sites and Scenes of Modernism inter-disciplinary Post- Graduate Conference at the University of Sydney.

 

Activities:

Pre-selection committee for National and Torres Strait Islander Art Award 2009.

Toga Selection Committee for Northern Territory TOGA award Contemporary Art Exhibtion

TOGA public Art Advisory Board member. (to advise on Darwin waterfront public art)

Professional societies:

College Art Association

International Australian Studies Association

Art History Association of Australia and New ZealandTOGA selection committee for Northern Territory contemporary art exhibition

TOGA public art award advisory committee