Academic qualifications, Professional appointments, Scholarships, grants and awards, Judging
Academic qualifications
1982
B.A. Hons (Visual Arts), Monash University, Melbourne. Thesis topic ‘Photographic
criticism, tradition and the photographs of Emmet Gowin’
Professional appointments
2009
Associate Professor, Art Theory, ANU School of Art
Deputy Chair, ACT Cultural Council
2008
Guest curator, A Modern Vision: Charles Bayliss, Photographer, 1850-1897, National Library of Australia
2006 continuing
Associate Head, Undergraduate, ANU School of Art
2006
Guest curator, Reveries: Photography & Mortality, National Portrait Gallery (opened 2007, toured to Queensland University Art Museum and Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2007-08)
2005
Guest curator, Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography National
Gallery of Australia
2004
Guest curator, In a new light: Australian Photography 1930s-2000 National
Library of Australia
2003
Senior Lecturer, Art Theory Workshop, ANU, School of Art (continuing);
Acting Head, Art Theory Workshop Semester 1, 2004
Guest curator, In a new light: Australian Photography 1850s-1930s National Library of Australia
2002
Guest editor, Photofile, Spring issue, no.66
2000
Guest curator, Mirror with a memory: Photographic Portraiture
in Australia, National Portrait Gallery;
Olive Cotton, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1999
Guest editor, Art Monthly: Special Issue, no.124
1996
Lecturer, Art Theory Workshop, ANU, National Institute of the Arts,
School of Art;
Acting Head, Art Theory Workshop, 2001-02, 1996
1992-98
Craft and Photography reviewer, Canberra Times
1992 – present
Certified valuer, Cultural Gifts Program (previously Taxation Incentives
Scheme for the Arts)
1992 – 1996
Part-time Lecturer in Visual Communication, Canberra Institute of
Technology; freelance curator and writer
1995
Sessional Lecturer, Art Theory Workshop, National Institute of the
Arts, School of Art
1985-92
Curator of International and Australian Photography, National Gallery
of Australia
1982-85
Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography, National Gallery
of Australia
Scholarships, grants and awards
2011
Peter Blazey Fellowship, The University of Melbourne
2008
Distinguished Research Award, Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS)
2006
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction (Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography)
Best Book, Power Institute and Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
2006
ANU Vice Chancellor’s Award for Career Achievement
2003
Canberra Critics Circle Award for Photography curatorship and writing
2001
Faculty of Arts Research Grant
2000
Small Australian Research Council Grant
1999
Small Australian Research Council Grant
Grant, ArtsACT Funding Development Program
1998
Small Australian Research Council Grant
1997
Small Australian Research Council Grant
1996
Australian National University Faculties New Starters Grant
1993
Writer's Project Grant, Literature Board, Australia Council
1973
American Field Service Scholarship, Rockford, Illinois, USA
Judging
2005
ACT Seniors Week Photography competition (administered by the ACT Public Trustee)
2004
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts Photography
Award
1996
‘Reflections’ Canberra Photographic Society
‘Images of Canberra’, 2CN
1989
Montana Lindauer Art Award, Auckland, New Zealand
1988
Bicentennial Photographic Amateur Award, Canberra
Muswellbrook Photographic Award
1986
Standard Chartered Photographic Award, Commonwealth Centre, London
1985
National Photographic Award, Albury Regional Arts Centre
1983
Member of judging panel for the Telecom photographic and drawing
competition 'Youth in the Electronic Age'