Publications & Media
2023
Sheridan Palmer, ‘The Abbey Art Centre: a Postnational Creative Community and its Role in Postwar Modernism’, 20-min paper, art history and art curatorship departmental seminar, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne, in person and online (Zoom), 17 March 2023.
Jane Eckett, ‘Refugee / Colonial / Commonwealth: Abbey Artists and the Berkeley Galleries’, 20-min paper, art history and art curatorship departmental seminar, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne, in person and online (Zoom), 17 March 2023.
Sheridan Palmer, 'The Abbey Art Centre: A post WW2 artist colony', 90-min paper and discussion, in person and online (Zoom), School of Art Communication and English, The University of Sydney, 2 March 2023.
2022
Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson, 'Australia in the World's Art Colonies: The World in Australia's Art Colonies', Index Journal, issue 4: Secession, 8 December 2022, open access online.
Artists’ Colonies in the World / The World in Artists’ Colonies, 3-day international conference, in person and streamed online via Zoom webinar, co-convened by Jane Eckett, Sheridan Palmer, and Victoria Perin, with sessions chaired by Rex Butler, Jane Eckett, Ian McLean, Victoria Perin, and Simon Pierse, The University of Melbourne, 28–30 November 2022.
Sheridan Palmer, 'The Abbey Art Centre: "An all but forgotten artists' colony"', 30-minute seminar presentation for Liquid, Crystal, Concrete: Marginalised Spaces & Émigré Artists, summer research series, Paul Mellon Centre, London, 13 July 2022.
Jane Eckett, 'On modernism’s margins: William Ohly’s Abbey Art Centre in post-war England', 30-minute seminar presentation for Liquid, Crystal, Concrete: Marginalised Spaces & Émigré Artists, summer research series, Paul Mellon Centre, London, 13 July 2022.
2021
Artist Colonies as Alternate Models for Writing Art History, panel convened by Jane Eckett, AAANZ annual conference, The University of Sydney, online, 10 December 2021.
Sheridan Palmer, ‘The Abbey Art Centre as aesthetic terrain during the Cold War’, AAANZ annual conference, The University of Sydney, online, 10 December 2021.
Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson, ‘The Abbey as Artist Colony’, AAANZ annual conference, The University of Sydney, online, 10 December 2021.
Sheridan Palmer, ‘The Abbey Art Centre: cultural diversity and postwar modernism’, School of Culture & Communication Staff Work in Progress Day, The University of Melbourne, 8 December 2021.
Jane Eckett, ‘More than tea and sympathy: Eva Frankfurther's and James Wigley's portraits of migrant workers at Lyons’ Corner House, London’, School of Culture & Communication Staff Work in Progress Day, The University of Melbourne, 8 December 2021.
Rex Butler, ADS Donaldson, Jane Eckett, Ian McLean, Sheridan Palmer, and Simon Pierce with Geoff Ginn and Tashi Petter, The Abbey Art Centre: cosmopolitanism, expatriatism and exchange, CoVA workshop, The University of Melbourne, open access online, 7 October 2021.
Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson, 'The Abbey as an Artist Colony', 20-minute paper delivered within the 'Global Art History and the Imbalance of Power' session, Association of Art Historians (AAH) UK, online conference hosted by the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies, The University of Birmingham, 15 April 2021.
2019
Jane Eckett, 'Helen Marshall: Return to Beginning', Artist Profile, no. 49, November 2019, pp. 136-9 (result of a 2019 CoVA small grant, awarded jointly with Sheridan Palmer prior to commencement of the Abbey project).
Sheridan Palmer, 'Nomadic encounters: Philip Martin and the street', 20-minute paper delivered within the 'Encounters with and between artists 1: Bonjour' session, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) annual conference, University of Auckland, 6 December 2019 (result of a 2019 CoVA small grant, awarded jointly with Jane Eckett prior to commencement of the Abbey project).