People
Project Researchers
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Professor Ian McLean
Lead Chief Investigator
University of Melbourne
Ian McLean is the Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne. Professor McLean was previously the Senior Research Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Wollongong and adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia.
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Professor Rex Butler
Chief Investigator
Monash University
Dr Rex Butler is an art historian, writer and Professor (Art History & Theory). His research interests include Australian art and art criticism, Post-War American art and Critical Theory.
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Dr Andrew Donaldson
Partner Investigator
National Art School, Sydney
Andrew Donaldson’s career spans over two decades with a profound interest in abstraction. From 1990 until 1992 he studied with Prof Klaus Rinke at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Germany. From 1994 to 1995 he studied with Prof Claus Carstensen as a Samstag Scholar at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. In 2009 he was awarded a PhD in art history by the University of Sydney. Donaldson is currently writing a history of 20th century Australian art with Rex Butler and is a lecturer in the Painting Department at the National Art School.
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Dr Simon Pierse
International Partner Investigator
Aberystwyth University
Simon Pierse is Emeritus Senior Lecturer at Aberystwyth University and visiting fellow at the Australian Institute of Art History. His research focuses on British perceptions of Australian art, landscape and identity. His award winning book Australian Art and Artists in London, 1950-1965: an antipodean summer, was published by Ashgate in 2012.
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Dr Sheridan Palmer
Senior Research Associate
School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
Sheridan Palmer is an art historian, curator and biographer, with degrees from the Victorian College of Arts, La Trobe University and a PhD from the University of Melbourne where she is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication.
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Dr Jane Eckett
ARC Postdoctoral Research Associate
School of Culture & Communications, University of Melbourne
Jane Eckett is an art historian, curator and Melbourne Research Fellow (2020) in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Masters of Letters (MLitt) from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from the University of Melbourne, awarded in 2017.