BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Adelaide/ *1950 Ph.D., Monash University, Adelaide; M.Ed., University of Canberra; B.A. (Hons), Flinders University; Dip.T., WTC. Coordinator of the graduate program in Art History at Adelaide University; adjunct senior research fellow, Hawke Institute, former coordinator of research degrees and head of Art History and Theory, the S.A. School of Art, University of South Australia; and member of the Research Centre for Gender Studies. Catherine Speck publishes widely in Australian art, contemporary art, modernism, postmodernism and feminist art. She was awarded a Ph.D. in 1996 for her thesis 'Australian Women War Artists'. She is the recipient of numerous grants including an ATN Grant in 2001 for "Defining nations: Women as war artists in Britain, Australia and Canada', a University of S.A. Small Grant for "Cultural complicity: The art of the stolen generation", 2001 and 'Margaret Preston's Aboriginality', 2000-1, both with (with Prof. Ian North); an ARC Spirt Grant, The Samstag Legacy, 1999-2001, with Ian North and Assoc. Prof. Rhonda Sharp, and an ARC Small Grant (with Kay Lawrence) on "Significant Women Artists of The South Australian School of Art 1888-1968", 1996-98. In 1999 she was a Robert J. Hawke Fellow at the University of S.A. during which time she completed much of her forthcoming book, "Painting ghosts: Australian Women War Artists in the Two World wars". She is the S.A. Coordinator of the Art Association of Australia, the professional association of art historians and theorists, and serves on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Art and chairs Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre. Recent conference papers have been delivered on a range of subjects in the visual arts including: 'A not so genteel pen: Grace Cossington Smith's view of the Empire', Art and the British Empire Conference, Tate Britain and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Studies, the Tate Museum, London, 5-7 July 2001; 'The many faces of Edith Cavell', Art Association of Australia National Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1999, 'Australian women in the 1940s' at the International Federation for Research into Women's History: Citizenship, Women and Social Justice: International Historical Perspectives, University of Melbourne, 1998 (published in the proceedings); 'The negotiation of career: Women teachers at the S.A. School of Art 1888-1968', Australian Women Studies Association National Conference, Adelaide, 1998, (published in the proceedings); 'Women's war art: a contested representation of nation', Women, Policy and Politics Conference, Women's Studies Network (UK) University of London, July 1997; 'Power Dressing: Women in the Military', 6th Inter-disciplinary World Congress of Women, Adelaide, April, 1996; "Women Artists Who Went to War', Australian Women Studies Association National Conference, University of W.A., Nov. 1996. Recent publications include: 'Edith Cavell: Martyr or patriot?' The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol. 2, no. 1, 2001; 'A bohemian flower in a war zone', Art and Australia, vol. 38, no. 3, 2000; 'A far cry from waiting room wallpaper: Ian North's The Intelligence of Blood', Artlink, vol. 20, no. 4, 2000; 'Sugar nights', Art Monthly on-line reviews, www.artmonthly.org.au, December 2000; 'Power dressing: Women in the military', Australian Journal of Art, vol. 14, no. 2, 1999; 'Women artists and the representation of the First World War' in "War and other catastrophes", Journal of Australian Studies, no. 60, 1999; 'Thora Ungar' and 'The Kokoda Trail', in Kerr, J. (ed.) Heritage: The National Women's Art Book, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995; 'Women teachers at the South Australian School of Art 1888-1968', Australian Art Education, vol. 20, no. 3, 1997; 'Women's War Memorials and Maternal Citizenship', Australian Feminist Studies, no. 23, 1996; 'Gilding the Landscape', Object, no. 1, 1994; 'The Virtual in Hand' Artlink, vol. 16,. no. 1, 1996. |
