My book The Female Gaze in Art and Photography (Hardie Grant, 2023, vol 1) is both research and interview based. I had interviewed twenty contemporary women artists and photographers from Australia and around the world about how they use their female gaze in their work. This book foregrounds women creators and many of the works […]
When I am reading about art, I ask myself the question, ‘what is great art?’ In her YouTube video, American Art Curator, Sarah Urist Green tells us the idea of a ‘great artist’ came about during the Renaissance from artist, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) in his foundational text in art history and published book: Lives of […]
As a child and young girl, I loved learning about history. That continued throughout adulthood. When I was at Melbourne University studying first year Arts, I enrolled in the subject Australian History. This subject had a unit of study in it: Women in Australian History. This was the first time in my learning of History […]