Graduate Studies in Art History and Curatorial & Museum Studies The University of Adelaide Australia
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Graduate Profiles

The Postgraduate Program in Art History has been operating since 2001, and we now have graduates in the Arts Industry across Australia. We also have produced many graduates who have completed MA by coursework theses on a range of topics from in-depth research of objects in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, through to areas of Indigenous and Asian art - to contemporary art. The theses topics are below.

Name Dissertation Titles
Ann Axelby 'Tjala Arts's importance in the resurgence of men's painting in the Anangu Pitjantatjara Yankyunytjatjara Lands', 2006.
Rosanna Barson 'Diane Arbus and Susan Sontag: for or against? The wrestle of photographic interpretation in the light of The Revelations exhibition', 2006.
Kate Chattaway 'An investigation into thirteenth and sixteenth centuries Sawankhalok naga and makara finials in the Thai ceramics collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia', 2006.
Maria D'Ieso 'Traversing the imaginary landscape: an investigation of a pair of Japanese screen - legendary landscape with temples and shrines c. 1630', 2006.
Cheri Donaldson 'Deep and defiant: Dusan and Voitre Marek; two European emigre artists in postwar South Australia', 2006.
Sean Farran 'A parallel interrogation of culture: art forgeries in the age of authorial demise', 2006.
Alison Fowler

'Ships Ahoy! The symbol of the ship in Indonesian textiles', 2006.

Julia Lim 'Julie Dowling: whose story does she tell?' 2006.
Gary Morgan 'Two views of Venice: the Venice prints of Whistler and Mortimer Menpes', 2006.
Gloria Strzelecki 'Kathleen Sauerbier: a catalogue raisonne', 2006.
Deborah Wallman 'The evolution of Maccasan narratives in Yolngu art of Arnhem Land: form and function', 2006.
Sera Waters 'Invoking disaster: Visions of the monstrous and catastrophic in Japanese visual culture from the Edo and postwar periods', 2006.
Karen Hewitt 'Colin Coulihan; unveiling an Australian modernist painter', 2006.
Nerina Dunt 'The rise of urban Indigenous art in response to colonialism', 2006.
Jenny Kalionis 'The resurgent body: a reaction to politics or digital disembodiment? An investigation of Mike Parr's work since 2000', 2006.
Kate Moskwa 'Subverting the domestic: constructing the new female uncanny in contemporary art', 2006.
Judith Worrall 'Skangaroovian funk: provincialism or not?, South Australian non-functional ceramics in the 1970s', 2006.
Tansy Curtin 'Contemporary German photography and American realism: is colour the only link?', 2004.
Tomoko Nakayama 'The post-war Japanese avant-garde movements: the distinct phase of anti art 1954-1970. Gutai, Neo-Dada, Hi Red Centre and Mono-ha', 2004.
Cherie Prosser 'Going for the Baroque: the use of neo-baroque aesthetics in contemporary photomedia', 2004.
Janet Worth 'The distinctive fish motif on a 14th century Iranian bowl in the Art Gallery of South Australia's William Bowmore Collection of Islamic ceramics', 2004.
Jennifer Harris 'Flowing water and lofty mountains: Ichikawa Beian: Calligrapher and Scholar', 2004.
Karen Finch 'Schulim Krimper: modern furniture designer', 2004.
Mary Rivett 'Yilpinji Art 'Love Magic': Changes in Representation of Yilpinji 'Love Magic' objects in the Visual Arts at Yuendumu', 2004.
Amelia Matthews 'The expression of identity and cultural continuity in the work of the Lockhart River Art Gang', 2004.
Sue Foster 'Contemporary Indigenous art reflecting the place of prison experiences in Indigenous life', 2004.
Fiona Sherwin 'Harry Pelling Gill: a practising artist, supervisor', 2003.
Lesley Smith 'Aboriginal textile art: Ernabella batiks and the screenprinted fabrics of Tiwi design', 2003.
Elise Kamleh 'A piece of a ceramic puzzle: a fifteenth century Vietnamese wall tile from Java', 2003.
Ann Preston Flint 'Dora Chapman: artist, teacher, wife, a career thwarted or a career achieved?', 2003.
Jill Swan 'The Berkeley, Hill and Gilbert families: Images of childhood and domesticity in colonial South Australia', 2002.
David Heinrich 'Max Klinger's Intermezzi; a critical analysis', 2002.

 


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