Supervisors' publications

• Associate Professor Catherine Speck
• Dr Georgina Downey
• Professor Ian North

Associate Professor Catherine Speck
Publications | Awards | Supervisions
Dr Catherine Speck is the coordinator of the innovative Art History Program offered jointly by the University of Adelaide and the Art Gallery of South Australia. The postgraduate program is the only one of its kind in Australia and is co-taught by University staff and Gallery curators and includes 'hands-on' session in the Gallery.

Catherine teaches in many of the Graduate Diploma/MA subjects offered in the Art History program including European Art. Australian Art, Modern Art, British Art and Contemporary Art and she coordinates Japanese art, Southeast Asian art and Australian Indigenous art, although those latter three subjects are taught by specialists. She also supervises a range of coursework and research degree theses and coordinates the MA in Art History coursework program.

Prior to taking up her current post, she was coordinator of the Art History and Theory Department and Research Degrees Coordinator at the SA School of Art, University of South Australia. In 1999 she was a Robert J. Hawke Research Fellow in the Hawke Institute, and in 1992-3 held a John Treloar Grant (Australian War Memorial). Other research grants include an ARC Spirt Grant, The Samstag Legacy (with Professor Ian North and Assoc. Professor Rhonda Sharp) in 1999-2001; and an ATN Grant, Defining Nations: Women as War Artists in Britain, Canada, the USA, New Zealand and Australia in 2001-3; and an ARC Small Grant, Significant women artists in the SA School of Art, (with Kay Lawrence) in 1996-9.

Research areas include modern Australian art; landscape theory and representation; Australian art and Indigeneity; gender and the representation of war; and contemporary art criticism. She publishes in both scholarly and arts industry journals including The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Art and Australia, Australian Feminist Studies, the Journal of Australian Studies, Object, Art Monthly On-line and Artlink. She is also currently Chair of Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre, serves on the SSABSA Visual Arts committee and is a member of the Adelaide Critics Circle

Books
Speck, C. Painting Ghosts: Australian women artists in the Two World Wars, Craftsman House/Thames and Hudson, 2004, 239pp.

Monographs
Prideaux, D. and Speck, C. Accelerated Christian Education in South Australia: A Report for the Non-Government Schools Registration Board of South Australia, SA Education Department, South Australian CAE, 1989, 143pp (Speck 50%).

Book Chapters / Book entries
Speck. C. 'A not so genteel pen: Grace Cossington Smith's British - Australian cartoons', in Warner, L.(ed) Projections of Britain, Lithrum Press, Adelaide, 2006 (forthcoming)

Speck, C. 'Australia's Cultural Heritage', in Gare, D. (ed) Land without Limits, Australian History and Society, Harcourt and Brace, 2007 forthcoming.

Speck, Catherine, 'Nora Heysen: A tale of a daughter and her father' in Magarey, S and Round, K. (eds), Living History: Essays on History as Biography, Australian Humanities Press, 2005, pp. 127-150.

Speck, C. 'In the context of contemporary art, what is your vision of a yet unknown art', in Gerz, J. (ed) The Anthology of Art, DuMont, Germany & Actes Sud, France, 2004.

Speck, C. 'Hilda Rix Nicholas's A man' in Wilkins, L. (ed.) Artists in Action, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 2003, p. 22-23.

Speck, C. 'Thora Ungar' in Kerr, J. (ed.) Heritage: The National Women's Art Book, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, p. 468.

Speck, C. 'Thora Ungar: The Kokoda Trail' in Kerr, J. (ed.) Heritage: The National Women's Art Book, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, p. 255.

Speck, C. 'Reinforcements: Troops Marching', in Sullivan, G. Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Art Writers, Piper Press, Sydney, 1994, p. 92.

Speck, C. 'A Perceptual Training and Drawing Program for Schematic Drawers' in Burkhardt, G. (ed.) A.C.T. Papers on Education 1987, Canberra CAE, l987, pp. 72-83.

Articles in refereed journals
Speck, C. 'Nora Heysen: a tale of a daughter and her father', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 19, no. 43, 2004, pp. 55-73.

Speck, C. 'Looking critically at looking at art', Australian Art Education, vol 25, no 1, 2002, pp. 51-53.

Speck, C. 'Edith Cavell: Martyr or patriot?' Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol 2, no 1, 2001, pp. 83-98.

Speck, C. 'Women artists and the representation of the First World War', in War and other catastrophes, Journal of Australian Studies, no 60, 1999, pp. 27-39.

Speck, C. 'Power Dressing: Women in the Military', Australian Journal of Art, vol. 14, no. 2, 1999, pp. 149-163.

Speck, C. '10 Years On', Australian Art Education, vol. 22, no. 1, 1999, pp. 86-7.

Speck, C. 'A depth art curriculum for the primary school'(1989), Australian Art Education, vol. 22, no. 1, 1999, pp. 71-85.

Speck, C. 'Australian women in the 1940s: Examining citizenship through visual representations' in J. Damousi and K. Ellinghaus (eds), Citizenship, Women and Social Justice: International Historical Perspectives, Australian Network for Women's History and Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1999, pp. 382-92.

Speck, C. 'The negotiation of career: Women teachers at the South Australian School of Art 1888-1968', Australian Women Studies Association National Conference Proceedings, Adelaide, April 1998, pp. 141-160.

Pellarin, J.; Lynch, B.; and Speck, C. 'The post graduate experience: Visual arts research degrees in South Australia', Australian Art Education, vol. 21. no. 1, 1998, pp. 49-55 (70% Speck).

Speck, C. 'Women Teachers at the South Australian School of Art' Australian Art Education, vol. 20, no. 3, 1997, pp. 33-46.

Speck, C. 'Women's War Memorials and Citizenship', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 11, no. 23, 1996, pp. 129-145.

Speck, C. 'Gender Differences in Children's Drawing', Australian Art Education, vol. 18, no.2, 1995, pp. 41-51.

Speck, C. and Prideaux, D. 'Fundamentalist Education and Creation Science in Australian Schools', Australian Journal of Education, Vol 37, No 3, 1993, pp. 279-295 (50% Speck).

Speck, C. 'A Depth Art Curriculum in the Primary School', Australian Art Education, vol. 13, no.3, l989, pp. 6-19.

Mortensen, C., Speck, C. and Neander, K. 'Art, Representation and Values', Journal of the Institute of Art Education, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1986, pp. 63-66 (30% Speck).

Speck, C. 'Are Schematic Drawers Necessarily Schematic?' Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 9, no. 1, 1985, pp. 1-13.

Speck, C. 'The First National Index of School Art Programs: Volume 2', Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 9, no. 3, 1985, pp. 38-50.

Speck, C. 'Editorial', Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 9, no. 3, 1985, np.

Speck, C. 'The First National Index of School Art Programs: Volume 1.' Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 8, no. 3, 1984, pp. 49-92.

Mortensen, C. and Speck, C. 'Aestheticians and Wine Tasters: A response to Mitchell and Woolcock', Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 8, no. 1, 1984, pp.85-9 (50% Speck).

Book reviews in refereed journals
Speck, C. Review of 'Will Dyson: Australia's Radical Genius by Ross McMullin (Scribe, Melbourne, 2006), Australian Historical Studies, 2005, forthcoming.

Speck, Catherine, review of 'Public and Private Amateurs, by Caroline Jordan (Melbourne University Press, 2005), Hecate: Australian Women's Book Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 2005, http: emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/awbr/issues/140/contents.html

Speck, C. Review of 'Edith Collier: Her life and work', 1885-1964, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol 1, no 2, 2000, pp. 229-235.

Speck, C. Review of 'The Sydney Art Patronage System 1890-1940', Australian Journal of Art, vol. 14, no 2, 1999, pp. 178-183.

Speck, C. Review of Topliss, Helen, 'Modernism and Feminism: Australian Women Artists 1900 - 1940', Australian Journal of Art, vol. 13, 1996, pp. 74-77.

Speck C. Review of Gentle, K. 'Children and Art Teaching', Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 11, no. 2, 1987, pp. 63-65.

Mortensen, C. and Speck, C. Review of Margolis, J. 'Art and Philosophy', Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 7, no. 2, 1983, pp. 112-113 (50% Speck).

Contemporary Art Criticism
Speck, Catherine, 'Thinking about Talking our way home', Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture Broadsheet, vol. 34, no. 4, 2005, pp. 216-219.

Speck, Catherine, 'An Inconvenient Obsession: Ian North, Canberra Suite and Canberra Coda 1980-81', Photofile, 2005, p.53.

Speck, C. 'Nora Heysen: An Obituary', Art Monthly Australia, March 2004, pp. 33-34.

Speck, C. 'United notions', Craft Culture, Crafts Council of Victoria, 2003.

Speck, C. 'United notions', Craft Culture Reviews, http://www.craftculture.org/, October 2003.

Speck, C. 'Light Black', Craft Culture Reviews, http://www.craftculture.org/, April 2003.

Speck, C. 'Wild Nature', Craft Culture Reviews, http://www.craftculture.org/, November 2002.

Speck, C. 'In the context of contemporary art, what is your vision of a yet unknown art', in Jochen Gerz, The Anthology of Art, http://www.anthology-of-art.net, January 2002.

Speck, C. 'The ritual of tea', Object, no 40, 2002, p.87.

Speck, C. 'Airport Luggage ', Object, February 2002.

Speck, C. 'Strangers in the light', Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture Broadsheet, June 2001.

Speck, C. 'A bohemian flower in a war zone', Art and Australia, vol 38, no 3, 2000, pp. 477-8.

Speck, C. 'Sugar nights' Art Monthly on-line reviews, www.artmonthly.org.au, December 2000.

Speck, C. 'A far cry from waiting room wallpaper: Ian North's The Intelligence of Blood' in Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, special issue on 'Sculpture and cities, public art under scrutiny', vol 20, no 4, 2000, pp. 51-3.

Speck, C. 'Chemistry' Art Monthly on-line reviews, www.artmonthly.org.au, October 2000.

Speck, C. 'An exquisite tension', Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture Broadsheet, vol 29, no 3, 2000, pp.18-19.

Speck, C. 'Three South Australian Digital Printmakers', Imprint, vol. 33, no. 1, 1998.

Speck, C. 'Hello Sailor: Bert Flugelman', Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol. 17 no. 2, 1997, p.67.

Speck, C. 'Recent Exhibitions: South Australia', Imprint, vol. 32, no. 2, 1997, p.17.

Speck, C. 'The Virtual in Hand,' Artlink, vol. 16, no. 1, 1996, p.73-74.

Speck, C. 'Manifest Exposure', Imprint, vol. 31, no 4, 1996, p.18.

Speck, C. 'Recuerdos: The Ceramic Sculpture of Liz Williams', Pottery in Australia, vol. 33, no. 1, 1994, pp.62-65.

Speck, C. 'Gilding the Landscape', Object, no. 1, 1994, pp.19-22.

Speck, C. 'Noela Hjorth: The Return of Sophia', Agenda, no. 37, July, 1994.

Speck, C. 'Women's War Memorials', Artlink vol. 14, no. 4, 1994, pp.32-35.

Speck, C. 'A Surreal Garden', Ceramics, Art and Perception, no 10, 1992, pp.75-77.

Speck, C. 'Not Necessarily Nice, Anna Platten: Paintings and Studies 1982-1992', Contemporary Art Centre Broadsheet, vol 21, no 3, September 1992, NP

Speck, C. Review of Aland, J. and Darby, M. 'Art Connections', Artlink, vol 12, no 3, Sept. 1992, pp.61-2.

Speck, C. 'The Emergence of Glass Sculpture in Australia', Craft Arts International, no 22, 1991, pp.49-52.

Speck, C. 'Fallow Fields?: Review of Janine Burke (1990), Field of Vision', Artlink, vol 11, no 3, 1991, pp.48-9.

Speck, C. 'The Nude Show', Art and Text, no 40, 1991, pp.99-100.

Speck, C. 'A Spiritual Journey', Contemporary Art Centre Broadsheet, vol. 16, no. 3, September, 1987, p.10.

Catalogue Essays
Speck, C. 'Mum I want to be brown' in Darren Siwes, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide, 2006.

Speck, C. The world is all that is not the case, University of Melbourne, 2006.

Speck, Catherine, 'The dialectics of lace' in Lace Kitchen, Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre Inc., 21 July -26 August 2005.

Speck, C. 'Twilight', Mark Kimber - Twilight, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, 2002, NP

Speck, C. 'Peeping below the surface' in The child within: An exhibition of recent work by 13 artists from the Artist-in-Residence program, Wilderness School, Adelaide, 1999, pp.2-6.

Speck, C. 'Cinderella Dressed in Yella', Adelaide Central Gallery, March 1998, NP

Speck, C. 'Significant Women Artists in the South Australian School of Art', University of South Australia Art Museum, February 1997, NP

Refereed conference papers
Speck, C. 'Whither feminist art: women in the wartime landscape', Association of Art Historians (AAH), Annual Conference, University of Leeds, April 2006.

Speck. C. 'Scars, wounds and memories: women artists portraying the First World Wars remnant landscape', Art Association of Australia and New Zealand National Conference, National Gallery of Australia, December 2003.

Speck, C. 'Margaret Preston's monotypes: Looking through the landscape', Art Association of Australia and New Zealand National Conference, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, December 2002.

Speck, C. 'The landscape of war', Frontlines: Gender and War, Monash University, Melbourne, July 2002.

Speck, C. 'A not so gentle pen: Grace Cossington Smith's view of the Empire', The Paul Mellon Centre for British Studies Empire Conference, The Tate Museum, London, 5-7 July 2001.

Speck, C. 'Women of the 1940s: Visual representations', International Federation for Research in Women's History International Conference, University of Melbourne, June/July 1998.

Speck, C. 'Women's War Art: A Contested Representation of Nation', Women, Policy and Politics International Conference, University of London, July 14-19, 1997

Speck. C. 'The Negotiation of Career: Women Teachers at the South Australian School of Art, 1888-1968', Australian Women Studies Association National Conference, Adelaide, April, 1998.

Speck, C. 'Power Dressing: Women in the Military', 6th Inter-disciplinary World Congress of Women, Adelaide, April, 1996.

Keynote conference papers
Speck, C. Defending the north: Nora Heysen, war artist and intrepid traveller', Defending the north: Queensland and the Pacific war, Queensland University Art Museum, 10 October 2005.

Conference papers
Speck, C. 'Picturing transgressive space in the 1940s', Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College, London, March 2006.

Speck, C. 'Margaret Preston et al: What a group!', Margaret Preston Symposium, Art Gallery of South Australia, July 2006.

Speck, C. 'For King and Country', in Grace Cossington Smith: A Retrospective Exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia, August 2006.

Speck, C. 'Scars, wounds and memories', Trev Fest: Invited Papers in Honour of Trevor Wilson, the University of Adelaide, November 2003

Speck, C. and Santich, B. 'Gastonomy and Art History: Innovative approaches to learning', 1st National Quality Postgraduate Coursework Conference, University of Adelaide, July 2003.

Speck, C. 'Women negotiating their careers as artists and teachers at the SA School of Art 1888-1968', Weaving women's stories: A celebration of SA women, past present and future, The Sophia Centre, Adelaide, June 2001

Speck, C. 'Modernism grown up: Women artists respond to the Second World War', Modern Australian Women Symposium, Art Gallery of South Australia, February 2001.

Speck, C. 'The Many Faces of Edith Cavell', Art Association of Australia National Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, December, 1999.

Speck, C. 'The Many Faces of Edith Cavell', Australian Cultural Studies National Conference, University of South Australia, December, 1998.

Speck, C. 'Modernism 'Grown-up'; Sybil Craig in the 1940s', Art Association of Australia National Conference, Art Gallery of South Australia, October, 1998.

Speck. C. 'The Negotiation of Career: Women Teachers at the South Australian School of Art 1888-1968', Art Association of Australia National Conference, Australian National University, October, 1997.

Speck, C. 'Women Artists Who Went to War', Australian Women Studies Association National Conference, University of Western Australia, November, 1996.

Speck, D. 'Gender Differences in Children's Drawing', Gender Equity, Visual Arts Curriculum Conference, Adelaide, February, 1996.

Speck, C. 'Power Dressing: The Representation of Women in the Military' Art Association of Australia National Conference, University of Sydney, October, 1996.

Speck, C. 'Re-reading Women's War Art: The Art of Grace Cossington Smith', Art Association of Australia National Conference, University of Western Sydney, September 1995.

Speck, C. 'Women Artists and the Representation of War', Monash University Visual Arts Conference, July 1994.

Speck, C. 'Australian Women's Memorials of War', Art Association of Australia National Conference, Monash University, Caulfield, September 1994.

Speck, C. 'Women in World War I and Knitting Socks: The art of Grace Cossington Smith', Monash University Visual Arts Conference, June, 1993.

Speck, C. 'Nora Heysen and the 1938 Archibald Prize', Australian Institute of Art Education National Conference, Melbourne, July 1993.

Speck, C. 'Australian Women Artists of World War I', Art Association of Australia National Conference, November, Melbourne, July, 1993.

Speck, C. 'Women and the War Artists Scheme', Monash University Visual Arts Conference, June 1992.

Speck, C. 'Children's art: Gender differences', Australian Institute of Art Education National Conference, Adelaide, September, 1990.

Speck, C. and Prideaux, D. 'The Evaluation of Accelerated Christian Education - Some Implications', South Australian Non Government Schools Registration Board Curriculum Conference, St. Francis Xavier Seminary, November, 1988 (Speck 50%).

Speck, C. and King, G 'The Botsman Report: Implications for Art Educators', Australian Institute of Art Education National Conference, Sydney, September, 1985 (Speck 50%).

Speck, C. 'An Experimental Study of Children's Drawing'. Australian Institute of Art Education National Conference, Adelaide, July, 1983.

Work-in-progress
Speck, C. Transgressive Landscapes: Women in the Wartime Landscape, book under preparation

Awards
1999: Chancellor's Award (UNISA) for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision

Research degree theses supervised to completion
Georgina Downey, Reading rooms: Domesticity, belonging and intimacy in the paintings of Bessie Davidson, Margaret Preston and Stella Bowen in Paris and London 1910-1930, PhD thesis, University of South Australia, 2004.

Jenny Aland, A model for teaching senior secondary visual arts in a digital world, PhD thesis, University of South Australia, 2004.

Jon Cockburn, Ninotchka and the mechanical flaneuse: imaging the social and political through the doors of the department store and scientific management regimes, PhD thesis, University of South Australia, 2001.

Adam Dutkiewicz, Raising ghosts: post World War Two émigré artists and the evolution of abstract painting in Australia with special reference to Adelaide c. 1950-1965, PhD thesis, University of South Australia, 2000.

Dr Georgina Downey
Publications | Exhibition History | New Research projects |
Georgina Downey is a lecturer in the Graduate Program of Art History. She is also involved in convening the Internship Program. From 1998 she tutored and lectured at the South Australian School of Art within the University of South Australia and from 2000 she has undertaken a similar role in European, Modern, Contemporary and Australian Art Studies at the University of Adelaide. Her PhD, Behind Closed Doors: images of domestic space in the paintings of early modern expatriate women artists in Paris and London, is under examination. Her areas of research interest are: the representation of domestic space in early modern art, artist's travel and the expatriate, art and gender, contemporary art, photography and mixed media.

After gaining her Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography) in 1988 at the South Australian School of Art she lived in London for nine years, working as a writer and gallery assistant for various arts institutions. Since her return to the Adelaidian fold in 1996, she has worked at the JamFactory Contemporary Craft Centre, South Australian Living Artists Week, written on art history and theory, and explored web-based art at the Australian Network of Art and Technology with Re-patriate. She publishes in both scholarly and arts industry based publications, including The Journal of Australian Studies and Broadsheet, and has presented numerous conference papers around the country. She is a member of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, and edited the AAANZ Newsletter between 1998 and 1999.

New Research projects
Chapter in catalogue accompanying the Art Gallery of South Australia's Gladys Reynell exhibition scheduled for early 2006.

Publications
'Stella Bowen's anxious interiors', Journal of Australian Cultural History, vol. 24, July 2006, pp 99 -113.

'Catherine Speck's Painting Ghosts: Australian women artists and war', Artlink, vol. 26, no. 1, January 2006, p 50.

'Ian North's Canberra Suite and Canberra Coda 1980-1981', Photofile, no 75, Spring 2005, p 69-70.

'Armchair Tourists?: the role of furniture in the interior portrait paintings of expatriate South Australian women artists 1910-1930', The Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 80, February 2004, pp. 87-98.

'Armchair Tourists: interior space in the art of Bessie Davidson and Stella Bowen', The Art Association of Australia & NZ National Conference, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Dec 6-7 2002.

'Stella Bowen: Biography, Femininity and Expatriate Space' The Art Association of Australia & New Zealand National Conference, Melbourne University Oct 4-7, 2001.

'Expatriate South Australian Women Artists 1890-1960', The Art Association of Australia & New Zealand, Art Gallery of South Australia & University of Adelaide, Oct 3, 1998.

'Scissor Kicks: Ahn Pil Yuhn', Broadsheet, Vol 29, no. 3, Spring 2000.

'Annette Bezor', Artlink, vol. 8, no. 4, Dec. 1998.

'Hotlinks: Women, Creativity and Electronic Art', Broadsheet, vol 26, no. 3, 1997.

'Speaking Polaroid', Broadsheet, March 1987.

'Beardless Youths in Postmodern Trousers: the FuturFall Conference', Artlink, vol. 4, no. 5, Summer 1984.

Exhibition History
Re-patriate (http://ensemble.va.com.au/array/repatriate), Australian Network for Art and Technology, Adelaide, on-line exhibition, curated by Terri Hoskins, October 1998.

The Art of the Unique Print, Perth Festival of Arts, Glyde Gallery, Perth, Western Australia, 1988.

National 3rd year Photography Studies Student Exhibition, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW, Winter 1987.

Professor Ian North
Publications | Exhibitions
B.A (Vic.), MA (Flin.), MA, MFA (UNM). Independent artist and writer.
Ian North was ana rt museum director or curator for fifteen years (1969-1984), including Curator of Paintings, Art Gallery of South Australia and foundation Curator of Photography, National Gallery of Australia. An academic for a similar period (1985-2001), during which was able to resume exhibiting (could not do so as a curator). From 1992 Professor of Visual Arts, University of South Australia, where he is currently an Adjunct Professor.

Ian has published widely on Australian and Contemporary art, with, latterly, a particular interest in landscape and the impact on non-Indigenous culture of Aboriginal art. He is conducting research, as a complement to studio work, extending from his essay/exhibition Expanse: Aboriginalities, Spatialities and the Politics of Ecstasy (1998) which he curated to explore the impact of the Indigenous art revolution, interculturalism and new approaches to the landscape. Ensuing essays include 'StarAboriginality', 2001, 'Living with Chai'', 2001, and 'Revolution's Gift: Aboriginal Art and a New Enlightenment', 2002.

In the 1970s Ian authored and edited major books on Dorrit Black, Margaret Preston and Hans Heysen. He also edited booklets on art museum practice for the Art Association of Australian and the Art Museums Association of Australia.

Ian has exhibited in Sydney, London and Adelaide, as well as various locations in the United States and Asia. He has had nine solo exhibitions since 1986, including Stories of Australian Art, Commonwealth Institute, London 1988; Location, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, and Asia tour 1992-93; Southern Crossings/Empty Land, Camerawork Gallery, London 1992; Colonial Postcolonial, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne 1996; New Realities: Hand-Coloured Photographs 1839 to the Present, University of Wyoming and United States tour 1997-98; The Painted Coast, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998; Chemistry: Art in South Australia, 1990-2000, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000; Seeing Through Landscape, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2001; Arid Arcadia, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2002 and Good Looking, National Gallery of Victoria, 2004.

Represented in the following public collections: Artbank; Art Gallery of NSW; Art Gallery of SA; Flinders University; Griffith University; National Gallery of Australia; National Gallery of Victoria; Queensland Art Gallery and the Riddoch Gallery, Mt. Gambier.

1. Books, including exhibition books and significant catalogues
2. Book chapters/book entries (including dictionary and encyclopedia entries)
3. Articles in Refereed Journals
4. Visual arts industry writing I: industry booklets and policy documents
5. Visual arts industry writing II: essays and articles
6. Visual arts industry writing III: reviews
7. Visual arts industry writing IV: short catalogue essays, small catalogues

Books, including exhibition books and significant catalogues
Co-editor with Alan Cruickshank (chief editor) and Michael Newhall, Blaze: Visual Art and Writing from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 1990-2002. Adelaide: Contemporary Art Centre, 2003.

Christine Nicholls and Ian North, Kathleen Petyarre: Genius of Place. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2001.

Expanse: Aboriginalies, spatialities and the politics of ecstasy. Adelaide: University of South Australia Art Museum, 1998. Exhibition catalogue and essay for inaugural exhibition of University of South Australia Art Museum at city site. Artists: Jon Cattapan, Rosalie Gascoigne, Antony Hamilton, Kathleen Petyarre, Imants Tillers.

Editor and co-author. The Art of Margaret Preston. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1980. 88pp. Written in association with Humphrey McQueen and Isobel Seivl.

The Art of Dorrit Black. Melbourne: MacMillan, with Art Gallery of Australia, 1979. 154pp. Detailed analysis of life and career of Dorrit Black, pioneer Australian modernist, with catalogue raisonné.

Editor & co-author. Hans Heysen Centenary Retrospective. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1977. 128pp. Author of essay 'The Originality of Hans Heysen' and cataloguer of paintings. Written in association with John Tregenza, Alison Carroll and Julia Burnett. Reprinted as Heysen in hardback edition by MacMillan in 1979.

Dorrit Black. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1975. Retrospective touring exhibition catalogue, 16pp.

Book chapters/book entries (including dictionary and encyclopedia entries)
'Aboriginal Landscape', in Deborah Edwards (ed.), Margaret Preston retrospective exhibition book. Art Gallery of NSW, 2005, pp. 194-5.

'Spooked: Art Museums, Photography and the Problem of the Real', in Daniel Palmer (ed.), Photogenic: Essays / Images / CCP 2000-2004. Melbourne: Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2005, pp. 71-81

'Revolution's Gift: Aboriginal Art and a New Enlightenment', in Rachel Kent (ed.), Meridian. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002, pp. 28-33.

'StarAboriginality', in Charles Green (ed.), Postcolonial +Art: Where Now? (Sydney: Artspace Visual Art Centre), 2001. n.p. Reprinted in Klaus Stierstorfer (ed.), Festschrift for Professor Ihab Hassan. Forthcoming 2005.

'Living with Chai', in Sarah Thomas (ed.), Hossein Valamanesh: A Survey (Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia), 2001, pp.48-74.

'PostAboriginality, Litter and Responsibility', in Ann Hamblin (ed.), Visions of Future Landscapes. Proceedings of the 1999 Australian Academy of Science Fenner Conference on the Environment, 1999. Canberra: Bureau of Rural Sciences, 1999, pp. 119-124.

'Dorrit Black: The Castle, Taormina', in Jennifer Alison et al (eds.), From Vision to Sesquicentenary: the University through its Art Collection, University of Sydney, 1999.

'Hans Heysen.' In Jane S. Turner (ed.),The Dictionary of Art.. London: MacMillan Publishers Ltd., Vol.14, 1996, p.507 - 508.

Essay and biography on Dorrit Black. In Joan Kerr (ed.), Heritage: The National Women's Art Book. Sydney: Art & Australia and Craftsman Press, 1995, pp.51, 52 & 314.

'Nature, Neon and the Pleasure Principle: notes on the recent paintings and sculpture by Clifford Frith.' In Reflections on Light: Clifford Frith: works 1945-1992. Adelaide: Clifford Frith, 1992, pp.14, 18, 22.

'Gum-Tree Imperial.' (Hans Heysen, Red Gold). and 'Aboriginal Orientation' (Margaret Preston, Aboriginal Landscape). In Daniel Thomas (ed.), Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988, Sydney: International Cultural Corporation of Australia, and Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1988, pp.140-143.

'Photography'. In Australian National Gallery: An Introduction. National Gallery of Australia, ,Canberra, 1982, pp. 126-146.

'Rosalie Gascoigne: Signs of Light.' Australia: Venice Biennale. Catalogue. Sydney: Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, 1982, pp. 47-53. Revised version also published in catalogue, National Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1983.

'Suspension Documentation'. In Stelarc, Obsolete Body/Suspensions/1976-82/Stelarc. Los Angeles: J.P. Publications, 1982. Reprinted from the author's 1979 Link exhibition catalogue (Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1979).

'Dorothea Foster Black.' In Bede Nairn & Geoffrey Searle, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 7, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979, pp.301-302.

Articles in Refereed Journals
'The Digital Corrosion of Postmodernism', Visual Art & Culture Vol. 2, Part 1, 2000, pp. 28-45.

'J.M.W. Turner: Witness for our time.' Australian Journal of Art , Vol XIII 1996, pp.114-132.

Visual arts industry writing 1: industry booklets and policy documents
Co-editor, with Michael Lloyd, & contributor. Acquisitions Policy: National Gallery of Australia. Canberra: National Gallery, 1994. Published document compiled with curatorial staff, 68pp.

Co-contributor, Code of Ethics. Canberra: Council of Australian Museum Associations, 1985.

Editor, Art Museums and Big Business. Canberra: Art Museums Association of Australia, 1984. Essays by Hans Haacke et al.

Editor, Peter Lasko, The Necessity of Collections, Art Museums Association of Australia, Canberra, 1981.

Editor, On Trusteeship. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1979.

Co-editor, Australian Public Gallery Acquisitions Policies. Melbourne: Art Association of Australia, 1977.

Co-Editor and contributor. Role & Constitution of Australian Art Museums. Melbourne: Art Association of Australia, 1975. Contributed paper 'Problems and Policies,' pp.15-20.

Visual arts industry writing II: essays and articles
'Donald Brook, Secret Agent' (interview). Artlink (forthcoming) 2006.

Obituary for Peter Townsend. Artlink, forthcoming 2006.

'"Istanbul", in or beyond history?', Eyeline No. 59, Summer 2005-2006, pp. 50-51.

'Dark Energies, Long Shadows' (review of Isobel Crombie, Body Culture: Max Dupain, Photography and Australian Culture 1919-1939), Australian Book Review, March 2005, pp. 15-16.

'On your (motor)bike'. Review of Reason + Emotion, Biennale of Sydney and 2004: Australian Culture Now, at NGV and ACMI, Melbourne. Artlink, Vol. 23 No. 3, 2004, pp. 17-21

Ian North and Christine Nicholls, 'Three Crowded Days at Warlayirti Artists, Balgo', Crossings Vol 8 No 1, 2003, (Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland), at < http://asc.uq.edu.au/crossings/8_1/ >

'Fieldwork', Artlink, Vol 23 no 1, March, 2003, pp. 81-82.

'Smoke and Lenses', (review of Isobel Crombie and Susan Van Wyk, Second Sight: Australian Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria), Photofile 66, 2002, pp. 45-47.

(The World May Be) Fantastic, (review of 2002 Biennale of Sydney), Artlink Vol 22 no. 3, 2002, pp. 81-82.

'Open Letter to the Hon. Mike Rann, Premier and Minister for the Arts, Concerning the Matter of a Museum of Contemporary Art for South Australia,' Broadsheet, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Vol 31, no.2, 2002, pp. 8-9.

'Death of a Poet,' obituary of Ron Hawke, Art Monthly Australia, March, no. 147, 2002, p. 39.

'La Gran Historia,' ('Big Story: Revisioning Australian Art, 1971-2001,') Lapiz (Madrid), 179/180, 2002, pp. 98-109.

'Imants Tiller and Postive Value: a conversation with Ian North,' Artlink Vol. 21, No. 4, 2001, pp. 35-41.

Christine Nicholls and Ian North, 'The GST Blues in the Balgo Hills', Art Monthly Australia, September 2000, pp.25-27.

'The Link Exhibitions: a rough reminiscence of faint scandal' Artlink vol 20 no 3, September 2000, pp 30 - 32.

'C(r)ook Brook: Ian North has the last word' A riposte to Donald Brook (article on art industry), Artlink, Vol. 15, nos 2 & 3, Winter -Spring 1995, p. 27.

'In the coil of life's hunger.' Artlink, Vol. 14 No 4, Summer 1994, pp. 41-44. (Comparison of Colin McCahon and James K. Baxter).

'Kant's Bird, Cleopatra's Nose, and Beauty-Truth-Goodness', in Margot Osborne (ed.), The Return of Beauty, Adelaide: Jam Factory (Festival Catalogue), 2000, n.p.

'Postmodernism is dead: why won't it lie down' (Vichitra, Vol.1, Rabindra Bharati University Calcutta), 1999, pp.1-4.

'Thin Red Pocket Lining: a note on the value of university art schools'. Artlink 38, Vol 19 no. 2, 1999, pp. 38 - 39.

'Rosalie Gascoigne: Golden Apples', in Max Delany and Jason Smith (eds.), Clemenger Contemporary Art Award 1999. Melbourne: Museum of Modern Art at Heide & National Gallery of Victoria, 1999, 16.

'The Ham Museum.'Artlink, Vol 12 No. 3, Spring, 1992, pp. 35-37.

Guest editor.Art Monthly Australia, November issue, 1991.

'Reef-Dweller or Shark: The Contemporary Artist and the Art Museum.' Agenda, Issue 9, December, 1989, pp. 18-20.

'Fencing Post.'Artlink, Vol. 6, Nos 2 & 3, 1986, pp. 44-66.

'The E.A.F. in another country: a personal reminiscence.' In A Decade at the E.A.F. Stephanie Britton (ed.), Adelaide: Experimental Art Foundation, 1984, pp. 7-9.

'Introduction.' Museums Australia, December 1983 (first issue), p.4.

Editor, International Photography 1920-1980 (picture book). Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1982. Book won Canberra Book of the Year Award for its design.

'Photography'.Art and Australia.,Vol. 20, no. 1, 1982 (National Gallery Special Number). pp. 87-90.

Photography catalogue notes and entries in Landscape-Art: Two Way Reaction. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1980 (exhibition at Australian National University).

'Three Bites of the Natural Apple.' Bulletin, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1979, pp.18-25. An analysis of works by Jan Dibbets, Hamish Fulton and Richard Long.

'Bert Flugelman: Mature Reflections.' Art International, Vol. XIII.3-4, Summer, 1979, pp. 68-73.

'Bert Flugelman, from Heroism to Reflection.' Bulletin, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1978, pp..2-15.

Recent Australian Painting Acquisitions. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1978. catalogue.

Australian Realist Painters. Adelaide: Gallery of South Australia, 1976, 32pp.

'Cultural Imperialism Revisited.' Broadsheet, Contemporary Art Society of South Australia, Vol 5 No 1, March 1975, pp. 10-16.

'Some Recent American Art: A Reply to Protest.' Broadsheet, Contemporary Art Society of South Australia, Vol. 4, No.3, 1974, pp.15-17.

'Robert Boynes.' Art International. Vol.XVIII, No.2, 1974, pp.25-27, 55.

'Link Exhibitions at the Art Gallery of South Australia,' Art and Australia, Vol. 12, No.2, 1974, pp.183-184.

'Adelaide & the Contemporary Art Society Exhibition.' Artemis, Vol. 5, No,.6, 1974.

'Hans Heysen.' Artemis, Vol. 4, no.4, 1973.

'The Art of Robert Campbell.' Art and Australia, Vol. 11, no. 2, 1973, pp 176-179.

'A Painting by Kenneth Noland.' Bulletin, Art Gallery of South Australia, Vol. 33, no. 4, 1972.

'A Painting by William Scott.' Bulletin, Art Gallery of South Australia, Vol. 33, no.1, 1971.

Visual arts industry writing III: reviews
'Dark Energies, Long Shadows' (review of Isobel Crombie, Body Culture: Max Dupain, Photography and Australian Culture 1919-1939), Australian Book Review, March 2005, pp. 15-16.

'On your (motor)bike'. Review of Reason + Emotion, Biennale of Sydney and 2004: Australian Culture Now, at NGV and ACMI, Melbourne. Artlink, Vol. 23 No. 3, 2004, pp. 17-21.

'Mr Kaldor's Feeling for Fabric', Art Monthly Australia, July, No. 161, 2003, pp. 26-28.

'Journey to Now' (review of John Kaldor collection exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia), Broadsheet, Vol. 32 No 2, June-August, 2003, p. 33.

'Feeling the Heat: Swiss Landscapes by Hossein Valamanesh', 2003. (unpublished mss).

'The Cloak Room,' review of George Popperwell and Anton Hart at the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Art and Australia, Vol 39. No. 3, 2002 (March, April, May), pp. 483 - 84.

'Gorilla, Tears and Toys'(review of Mark Kimber, Dissonant Harmonies, Greenaway Art Gallery), Photofile 63, 2001, p.57.

'Hossein Valamanesh', Scroll, Art Monthly Australia online, <http://www.artmonthly.org.au/>(Review of exhibition at Greenaway Art Gallery, 23 Aug - 17 Sep).2000.

'Tillers Untitled', Scroll, Art Monthly Australia online,http://www.artmonthly.org.au/ (Review of exhibition at Greenaway Art Gallery, 22 Jun - 16 Jul,) 2000.

Review of Blair French (ed.), Photo Files (Sydney: Power Publications with the Australian Centre for Photography), Artlink. Vol. 19, no. 3, 1999, p. 68.

'Dinkum: the value of Antony Hamilton', published as 'Antony Hamilton: Mythology of Landscape'. Artlink, Vol.91 no. 49, 1999, pp. 83 - 84.

'Richard Dunn: Beyond Dialectics.' Artlink, Vol 13 No. 2, June - Aug, 1993, pp. 49-50.

'Art, Gold and Excrement.'Art Monthly Australia, June, 1991, pp.25-26. Review of new hang, Art Gallery of South Australia.

'Return of the Interred.' Review of the 1990 Adelaide Biennial, Artlink , Vol 10 No 4, Summer, 1990, pp. 24-26.

'Looby Tunes.' Review of Humphrey McQueen's Suburbs of the Sacred, Artlink, Vol. 8 No 3, Sep. 1988, p.49.

'The Prints of Margaret Preston.' Review of book of same title by Roger Butler, Art & Australia, Autumn, Vol 25 number 3, 1988, pp. 342 & 344.

'The Peacock Museum.' Review of Ann Galbally, Collections of the National Gallery of Victoria. Art Monthly Australia, October, 1987, pp. 20-21.

'On Painting Angels.' Review of Gordon Brown, Colin McCahon, Artist., Art Monthly Australia, July 1987, p.24.

' "Towards a Philosophy of Photography", by Vilem Flusser.' Book review, Photofile, Spring, 1986, p. 29.

Book review. 'Joanna Mendelssohn's The Life and Work of Sydney Long,' Art and Australia, Vol. 19, no.1, 1981, pp.19-20.

Book review. John Berger's About Looking, Art & Text No. 2, Winter, 1981, pp. 52-53.

'Adelaide Scene.' Art and Australia, Vol.13, No l2, 1975, pp.142-143.

Review of Germaine Greer, The Obstacle Race, Bulletin, June 17, 1980, p.78.

'Italian Painting 1940-60.' Review, Art and Australia, Vol.9, no.3, 1971, p.208.

Art critic, The News, Adelaide, 1971-1972, 1974.

Art columnist for the Manawatu Evening Standard, Palmerson North, 1970.

Visual arts industry writing IV: short catalogue essays, small catalogues
'Subjective Satellite,' in Ariel Hassan, Internal Relationships (catalogue), Adelaide: Greenaway Art Gallery, 2006.

'Body Doubles: recent sculpture by Clifford Frith' Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, 2003.

'Bold: Stephanie Radok's Paintings at the Museum of Economic Botany', for 'Talking About Country', exhibition by Stephanie Radok, Gabriel Gallery, Footscray Community Centre, Melbourne, 2003.

'Kimber's Icons', catalogue statement, Greenaway Art Gallery, 2002.

'Clifford Frith: the Edge of the Gulf'.Catalogue statement, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, 1998.

'Orbit', in Erica Green (ed.), Orbit (Adelaide: University of South Australia Art Museum), 2001, n.p.

'Imants Tillers: from Pataphysics to PostAboriginality'. In Ted Gott (ed.), Imants Tillers: Monaro. Melbourne: Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1998, pp.5, 8, 11.

'The Grateful Dread', in Juliana Engberg, Jenny Holzer: Lustmord. Melbourne: Ian Potter Museum of Art, 1998.

'Olds remembered: the 1960s'. Paul Olds exhibition catalogue, Porirua City Cultural Centre, Wellington, 1997.

'A Tittle of a Chronicle'. In John Barbour (ed.), Mutant Paradigm. Adelaide: Centre for Contemporary Art, 1997. n.p.

'Notes towards lyrical derailments'. Rosalie Gascoigne catalogue essay, Visual Arts Program, Adelaide Festival 1996, p. 10.

'Waving pleasure'. Catalogue introductory essay in Clifford Frith, an installation of sculpture and paintings. Adelaide: Adelaide Festival Artspace, 1995.

'Blurred Boundaries: the strange case of Cruickshank's digital documents'. Catalogue essay in Alan Cruickshank, The Arcanum Museum. Adelaide: Contemporary Art Centre, 1995. Reprinted in Alan Cruickshank, Michael Newhall & Ian North (eds), Blaze: Visual Art and Writing from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 1990-2002. Adelaide: Contemporary Art Centre, 2003, pp. 114-115.

'Riding the Tiger'. Introduction to the catalogue, Mandy Martin, Sydney: Roslyn Oxley Gallery, 1989.

'Waves of Pleasure'. Introduction to the catalogue Clifford Frith, Sydney: Irving Sculpture Gallery, 1988.

'Robert Boynes'. Introduction in Macquarie Galleries Bulletin, Sydney. Reprinted in Imagining the Real (Canberra: Duntroon c. 1988).

'Jackerooing', in Wayne Fimo and Julie Brown. Adelaide, Developed Image Gallery, 1984. Festival Exhibition. Reprinted in Photofile.

Co-contributor with Isobel Crombie, Helen Ennis, Martyn Jolly. Here comes the New Photography! 1920-1940. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1984 (room brochure).

Co-contributor with Helen Ennis. 'The New American Colour Photographs'. Canberra: National Gallery, Canberra, 1983 (room brochure).

Co-contributor with Isobel Crombie, Helen Ennis, Martyn Jolly. A Decade of Australian Photography 1972-82. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1982. Room brochure.

Co-contributor with Isobel Crombie. International Photography 1920-1980. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1982 (room brochure).

Adelaide Art Alternatives. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1980. Festival exhibition catalogue, including work by Hossein Valamanesh (per Roundspace Collective), and Ann Newmarch (Reclaim the Night mural).

1979-1974: small catalogues to accompany Link Exhibitions (some published, some produced as one-off posters: 1974, Imants Tillers; Bert Flugelman; Tim Burns; John Golding; 1975, Jim Cowley & Bob Ramsay; Noel Sheridan/ Ti Parks; Paul Partos; John Wood; 1976, Jenny Barwell; Chris Orchard; Kevin Mortensen; Pat & Richard Larter; 1977, Praxis (Perth), 1979, Stelarc; Micky Allen.

'Graphic art of German Expressionism'. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1974. Festival Catalogue, 1974, pp. 45-50.

Robert Campbell Retrospective. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1973. Catalogue.

Co-author with Daniel Thomas (chief curator) and Frances McCarthy (now Lindsay). The Australian Landscape. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1972. Catalogue to touring exhibition, opening exhibition at the Adelaide Festival of Arts. 12pp.

Centenary Collection: Contemporary New Zealand Painting, Catalogue and introduction, (Palmerston North: Manawatu Art Gallery, 1971), 24pp.

Various small catalogues for Manawatu Art Gallery, including Maori in Focus, 1970 (19th century photography, shown Palmerston North and Auckland City Art Gallery), 1969-1970.