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Ms Robyn McKenzie

Lecturer Room: David Myer Building East Email: robyn.mckenzie@anu.edu.au Qualifications:BA (Hons) Melb, MA Melb

RobynMcKenize is surrently teachning 20th Century Modernism, Contemporary Australian and International art and cultural theory, the history of art and understandings of the natural world (science, landscape, ecology) and the history of visual culture.

>>Research Projects

Currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU, studying ‘The String Figures of Yirrkala’.

>>Research Publications

Selected Publications

Stories performed by Barbara Campbell on 1001 Nights Cast (a web-based interactive art project), and published on www.1001.net.au: 22/08/05, 21/10/05, 16/12/05, 07/02/06, 05/06/06, 09/06/06, 27/11/06, 12/03/07, 29/05/07, 09/03/08

‘Vivienne Shark LeWitt: Comedies & Proverbs’, Heat, New Series, Issue 15, 2007, pp. 129-132

A Bird in the Hand: Paintings by Tony Clark and John Wolseley, [catalogue essay] LaTrobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, September 2006 and AGNSW, Sydney, December 2006

‘Home Grown: Interview with Gareth Sansom’, in Bala Starr ed., Welcome to My Mind: Gareth Sansom – A Study of Selected Works 1964-2005, Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, 2005, pp. 26-35

‘The Local Group: Store 5 1989-1993’, catalogue essay in Max Delany ed., Pitch Your Own Tent, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, July 2005, pp. 38-47

‘Sentiment and pathos in Victorian genre painting and sculpture’, in A Primrose from England: 19th-Century Narratives from the Collection of the Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery 2002, pp. 9-13

>>Other information

From 1995-97 art critic for The Age newspaper; from 1996-2002 editor of Like, Art Magazine.

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