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Naomi Cass
Naomi Noel Cass is an Australian art curator, writer and critic, educator and administrator who has worked at the Jewish Museum of Australia, the Caulfield Arts Centre, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, and the University of Melbourne's Grainger Museum and George Paton Gallery. Cass lectured in visual arts for the universities of Melbourne and RMIT. She was director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne from 2003-2018 and at the Castlemaine Art Museum from 2019–2025. Early life and education Cass was born in Melbourne in 1957, the daughter of Shirley Marion (née Shulman), and Dr Moss Cass who had served on the front bench in the Gough Whitlam government as one of the world’s first environment ministers. Cass became involved in music and design projects and after completing her honours degree at the University of Melbourne and worked as a curator and writer for exhibitions and public programs for the Jewish Museum of Australia, the Caulfield Arts Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |