Julie Robinson is Senior
Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at the
Art Gallery of South Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of ...
, where she has worked since 1988, and is also on the teaching staff at the
University of Adelaide, where she offers supervision in Art History. Her curatorial projects include
Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s (2010) and A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s-1940s (2007).
[Smee, Sebastian "Unreliable Witness" The Australian, 8 December 200]
The Australian website
/ref> Writing about the latter while national arts critic of The Australian, Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
-winning critic Sebastian Smee said: "If you are at all interested in Australian photography, whether or not you are from SA, you will want to see this show, or at least get hold of the catalogue".[
Robinson curated the 2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Contemporary Photomedia. The arts critic for the South Pacific edition of Time, described it as a "powerful survey which goes to show that photography isn't dead".][Michael Fitzgerald, "Not Dying, Changing" Time, 17 March 200]
Time website
/ref> He noted that when Robinson curated her first photographic survey in 1990, "it was a more straightforward affair – pictures simply stared back at audiences" and went on to add, speaking of the Biennial, that "the 20 artists she has brought together in Adelaide explode the idea of what photography can be".[ Featured artists included Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, ]Mike Parr
Mike Parr is an Australian performance artist and printmaker. Parr's works have been exhibited in Australia and internationally, including in Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States.
In the 1970s, he ...
and Patricia Piccinini
Patricia Piccinini (born 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist who works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture. Her works focus on "unexpected consequences", conv ...
.[Reid, Chris "Photomedium As Message" RealTime, December 200]
2004 Adelaide Biennial, RealTime
Retrieved 25 May 2011
Other exhibitions
Robinson also curated Five Centuries of Genius: European Master Printmaking (2000), Ann Newmarch: The Personal is Political (1997), Durer And German Renaissance Printmaking (1996), The Age of Rubens & Rembrandt: Old Master Prints From The Art Gallery of South Australia (1993), Hans Heysen: The Creative Journey (1992) and Fragmentation & Fabrication: Recent Australian Photography (1991).[University of Adelaide, "Graduate Studies in Art History and Curatorial & Museum Studies, List of Teaching Staff"]
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences website
Publications
*Julie Robinson, ''Fragmentation & fabrication: recent Australian photography'', Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1990,
*Julie Robinson, ''Landscapes, visions in print by South Australian artists'', South Australian Touring Exhibitions Programme, 1990,
*Julie Robinson, Sir Hans Heysen, ''Hans Heysen: the creative journey'', Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1992,
*Julie Robinson, ''The age of Rubens & Rembrandt'', Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1993,
*Julie Robinson, ''Dürer and German Renaissance printmaking'', Art Gallery of South Australia, 1996,
*Julie Robinson, ''Five centuries of genius: European master printmaking'', Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000,
*Julie Robinson, ''Ann Newmarch: the personal is political'', Art Gallery of South Australia, 1997,
*Julie Robinson, ''A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s-1940s'' AGSA/Thames & Hudson. 2007,
*Julie Robinson, ''Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s'' Art Gallery of South Australia exhibition booklet. 2010
Notes
External links
"The Anarchy of Silence. John Cage and Experimental Art". Notes by Julia Robinson, curator of the exhibition
''Stateline South Australia'', 28 May 2010
''The Blurb'', Issue 115
Biennial Education Pack"Biennial snapshot"
''Realtime 61'', Jena Woodburn
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Australian curators
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Photography in Australia
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