Julie Robinson (curator)
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Julie Robinson is Senior Curator
of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at the Art Gallery of South Australia
, 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 recent curatorial projects include Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s
(2010) and A Century In Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s-1940s (2007). Writing about the latter while national arts critic of The Australian
, Pulitzer Prize
-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”. 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 and Patricia Piccinni.
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at the Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia , located on the cultural boulevard of North Terrace in Adelaide, is the premier visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of over 35,000 works of art, making it, after the National Gallery of Victoria, the largest state...
, 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 recent curatorial projects include Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s
Candid Camera (Australian photographic exhibition)
Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s was a group retrospective exhibition of social documentary photography held at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 28 May to 1 August 2010....
(2010) and A Century In Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s-1940s (2007). Writing about the latter while national arts critic of The Australian
The Australian
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, Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
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-winning critic Sebastian Smee
Sebastian Smee
Sebastian Smee is an Australian Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic for The Boston Globe. Educated at St Peter's College in Adelaide where he excelled Smee graduated from The University of Sydney with an Honours degree in Fine Art in 1994 and moved to Boston in 2008, having also lived in the UK...
said: "If you are at all interested in Australian photography, whether or not you are from SA
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
, 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
Time (magazine)
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, described it as a “powerful survey which goes to show that photography isn't dead”. 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 and Patricia Piccinni.
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).Publications
- Julie Robinson, Fragmentation & fabrication: recent Australian photography, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1990, ISBN 9780730807759
- Julie Robinson, Landscapes, visions in print by South Australian artists, South Australian Touring Exhibitions Programme, 1990, ISBN 9780646007977
- Julie Robinson, Sir Hans Heysen , Hans Heysen: the creative journey, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1992, ISBN 9780730807827
- Julie Robinson, The age of Rubens & Rembrandt, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1993, ISBN 9780730830160
- Julie Robinson, Dürer and German Renaissance printmaking, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1996, ISBN 9780730830023
- Julie Robinson, Five centuries of genius: European master printmaking, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000, ISBN 9780730830047
- Julie Robinson, Ann Newmarch: the personal is political, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1997, ISBN 9780730830429
- Julie Robinson, A Century In Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s-1940s AGSA/Thames & Hudson. 2007, ISBN 9780730830702
- Julie Robinson, Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s Art Gallery Of South Australia exhibition booklet. 2010
External links
- "The Anarchy of Silence. John Cage and Experimental Art". Notes by Julia Robinson, curator of the exhibition
- "Candid camera", Stateline South Australia, 28 May 2010
- "Candid Camera", The Blurb, Issue 115
- Biennial Education Pack
- "Biennial snapshot", Realtime 61, Jena Woodburn