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the members of the Art Theory staff are practising writers,
curators and/or artists, who bring to the Workshop a broad
range of skills and research interests. This diversity feeds
into the teaching program of the Workshop, providing second
and third year students with a range of unit options.
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Brennan
Anne Brennan has worked in the Theory Workshop since 1995
and is an artist and writer. She has written extensively for
visual arts journals and catalogues both locally and overseas,
with a special interest in craft theory and design. Her other
major research interests address memory, history and self-representation.
She has undertaken a number of projects in museums, most recently
Twice Removed, a collaborative exhibition with Sydney artist
Anne Ferran in 2004, dealing with a mass migration to Maitland,
NSW, of nineteenth century mechanics and artisans who had
worked in the mechanised lace industry in Calais. Secure the
Shadow, another collaboration with Anne Ferran, was the outcome
of a residency in the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney in 1995.
In 1997, Anne Brennan made a soundwork for the Australian
War Memorial as part of Archives and the Everyday, a project
linking artists to significant archives and collections in
Canberra. She is currently undertaking research for a book
that explores questions of memory, history and place through
the story of her mother's birthplace in Ukraine. Anne Brennan
offers the courses Memory, Representing the Self, Design History
and Issues in the Decorative Arts in the undergraduate program,
and co-ordinates and co-teaches the first year program held
at the National Gallery of Australia.
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| Helen
Ennis
Helen Ennis was Curator of International and Australian Photography
at the National Gallery of Australia from 1985-92 and has
extensive experience as an independent photography curator
and writer specializing in the area of Australian photographic
practice.
Her curatorial projects include Mirror with a memory: Photographic
portraiture in Australia (National Portrait Gallery, 2000);
a retrospective exhibition of Olive Cotton’s photographs
(Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000); and the two-part exhibition
In a New Light: Australian Photography 1850s-2000 (National
Library of Australia 2003 and 2004). Her exhibition of the
work of European émigré photographer Margaret
Michaelis was shown at the National Gallery of Australia in
2005.
Helen Ennis’s publications include Olive Cotton (Art
Gallery of New South Wales, 2000), Man with a camera: Frank
Hurley overseas (National Library, 2002) and Intersections:
Photography, history and the National Library of Australia
(National Library, 2004). Helen Ennis’s biography Margaret
Michaelis: love, loss and photography (National Gallery of
Australia, 2005) was awarded the Nettie Palmer Prize for non-fiction
in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2006. She
has recently completed Photography and Australia for Reaktion
Books which will be published in 2007. She is presently curating
an exhibition Reveries: Photography and Mortality which will
be shown at the National Portrait Gallery from April to August
2007.
Helen Ennis offers courses on modern Australian art, contemporary
Australian art and Cyberculture.
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Chaitanya Sambrani
Chaitanya Sambrani's major academic interests are in modern
and contemporary Asian art. He has an MA in art history from
the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, and a Ph.D. dissertation
in Art History from the ANU. Previously to joining the ANU,
he taught at the Raheja Institute for Architecture (University
of Mumbai, India, 1995-98). He was co-curator on the Asialink
exhibition-residency program Fire and Life involving Australian
and Indian artists (1996-97), and participating theorist and
curator for the Open Circle International Artists Workshop
(Bombay, 2000). Recent projects include crossing generations:
diVERGE a major exhibition spanning four generations of contemporary
artists in India (co-curated with Geeta Kapur) at the National
Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, December 2003. He is the curator
of Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India a major travelling
exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Western Australia
and the Asia Society, New York. His work on contemporary art
in Asia has been published in journals, books and catalogues
in India, Australia and other countries. Current projects
include Historiographies of the Contemporary in Southeast
Asian Art (in collaboration with Prof. T. K. Sabapathy) and
a monograph on the artist G.M.Sheikh.
Chaitanya Sambrani co-teaches in the first year program and
offers later year courses on modern and contemporary art in
Asia, and on art and politics.
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| Gordon
Bull
Gordon Bull is currently Head of The School of Art. He will
return to Art Theory in the future. He received his Master
of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1991. He has tutored
at the University of Sydney and was a Lecturer in the Department
of Fine Arts at the University of Western Australia from 1988-1990.
He joined the Art Theory Workshop in 1991 and became Head
in 1996. He co-teaches the postgraduate coursework program
and offers courses Theories of the image, Framing Other cultures,
Shopping Around, Cartographies and Cool Old Masters. Gordon
has also served as Treasurer and Membership Secretary of the
Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. Gordon Bull
is undertaking his doctorate ‘Present Objects. Indigenous
Art in the Contemporary Art Museum’ at the Centre for
Cross-Cultural Research, ANU.
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