Contemporary Art and Feminism

About Catriona MooreJacqueline Millner

Dr Jacqueline Millner completed studies in law political science and visual arts before specialising in the history and theory of contemporary art as an arts writer and academic. She is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at La Trobe University Melbourne where she also lectures on contemporary art theory and history. She was previously Associate Professor of Art History and Theory University of Sydney. She has published widely on contemporary Australian and international art in key anthologies journals and catalogues of national and international institutions and has received prestigious grants and awards for her research including from the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Research Council. Her books include Conceptual Beauty: Perspectives on Australian Contemporary Art (2010) Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum (with Jennifer Barrett 2014) Fashionable Art (with Adam Geczy 2015) and Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes (co-edited with Catriona Moore 2018). She co-convenes the research cluster Contemporary Art and Feminism across La Trobe University and the University of Sydney and is currently leading the Care Project: Feminism Art and Ethics in Neo-Liberal Times a multiple location series of exhibitions and symposia (201921).Dr Catriona Moore has been a Senior Lecturer in Art History & Film Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on feminist art and activism and more broadly on modern and contemporary women artists. Her research and writing have opened up cross-cultural connections between women artists and explored the visual expression of cultural diversity in modern and contemporary Australian art within a comparative international framework. She is the author and editor of books central to the development of the feminist history of Australian art including Indecent Exposures: Twenty Years of Australian Feminist Photography (1991) Dissonance: Feminism and the arts 19701990 (1991) and Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes (co-edited with Jacqueline Millner 2018). She co-convenes the research cluster Contemporary Art and Feminism across the University of Sydney and La Trobe University.