Dr Janine Burke - Researcher Profile

Biography

I'm an art  historian, biographer, novelist and curator. After graduating  from the University of Melbourne  in  1974, I curated 'Australian  Women Artists: 1840-1940' and, the following year, co-founded the Victorian Women's Art Movement and LIP, a feminist arts journal. From 1977-1982, I  lectured in art history  at the  Victorian College of the Arts. I resigned to explore a long cherished ambition to write fulltime and spent the next years living in Italy and France. During that time, I was writing fiction and my novel Second Sight won the 1987 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. While a  trustee of  Heide  Museum of Modern Art (1996-2005), I wrote books and curated  exhibitions about  the Heide modernist circle.

Recently, with the co-operation of the Freud Museum London, I curated  'Sigmund Freud's Art Collection: An Archaeology of  the Mind'  for Monash University  Museum of Art and Nicholson Museum, University of  Sydney. My latest book,  Source: Nature's  Healing Role in Art and Writing examines the regenerative, transformative effects of nature on Picasso, Virginia Woolf and Monet, among others. Personal  View: Photographs  1978-1986, book of my photographs of the Melbourne artworld, will be published by Monash University Publishing in May 2011. The publication will coincide with an exhibition of the photographs at the VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery.

Qualifications

ART HISTORY

Institution: Deakin University

Year awarded: 2002

ART HISTORY

Institution: La Trobe University

Year awarded: 1985

FINE ARTS

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1974

Publications

Books

Burke, J.C., 2009, Source: Nature's Healing Role in Art and Writing, Allen & Unwin, NSW Australia.

Burke, J., 2006, The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection, Random House Australia, Milsons Point NSW Australia.

Burke, J.C., 2004, The Heart Garden: Sunday Reed and Heide, Random House Australia Pty Ltd, Australia.

Journal Articles

Burke, J., 2011, Love and pain and the whole damn thing: collaboration as biography, Colloquy: Text Theory Critique [E], vol 22, Monash University, Australia, pp. 1-6.

Burke, J., 2011, Monet's "Angel": The artistic partnership of Claude Monet and Blanche Hoschede-Monet, Colloquy: Text Theory Critique [E], vol 22, Monash University, Australia, pp. 68-80.

Other

Burke, J.C., 2012, Nest: The Art of Birds, , Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, Australia.

Burke, J., 2011, Allan Mitelman and Graham Fransella 1978, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Monash University Publishing, Australia, 20 May 2011 to 11 June 2011.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

King tide: emotional impacts of life saving in Australian surf.

Supervisors:

Moore, A (Main), Burke, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Seagull, Black People in White Australia.

Supervisors:

Hawke, J (Main), Burke, J (Associate), Heenan, T (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The drift of contemporary leisure shopping: from Psychogeography of the city to a phenomenology of place.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Burke, J (Associate).