Dr Luke Morgan - Researcher Profile

Biography

Dr Luke Morgan is a Senior Lecturer in Theory of Art in the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture. His first book, Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design, was published by The University of Pennsylvania Press in 2006. In 2012, he was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant and a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts Research and Development Grant (US) to work on his next book, The Monster in the Garden: Reframing Renaissance Landscape Design. Luke has two chapters on the design and meaning of early modern landscapes in the forthcoming A Cultural History of Gardens (Berg, 2012) and another in The Oxford Handbook to the Age of Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 2014). He is on the editorial board of the international quarterly Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes (SHGDL) and has been an editorial advisor to Australian Book Review, both of which he has also guest edited. He frequently contributes essays to SHGDL including, most recently, ‘The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque, the Gigantic and the Monstrous in Renaissance Landscape Design’ (2011). In Australia, his essays have appeared in books and exhibition catalogues published by The Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), The Miegunyah Press (Melbourne), Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand.

 

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF ARTS (ART/HISTORY)

Institution: University of Auckland, NZ

Year awarded: 2006

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ARTS/HISTORY)

Institution: Melbourne University (Parkville)

Year awarded: 2006

MASTER OF ARTS WITH 1ST CLASS HONS (ART/HISTORY)

Institution: University of Auckland, NZ

Year awarded: 2006

Publications

Books

Morgan, L. (ed), 2009, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Oxon, UK.

Morgan, L. (ed), 2007, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Taylor & Francis, London, UK.

Morgan, L. (ed), 2006, Australian Book Review, Australian Book Review, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Morgan, L., 2006, Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia USA.

Book Chapters

Morgan, L., 2008, Abstract Fountains, in Modern times: the untold story of modernism in Australia, eds Ann Stephen, Philip Goad, Andrew McNamara, Miegunyah Press and Powerhouse Publishing, Carlton, Vic, pp. 36-41.

Morgan, L., 2004, Guercino's Et in Arcadia Ego and Eighteenth-Century Landscape Design, in The Italians in Australia: Studies in renaissance and Baroque Art, eds David R. Marshall, Centro Di, Florence, Italy, pp. 191-196.

Journal Articles

Morgan, L., 2011, Mower is Less, Australian Book Review [P], vol 329, Australian Book Review inc., Richmond, VIC, pp. 59-60.

Morgan, L., 2011, The monster in the garden: the grotesque, the gigantic, and the monstrous in Renaissance landscape design, Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes [E], vol 31, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 167-180.

Morgan, L., 2009, Isaac de Caus Invenit, Studies In The History Of Gardens & Designed Landscapes [P], vol 29, issue 3, Taylor and Francis Ltd, Oxon, UK, pp. 141-151.

Morgan, L., 2007, Early modern Edens: the landscape and language of paradise, Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, vol 27, issue 2, Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, UK, pp. 142-148.

Morgan, L., 2006, Australian art critcism and Its discontents, Australian Book Review, vol 0, issue 279, Australian Book Review Inc., Richmond South Vic Australia, pp. 9-14.

Morgan, L., 2005, Bill Henson and the anatomy of melancholy, Australian Book Review, vol june- july, issue 272, Australian Book Review Inc., Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 51-52.

Morgan, L., 2005, Continuing Criticism, Australian Book Review, vol November, issue 276, Australian Book Review Inc., Melbourne Vic Australia, p. 37.

Morgan, L., 2005, Saint Arthur, Australian Book Review, vol Dec - Jan, issue 277, Australian Book Review Inc., Melbourne Vic Australia, p. 53.

Morgan, L., 2005, Solomon and Isaac de Cans, Journal of the Museum of Garden History, vol 13, issue winter, Museum of Garden History, London UK, p. 16.

Morgan, L., 2005, The early modern trompe-l'oeil garden, Garden History, vol 33, issue 2, Garden History Society, London UK, pp. 286-293.

Morgan, L., 2003, Landscape Design in England circa 1610: The Contribution of Salomon de Caus', Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes: An International Quarterly, vol 23, issue 1, Taylor & Francis, London UK, pp. 1-21.

Morgan, L., 2001, Killeen's sophistry: Fact and Fiction in Book of the Hook and Measuring Tools', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol 2, issue 1, Southwood Press, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 111-119.

Conference Proceedings

Morgan, L.A.M., 2012, Cavity: Historical interiors of the body, Interior: a State of Becoming: Book 1: Symposium Proceedings, 06/09/2012-09/09/2012, IDEA, Perth, Australia, pp. 1-8.

Morgan, L.A.M., 2012, Inventing the Renaissance garden: Fascism, violence and historiography, Fabulation: Myth, Nature, Heritage, The Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand, 05/07/2012-08/07/2012, SAHANZ, Launceston, pp. 762-773.

Morgan, L., 2011, Locus horridus: Ovid in the garden in prints, Print Matters at the Baillieu, Cussonia Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 79-88.

Morgan, L., 2011, 'Seeing, Hearing, Bathing, Tasting': The body in the landscape, AUDIENCE: Proceedings of the XXVIIIth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 07/07/2011-10/07/2011, SAHANZ, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 1-12.

Morgan, L., 2009, The hermaphrodite in the garden, Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence: The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art, 13 January 2008 to 18 January 2008, The Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Vic, pp. 222-226.

Other

Morgan, L.A.M., 2012, Memorial Gardens, Catalogue essay, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Morgan, L.A.M., 2012, Pierre Menard, a Poppet-Head and a Descent, Catalogue essay, Margaret Lawrence Gallery (VCA), Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Morgan, L., 2009, Introduction, An introduction to Part 6: Hybrid Renaissances in Europe and Beyond, The Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Vic, pp. 180-181.

Morgan, L., 2009, The Baroque Garden, Chapter introduction, V&A Publishing, London, UK, pp. 276-277.

Morgan, L., 2007, 'Sighing Over Ruins', Catalogue essay for Stephen Benwell: Recent Works, Niagara Publishing, Richmond, Vic, p. 5.

Morgan, L., 2006, Anthony Gormley: Inside Australia, The Art Issue ABR, vol 279, issue March 2006, Australian Book Review Inc., Richmond South Vic Australia, p. 38.

Morgan, L., 2006, Ex Cathedra, ABR: Lide's Mirror, vol May, issue 281, Australian Book Review Inc., Richmond South Vic Australia, pp. 45-46.

Morgan, L., 2006, Industry of colour, ABR - The Israel Question, vol October, issue 285, Australian Book Review Inc., Richmond South Vic Australia, pp. 37-38.

Morgan, L., 2006, Real Matter, Catalogue Essay for Group Exhibition "Dark Matter", Monash University.

Morgan, L., 2006, The Cast Iron Logic of Paint': Ned Kelly's Modernist Mask, Catalogue Essay, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen Vic Australia, 2000, pp. 49-55.

Morgan, L., 2005, Australian Book Review, Editor/Editorial Advisor, Melbourne.

Morgan, L., 2005, Conference Paper: Simulations: the trompe - l'oeil Garden in Prints, Symposium, Melbourne.

Morgan, L., 2005, 'Monuments to Movements: The Fountains of Rome, Public Lecture, National Gallery of Victoria.

Morgan, L., 2004, Time, Space and the Commonplace, Catalogue essay, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Morgan, L., 2000, Significant Others: The Representation Of Women in Early Printed Books, Interpretative essay, catalogue essay, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Vic Australia, 8 September to 31 October, 2000.

Morgan, L., 2000, Significant Others: The Representation of Women in Early Printed Books (curated), Curated with Merete Smith, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Ark from the new world: Antipodean wonder out of time and place.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Art and morality.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Beyond the written word.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Blind Love - sensory memory , scent and place.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Contingency and infinity: Notions of the self and being in contemporary art practice.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Controlling Nature.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Cultivation & civilisation - the gathering in of Creation & An enquiry into plants.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main), Macdonald, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Illusions of Grandeur: turning trompe l'oeil into art.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Radical liminality: Vocalic spaces in performance, installation, video and sound art.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The good room: an investigation into the political, historical, cultural and personal relevance of domestic interiors constructed purely for display rather than use..

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Unzipped: Male beauty and the homoerotic image.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Bassett, G.

Program of Study:

An analysis of George Chinnery's 'Treatise on Landscape Painting' . (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Student:

Garrett, S.

Program of Study:

Proximity: representations of fragile space through hapticity and vision. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Joint), Wollmering, D (Joint-Co).

Student:

O'Brien, D.

Program of Study:

Greyspace: mapping transactivity between coterminous territories. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Student:

Panigirakis, S.

Program of Study:

Studio conditions. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Morgan, L (Main).

Student:

Tu, A.

Program of Study:

Fold after fold: Investigating the concept of the fold in artistic practice. (Masters) 2007.

Supervisors:

De Clario, D (Main), Morgan, L (Joint).