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Dorrit Black, The Bridge, 1930. Oil on canvas on board, 60.0 x 81.0 cm. Bequest of the artist, 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

September 11, 2018

How our art museums finally opened their eyes to Australian women artists

Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW ; Alison Inglis, The University of Melbourne; Catherine De Lorenzo, UNSW , and Catherine Speck, University of Adelaide

Dorrit Black, Grace Cossington Smith and Grace Crowley were some of many talented modernist women artists. But only with the advent of second wave feminism in the 1970s was their work properly acknowledged.

Australia’s librarians are a vital component of our research institutions. Shutterstock

December 14, 2016

A library without librarians is a just a shed full of books

Joanna Mendelssohn, UNSW ; Catherine De Lorenzo, UNSW , and Catherine Speck, University of Adelaide

The research libraries attached to Australia’s art galleries are one of the nation’s great cultural assets. But the National Gallery of Australia’s library is losing crucial staff as ‘efficiency dividends’ hit home.

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