Dr Jacqueline Millner

Dr Jacqueline Millner

Biography

Dr Jacqueline Millner lectures in art history and visual culture, and has a background that combines studies and practice in law, politics, visual arts, and art history and theory. She has published widely on contemporary Australian and international art in key anthologies, journals and catalogues of flagship national institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, the Queensland Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW). She was visual arts editor for the national arts broadsheet RealTime, as well as guest editing supplements and special issues of leading arts journals. She is a regular participant and guest speaker in symposia on contemporary art at institutions such as Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney and AGNSW. She has also participated in exhibitions as a curator and artist, and worked both in art history departments and in practice-based environments, including a design school.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise


Contemporary art, contemporary visual culture, Australian art post-war, art theory, art criticism, aesthetics, politics of representation, art and activism, feminist art, video art, street art, graphic agitation, animation, museology

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Grants / Current Projects


• 2008: Paris Street Art: in response to research residency.

• 2005: New work grant, Australia Council for the Arts, $20 000, ‘Australian Artists and Museums’ in collaboration with Dr Jennifer Barrett, Director of Museum Studies, University of Sydney.

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Awards and Recognition


• 2008: Research residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney.

• 1997/2004: Australian Postgraduate Award.

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Publications

Books


• Conceptual Beauty: Writings on Australian contemporary art 1994-2009, Artspace Publications, 2010


Book chapters


• 2010: ‘Australian video art in the 1980s’, in Matthew Perkins and Elena Galimberti (eds.), Video Void: Australian video art 1970-2010, Melbourne: Monash University, forthcoming

• 2009: ‘Ben Quilty and the emotional eloquence of painting’, in Lisa Slade (ed.), Ben Quilty, Brisbane: Piper Press.

• 2008: ‘Australian Video Art’, in Russell Storer (ed.), Video Logic, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art.

• 2007: ‘Articulating the Unspeakable: The Feminist Photography of Julie Rrrap and Anne Ferran’, in Julie Ewington et al (eds.) Brought to Light II : Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006, Brisbane: QAG.

• 2004, ‘Storytelling’, in R.Butler & J.Millner (eds), Critical Interventions: Biennale of Sydney, Sydney: Artspace Publications.

• 2002 ‘Tongue Traces’, in Eugenia Raskopoulos, Sydney: Artspace Publications.

• 2001: ‘David Noonan: Video Works’, in B. Genocchio & A. Geczy (eds) What is Installation? Australian installation art, Sydney: Power Publications.

• 2001: ‘Community: Thinking through Cultural Politics’, in B. Buckley & J. Conomos, (eds), Republics of Ideas, Sydney: Pluto Press/Artspace.

• 1999: ‘Home and the World: Beyond the Politics of Difference’, in Blair French (ed), Photofiles: An Australian Photography Reader, Sydney: Power Publications.

• 1999: ‘Cruising with a Feminist Paradigm in Tow’, in Joan Kerr & Jo Holder (eds), Past/Present: The National Women’s Art Exhibition, Sydney: Craftsman House.

• 1999: ‘Perspective on Perspecta’, in Martin Thomas (ed), Uncertain Ground: Essays Between Art and Nature, Sydney: AGNSW.


Journal articles


• 2009: ‘Visual poetics: the critical impulse in street art from Paris to Melbourne’, International Journal of the Arts in Society, Vol 4 No 3

• 2007: ‘Home Video: Australian pioneers and their contemporary legacy’, Art & Australia Vol 45 No 2 Summer 2007.

• 2007: ‘The Afterlife of images: Interview with Isaac Julien’, Art & Australia, Vol 45 No 2 Summer 2007.

• 2004: ‘Complex Entanglements: Art, Globalisation and Cultural Difference’ Review, Australia and New Zealand Journal of Art, Vol 5.

• 2002: ‘Curating Australia for the Centenary of Federation’ in P.Alberts & J.Millner (eds), Special Issue of Continuum Journal of Media and Cultural Studies: UnAustralian Activities, May.


Conference proceedings

• 2009: ‘Visual Poetics: the critical impulse in street art from Paris to Melbourne’, International Conference on the Arts in Society, Venice, Italy

• 2008: ‘Some Collaborators are more equal than others: Models of collaboration in Australian contemporary art’, College Arts Association National Conference, Dallas, USA.

• 2006: ‘Leap of Faith: Australian Artists and Museums’, Museums Australia National Conference, Brisbane (in collaboration with Dr J. Barrett, Museum Studies, University of Sydney).

• 2006: Co-convened panel at Museums Australia national conference, Brisbane, May 2006 on the relation between artists and museums. Panel included director of Australian Museum.

• 2005: ‘This is not America: Loopholes in the Narrative of Global Capitalism’, College Arts Association National Conference, Atlanta, USA.

• 2004: ‘Conceptual Beauty’, Beauty: Looking in the Eyes of the Beholder Interdisciplinary Conference, CUNY Graduate Centre, New York, USA.


Selected other publications (oft cited and reproduced in external course readers)


• 2006: Interview with Director of Biennale, Dr Charles Merewether, RealTime.

• 2005: Catalogue essay for Ben Quilty: Paintings at Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, February.

• 2005: Review of exhibition by Mike Parr at Artspace, Broadsheet, February.

• 2005: Interview with MCA director Elizabeth Ann McGregor, RealTime, December.

• 2001: 'Love in the Age of Intelligent Machines: the art of Patricia Piccinini', Artlink and Patricia Piccinini's website.


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Professional Organisations, Past Board Memberships and Art Correspondent

Professional organisations:

• College Arts Association, US.

• AICA (International Art Critics Association).


Past board memberships:

• Australian Centre for Photography.

• Artspace Visual Arts Centre.


Regular arts correspondent


• RealTime

• Broadsheet

• Eyeline magazines.


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