Curator | Art Historian | Writer
CV
Education
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MA Art Curatorship: 2012–2014, University of Melbourne (first-class honours)
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BA (Hons.) Cultural Heritage (Art History): 2006–2009, University of Trento, Italy (110/110 cum laude)
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Languages: English, Italian, Spanish, Albanian and French
Employment
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Northern Centre for Contemporary Art: Director, April 2021 – ongoing
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Gibson’s: Consultant Art Researcher and Writer, September 2020 – April 2021
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Abazi Art Gallery: Co-founder, Director, Consultant, April 2004 – June 2020
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Mossgreen: Head of Art & Research, October 2016 – January 2018; Deputy Director, Researcher & Art Specialist, March–October 2016; Researcher and Writer, February–October 2014
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Leonard Joel: Senior Researcher and Art Specialist, August 2014 – February 2016
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Claude Ullin Art (then High on Art): Gallery Manager, February–June 2011; August 2013 – December 2015
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Menzies Fine Art: Senior Art Specialist, January–August 2013
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Sotheby’s Australia: Administrator, Decorative Arts, March 2011 – January 2013; Art Handler, Jan–Mar 2011
Appointments
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Minister’s Advisory Committee for the Arts, Northern Territory Government, 2026–ongoing
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Artlink Editorial Advisory Group, 2026–ongoing
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Arts and Cultural Development Advisory Committee, City of Darwin, May 2024 – June 2026
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Charles Darwin University: Adjunct Lecturer, October 2021 – March 2023
Selected Curatorial Experience
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We need to talk about the stalker: Therese Ritchie, NCCA, Darwin, 9 October – 14 November 2026
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Jenna Mayilema Lee: a danala to gather, Larrakia Cultural Centre, Darwin, 9 September 2026 – ongoing
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IncarcerNation, NCCA, Darwin, 5 August – 26 September 2026 (Co-curator)
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Jenna Mayilema Lee: Of Smoke and Rain, NCCA, Darwin, 5 August – 27 September 2025
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Bill Davies: The Darwin Years, NCCA, Darwin, 20 February – 26 April 2025
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Andrew Belletty: Noctambulation, NCCA, Darwin, 17 October – 16 November 2024
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Taripang Dharripa Trepang, NCCA, Darwin, 10 August – 5 October 2024 (Lead Curator)
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Violet Bond: Bodies of Water, NCCA, Darwin, 16 May – 27 July 2024
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Alana Hunt: Surveilling a Crime Scene, NCCA, Darwin, 5 October – 11 November 2023
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Blak Power: 50 Years of First Nations Superheroes in Australian Art, NCCA, Darwin, 12 August – 23 September 2023 (Co-curator)
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Unbordering Worlds: New Narratives for Northern Kosovo, Manifesta 14 Prishtina, Kosovo, July–October 2022; NCCA, Darwin, 28 April – 3 June 2023
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Nigel Sense: Visitor Centre, NCCA, Darwin, March–April 2022
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Recycle, Rework, Remake, NCCA, Darwin, November–December 2021
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Lapsed, Missing and Working Sculptors, NCCA, Darwin, October–November 2021
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Murrŋiny: a story of metal from the east, NCCA, Darwin, August–September 2021 (Exhibition Manager)
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GROUPXHUGXSHOW, Coconut Studios, Darwin, November 2020
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Sydney Morning Herald Vintage Photography Collection, Part I, Mossgreen, Sydney, December 2017
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The Chappell Collection of Contemporary Art, Mossgreen, Sydney, October 2017 (Co-curator)
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A Contemporary Vision: An Important British Collection of International Contemporary Art, Mossgreen, London, April 2017; Melbourne, September 2017
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The Alan and Margaret Hickinbotham Collection, Mossgreen, Adelaide, June 2017
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Max Dupain: The Final Estate Photographs, Mossgreen, Sydney, June 2017
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Fine Australian and International Art, Mossgreen, Melbourne, June 2017
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Important Contemporary Art, Mossgreen, Sydney, May 2017 (Assistant Curator)
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A Creative Life: the Deborah Halpern Collection, Mossgreen, Melbourne, September 2016
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Fine Art, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, December 2015 (Assistant Curator)
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The Estate of Colin Lanceley, Leonard Joel, Sydney, November 2015 (Assistant Curator)
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Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Art, Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, August 2013 (Assistant Curator)
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Dennis Ropar: new works, Claude Ullin Art (High on Art), Melbourne, June 2011
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Occasioni d’arte: opere di Simone Gardumi e Filippo Bampi, University of Trento, Italy, July 2009
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Margine: concorso fotografico, University of Trento, Italy, June 2009
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Tjukurrpa: racconti antichi per il nuovo mondo, University of Trento, Italy, October–November 2008
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Fra sogno e realtà: Australian Aboriginal Art, University of Trento, Italy, October–November 2007
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Sogni a colori: Australian Aboriginal Art, Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti, Italy, August 2007
Selected Lectures, Seminars, Conferences, Higher Education
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Critical Intelligence and the Matter of Print, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, 14 August 2026 (panellist)
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Words and Images, NT Writers’ Festival, NT Library, 28 June 2024 (panellist)
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Indonesia at the NCCA, Australia Indonesia Business Council Conference, 3 November 2022 (speaker)
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NCCA: Past, Present, Future, Australian Museums and Art Galleries Association NT, 2022 (speaker)
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Portraiture: a judge’s perspective, Parliament House, Darwin, 6 December 2021 (speaker)
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Global Crime: Art and Antiquities, Swinburne University, Melbourne, May 2020 (guest lecturer)
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A Sunday Time With Us, Instagram Live with director Jamie Kastner and actor Dushan Philips, May 2020 (interviewer)
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F-ART: Fakes, forgeries and fraud in the art market, Nerd Nite, The Howler, Melbourne, June 2018 (speaker)
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Curating the sunny south at the centre of empire: exhibitions of Australian art in London, Art and its Directions, AAANZ Conference, University of Western Australia, December 2017 (speaker)
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Art history and the world: careers in the commercial sector, University of Melbourne, October 2014 (speaker)
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A new approach to global art circulation in the 1960s: a case study, ‘A Conversation with Thomas W. Gaehtgens Masterclass’, University of Melbourne, February 2014 (speaker)
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Bernini per Bernini: A Cosa Serve la Storia dell’Arte? Tomaso Montanari, University of Trento, 2009 (organiser)
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The Dilemma of Reconstructing: the Berlin Castle, Thomas Albrecht, University of Trento, 2009 (organiser)
Professional Development
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Boards, Governance and Leadership; and Financial Literacy, Institute of Community Directors Australia, 2025
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Decolonisation; Racial Literacy, Shifting Ground, Darwin, 2025
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A confident voice, National Institute of Dramatic Art, Darwin, 2022
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Postgraduate workshop in digital art history, ANU Research School, Canberra, 2015
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La sculpture occidentale dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, École du Louvre, Paris, 2012
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When Attitudes Become Form: How to Curate, West Space, Melbourne, June 2012
Judging, Peer Assessing and Volunteer Work
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Regional Arts Fund, 2024 (Assessor)
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Inaugural Northern Territory Art Award, 2024 (Judge)
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Litchfield Art Exhibition, 2024 (Judge)
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The Alice Prize, 2024 (Pre-selection Panel)
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Portrait of a Senior Territorian, 2021, 2023 (Judge)
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Arts NT, 2024–25 (Register of Peers)
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ACME London Residency, 2022 (Assessor)
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Deborah Porch Award, 2023 (Assessor)
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Creative Australia, 2022, 2023 (Peer Assessor)
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NT Legal Aid Commission Art Competition, 2021 (Judge)
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Coconut Studios, Darwin, 2020 (Curatorial Assistant)
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Creative Victoria, 2013 (Advisory Panellist)
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Ian Potter Museum of Art, 2014 (Museum Lab Blogger)
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Villa Alba Museum, 2011–14 (Guide)
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Mini Print International Awards, 2013 (Judge)
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Associazione Art To Art, 2007–10 (Co-founder and Vice President)
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Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2006 (Visitor Services Representative)
Publications
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‘Introduction: Our Trepang Teachers’, in Taripang Dharripa Trepang, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, 2025, pp. 10–17
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‘The life and work of Bill Davies’, in Bill Davies: The Darwin Years, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, 2025, pp. 10–26
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Violet Bond: Bodies of Water, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, 2024, p. 6
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‘Foreword’, in Blak Power: 50 Years of First Nations Superheroes in Australian Art, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, 2023, pp. 5–8
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‘Introduction’, in James Drinkwater: Passage, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, 2023, pp. 8–11
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‘Introduction’; ‘A Broken Heart for a Mended Bridge’; ‘On Europe Without Monuments’; ‘On What Is Here’, in Unbordering Worlds, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, 2023, pp. 6, 14–21, 29–33, 50–55
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‘Introduction’, in Recycle, Rework, Remake, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, 2021, p. 2
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‘Director’s Foreword’, in Lapsed, Missing and Working Sculptors, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, 2021, p. 3
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‘Director’s Foreword’, in Murrŋiny: a story of metal from the east, Salon Art Projects, Darwin, 2021, pp. 10–11
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‘Fred Williams, (Desert Landscape), 1968’; ‘Charles Conder, Scene on the Epte’; ‘Rupert Bunny, St Veronica’; ‘Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Spear Dreaming’, in Australian & International Art, Gibson’s, Melbourne, 18 April 2021, pp. 8–9, 12–13, 16–17, 36–37
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‘Ivor Hele, The Farrier’, in Australian and International Art, Gibson’s, Melbourne, 25 October 2020, pp. 56–57
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‘Introduction’, in Sydney Morning Herald Vintage Photography Collection, Part I, Mossgreen, Sydney, 12 December 2017, p. 9
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‘Ian Fairweather, Meditation’, in The Malcolm and Patricia Coppleson Collection, Mossgreen, Sydney, 4 December 2017, pp. 14–15
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‘Introduction’; ‘Justin O’Brien, Woman Talking to an Angel in a Tree’; ‘Arthur Streeton, Wollstonecraft’; ‘John Olsen, Owls Over the Murrumbidgee’; ‘Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Wildflower Dreaming, Dry Season’; ‘Charles Blackman, Housefront’; ‘Weaver Hawkins, Bath Time’; ‘Ludwig Becker, Portrait of Agnes Mathie Scott’; ‘Ray Crooke, Islander with Pink Hibiscus’; ‘Charles Blackman, The Sisters’, in Important Art, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 20 November 2017, pp. 9, 28–29, 32–33, 36–41, 44–45, 48–49, 52–55, 74–75
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‘Introduction’, in The Chappell Collection of Contemporary Art, Mossgreen, Sydney, 9 October 2017, p. 9
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‘Introduction’, in Fine Australian and International Art, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 4 September 2017
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‘Albert Namatjira, Hermannsburg Mission’; ‘Charles Conder, Springtime, Arques-la-Bataille’; ‘Conrad Martens, Glenrock, Darling Point’; ‘Arthur Streeton, Window Study’, in The Alan and Margaret Hickinbotham Collection, Mossgreen, Adelaide, 25 June 2017, pp. 12–13, 24–27, 32
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‘Russell Drysdale’s Pentimenti: small change, big effects’, in Russell Drysdale’s Masterpiece: Grandma’s Sunday Walk, 1972, Mossgreen, Adelaide, 25 June 2017, pp. 22–23
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‘The Beach’; ‘The City and Industry’; ‘Surrealism’; ‘Nudes, People and Fashion’; ‘Still Life, Interiors and Plants’; ‘Landscape’, in Max Dupain (1911–1992) – Part II: The Final Estate Photographs, Mossgreen, Sydney, 19 June 2017, pp. 8, 18, 30, 38, 56, 67
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‘Justin O’Brien, Dormition of the Virgin’, in The Colin Davies Collection, Mossgreen, Sydney, 7 June 2017, pp. 12–13
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‘Introduction’; ‘Leonard French, The Workshop’; ‘Tim Storrier, Will (Arm), 1984’; ‘Charles Conder, Morning in the Park, c.1902–04’, in Fine Australian and International Art, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 6 June 2017, pp. 9, 24–25, 28–29, 36–37
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‘Robert Neill, Mount Morriston on Macquarie River, Van Diemen’s Land, 1825’, in Australian History, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 30 May 2017
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‘James Gleeson, Sea-wrack Involving the Heads of Tristan and Isolde, 1947’, in The Rodney Davidson AO OBE LLB Collection, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 21 March 2017, pp. 32–35
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‘Garry Shead, Thirroul Morning’; ‘Arthur Boyd, Dancers’; ‘Garry Shead, The Measuring Artist’; ‘John Olsen, Rabbit Warren, Rydal’; ‘Tim Storrier, Still Life and Fire’; ‘Lin Onus, Frog’, in The Lowenstein Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 7 March 2017, pp. 40–41, 46–47, 58–59, 68–69, 90–91, 98–99
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‘Jeffrey Smart, Dividing Line, Study I’; ‘Ugo Catani, Collins Street, Rainy Weather’; ‘Sidney Nolan, Luna Park’, in Fine Australian & International Art, Mossgreen, Sydney, 21 November 2016, pp. 24–27, 30–31
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‘Introduction’, in A Creative Life: the Deborah Halpern Collection, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 25 September 2016, p. 9
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‘Garry Shead, The Landlord’; ‘Sali Herman, Self Portrait in Studio’; ‘Frederick McCubbin, Bush Landscape’; ‘Haughton Forrest, Lighthouse, Dorset’; ‘Henry Gritten, On the Rhine’; ‘Sidney Nolan, Burke’, in Fine Australian & International Art, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 29–30 August 2016, pp. 50–53, 60–65, 76–77
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‘Arthur Boyd, Child and White Dog by Pond’; ‘Arthur Boyd, Potter and Wife in a Field with Cow’; ‘Ray Crooke, Islanders by the Shore’, in The Contents of Prince Albert House, Mossman, Mossgreen, Sydney, 21 August 2016, pp. 16–21
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‘The Scott Collection’; ‘Joseph Backler, Portraits of Robert and Catherine McPhillamy’; ‘A Rare Australian Dunny’, in Australian & Colonial History, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 28 June 2016, pp. 81, 101, 148–149
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‘John Heaviside Clark, Field Sports of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales’; ‘Robert Russell, Melbourne from the Falls’, in The Denis Joachim Collection, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 19–21 June 2016, pp. 274–289
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‘Frederick McCubbin, Bush Landscape’; ‘Frederick McCubbin, Landscape, South Yarra’, in The Estate of Suzanne Cecil, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 15 May 2016, pp. 12–13, 16–17
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‘Norman Lindsay, Garden Party, Springwood’; ‘Pablo Picasso, Minotaure Caressant une Dormeuse’; ‘Henri Martin, Devant de Porte en Eté’; ‘Charles Conder, L’Aristocrat & Au Bord de la Seine’; ‘Robert Hoddle, Landscape’, in Fine Australian and International Art, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 2 May 2016, pp. 40–45, 102–105
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‘Ethel Carrick Fox, St Mark’s Square, Venice, 1907’, in Fine Art, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 1 December 2015, p. 18
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‘The Art of Measurement’, in Leonard: issue 43, Melbourne, September 2015, p. 9
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‘Eugene von Guérard, Lake Purrumbete, 1857’; ‘Eugene von Guérard, Near Timboon, 1857’; ‘S.T. Gill, A Friendly Encounter’; ‘Emanuel Phillips Fox, Moonrise, Stanwell Park, NSW, c.1914’, in Fine Art, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 15 September 2015, pp. 18–20, 22–23
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‘Property formerly in the collection of the Hon. Edward Cox M.L.C. of Fernhill Mulgoa, and the Hon. Edward King Cox’; ‘Walter Withers, The Trysting Place, c.1891’; ‘Charles Blackman, Golden Eve’, in Fine Art, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 23 June 2015, pp. 14–19, 23
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‘The Lost Walter Withers’, in Leonard: issue 40, Melbourne, June 2015, pp. 10–11
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‘J. Alphonse Pellion, Un Voyage à Bathurst’; ‘Colonial School (possibly) Edward Roper, The Emu Hunt’; ‘W.C. Piguenit, Lane Cove River from Cliffs near Bridge’, in Fine Art, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 24 March 2015, pp. 14–15, 21
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‘McCubbin’s Spring boosts Mossgreen’s spring auction’, in Australian Art Sales Digest, Melbourne, 29 October 2014, [online]
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‘Brett Whiteley, Rita Nelson’; ‘John Olsen, Portrait Landscape’; ‘Arthur Boyd, Daniel in the Lion’s Den’; ‘Fred Williams, Trees and Rocks II’, in ‘Property from the Collection of the Late Alan Boxer’, in Fine Australian and International Art, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 28 October 2014, pp. 54–61
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‘Standing room only for Nolan’s later works’, in Australian Art Sales Digest, Melbourne, 14 October 2014, [online]
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The Exhibition and Reception of Australian Art in London in the Nineteenth Century, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, October 2014 (MA thesis), 79 pp.
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‘Bonhams puts a spring into the autumn series of auctions’, in Australian Art Sales Digest, Melbourne, 19 August 2014, [online]
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‘Donald Friend, The Apotheosis of Richard Keep’; ‘Fred Williams, The Yarra at Kew’; ‘Sidney Nolan, Woman in Floral Hat’; ‘Aida Tomescu, Ithaca I’; ‘John Olsen, Late Summer, Lake Eyre’; ‘Adam Cullen, Ned’; ‘Tim Maguire, Untitled 20051202’; ‘Rupert Bunny, Au Balcon’, in Important Australian & International Art, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 24 June 2014, pp. 28, 36, 60, 108, 120, 138, 142, 158
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‘Peter Booth, Drawing (Levitating Man in Fantasy Landscape)’; ‘Paul Partos, Untitled’; ‘Bill Henson, Untitled (Nude) 1983/84’; ‘Timothy Johnson, The Bodhisattva Kokuzo’; ‘Tony Clark, Two Landscape paintings and a Print of Boullée’s Project for the Church of the Madeleine’; ‘Stieg Persson, Fiction’; ‘Robert Jacks, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue and Green’; ‘Alun Leach-Jones, The Romance of Death’; ‘Robert Bridgewater, Black Tongue’; ‘Robert Hunter, No. 6. (For Carl)’, in The John Buckley Collection of Modern and Contemporary Australian Art, Mossgreen, Melbourne, May 2014, pp. 22–23, 30–31, 40–41, 45–47, 51, 62–63, 78, 82–83
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‘The Bonython Epergne’, in The Collection of Warren & Bunty Bonython, Mossgreen, Adelaide, 4 May 2014, pp. 80–82
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‘The K.D.H. Ainsworth Collection of Indigenous Art’, in Australian Art Sales Digest, Melbourne, 27 March 2014, [online]
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‘Sidney Nolan, Horse’; ‘Sidney Nolan, Luna Park’; ‘Joy Hester, Child in Blue’; ‘William Delafield Cook Jnr, Pine Tree Kyoto’; ‘Keith Looby, The Last Supper’; ‘Brett Whiteley, Abstract’; ‘Charles Blackman, Housefront’; ‘Ivan Durrant, Three Fur Hats’; ‘Imants Tillers, Blossoming 8’; ‘John Young, Castiglione’s Dream, Summer’, in The Australian Art Collection of Sandra Powell and Andrew King, Mossgreen, Melbourne, March 2014, pp. 20–23, 30–31, 34–35, 37–41, 43, 48–51
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‘Sotheby’s ends residency at top end of Collins Street with top results’, in Australian Art Sales Digest, Melbourne, 27 November 2013, [online]
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‘Rick Amor, Study for the Relic’, in Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Art, Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 8 August 2013, p. 17
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‘Rick Amor, Across History’, in Important Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies, Sydney, 27 June 2013, p. 110
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‘Walter Stevenson, Surveying Brig Rapid in Rapid Bay (After William Light)’, in Important Asian, Australian and European Art, Decorative Arts and Furniture, Sotheby’s Australia, Melbourne, 30–31 October 2012, p. 9
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Jeffrey Smart: opere italiane di un artista australiano, University of Trento, Italy, 2009 (BA thesis), 102 pp.
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Occasioni d’arte: opere di Simone Gardumi e Filippo Bampi, Litografia Stella, Rovereto, 2009, 24 pp.
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Margine: aspetti e realtà della città di Trento, Tipografia Silvestrini, Bassano del Grappa, 2009, 31 pp.
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Tjukurrpa: racconti antichi per il nuovo mondo, Litografia Stella, Rovereto, 2008, 112 pp.
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Fra sogno e realtà: Australian Aboriginal Art, Litografia Stella, Rovereto, 2007, 72 pp.
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Sogni a colori, Litografia Stella, Rovereto, 2007, 12 pp.