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Biography

I am a senior curator with almost 20 years of experience at Museums Victoria. I currently collect, research and interpret material culture relating to the history of the Australian photographic industry, and the practice of commercial and amateur photography.

I am passionate about engaging with our community, especially those people who once made or used the material in the collections that I now curate.

Along with a team of Museum staff and a group of former workers from Kodak Australasia, I am currently working on a long-term project to document and interpret the Kodak Heritage Collection, which I acquired in 2005. This extensive and significant collection, comprising many thousands of photographs, objects, documents and moving footage films relating to the company’s operation in Australia, is currently being registered, image-captured and published online, and oral history interviews are being undertaken with former staff. Check it out at - https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/2882

I am also embarking on an exciting new project, ‘The Camera at Work: Photographs of Melbourne Manufacturing Workers 1870s-1970s’.

Previously, with a small team of curators, collection managers, public programs staff and photographers, I was lead curator on a community collecting project in 2006. The result was the Melbourne’s Biggest Family Album Collection of over 1000 images, dating from the 1880s to the 1980s.

Activities

Employment (1)

Museum Victoria: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2012 to present | Senior Curator, Images & Image making (Humanities)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2003 to 2009 | Masters in Australian Studies with First Class Honours - Thesis Title - ‘Radical Sport Cyclists, Progressive Excursionists and Conservative ‘Butterflies’: Diversity of Form and Femininity in Australian Women’s Cycling in the 1890s’ (Australian Centre)
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Deakin University: Burwood, VIC, AU

1996 to 1996 | Post-Graduate Diploma, Museum Studies
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La Trobe University: Bundoora, VIC, AU

1988 to 1995 | Bachelor of Arts with Honours (History) (History)
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Funding (1)

The Camera at Work: Photographs of Melbourne Manufacturing Workers 1870s-1970s

2017-05 to 2017-11 | Grant
La Trobe University (Melbourne, AU)
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Works (4)

Stamina, Speed and Adventure: Australian Women and Competitive Cycling in the 1890s

The International journal of the history of sport
2011-07 | Journal article
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Reading Photographic Portraits of Australian Women Cyclists in the 1890s: From Costume and Cycle Choices to Constructions of Feminine Identity

The International journal of the history of sport
2011-05 | Journal article
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Photographic Portraits of Australian Women Cyclists in the 1890s: Constructions of Feminine Identity

2009-01 | Conference paper
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The Material Culture and Memories of Manufacturing Melbourne

The Caring Museum: New Models of Engagement with Ageing
Book chapter
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