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Dr

Susan Lowish

Senior Lecturer In Australian Art History
Culture and Communication
Australian Art
Rock Art
Indigenous Art
Repatriation
Art History
Digital Archives
App Development
Social History
Cultural Heritage
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Dr

Susan Lowish

 
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
ART HISTORY
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Projects

Displaying the 9 most recent projects by Susan Lowish.

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Ananguku Wangka - Anangu Voices

2021 - 2022
Active
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Ara Irititja archive App for portable electronic devices

2017 - 2018
Completed
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Indigenous Engagement with the Donald Thomson Collection

2016 - 2016
Completed
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Aboriginal young people in regional Victoria and Digital Storytelling: Supporting digital literacy through a local community approach

2013 - 2014
Completed
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DOCUMENTING ABORIGINAL ART ARCHIVES: THE WOODWARD COLLECTION

2008 - 2008
Completed
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PITJANTJATJARA AND YANKUNYJATJARA ART HISTORIES FROM THE CENTRAL DESERT (ARC)

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ABORIGINAL ART HISTORY IN THE CENTRAL DESERT: ARTWORK FROM ERNABELLA

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CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON A TRANS-CONTINENTAL CONNECTION: BRINGING AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN ARCHIVE OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART TO LIFE.

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ABORIGINAL ART ON DISPLAY: THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF EXHIBITION - MELBOURNE EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER GRANT SCHEME 2006

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Projects

Project Types

6

Internal Research Grant

3

Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Susan Lowish.

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In the Field: Making Art of Everyday Archaeology

Susan Lowish

Book Chapter  |  2020

This is a catalogue of artwork by UK Frederick resulting from a three year Australian Research Council funded project exploring a ..

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Australian Aboriginal Art

Greg Lehman, Susan Lowish, Ian McLean

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

As the art world critique of primitivism only began to take hold in the 1980s, Indigenous art history is a new field of study in t..

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Australian Rock Art in the Expanded Field: History, Meaning, and Contemporary Context

Robert Gunn, Susan Lowish

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art

Compared with the prehistoric parietal art of Europe, Australian Aboriginal rock art is little known in art historical contexts, d..

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Archaeological and Art Historical Appreciation of Rock Art: A Case Study from Nawarla Gabarnmang

Susan Lowish, Robert Gunn

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art

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Exhibition Review

Susan Lowish

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art

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Ara Irititja and Ara Winki in the APY Lands: connecting archives to communities through mobile apps on portable devices

S Lowish, Dora Dallwitz, John Dallwitz

Journal article  |  2019  |  Archives and Manuscripts

Ara Irititja is an enduring and multifaceted project that returns and collectively documents Anangu historical material and preser..

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Rethinking Australia’s Art History: The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

Susan Lowish

Book  |  2018

This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category Aboriginal..

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Searching for the Origin of Art

Susan Lowish

Book Chapter  |  2018

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Evolutionists and Australian Aboriginal Art

Susan Lowish

Book Chapter  |  2018

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'Aboriginal Art' in the Writings of Baldwin Spencer

Susan Lowish

Book Chapter  |  2018

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Art Theory and Criticism
Arts and Leisure
Expanding Knowledge
Other Arts
Heritage
Historical Studies
Understanding Past Societies
Curatorial and Related Studies
Archaeology
Cultural Studies

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2020

Faculty of Arts Inaugural Teaching Excellence Award

Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
2019

Best Book Prize http://aaanz.info/prizes/2019-prizes/

Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
2009

Visiting Fellowship

Research School of Humanities, Australian National University

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Senior Lecturer In Australian Art History

Culture and Communication

Member

International Australian Studies Association (InASA)

Member

Australian Archaeological Association (AAA)

Member

Association of Art Historians (UK)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Monash University

Master of Arts in Critical and Cultural Theory

Monash University

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)

University of Tasmania

Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts

University of Tasmania

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Certificates & Licences

First Aid

First Aid

Awarded: Jun 21, 2006

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First Aid Management and Training Centre

Awarded: Aug 18, 2009

Outdoor Recreation

Melbourne 4x4 Training and Proving Ground

Awarded: May 19, 2012

First Aid

Awarded: Jun 12, 2019

International Linkages

University of Virginia

United States

University of Manchester

United Kingdom