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claire.roberts@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor - Art History and Curatorship
School of Culture and Communication
Education
PhD
The Australian National University
Masters (Research)
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne

Central Academy of Fine Art
ORCID

0000-0002-7607-2911

Prof Claire Roberts

Professor - Art History and Curatorship
School of Culture and Communication

109 Scholarly works
3 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Unsettling Art: Young Zerunge, ‘history painting’ and the Fairweather Transformations
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Time and Tides: Xiao Lu's Recursive Art, 1989-2019
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Demon Quelling: Ting Yin Yung and Pierre Ryckmans
  • 2022

    Research Grant

    Artists Look at Art: Activating the Peter Townsend Collection of Chinese Prints at the NGA
  • 2021

    Book

    Fairweather and China
  • 2019

    Book

    Ian Fairweather: A Life in Letters
  • 2019

    Book Chapter

    Melbourne Mandarins: ‘Modern Chinese Painters’, 1974
    DOI: 10.4324/9781351203470-5
Claire Roberts

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2015
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
1984
Wyselaskie Scholarship in Modern Languages The University of Melbourne
1984
Dwight Final Examination Prize for Combined Honours The University of Melbourne
1983
R. G. Wilson Scholarship in Chinese, Final Examination The University of Melbourne

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Drawn by War: The Peter Townsend Collection of Modern Chinese Woodblock Prints in the National Gallery of Australia
    DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2024.2424461
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Visual Thinking: Ian Fairweather and John Young
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    The Moving Image: Ye Qianyu, Dance and Socialist Modernity in Art
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Collecting and Interpreting the Cultural Revolution: The Valery Garrett Collection at the University of Melbourne
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    A shared passion: the Hedda and Alastair Morrison collection of Chinese belt toggles
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    Displacement Thinking: Ian Fairweather and Northern Australia
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    Milton Moon: What is a pot?

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2015

    Internal Research Grant

    Reconfiguring the World: China. Art. Agency, 1900s to Now

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