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Manuscript Name | Papers of Janine Burke |
Manuscript Number | MSS 241 |
Last Updated | August 2021 |
Extent | 75cm (6 boxes) |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | The papers of Janine Burke include correspondence, manuscripts, research material and photographs. |
This collection include manuscript and research material for Australian Women Artists 1840-1940 (1980), Joy Hester (1983), Speaking (1984), Second sight (1986), Company of images (1989), Field of vision : a decade of change, women's art in the seventies (1990), Lullaby (1994) and Journey to bright water (1995).
1975-1995
Janine Burke was born in Melbourne in 1952 and grew up in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. She grew up in Melbourne, Adelaide and in Perth. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Fine Arts degree in 1974, completed a Master of Arts degree at LaTrobe University in 1983 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Deakin University in 2001. For nine years from 1973 Janine wrote art criticism and articles for journals and newspapers and was a founding member of the feminist art journal Lip. She has organized exhibitions of Australian art for state and regional galleries and has worked as both editor and consultant on art and literary magazines. She lectured on art history at the Victorian College of Arts from 1977-1982. Her book Australian women artists 1840-1940 (1980) was the first history of Australian women artists. In 1984 she lived in Tuscany and later returned to Melbourne to become a full-time writer of fiction.
Janine has written several non-fiction books on art and artists, including:
Australian women artists 1840-1940 (1980)
Joy Hester (1981)
Field of vision : a decade of change, women's art in the seventies (1990)
Dear Sun : the letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed (1995)
Australian gothic : a life of Albert Tucker (2002)
The heart garden : Sunday Reed and Heide (2004)
The Gods of Freud (2006).
Novels, including:
Speaking (1984)
Second sight (1986) for which she was awarded the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in 1987
Company of images (1989)
Lullaby (1994).
Novels for young adults, including:
Journey to bright water (1994)
The blue faraway (1996)
Our Lady of Apollo Bay (2001).
References:
AustLit : The Resource for Australian Literature, March 2007.
Papers of Janine Burke, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, MSS 241, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
Art historians -- Australia -- Archives.
Artists -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
Folder 1
Correspondence, with Rix Wright (son of Hilda Rix Nicholas), Jean Appleton, Nora Heysen, Donald Brown (son of Norah Simpson), Beverley Kingston, Grace Crowley and Margel Hinder, 1975-1980, plus related research material for Australian Women Artists 1840-1940 (1980)
Folder 2
Correspondence with Queensland Art Gallery, Bloomfield Galleries, Australian National Gallery, Newcastle City Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Muriel Dawkins, Patrick Hutchings, Miriam Stannage, Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, National Gallery of Victoria, Western Australia Art Gallery, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Osborne Art Gallery Adelaide, 1975-1980, for Australian Women Artists 1840-1940 (1980)
Folder 3
Correspondence with regional art galleries, 1975-1980, plus related research material and research material on Sybil Craig and modern art for Australian Women Artists 1840-1940 (1980)
Folder 20
Manuscript drafts and annotated typescript drafts of biographies and correspondence with Micky Allen, Vivienne Binns, Lesley Dumbrell, Virginia Coventry, Bonita Ely, Sue Ford and Rosalie Gascoigne 1988-89 re Field of vision : a decade of change, women's art in the seventies (1990)
Folder 21
Manuscript drafts and annotated typescript drafts of biographies, and correspondence with Elizabeth Gower, Ponch Hawkes, Sandra Leveson, Bea Maddock, Ann Newmarch, Ailsa O'Connor, Jill Orr, Vicki Varvaressos and Jenny Watson 1988-89 re Field of vision : a decade of change, women's art in the seventies (1990)
Folder 24
Computer typescript draft with ms. annotations of Lullaby (1994) and a copy of Australian book review No. 160, May 1994
Folder 25
Correspondence, schedules, photocopied articles of published material re Monash University Koorie Studies course c.1990-91
Two black and white photographs of paintings by Vera Terry
Two black and white photographs of sculptures by Margel Hinder
Blank and white photograph of a painting ['Portrait'] by Mickey Allen
Negative of a painting 'Sydney' (1979)
Black and white photograph of Ponch Hawkes c.1989
Black and white photograph of painting 'Harriet Chatwin-Lowe c. 1860' by Vivienne Binns
Negative of photograph of Jenny Watson c.1988
Colour photograph of Sue Ford c.1989
Colour slide of artwork 'Mother's work bench' (1977) by Jenny Watson
Colour slide of artwork Box Hill North (1977) by Jenny Watson
Two black and white photographs of Prospect Mural Group's mural 'Australian Flora' (1979) [Ann Newmarch]
Black and white photograph of 'Jake and Bruno, 5 years and 5 months', 1977 (Ann Newmarch)
Black and white photograph of artwork 'Babies alive', 1977 (Ann Newmarch)