ROSS SEARLE

Ross Searle has worked in key positions in regional galleries in Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales since 1982. During his most recent directorship at the University of Queensland Art Museum, he established a new gallery in a $10 million refurbished venue. Ross Searle also implemented the Art Museum’s development of a National Collection of Artists’ Self Portraits and a biennial self-portraiture prize.

Previously he was Director of the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville, a position he held for ten years, which saw the Gallery rise to national prominence due to its dynamic exhibition program and the consolidation of its extensive collections. He has made a national and international contribution to the development of many significant exhibitions and publications.

In 2007 he established a specialist consultancy and his clients include national and international art museums.

Professor Anne Marsh

Professorial Research Fellow

Victorian College of the Arts

Melbourne University

Professor Anne Marsh is Professorial Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Her books include: The Culture of Photography in Public Space (Intellect, 2015, ed. with Melissa Miles and Daniel Palmer), Performance Ritual Document (Macmillan, 2014), LOOK: Contemporary Australian Photography, si nce 1980 (Macmillan, 2010), Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph (Quintus/ University of Tasmania, 2006), The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire (Macmillan, 2003) and Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia, 1969-1992 (Oxford University Press,1993, Kindle edition 2015).

Anne has published widely in journals and magazines, and has been Melbourne contributing editor for Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts since 1997. In 2015 she curated Performance Presence/Video Time at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. She has received generous support for her research from the Australian Research Council most recently for Women, Feminism and Art in Australia since 1970 (ARC Discovery Project 2016-2018).