Assoc Prof Alison Inglis
Course co-ordinator MA Art Curatorship
Head of Program, Art History, School of Culture and Communication
Qualifications
BA Hons (UniMelb), PhD (UniMelb)
Biography
Alison Inglis is a graduate of the Art History Department of the University of Melbourne. Alison teaches subjects on British Art 1848-1914; Materials and Techniques of Art; and museum studies (in particular issues in art museum management and art conservation). Alison co-ordinates the MA Art Curatorship programme in the School and also jointly co-ordinates the Postgraduate Certificate in Art Conservation Studies.
Her PhD thesis examined the work of the nineteenth-century artist, Sir Edward Poynter, focusing on his decorative work including public schemes in the South Kensington Museum, the Houses of Parliament, St Paul's Cathedral and domestic commissions. She has been co-curator of three exhibitions: Archaeology in 19th century art and design; the early collections of the State Library and National Gallery of Victoria; and works of William Morris in Victorian collections.
She has been and is now a member of several museum boards, including the Management Committee of the Duldig Studio and the Donald Thomson Collection Committee of the Melbourne Museum.
Alison's current research projects include: Edward Poynter's painted furniture; mosaic decoration in Australia; Scottish art in Australia; art and philanthropy in Victoria; animal subject matter in nineteenth-century art; the cult of beauty in late nineteenth-century Britain. She is co-Chair of a session at the 32nd International Conference of Art History Crossing Cultures: conflict, migration and convergence (University of Melbourne 2008).
Current Projects
Cultural Development, Cultural Literacy: a programme for engagement between East Timor and the University of Melbourne.
Funded as a Vice Chancellor's Steering Committee. Project Leader: Robyn Sloggett, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, University of Melbourne, 2006
Knowledge transfer
Membership of cultural, educational and public boards
- 2005 - ongoing Trustee MGA Foundation, Monash Gallery of Art.
- 2005 - ongoing Member of Committee of Management, The Duldig Studio.
- 2005 - 2006 Member of Development Group, Georges Mora Foundation.
- 2005 - ongoing Treasurer, Special Interest Group on Museum Studies, Museums Australia Inc.
Curatorial work
1998 Queens & Sirens, Archaeology in 19th Century Art and Design, with J. Long, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong.
This exhibition examined paintings, furniture, jewelry and ceramics made by artists fascinated with the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth century... Never before had the ancient world seemed so close, so alive, so knowable as in the nineteenth century.
1996 William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary 1834-1896, with A. Galbally, University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Melbourne.
Marking the centenary of his death, this exhibition of original Morris textiles, wallpapers, books and furniture has been brought together as a tribute to one whose vision remains a beacon for us in the late 20th century...[and] whose work continues to delight and inspire us..
1992 The First Collections: the Public Library and the National Gallery of Victoria in the 1850s and 1860s, with A. Galbally, University of Melbourne Gallery, Melbourne.
Funded by an Australian Research Council Grant, the collection of essays that accompanied the exhibition includes a chapter entitled 'A Mania for Copies': Replicas, Reproductions and Copies in Colonial Victoria written by Alison Inglis, as well as her catalogue essays on prints, coins, medals, seals, and art books.
Grants and awards
- Dean's Teaching Award, Faculty of Art, University of Melbourne, 2004.
- Barbara Falk Award Commendation for Teaching, University of Melbourne, 2004.
- University of Melbourne Arts Faculty Small Grants Scheme "Seeding Grant", 2003, 'The Caledonian Connection: Scottish Art and Scottish Artists in Australia 1800-1940'.
- Scholarship from The Attingham Trust, London, to attend the 'Royal Collection Studies' program (organized by the Trust on behalf of the Royal Collection) at Windsor Castle in September 2002.
Recent presentations
- 2006 Presented paper entitled 'John Constable's "The Quarters" behind Alresford Hall (1816)', John Constable Symposium, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 8 April 2006.
- 2005 Presented paper entitled 'Animals as Superheroes', Holy Men in Tights - Superheroes Conference, University of Melbourne, 12 June 2005
- 2004 Presented papers entitled: 'Felton as a Private Collector' and 'The Gift of John H. Connell to the NGV', The Felton Centenary Symposium: Private Philanthropy and Public Art Museums in Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 26 November 2004.
- 2003 Presented paper entitled 'Tartan in the Antipodes: Scottish art and artists in nineteenth century Australia', Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Canberra, 6 December 2003.
- 2002 Presented paper entitled 'Art, Archaeology and Empire: Edward Poynter's The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon (1890)', at The Queen of Sheba symposium, British Museum, London, 15 June 2002.
- 2002 Presented paper entitled 'Lillie Langtry as Artists' Muse' at the Love and Death: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria symposium, Art Gallery of South Australia, 3 February 2002.
- 2002 'Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood', National Gallery Society lecture, National Gallery of Victoria, 30 January 2002.
Publications
Book chapters (from 2002)
- INGLIS, A., 'Alfred Felton as a collector of art', and 'The Gift of John Connell to the National Gallery of Victoria' in G. Vaughan et al., The Great Philanthropists on Trial, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, (forthcoming June 2006).
Journal articles (from 2002)
- INGLIS, A., 'The allure of Albion: collecting British Art in Adelaide', Art Monthly Australia, no.181, July 2005, pp.22-27.
- INGLIS, A. and J. POYNTER, '"Desirable Things": The Private Collection of Alfred Felton', Art Bulletin of Victoria, no. 44, 2004, pp.1-15 [ISSN: 0066 7935].
- INGLIS, A. - "The Great Queen of the South": Archaeology and Empire in Poynter's Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon (1890)'. The Melbourne Art Journal. 5 2001, (published November 2002), pp.23-40. [ISSN 1329-9441].
Other publications (from 2002)
- INGLIS, A - 'Sir Edward Poynter', Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004 (http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/)
- INGLIS, A. -Catalogue entries co-authored with J. Long on four works by Turner and Constable in T. Gott (ed), 19th Century Painting and Sculpture in the International Collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2004, pp.13, 16.
- INGLIS, A. -Catalogue entries for works by John Ford Paterson, L. Bernard Hall, William Strutt, Norman Lindsay and Tim Jones in C. McAuliffe and P. Yule (eds), Treasures: Highlights of the Cultural Collections of the University of Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 2003, pp.76-77; 80-81; 98-99; 178-179; 190-191. [0522 85068 5].
- INGLIS, A. -'Collections of Pre-Raphaelite Art in Australia', Pre-Raphaelite Society Newsletter (United States), February 2003, np.
- INGLIS, A. - Catalogue entries on six works of art by E. J. Poynter, in Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen, ed. St J. Simpson, British Museum Press, London: pp. 23-26 (2002) [ISBN 0 7141 1151 1]