Catriona Moore Explained

Catriona Moore (born 1956) is an Australian art historian, art theorist and academic.^[1]

Background and research interests

Dr. Catriona Moore's education and research since the 1970s has explored modernism, Australian feminist art, environmental and comparative post-colonial visual art.^[2] As a member of the Artworkers Union Affirmative Action for Women in the Visual Arts committee in the 1980s, Moore's career has been dedicated to feminist art and activism in Australia. More recently Moore has contributed to collaborative feminist projects such as FavourEconomy and JANIS I: Feminism in Contemporary Art: If Not Why Not?, as recorded in the Australian Feminist Art Timeline. Moore is co-founder of the research cluster Contemporary Art and Feminism^[3] through which she has curated exhibitions,^[4] presented conference papers,^{[5] [6]} published books and articles,^{[7] [8] [9]} and convened discussions and symposia.^{[10] [11] [12]} Moore is Senior Lecturer, School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM), Department of Art History,^[13] the University of Sydney.

Selected publications

Moore is author and editor of multiple publications that have developed Australian feminist art discourse.^[14]

• Contemporary Art and Feminism, co-edited with Jacqueline Millner (Routledge, 2021)
• Future Feminist Archive - Live in Wollongong! co-written with Jo Holder. (Wollongong Art Gallery, 2019).
• How the Personal Became (and Remains) Political in the Visual Arts, co-written with Catherine Speck. In Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia, edited by Michelle Arrow and Angela Woollacott. (ANU Press, 2019).
• Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes, co-edited with Jacqueline Millner (Routledge, 2018).
• Feminist Curating: The First Hundred Years. In Curating Feminism, edited by Jacqueline Millner. (SCA/University of Sydney, 2014).
• The more things change: Feminist aesthetics, then and now (Artlink Feature, 01 September, 2013).^[15]
• Not just a pretty picture: art as ecological communication. In Water Wind Art and Debate. How environmental concerns impact on disciplinary research, edited by Gavin Birch. (Sydney University Press, 2007).
• 'Margaret Preston at home'. In Radical Revisionism: an anthology of writings on Australian art, edited by Rex Butler. (IMA Brisbane, 2005).
• Indecent Exposures: Twenty Years of Australian Feminist Photography (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1991)
• Dissonance: Feminism and the arts 1970-1990 (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1991)

References

1. Web site: Catriona Moore :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online. 2021-03-05. www.daao.org.au.
2. Web site: CONTACT - Contemporary Art & Feminism. 2021-03-06. www.contemporaryartandfeminism.com.
3. Web site: HOME - Contemporary Art & Feminism. 2021-03-08. www.contemporaryartandfeminism.com.
4. Web site: School. Head of. [e-mail]. 2020-07-17. Future Feminist Archive/Contemporary Art & Feminism. 2021-03-08. School of Art & Design. en-AU.
5. Web site: Convenor. Gender Institute. [e-mail]. How the personal became political: re-assessing Australia's revolutions in gender and sexuality in the 1970s. 2021-03-08. genderinstitute.anu.edu.au. 19 November 2016 . en.
6. Web site: Fran Fest. 2021-03-08. Fran Fest.
7. Book: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/feminist-curator-walks-gallery...-jo-holder-catriona-moore/e/10.4324/9781315162072-2. A feminist curator walks into a gallery.... 2018-02-01. Routledge. 978-1-315-16207-2. en. 10.4324/9781315162072-2. Feminist Perspectives on Art. Holder. Jo. Moore. Catriona. 9–23.
8. Web site: Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes. 2021-03-08. Routledge & CRC Press. en.
9. Web site: Contemporary Art and Feminism. 2021-03-08. Routledge & CRC Press. en.
10. Web site: TRANSGRESSIVE TEACHING - Contemporary Art & Feminism. 2021-03-08. www.contemporaryartandfeminism.com.
11. Web site: CURATING FEMINISM - Contemporary Art & Feminism. 2021-03-08. www.contemporaryartandfeminism.com.
12. Web site: Contemporary Art & Feminism - The Cross Art Projects. 2021-03-08. www.crossart.com.au.
13. Web site: Phone book Search - The University of Sydney. 2021-03-06. www.sydney.edu.au.
14. Web site: Catriona Moore :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online. 2021-03-08. www.daao.org.au.
15. Web site: The more things change: Feminist aesthetics, then and now. 2021-03-08. Artlink Magazine. en.