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MEDIA COMMENTARY

'Sydney Aboriginal Art Specialist Shuts Up Shop'
Elizabeth Fortescue, The Art Newspaper, Vol. XX, No. 220, January 2011, p65.
(click here for PDF).

Can copyright be claimed on Kimberley Aboriginal Wandjina art?
ABC Radio Kimberley, 18 May 2010. Interview with Vanessa Mills regarding the controversy over the Katoomba wandjina sculpture; canvassing the legal landscape and the broad ethical and cultural property debates around the issue.
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‘Outback and Upmarket’, John Kavanagh, Business Review Weekly, 27 July 2006, p66.

‘In Search of Lost Tribes’
, Peter Fish, Money, Sydney Moring Herald, 21 January 2004, p9

‘Arts Beat’, Diana Simmonds, Sunday Telegraph, 5 August 2001, p126.

‘Aboriginal Art Draws the Collectors’, John Kavanagh, Business Review Weekly, 21 July 2000.

‘Putting the Art Back in Artefact’, Denise Cullen, Weekend Money, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 April 2000, p126.

‘Hammer and Stipple’, Carmel Dwyer, Arts and Entertainment, The Bulletin, 8 June 1999, pp 106–108.

‘Auctioneer on Alert’, Fiona Carruthers, The Australian, 8 May 1998, p17.

Arts Today, Radio National, 1 May 1998. Talk-back interview on Aboriginal Art with Angela Catterns.

INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

Aboriginal Deaths in Custody – a History, through the Work of Gordon Syron and Elaine Pelot Kitchener.
New South Wales Parliament House, Sydney, 19 September–4 October 1996.
Exhibition Curator.
Reviewed Bruce James, ‘Galleries’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 October 1996, p14.
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A Decade of Dance: The Birth of Bangarra
Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Paddington, 1990.
Exhibition researcher and cataloguer.

image of Mowanjum wandjina courtesy ABC Radio Kimberley
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image of Mowanjum wandjina courtesy ABC Radio Kimberley
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NON–INDIGENOUS

Writing, editing and lectures by Jane on other subject areas include:

‘Chic City: Edinburgh’, Luxury Travel Magazine, Issue 44, Spring 2010.
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‘Collecting Contemporary Photography: Trends and Issues’, public lecture, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane, 13 October 2004.

‘Pitfalls and Pinnacles: collecting contemporary art’, lecture and visual presentation to the Universities and Schools Club, Sydney, 15 September 1998.

‘Works on Paper - collecting with confidence’, Art and Antiques in New South Wales, December 1996–April 1997, pp12-13.
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‘Tattoo: A history of the decorated body 1770-1997’. Justice and Police Museum, Sydney (1997). Consultancy to Historic Houses Trust (NSW): edited exhibition text panels and catalogue essays.

‘Joy Hester's Frightened’, exhibition label for ‘Review: Works by Women from the Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection’, AGNSW (1995).
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‘Collection Management at The Art Gallery of New South Wales’, ARC Newsletter of the Australian Registrars Committee, No 12, Summer, December 1994, pp5-6.

‘Interior/Mieszkanie’, catalogue essay on photographic installation by Basia Sokolowska. Martin Browne Fine Art, Paddington. Exhibition reviewed by Elwyn Lynn, "Exposure to Contrast", The Weekend Review, The Australian, July 31 1993, p.10.
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