Research Areas and Publications

Associate Professor Catherine Speck’s area of research include:

• Artists letters • Australian artists in Paris and London: Belle Epoque, Edwardian and modern eras • Contemporary art criticism • Cosmopolitanism, internationalism and the making of Australian art • DAAO – Designers and Artists on-line (formerly Dictionary of Australian artists on-line) • Expatriatism and the idea of national art histories • Jacob Epstein and modern sculpture • Modern art: Australian and international • Representations of war and peace • Surrealism in American art

Publications

Books Speck, C. Painting Ghosts: Australian Women Artists in the Two World Wars, Thames and Hudson/Craftsman House, 2004, 239pp.

Speck, C. Heysen to Heysen, National Library of , , forthcoming

Book Chapters / Book entries Speck, Catherine, ‘Women commemorating Anzac Day: an alternative tradition’, in Rentschler, R. and Hede, AM (ed.) Anzac Day in the New Millennium, Heidelberg Press, 2010 (forthcoming).

Speck, C. ‘Nora Heysen: A German-Australian success story’, in Monthieth, P. (ed.), The German Presence in South Australia, Wakefield Press, , 2009.

Speck, C. The Australian War Museum, women artists and the national memory of the First World War’, in Crotty, M. (ed.) When the Soldiers Return, RMIT Informit, 2009, pp. 277-290.

Speck, C. ‘Landscape and the memory of war’, in Anderson, Jaynie (ed), Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence, Miegunyah Press, , 2009, pp. 649-653.

Speck, C. ‘Adelaide’s Federal Exhibitions: 1898 – 1923’, in Darian-Smith, K.; Gillespie, R.; Jordan, C.; and Willis, E. (eds.) Seize the Day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World, Monash E -Press, 2008, pp. 17.1 -17.16.

Speck. C. ‘A not so genteel pen: Grace Cossington Smith’s British – Australian cartoons’, in Warner, L. and Kerr, H. (ed) Projections of Britain, Lythrum Press, Adelaide, 2008, pp. 36 - 51.

Speck, C. ‘Depicting the land: The artistic heritage of colonial Australia’, in Gare, D. and Ritter, D. (eds) Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past since 1788, Harcourt and Brace, 2007, 154-159.

Speck, Catherine, ‘Nora Heysen: A tale of a daughter and her father’ in Magarey, S and Round, K. (eds), Living History: Essays on History as Biography, Australian Humanities Press, 2005, pp. 127-150.

Speck, C. ‘Generation #9/26’, in Gerz, J. (ed) Die Anthologie der Kunst (The Anthology of Art), DuMont, Germany & Actes Sud, France, 2004, p. 141.

Speck, C. ‘Hilda Rix Nicholas’s ‘A man’ in Artists in Action, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 2003, pp. 22-3.

Speck, C. ‘Thora Ungar’ in Kerr, J. (ed.) Heritage: The National Women’s Art Book, Craftsman House, , 1995, p.468, also in the Dictionary of Australian artists on-line: www.daao.org.au

Speck, C. ‘Thora Ungar: The Kokoda Trail’ in Kerr, J. (ed.) Heritage: The National Women's Art Book, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, p.255.

Speck, C. ‘Reinforcements: Troops Marching’, in Sullivan, G. Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Art Writers, Piper Press, Sydney, 1994, p.92.

Speck, C. ‘A Perceptual Training and Drawing Program for Schematic Drawers’ in Burkhardt, G. (ed.) A.C.T. Papers on Education 1987, Canberra CAE, l987, pp.72-83.

Refereed articles Speck, C. and Downey, G. ‘Cosmopolitanism and modernism: on writing a new Australian art history’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol. 2009, no. 2, pp. 101-117.

Speck, C. ‘Nora Heysen: a tale of a daughter and her father’, Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 19, no. 43, 2004, pp. 55-73.

Speck, C. ‘Looking critically at looking at art’, Australian Art Education, vol 25, no 1, 2002, pp. 51-53.

Speck, C. ‘Edith Cavell: Martyr or patriot?’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol 2, no 1, 2001, pp.83-98.

Speck, C. ‘Women artists and the representation of the First World War’, in War and other catastrophes, Journal of Australian Studies, no 60, 1999, pp.27-39.

Speck, C. ‘Power Dressing: Women in the Military’, Australian Journal of Art, vol. 14, no. 2, 1999, pp.149-163.

Speck, C. ‘10 Years On’, Australian Art Education, vol. 22, no. 1, 1999, pp.86-7.

Speck, C. ‘A depth art curriculum for the primary school’(1989), Australian Art Education, vol. 22, no. 1, 1999, pp.71-85.

Speck, C. ‘Australian women in the !940s: Examining citizenship through visual representations’ in J. Damousi and K. Ellinghaus (eds), Citizenship, Women and Social Justice: International Historical Perspectives, Australian Network for Women’s History and Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1999, pp. 382-92.

Speck, C. ‘The negotiation of career: Women teachers at the South Australian School of Art 1888-1968’, Australian Women Studies Association National Conference Proceedings, Adelaide, April 1998, pp.141- 160.

Speck, C. (and Pellarin, J.; Lynch, B.), ‘The post graduate experience: Visual arts research degrees in South Australia’, Australian Art Education, vol. 21. no. 1, 1998, pp.49-55.

Speck, C. ‘Women Teachers at the South Australian School of Art’ Australian Art Education, vol. 20, no. 3, 1997, pp.33-46.

Speck, C. ‘Women's War Memorials and Citizenship’, Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 11, no. 23, 1996, pp.129-145.

Speck, C. ‘Gender Differences in Children’s Drawing’, Australian Art Education, vol. 18, no.2, 1995, pp.41-51.

Speck, C. and Prideaux, D. ‘Fundamentalist Education and Creation Science in Australian Schools’, Australian Journal of Education, Vol 37, No 3, 1993, pp.279-295.

Speck, C. ‘A Depth Art Curriculum in the Primary School’, Australian Art Education, vol. 13, no.3, l989, pp.6-19.

Mortensen, C., Speck, C. and Neander, K. ‘Art, Representation and Values’, Journal of the Institute of Art Education, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1986, pp.63-66.

Speck, C. ‘Are Schematic Drawers Necessarily Schematic?’ Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 9, no. 1, 1985, pp.1-13.

Speck, C. ‘The First National Index of School Art Programs: Volume 2’, Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 9, no. 3, 1985, pp.38-50.

Speck, C. ‘Editorial’, Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 9, no. 3, 1985, np.

Speck, C. ‘The First National Index of School Art Programs: Volume 1.’ Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 8, no. 3, 1984, pp.49-92.

Mortensen, C. and Speck, C. ‘Aestheticians and Wine Tasters: A response to Mitchell and Woolcock’, Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 8, no. 1, 1984, pp.85-9.

Monographs Prideaux, D. and Speck, C. Accelerated Christian Education in South Australian: A Curriculum Evaluation of Primary Social Studies, Secondary Science and Junior Primary Language Arts. Non- Government Schools Registration Board of South Australia’, SA Education Department, 1989, 143pp.

Book reviews Speck, C. Review of ‘Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius by Ross McMullin (Scribe, Melbourne, 2006), Australian Historical Studies, vol. 38, no. 129, 2007.

Speck, Catherine, review of ‘Public and Private Amateurs, by Caroline Jordan (Melbourne University Press, 2005), Hecate: Australian Women’s Book Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 2005, http: emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/awbr/issues/140/contents.html

Speck, C. Review of ‘Edith Collier: Her life and work’, 1885-1964, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol 1, no 2, 2000, pp.229-235.

Speck, C. Review of ‘The Sydney Art Patronage System 1890-1940’, Australian Journal of Art, vol. 14, no 2, 1999, pp.178-183.

Speck, C. Review of Topliss, Helen, ‘Modernism and Feminism: Australian Women Artists 1900 – 1940’, Australian Journal of Art, vol. 13, 1996, pp.74-77.

Speck, C. Review of Aland, J. and Darby, M. ‘Art Connections’, Artlink, vol 12, no 3, Sept. 1992, pp.61- 2.

Speck, C. ‘Fallow Fields?: Review of Janine Burke (1990), Field of Vision’, Artlink, vol 11, no 3, 1991, pp.48-9.

Speck C. Review of Gentle, K. ‘Children and Art Teaching’, Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 11, no. 2, 1987, pp.63-65.

Mortensen, C. and Speck, C. Review of Margolis, J. ‘Art and Philosophy’, Journal of the Institute of Art Education, vol. 7, no. 2, 1983, pp.112-113.

Contemporary Art Criticism Speck, Catherine, ‘Thinking about Talking our way home’, Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture Broadsheet, vol. 34, no. 4, 2005, pp. 216-219.

Speck, Catherine, ‘An Inconvenient Obsession: Ian North, Canberra Suite and Canberra Coda 1980- 81’, Photofile, 2005.

Speck, C. ‘Nora Heysen: An Obituary’, Art Monthly Australia, March 2004, pp. 33-34.

Speck, C. ‘United notions’, Craft Culture Reviews, http://www.craftculture.org/, October 2003

Speck, C. ‘Light Black’, Craft Culture Reviews, http://www.craftculture.org/, April 2003

Speck, C. ‘Wild Nature’, Craft Culture Reviews, http://www.craftculture.org/, November 2002

Speck, C. ‘In the context of contemporary art, what is your vision of a yet unknown art’, in Jochen Gerz, The Anthology of Art, http://www.anthology-of-art.net, January 2002

Speck, C. ‘The ritual of tea’, Object, no 40, 2002, p.87.

Speck, C. ‘Airport Luggage ‘, Object, February 2002

Speck, C. ‘Strangers in the light’, Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture Broadsheet, June 2001.

Speck, C. ‘A bohemian flower in a war zone’, Art and Australia, vol 38, no 3, 2000, pp.477-8.

Speck, C. ‘Sugar nights’ Art Monthly on-line reviews, www.artmonthly.org.au, December 2000.

Speck, C. ‘A far cry from waiting room wallpaper: Ian North’s The Intelligence of Blood’ in Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, special issue on ‘Sculpture and cities, public art under scrutiny’, vol 20, no 4, 2000, pp. 51-3.

Speck, C. ‘Chemistry’ Art Monthly on-line reviews, www.artmonthly.org.au, October 2000.

Speck, C. ‘An exquisite tension’, Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture Broadsheet, vol 29, no 3, 2000, pp.18-19.

Speck, C. ‘Three South Australian Digital Printmakers’, Imprint, vol. 33, no. 1, 1998.

Speck, C. ‘Hello Sailor: Bert Flugelman’, Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol. 17 no. 2, 1997, p.67.

Speck, C. ‘Recent Exhibitions: South Australia’, Imprint, vol. 32, no. 2, 1997, p.17.

Speck, C. ‘The Virtual in Hand,’ Artlink, vol. 16, no. 1, 1996, p.73-74.

Speck, C. ‘Manifest Exposure’, Imprint, vol. 31, no 4, 1996, p.18.

Speck, C. ‘Recuerdos: The Ceramic Sculpture of Liz Williams’, Pottery in Australia, vol. 33, no. 1, 1994, pp.62-65.

Speck, C. ‘Gilding the Landscape’, Object, no. 1, 1994, pp.19-22.

Speck, C. ‘Noela Hjorth: The Return of Sophia’, Agenda, no. 37, July, 1994.

Speck, C. ‘Women's War Memorials’, Artlink vol. 14, no. 4, 1994, pp.32-35.

Speck, C. ‘A Surreal Garden’, Ceramics, Art and Perception, no 10, 1992, pp.75-77.

Speck, C. ‘Not Necessarily Nice, Anna Platten: Paintings and Studies 1982-1992’, Contemporary Art Centre Broadsheet, vol 21, no 3, September 1992, np.

Speck, C. ‘The Emergence of Glass Sculpture in Australia’, Craft Arts International, no 22, 1991, pp.49- 52.

Speck, C. ‘The Nude Show’, Art and Text, no 40, 1991, pp.99-100.

Speck, C. ‘A Spiritual Journey’, Contemporary Art Centre Broadsheet, vol. 16, no. 3, September, 1987, p.10.

Catalogue Essays Speck, C. ‘Here I am. Here I am’, in Siamak Fallah: az zaban-e modari: lάbaikábaik l (no.1) , Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 2009.

Speck, C. ‘Union Street’ in Greg Geraghty, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide, 2006.

Speck, C. ‘Mum I want to be brown’ in Darren Siwes, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide, 2006.

Speck, C. ‘Mum I want to be brown’ reprinted in National NAIDOC Week 06: Works by Nici Cumpston and Darren Siwes, South Australian Department of Health, July 2006.

Speck, C. The world is all that is not the case, University of Melbourne, 2006.

Speck, Catherine, ‘The dialectics of lace’ in Lace Kitchen, Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre Inc., 21 July – 26 August 2005.

Speck, C. ‘Twilight’, Mark Kimber – Twilight, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, 2002

Speck, C. ‘Peeping below the surface’ in The child within: An exhibition of recent work by 13 artists from the Artist-in-Residence program, Wilderness School, Adelaide, 1999, pp.2-6.

Speck, C. ‘Cinderella Dressed in Yella’, Adelaide Central Gallery, March 1998, np.

Speck, C. ‘Significant Women Artists in the South Australian School of Art’, University of South Australia Art Museum, February 1997, np.