Dr John Gregory

Position title

• Senior Lecturer, Theory of Art & Design, Acting Head of Department

Qualifications

• BA(Hons) Melb
• PhD Melb

Statement

John transferred to Art & Design in 2005, after many years as a member of Visual Culture (formerly Visual Arts) at Monash Clayton. He has taught across a range of areas in the history and theory of art and visual culture, including French and Italian medieval, Italian Renaissance, Baroque (and 'Neo-Baroque') art and architecture, and honours art theory; as well as fashion and advertising, and Italian film (in collaboration with Italian Studies). He travels regularly, especially to Italy.

John’s research interests and publications span various aspects of European art history, and modern and contemporary Australian art. In recent years his research and writing has focussed principally on Australian painter Howard Arkley (1951-99). His major monograph on Arkley was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, coinciding with the opening of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Arkley retrospective in November 2006. He assisted with the audio-guide for the show, and gave a number of lectures and talks in connection with the exhibition in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane during its tour in 2006-7. He has also given several conference papers on Arkley, including one at the University of Crete in May 2007 (details below).

Research/Professional activities

Selected publications since 2002:

• 2007. ‘Juan Davila,’ in State Library of Victoria, The Art of the Collection, Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, pp.142-44
• 2007. ‘Interference Problems? Comments on the recent reception of Howard Arkley’, Art Monthly Australia, no.203 (Sept.), pp.28-31
• 2007. ‘Howard Arkley and “Popism”,’ in Lynne Seear & Julie Ewington (eds.), Brought to Light II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006 from the Queensland Art Gallery’s Collection, Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, pp.218-23
• 2007. ‘St Jerome in London’, Australian Book Review no.289 (March), p.36 [review of Lucian Freud & Sebastian Smee, Freud at Work, Jonathan Cape, 2006]
• 2007. ‘Ecology and Abstraction’, World Sculpture News Vol. 13, no.2 (Spring), pp.36-41 [on the sculpture of Dan Wollmering]
• 2006. Carnival in Suburbia: the Art of Howard Arkley, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press (x + 214 pp.)
• 2005. Review of Helen Hills (ed.), Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe, Parergon vol 22, no.1, pp. 235-237
• 2004. ‘The Colour of Mannerism: Some Exploratory Observations, Focusing on Jacopo Bassano's Martyrdom of St Catherine (1544),’ in David R. Marshall (ed.), The Italians in Australia: Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art, eds, Florence: Centro Di Edizioni, and Melbourne: Ian Potter Museum, The University of Melbourne, pp. 33-40
• 2003. Dennis Ropar - God save America, North Carlton: Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art (catalogue essay, pp.5-21)
• 2002. ‘Through a Glass, Arkley,’ Meanjin vol. 61, no.1, pp. 83-93.

Recent and forthcoming conference papers

• 2008. ‘The Carnivalesque Renaissance,’ CIHA 2008 (32nd International Congress of the History of Art, The University of Melbourne, Jan 2008).
  Publication of the proceedings is planned.
• 2008. ‘Fashioning Howard Arkley,’ IFFTI 2008 (‘The Body: Connections with Fashion’ - 10th Annual Conference for the International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes, RMIT, Melbourne, March 2008). Publication of the proceedings is planned.
• 2007. ‘A Bakhtinian View of the Art of Australian Painter Howard Arkley (1951-99),’ Perspectives and Limits of Dialogism in Mikhail Bakhtin: Applications in Psychology, Art, Education and Culture (International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Crete, Rethymnon, 25-27 May 2007) – publication forthcoming in proceedings volume.
• 2006. ‘Howard Arkley and Fashion,’ AAANZ annual conference, Monash University, Faculty of Art & Design, Dec.2006.

Supervisions

John is also an active postgraduate supervisor:

Current supervisions

PhD

• Callister, Winsome, ‘The Architecture of Chancellor & Patrick’ (under examination)
• Durré, Caroline, ‘Post-Op: on the representation of space and spatial paradox’
• Friemann, Marlene, ‘Masks and Metaphors: Caravaggio and the Mannerist Connection}
• Hallows, Charlotte, ‘Theorizing Heterogeneity’
• Henderson, Elizabeth, ‘Fragrance, Femininity and the Fetish’
• Martin, Susannah, ‘Fashion illustration’
• Phung, Siew Poh ‘Exploration of Chinese Culture through Myth and Belief via Digital Media’
• Quinn, Paul ‘Catastrophization’
• Whatley, Bruce, ‘Left Hand Right Hand: Implications of Ambidextrous Image making’ (under examination)
• Xeros-Constantinides, Sophia, ‘A Monstrous Affair: Imaging the Mother-Baby Unseen’

Master of Fine Arts

• Jowett, Charlotte, ‘Self-determination, as Antidote to Toxic Certainty’
• Watson, Claire, ‘Covert Operations: a Phenomenology of Food’

PhD completions since 2002 (main supervisor unless noted):

• Allen, Traudi, ‘Homesickness: Myth and Stereotypes in Australian Visual culture’ (associate supervisor, assisting Prof. John Rickard and Dr David Dunstan, National Centre for Australian Studies) [2007]
• Browne, Pamela, ‘Latvian Photography from 1956 to the late 1970s: a historical and critical study’ [2003]
• Calkoen, Helen, ‘Interior Space in Hellenistic architecture’ [2006]
• Makarova, Nina, ‘The Theme of Marriage in Titian’s Art [2005]
• Modesti, Adelina, ‘Elisabetta Sirani and Women’s Cultural Production in Early Modern Bologna’ [2006]
• Parr, Adrian, ‘Creative Production: from da Vinci to Deleuze’ [2002]
• Presa, Elizabeth, ‘The Poetics of the Book in Sculpture’ (co-supervisor with Dr Chris Worth, Centre for Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies) [2003]
• Shingleton, Colin, ‘Aus dem Dunkel: Art and the Theory of the History of the Future’ [2006]