Curator, CDU Art Collection and Art Gallery
The Curator, CDU Art Collection and Art Gallery is Dr Joanna Barrkman (PhD, BA, Grad Dip. Grad Cert, MA, PhD.). Joanna formerly worked as Senior Curator, Southeast Asia and Pacific Arts at the Fowler Museum at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She curated Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia's Top End - exhibited at the Fowler Museum in 2021 - and edited the eponymous publication published as Volume 16 in the Fowler Museum Textile Series.
Prior to joining the staff at CDU in 2015, she previously held the position of Senior Curator Art of Southeast Asian Art and Material Culture at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (2003-2012). Joanna also worked at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra in the Asian Curatorial team (2013-14). She has curated exhibitions in Australia, Indonesia, USA and Timor-Leste. She co–curated the exhibition Textiles of Timor: island in a Woven Sea at Fowler Museum, Los Angles, USA and co-edited the eponymous publication in 2014 as Volume 13 of the Fowler Museum Textile Series.
Joanna's doctoral thesis, undertaken at the Australian National University, examined the significance of an ethnographic collection of Makasae and Naueti cultural material acquired from Baguia in Portuguese Timor during 1935, which is part of the collection of the Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland. With Makassae and Naueti community members, Joanna explored the contemporary significance of this collection through its digital 'return', following decades of social unrest and cultural dislocation in modern day Timor-Leste.
Contact
Dr Joanna Barrkman
E: joanna.barrkman@cdu.edu.au
T: 08 8946 7430
Exhibitions and Collection Officer
Eileen Lim is the Collections and Exhibitions Officer. Eileen commenced working at CDU Art Gallery in 2011 as a volunteer and intern. She is a graduate of a Bachelor of Creative Arts and Industries (Fine Arts) at Charles Darwin University.
Contact
Eileen Lim
E: eileen.lim@cdu.edu.au
T: 08 8946 6621
CDU Art Gallery location
Chancellery Building
Orange 12.1.02
University Drive South
Casuarina campus, Darwin
(adjacent to the Music School and the Indonesian Garden)
See the campus map.
The CDU Art Gallery is disabled friendly with ramp access at all points of entrance to the building.
Copyright: Images of art work on this site are reproduced for the purposes of research and study only. Whilst every effort has been made to trace Copyright holders, we would be grateful for any information concerning Copyright of the images and will withdraw them immediately upon the Copyright holder's request.
