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.^[1] 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) ISBN 9780367492243
• 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). ISBN 9781760462963
• Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes, co-edited with Jacqueline Millner (Routledge, 2018). ISBN 9781138061811
• Feminist Curating: The First Hundred Years. In Curating Feminism, edited by Jacqueline Millner. (SCA/University of Sydney, 2014). ISBN 9781921558023
• 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). ISBN 9781920898656
• 'Margaret Preston at home'. In Radical Revisionism: an anthology of writings on Australian art, edited by Rex Butler. (IMA Brisbane, 2005). ISBN 1875792554
• Indecent Exposures: Twenty Years of Australian Feminist Photography (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1991) ISBN 1863731628
• Dissonance: Feminism and the arts 1970-1990 (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1991) ISBN 978-1-86373-325-0

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