Overview
Background
Sally Butler is a Reader in Art History.
Sally Butler took up the position as lecturer in Art History at the University of Queensland in 2004 after a period as Art History lecturer at the Australian National Univeristy in Canberra. Visual arts industry experience includes working for the Queensland Art Gallery and a number of freelance curating projects, and several years as Associate Editor of Australian Art Collector magazine and one of the edtiors for the Australia and New Zealand Journal of Art. Sally regularly writes for Australian visual arts magazines, maintaining a particular interest in contemporary Australian art, Australian indigenous art and new media art.
Research
Her research interests include cross-cultural critical theory, Australian Indigenous art, Australian contemporary art, photography and new media art. Current research includes: Indigenous art from Far North Queensland, Virtual Reality theory and photography, contemporary Queensland photography, and art and cultural tourism.
Availability
- Associate Professor Sally Butler is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australia Pacific Indigenous Art
In what ways does the study of Australia Pacific Indigenous art contribute to a broad scope of intellectual activity? How does the holistic nature of what drives Australia Pacific indigenous arts help advance academic pursuit of interdisciplinarity and embedding Indigenous knowledges into academic curricula?
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Australia Pacific Indigenous Art and Cultural Tourism
What are the capacities, potential and challenges for Australia's network of Indigenous art centres to participate in the cultural tourism industry? What kind of tourism psychology is involved in Indigenous art tourism itineraries? Can Indigenous art tourism contribute to decolonisation in Australia and the Pacific?
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Australian Art
What are the narratives of Australian art today, and how can we look differently at Australian art from the past? Are national narratives beyond their use in a global world?
Works
Search Professor Sally Butler’s works on UQ eSpace
2019
Journal Article
Art for a new understanding: an interview with Dr. Valerie Keenan, Manager of Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre
Butler, Sally (2019). Art for a new understanding: an interview with Dr. Valerie Keenan, Manager of Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre. Arts, 8 (3), 1-9. doi: 10.3390/arts8030091
2019
Other Outputs
Elisa-Jane Carmichael - weaving with ancestors
Butler, Sally (2019). Elisa-Jane Carmichael - weaving with ancestors. Garland, 15 (Ancient Now (China), June 2019).
2019
Book Chapter
Facing melancholia: racial implications of the disengaged gaze
Butler, Sally (2019). Facing melancholia: racial implications of the disengaged gaze. The persistence of melancholia in arts and culture. (pp. 163-175) edited by Andrea Bubenik. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429468469-10
2018
Other Outputs
Elisa Jane Carmichael: Will we swim together through the Saltwater waves?
Butler, Sally (2018). Elisa Jane Carmichael: Will we swim together through the Saltwater waves?. Will we swim together through the Saltwater waves?. (pp. 1-2) Brisbane, Australia: Onespace Gallery.
2018
Other Outputs
Elisa Carmichael's regenerative art
Butler, Sally (2018). Elisa Carmichael's regenerative art. Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts, 77-80.
2018
Book Chapter
Repurposing cultural heritage collections: the aesthetics and meaning of reuse
Butler, Sally (2018). Repurposing cultural heritage collections: the aesthetics and meaning of reuse. Subverting consumerism: reuse in an accelerated world. (pp. 53-70) edited by Robert Crocker and Keri Chiveralls. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315641812-4
2017
Other Outputs
Matter over mind
Butler, Sally (2017). Matter over mind. Gallerysmith.
2017
Book Chapter
Ghost Nets Art & Global Ecology/Art des 'filets fantômes' et écologie globale
Butler, Sally (2017). Ghost Nets Art & Global Ecology/Art des 'filets fantômes' et écologie globale. Territoire du rêve: art aborigène contemporain/Country of the dreaming: contemporary Aboriginal art. (pp. 242-277) Paris, France: ARTEOS.
2017
Book Chapter
Secrecy sensuality and politics in the writings and spoken word of Sam Watson
Butler, Sally (2017). Secrecy sensuality and politics in the writings and spoken word of Sam Watson. Dave Hullfish Bailey + Sam Watson: CityCat Project 2006-2016. (pp. 96-97) edited by Rex Butler. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press.
2017
Other Outputs
Die Kunst der Torres-Strait-Inseln
Butler, Sally (2017). Die Kunst der Torres-Strait-Inseln. Australische Indigene Kunstausstellung im Skulpturenpark Westerberg, Kunstler Bei Wu 2017. (pp. 51-56) edited by David Ng, Peter W. Thompson, Philip Bracht and Holger Stephan. Germany: Kunstler Bei Wu and Holy Verlag.
2016
Journal Article
Visual storytelling and the archival turn in North Queensland printmaking
Butler, Sally (2016). Visual storytelling and the archival turn in North Queensland printmaking. Imprint The Quarterly Journal of the Print Council of Australia, 51 (4), 28-33.
2016
Other Outputs
Brian Robinson: Pacific Crosscurrents
Butler, Sally (2016). Brian Robinson: Pacific Crosscurrents. Cairns, Australia: Issuu: Cairns Regional Gallery.
2015
Journal Article
Cheryl Creed and Nickeema Williams, a thousand words, State Library of Queensland, 6 December 2014 to 17 May 2015.
Butler, Sally (2015). Cheryl Creed and Nickeema Williams, a thousand words, State Library of Queensland, 6 December 2014 to 17 May 2015.. Queensland Review, 22 (2), 205-207. doi: 10.1017/qre.2015.20.
2015
Journal Article
Moulding Memory: Janet Fieldhouse's Ceramic Art
Butler, Sally (2015). Moulding Memory: Janet Fieldhouse's Ceramic Art. Eyeline, 2015 (83), 68-71.
2015
Other Outputs
Cross pose: body language against the grain
Butler, Sally (2015). Cross pose: body language against the grain. UQ Art Museum: The University of Queensland.
2015
Book Chapter
Alick Tipoti's 'on-beat' art: rhythm, cosmology & continuity
Butler, Sally (2015). Alick Tipoti's 'on-beat' art: rhythm, cosmology & continuity. Alick Tipoti Zugubal: Ancestral Spirits. (pp. 30-40) edited by Sally Butler. Cairns, QLD, Australia: Cairns Regional Gallery.
2015
Book
Alick Tipoti Zugubal: Ancestral Spirits
Sally Butler ed. (2015). Alick Tipoti Zugubal: Ancestral Spirits. Cairns, QLD, Australia: Cairns Regional Gallery.
2015
Book Chapter
Introduction
Butler, Sally (2015). Introduction. Alick Tipoti Zugubal: Ancestral Spirits. (pp. 5-7) edited by Sally Butler. Cairns, QLD, Australia: Cairns Regional Gallery.
2015
Other Outputs
Cross pose: body language against the grain
Butler, Sally (2015). Cross pose: body language against the grain. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
2014
Journal Article
Mavis Ngallametta is causing a quiet stampede in the art market
Butler, Sally (2014, 01 01). Mavis Ngallametta is causing a quiet stampede in the art market
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor Sally Butler is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Australian Indigenous Art and Politics 1975-1985
This project aims to understand how Australian Indigenous art encapsulated and helped to communicate political ideas about Indigenous land rights, social justice and equality in a period that also saw the emergence of the modern Australian Indigenous art movement.
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Australian Art Centres and Cultural Tourism
This project evaluates the capacities, potential and challenges for Australia's network of Indigenous Art Centres contributing in cultural tourism initiatives.
Contributions sought for:
Sally Butler (editor) 'Australian Indigenous Art and Cultural Tourism', Arts, Special Issue, Volume 9, 2019.
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
The value in developing a community centred archive of Quandamooka fibre work
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Katelyn Barney
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Doctor Philosophy
The value in developing a community centred archive of Quandamooka fibre work
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Katelyn Barney
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Doctor Philosophy
An Archival Aesthetic in Contemporary Art
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik
Completed supervision
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Refocusing on the Medium: The Rise of East Asia Video Art
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Paolo Magagnoli
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2022
Master Philosophy
Regenerating Quandamooka Weaving: Solving the knot
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Ian Lilley
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Innovation, Culturepreneurship and Arnhem Land's Contemporary Art
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amelia Barikin
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2019
Master Philosophy
An Aetiology of Racism: Gordon Bennett's Archive and Affective Conceptualism
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amelia Barikin
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Nothing comes into the universe/ and nothing leaves it: Maternal Subjectivity in the Poetry of Sharon Olds and the Art of Janine Antoni
Principal Advisor
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2010
Master Philosophy
"Girls are dancin¿: shôjo culture and feminism in contemporary Japanese art
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
Norman Lindsay: portrait of the artist
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
The Historiographic Role of Puppets in Contemporary Art
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Amelia Barikin
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Korea's Choson Dynasty Ceramics: Beyond Yanagi Sôetsu's 'Beauty of Sorrow' Discourse
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Isaac Lee
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
A Case of the Vanishing Mediator: Seventies Art in Australia
Associate Advisor
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
The Folkloric Shadow of Fine Art: On the Delimitation of Critical Aesthetics
Associate Advisor
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Resistance, Art, Parr: Engaging Mike Parr's Self-Correction
Associate Advisor
Media
Enquiries
Contact Associate Professor Sally Butler directly for media enquiries about:
- Aboriginal art
- Art - Aboriginal
- Australian art
- Critical theory - cross cultural
- Cross-cultural critical theory
- Indigenous art
- Photography
- Photography - contemporary
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