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
2014
Journal Article
A brush with the moving image. Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Parallel Worlds
Butler, Sally (2014). A brush with the moving image. Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Parallel Worlds. Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts (80), 92-93.
2014
Journal Article
LANDSEASKY: revisiting spatiality in video art
Butler, Sally (2014). LANDSEASKY: revisiting spatiality in video art. Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, 34 (4)
2013
Book Chapter
Dick Roughsey Goobalathaldin: Goobalathaldin's modern life
Butler, Sally (2013). Dick Roughsey Goobalathaldin: Goobalathaldin's modern life. Newv3: Selected recent acquisitions 2011-2103. (pp. 82-83) edited by Ian Were. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
2013
Book Chapter
Ngalpingka Simms's Wayul: occupying space
Butler, Sally (2013). Ngalpingka Simms's Wayul: occupying space. Newv3: Selected recent acquisitions 2011-2103. (pp. 32-33) edited by Ian Were. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
2012
Journal Article
Mikala Dwyer's occult constructivism
Butler, Sally (2012). Mikala Dwyer's occult constructivism. Eyeline, 77, 46-51.
2012
Book Chapter
Mavis Ngallametta, creative country; The Lockhart River 'Old Girls' a homelands state of mind; Roy McIvor - Wawu; Bagu commemorative objects
Butler, Sally (2012). Mavis Ngallametta, creative country; The Lockhart River 'Old Girls' a homelands state of mind; Roy McIvor - Wawu; Bagu commemorative objects. New, v. 2: selected recent acquisitions, 2009-2011. (pp. 127-133) edited by Ian Were. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
2011
Journal Article
'21st Century' installation art in its prime
Butler, Sally (2011). '21st Century' installation art in its prime. Eyeline, 74, 50-57.
2010
Other Outputs
Before time today: reinventing tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal art
Butler, Sally (2010). Before time today: reinventing tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal art. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
2010
Book Chapter
Goobalathaldin's Rainbow Serpent
Butler, Sally (2010). Goobalathaldin's Rainbow Serpent. Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection. (pp. 172-173) edited by Follett, Roslyn. St Lucia: University of Queensland Library.
2010
Journal Article
Unsettled Australia in the art of Annabel Nowlan
Butler, Sally (2010). Unsettled Australia in the art of Annabel Nowlan. Eyeline, 72, 44-48.
2010
Book Chapter
Experimental art in Queensland
Butler, Sally (2010). Experimental art in Queensland. Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 2010. (pp. 14-26) edited by Sally Butler and Henrietta Marrie. Brisbane, Australia: Arts Queensland.
2009
Journal Article
The inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Butler, Sally (2009). The inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. Eyeline, 70, 69-71.
2008
Other Outputs
Our way: Contemporary Aboriginal art From Lockhart River. A UQ Art Museum touring exhibition
Butler, Sally (2008). Our way: Contemporary Aboriginal art From Lockhart River. A UQ Art Museum touring exhibition. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2008
Book Chapter
Rosella Namok: our way
Butler, Sally (2008). Rosella Namok: our way. New: selected recent acquisitions 2007 - 2008. (pp. 38-39) edited by Helmrich, Michelle. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
2008
Book Chapter
Exploiting the avant-garde
Butler, Sally (2008). Exploiting the avant-garde. Fully expolited labour: Pat Hoffie. (pp. 104-105) edited by Sally Butler. Brisbane, Australia: The University Queensland Art Museum.
2008
Book Chapter
Introduction
Butler, Sally (2008). Introduction. Fully expolited labour: Pat Hoffie. (pp. 97-97) edited by Sally Butler. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland Art Museum.
2008
Book Chapter
Alick Tipoti: Zugubal
Butler, Sally (2008). Alick Tipoti: Zugubal. New: selected recent acquisitions 2007 - 2008. (pp. 72-73) edited by Michele Helmrich. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
2008
Book Chapter
Brook Andrew: retrieving history
Butler, Sally (2008). Brook Andrew: retrieving history. New: selected recent acquisitions 2007 - 2008. (pp. 130-131) edited by Helmrich, Michelle. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
2007
Book Chapter
Outstation art: Emily Kngwarreye and Utopia Awelye batik
Butler, S. (2007). Outstation art: Emily Kngwarreye and Utopia Awelye batik. Brought to Light II. Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006 from the Queensland Art Gallery. (pp. 176-183) edited by Seear, L. and Ewington, J.. South Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery Publishing.
2006
Book Chapter
The after-image of reason
Butler, S M (2006). The after-image of reason. Sensing the Surface: Carl Warner Images 1995-2005. (pp. 11-22) edited by Jocelyn Wolfe. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: University of Queensland Art Museum.
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
Resistance, Art, Parr: Engaging Mike Parr's Self-Correction
Associate Advisor
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
The Folkloric Shadow of Fine Art: On the Delimitation of Critical Aesthetics
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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