Amanda was appointed professor and head of the School of Art and Design at UOW in
2004. She has more than 20 years' experience in the arts in Australia and during
that time has been director of various arts organisations -- the Meat Market Craft Centre
in Melbourne, the Crafts Council of NSW and from 1998-2004 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.
Professor Lawson has also worked at the Australian Council for the Arts, with NSW State
and Regional Development and AusIndustry and as an independent arts consultant. At UOW
she teaches in the areas of curatorial practice and art history and theory. She gained a
BA from the University of Edinburgh and a first class honours degree in Arts at the
University of Wollongong before completing a PhD in Australian Literature at the
University of Sydney in 2002. Her current research projects include an Australian
Research Council Linkage Project with Museums and Galleries NSW and Object: Australian
Centre for Craft and Design exploring exhibition interpretation and audience development
in contemporary art and craft.

Catalogues

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Alan Peascod - influences and dialogue (with C. Judd), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2008)

Alan Peascod was an influential teacher, mentor and friend to many in the ceramics community...

 

Web sites

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The Virtual Museum of the Pacific (web site) (with Brogan S. Bunt and Peter Eklund), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2009)

The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is a collaborative project between the University of Wollongong...

 

Conference presentations

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CollectionWeb Digital Ecosystems: A Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Framework for generating Museum Web sites (with Peter Eklund, Peter Goodall, and Tim Wray), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2010)

CollectionWeb is a development platform for Web-based social media sites that distribute, display, annotate and...

 

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The Art Collection Ecosystem: Discovering Art using Formal Concept Analysis (with Tim Wray and Peter Eklund), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2010)

We describe an application and case study in the design and evaluation of the Art...

 

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Designing the Digital Ecosystem of the Virtual Museum of the Pacific (with Peter Eklund, Peter Goodall, Tim Wray, Brogan Bunt, L. Christidis, V. Daniel, and M. Van Olffen), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2009)

The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is a digital ecosystem implemented as Web 2.0 application...

 

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The Virtual Museum of the Pacific (with Vinod Daniel, Melanie Van Olffen, Dion Peita, Peter Eklund, and Peter Goodall), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2009)

The Australian Museum’s ethnographic collection consists of 110,000 objects from Indigenous Australia (33%); Pacific (50%)...

 

Video conference presentations

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Voices from the regions, challenges and strategies, Fourth National Public Galleries Summit (2009)

This paper explores some of the issues for galleries in responding to and shaping national...