Winner of the Leibler Prize, a Deakin University-wide award May 2000. Deakin  University - Geelong Conferring PhD  Photo.

Dr Juliette Peers, Curriculum Vitae, email RMIT 
RMIT University, Melbourne

Exhibition of works by Australian artists resident in France selected from collections across Australia. Essay by Juliette Peers on images of women in Paris and Australian women artists' cultural and fashionable experience of life in inter war Paris.

The Encyclopedia of Girl Culture is a comprehensive index to girls' culture, creativity, games, fashion, toys, social life, music, literature, cinema and television in north America in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Dr Juliette Peers has contributed two extended critical overviews of Doll Culture and Ballet and Girl Culture, as well as general essays on Mattel and various dolls including Blythe, the Flavas and Razanne

This monograph features essays by leading sculpture scholars in Britain, America, Australia and New Zealand, including eminent British historian Benedict Read and American scholar David Getsy, and Australians Noel Hutchison, Juliette Peers, and curator Deborah Edwards.... 

Subjects discussed range from Mackennal's significance in the context of European traditions; the artist's close connections with the most important theatrical personalities of the age; his preoccupation with Symbolism and the femme fatale; Mackennal's relationships with Australian sculptors, and his prominence as a designer of medals, coins and stamps.

The exhibition and publication have been conceived as two related, yet independent and equally important ventures...

The book "Bertram Mackennal" is  the only book currently available on Bertram Mackennal. Lavishly illustrated - the monograph addresses the life and art oof Mackennal and includes essays by eminent scholars in Britain, America, Australian and New Zealand. The catalogue raisonne on CD-ROM is included with the monograph and provides a comprehensive resource on Mackennal and his art.

Exhibition  at  Art Gallery of New South Wales from 
17 August - 4 November 2007 - free entry.
National Gallery of Victoria - December-February 24 2008

Title: Bertram Mackennal
Author: Deborah Edwards
Publication Category: Sculpture, Victorian Art, Australian Art
Binding: hardback
Illustrations: 150 colour images + 130 b&w
Size: 305 x 250mm portrait, 216 pages + CD-ROM: Catalogue Raisonné
ISBN: 1741740118
ISBN 13: 9781741740110
Price: $80.00
Available August 2007

To order contact: 
Art Gallery of New South Wales - 
MACKENNAL WEB PAGE HERE
 

Florence Broadhurst lived an amazing life. Not content with reality, she  invented and reinvented herself.
In this movie -the history of her life,  several eminent historians are seen talking about her life including  Dr Peers who comments on the veracity of many events reported in her life especially pertaining to the actual design of the patterns and was also a consultant historian for the film.
Official web site Dendy Films

the old magic - elders of the artworld

Artlink presents an innovative examination of the extraordinary 
contribution of senior members of the Australian artworld. 

Part of this unparalleled line-up is Juliette Peers' review of the newly 
published book  "Joan Kerr: A pictorial biography 1938-2004" by James Semple Kerr, published to accompany Joan's papers to the National Library of Australia 2006 

This book presents the personal stories behind Joan Kerr's wide-ranging career, presenting insights into her family background, her development and the values that supported her ongoing professional life.

Vol 26 no 1 - Art History: Go Figure reconfigures Australian art history. 
 

Missing in the History Wars
FEATURE by Juliet Peers 
Discusses the near-death state of the public presentation of historical Australian art and art history - missing in action in the history wars? With web page links

   * Review: Red Contemporary Art Events 
    * Feature: Faites Vos Jeux: Aesthetics and Dis/Order in Kennett's Victoria 
    * Feature: One Pole Too Many? 
              Learning to Speak the Language of a Successful Australian Arts Practitioner 
    * Book review: The Wild(e) Colonial Boy 
    * Feature: In a Barbie World 
    * Feature: The Public Interest: Is There Any? 
    * Feature: Beyond the Bleeding Heart... 
    * Feature: Three Fragments of an Aberrant Narrative of Australian Identity 
    * Book review: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire 
    * Feature: Spots n' Dots n' Stars n' Bars 
    * A Magic Toyshop: an interview with John Bird 
    * What's New Pussycat? 
    * Book review: There's No Santa Claus, Virginia 
                 (Only Curators, Critics, Dealers, Academics and Administrators) 
    * Editorial: Wer ist Unschuldig? 
    * Feature: Image Bank 
    * Feature: Pretty Baby 
    * Feature: The Other Big F-Word 
    * Feature: Husbandry and the Corporate Collection 
    * Feature: HER-ESIES Ancient and Modern 
    * Feature review: Nourishment for Tough Times: Bring A Plate Conference 
    * Feature: Fashion Infiltrates the Galleries 
    * Feature: Exchange Value # 1. If It's Tuesday it Must be a Conference on Art and Globalism
    * Review: Pitch Your Own Tent
    * Review: Hothouse 
    * Review: Sculpture at RMIT During the Jomantas Years 1961-1987 
    * Review: Three Colours: Gordon Bennett and Peter Robinson 
    * Review: Red Shoe Delivery Service 
    * Review: I Wanna be in Pictures - The 14th Annual Linden Postcard Show 
    * Feature: How Much is that Artwork in the Window? Notes on Shops and Art 
    * Feature: Living the Lie (of the land) 
    * Review: Notes from 2045: Meredith Rowe 
    * Feature: Sideways Glances 
    * Review: Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia 
    * Book review: Carpet Wars by Christopher Kremmer 
    * Review: Mightier than the Sword 
    * Review: Another Look: Six Women Artists of the 1950s 
    * Review: Celebrating The Exquisite Corpse 
    * Review: Little Rippers: Australian Fringe Pop 
    * Feature: Animal Magnetism: Sharon Goodwin and the Eternal Romance of the Bestial 
    * Feature: Rosslynd Piggott: Perfect/Sense 
    * Review: Allure: The Feminine in Print and Memoryware 
    * Review: Landscape and Nocturne Images of Night and Darkness from Colonial to Contemporary 
    * Feature: Unchain my Art: Myths Around Women Artists 
    * Feature: Artlink and Museums, Past and Present 
    * Feature: Missing in the History Wars 
    * Review: Festival Melbourne 2006

exhibition
by Naomi Ota

Craft Victoria 
 3 November  - 3 December 2005

Invited to Present a lecture in the Stadtprojekt on global and local influences in Australian Fashion 25 July 2005 at Gallerie Ko Duesseldorf.

Essay by Juliette Peers as part of an anthology dealing with local and global influences in fashion is in press with Hantje Krantz Publishers

Published which  includes a history  and timeline of the organisation  by Dr Juliette Peers, and practical information about joining and accessing the Register. 
It  is illustrated in  full colour  throughout by  historic and contemporary work of members of the Register. It also has a vision statement,  membership forms, and instructions  for accessing the Register
This book is intended for schools, libraries and arts organisations. It aims to inform the public about the Register and to encourage participation through membership and volunteer activities. ISBN 0-646-44586-3

exhibition exploring dolls and their interaction with contemporary art

Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, UK,
23 April - 12 June 2005.

Catalogue isbn 0 948723 57 2
includes artists' statements,
interview with French dollmaker and 
artist Michael Nedjar and 
essays by Jackie Lewis on "Fashion, Fetish and the Mannequin",  by Valerie Sinason on
"The significance of Different Play Material for Sexually Abused Children and Others", by Suzie Plumb
overviewing the human-doll-culture interaction and by Juliette Peers on "Doll History and Fashion Theory"

Artlink volume 24 no 4 December 2004 - article by Juliette Peers "If it is Tuesday it Must Be a Conference on Contemporary Art and Globalisation" 

discusses a number of conferences that took place in the autumn and winter months of 2004 in Melbourne including Empires, Ruins and Networks, the South project and Resart, that examined in various ways the issue of interchange and communication across nations in contemporary art. 

(Suny Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)
by Thomas J. Tobin (Editor)

Chapter 10. 
Pre-Raphaelitism in Colonial Australia
JULIETTE PEERS

New York University Press; 
(November 2004) 
ISBN: 0791462668

Dr Juliette Peers (RMIT, Melbourne): Emma Minnie Boyd: Between the Dichotomies

The late nineteenth century Australian artist Emma Minnie Boyd 1858-1936 sits midway between a number of cultural polarities colouring Australian interpretations and understanding of nineteenth century culture. 

Because of the anomalies of positioning Boyd in cultural discourse and the manner in which her career crosses divides that are posited in secondary sources, she can cast light upon patterns and stereotypes of the demarcation/definition of Australian experiences of Victorian culture. 

She is famed for her detailed, "English"-styled Victorian genre paintings, and was accepted at London's Royal Academy, yet simultaneously she produced the largest surviving oeuvre of Australian nationalist, plein air landscapes by a woman artist. Her nationalist oeuvre is discounted, despite its obvious visual parallel to colleagues' work, because she is a woman, because she was born into a genteel, anglophile, europhile family circle. Her favoured medium, watercolour, is frequently seen as more English than Australian, although it was used by many nationalist landscapists. 

Late twentieth century scholarship emphasised her as a member of a family clique that stood apart an elite, beyond the general mainstream of the Australian artworld. However early reviews placed her as central fixture of Melbourne art circles and she exhibited widely. Drawing upon new research for a survey exhibition an article in an anthology on Australian art in press with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, this paper will explore Emma Minnie Boyd in relation to notions of the antipodal, dichotomous and polarities in defining nineteenth Century Australian culture and how they are expressed in cultural interpretation.

 

 Dr Juliette Peers: How much is that artwork in the window? notes on shops and art .

This is a 6 page article with full colour  photos

"The Fashion Doll -From Bébé Jumeau to Barbie"&nnbsp; June 2004

Author: Juliette Peers Research Associate and Lecturer of Textile Design, Frances Burke Textile Resource Centre , RMIT University, Victoria 
 

"Feminists have argued that the Barbie doll perpetuates unrealistic standards of feminine beauty and undermines the credibility of women - that her long, slender plastic limbs and tiny waist fetishize the female body in unnatural ways and that her mature, overtly fashionable image promotes consumerism and superficiality over and above women’s liberty and intellect. Depending on the viewer, Barbie is either a malign symbol of the strategies of the capitalist system or she is a symbol of glamour, high fashion and style, a fascinating indice of cultural change and nostalgic memory. Yet both Barbie’s fans and detractors assume that she stands alone.

"In reality she is the most high profile of a series of iconic dolls that over the past century and a half have been intimately connected to notions of fashionability. The prominence of haute couture in popular culture suggests that the link between fashion marketing and dolls should be an obvious one. Yet to date this connection has not been systematically explored. Doll collecting has been viewed as an enthusiasts or curatorial preserve, while the volumes these artefacts speak about culture and identity has not been adequately interrogated. Peers’ original and shrewd analysis fills a major gap in cultural studies by examining in depth the doll’s associations with concepts of femininity and fashionability. "

ISBN 1859737382,
Publication date: 2/6/2004 Berg Publishers 
224pp 20 b&w illus, bibliog, index, hardback
Also available in Paperback

The essential reference to one of humanity's most enduring art forms 

Antonia Boström, Editor 
CONTIBUTORS : Include Juliette Peers 
With an international scope, this fully illustrated reference spans the entire history of sculpture, from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century. While devoting significant attention to individual artists and their works, the Encyclopedia also explores sculpture from the vantage points of history, criticism, theory, aesthetics, production, training, and presentation, making this the most comprehensive, in-depth source on the subject ever published. 

Edited by a renowned specialist in the field, this three-volume set features over 800 entries, written by some 500 experts in the history of art and sculpture. 

 
 

Convenor [with others], Dr Juliette Peers  - 

Wednesday 17 March - 2004   6.30 INTERMESH - 
Popular Exchanges in Fashion Forum
Divas, Dudes, Dolls and Droids: New style icons for the 21st Century. 

Melbourne artists and cultural commentators Philip Brophy, Mark McDean, Juliette Peers and Mel Campbell will examine current trends in popular culture and fashion. All Enquiries: Centre for Contemporary Photography. 205 Johnston Street, Fitzroy. Tel: (03) 9417 1549 or 0409 515 536.

"The Perfect Touch", 
the  first curated retrospective exhibition of this significant Australian Artist. Curated by Rodney James.

Major catalogue essay by Juliette Peers
This catalogue is an attractively  designed production with  32 pages,
full colour reproductions of many of her previously unpublished works.

Mornington Peninsula  Regional  Art Gallery

 NGV public programs and events  Ian Potter Centre NGV Federation  Square  Melbourne "Direct from keynote appearances at the University of Queensland’s Making an Appearance: Fashion, Dress    and Consumption conference, international fashion and dress commentators and cultural historians Professor Christopher Breward and Prof Elizabeth Wilson will discuss the complex relationships between fashion and lived change. Melbourne cultural historian Dr Juliette Peers will provide the panel with a local context. The past decade has witnessed dramatic social, technological and cultural change – the internet, smart technologies, cosmetic intervention, and an escalation of the cult of celebrity. How do these changes impact on the theory and practice of fashion? How has fashion influenced or been influenced by these changes? Is there a new vocabulary of fashion waiting to be articulated? Robyn Healy, Senior Curator, International Fashion and Textiles NGV, will facilitate the panel's analysis of the last decade with these issues in mind."...

"Christopher Breward is a professor in Historical and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, London Institute, whose publications include The Culture of Fashion and the forthcoming Capital Fashion:  Fashion in the Life of the City. He is on the editorial board of Fashion Theory and incoming Chair of the Design History Society, UK.  "

"Professor Wilson has authored twelve publications including the seminal study Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity which placed her at the centre of fashion scholarship. She has taught cultural studies for ten years at the University of North London, written regularly for The Guardian, New Statesman and New Left Review, appeared in BBC television programs, and lectured throughout the world.  "

"Dr Juliette Peers from RMIT has published widely in the area of identity, gender, social life and creativity, and  is well known for her lively insights and commentary. 

Dior in Plastic [abstract]
The elite French couture fashions of the 1950s generated many responses at a popular and vernacular culture level, below their intended audience. Familiar examples are the MGM film "Funny Face" and Paul Gallico's novel "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris". Less well known are the 1950s plastic dolls with adult figures, (predating Barbie by many years). They explicitly echoed haute couture in their wardrobes, accesorising, hairstyling and painted "cosmetics". They were mostly unauthorised tributes, although two examples of collaboration between doll companies and the higher levels of the international fashion industry can be traced. Schiaparelli designed both outfits and dolls for North American companies and the French perfumerie Coty licensed its name to the 'Coty Girl' doll, explicitly named in her packaging as being styled in Parisian taste. These dolls were also informed by the French fashion industry's occasional use of dolls dressed by couture houses to promote their product. The most famous doll event is the "Theatre de la Mode" 1945, which toured Europe and America to pronounce the postwar survival of couture. The international congress of the synthetic textile industry in 1954 featured a large display of dolls from major houses, covering both current fashions and a retrospective of acclaimed, successful models.

 
Review by Juliet Peers
"Mightier than the Sword: Arabic Script, Beauty and Meaning"

Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne 22 March - 23 May 2003. A touring exhibition from the British Museum in association with the Altijir World of Islam Trust, Guest Curator Venetia Porter

Catalogue essay  by Juliette Peers for 
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York 
exhibition  for Annette Bezor 
a major Australian Artist, May, 2003

Essay 
 

"For 150 years the University of Melbourne has collected diverse cultural objects and works of art. These now form one of the most significant collections in Australia.
...
Many of these previously hidden treasures are brought together in this delightful and fascinating volume, alongside authoritative descriptions by University of Melbourne experts. Presented thematically, with short descriptions and illustrations of specific art works, Treasures combines intellectual authority with a browsable, bite-size format. Essays presenting new research by staff and students of the University link cultural artefacts with new methods of interpretation."

Six essays by Juliette Peers
A superbly presented  large book with many full colour illustrations.
Miegunyah - University of Melbourne  Press
May 2003, $120.00, HB , 336 pp, 300 x 248 mm , SUBJECT: Art/Art History, ISBN: 0-522-85068-5 

"An exhibition of one of the most notable single  collections of works by Australian artists opens at the University of Melbourne's Ian Potter Museum of Art  21 September 2002.
 "A substantial catalogue features ... new writing by Dr Juliet Peers,  who has published widely on Australian art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries,..."

"The Full Majesty of Nature: The Collection of Samuel Arthur Ewing", will show from 21 September to 24 November 2002." 
Quotes from University Melbourne  News Sept 2002 online

Review by Juliette Peers.
in Craft Culture 
"Home is Where the Heart Is IN ITS BUNDOORA Homestead Federation Centre installation ranked as an outstanding craft  exhibition for a number of reasons...."
May 2002

Juliet Peers' article:
Fashion infiltrates the galleries

"Even if one's first reaction upon hearing the sound of the words 'Melbourne Fashion Festival' is not to reach for one's gun, but to condemn the dumbing down of 'culture' into Madonna or Barbie 101, bemoan the melting of the abstract expressionist/tachiste snows of yesteryear, or even pass a few sexist comments about twenty? something blonde and female artists, the art projects auspiced under the umbrella of the Fashion Festival in March this year, whether brought in from other venues or developed in Melbourne unquestionably enriched the city's art experience."

Juliet Peers' article:
Moulding the city to the desires of artists 
 

"The role of the australian artist as interpreter and representative of the natural environment is widely celebrated, indeed the pages of Artlink have been regularly devoted to discussion of landscape/environment/identity."

Juliet Peers' article:
living the lie (of the land)
 

"Due to the concentric nature of its revelation the exhibition "The Lie of the Land" deserves particular consideration in terms of the resonances  that placement, grounding and the physical  experience of the Australian landscape and environment can have on the issue of current art practice. 

"Very popular issue looking at art and women's issues. Reprinted. Articles examine difference, women looking at women, heresies, women and nation. Includes new statistics. Reviews"

Juliet Peers - Nourishment for tough times
Juliet Peers - Her-esies ancient and modern

by 
Dr Juliette Peers
ISBN 1902015266
Published by Telos Art Publishing and Gallery 
(November 2001)

A lavishly illustrated profile of  one of Australia's most exciting textile artists, with  25 coloured plates of her shrines, installations, textile creations, paper art, and mixed media.

Text by DR JULIETTE PEERS, historian and writer who lectures in the Department of Fashion and Textiles Design RMIT University, Melbourne

"Her art speaks to an audience beyond Australian studio textile circles"

"Power engages with themes of international relevance: the trafficking and transmission of cultures"
Foreword by JANET DE BOER, editor, of "Textile Fibre Forum" magazine and Executive Director, The Australian Forum for Textile Arts Ltd

"The observer is rewarded by Power's compositions and the impact of their structuring"

This book is the only record of some of her work, following the fire that destroyed her studio in Aug 2001.

This has been conceived as the first extensive reference work to identify and contextualize the lives and art history of individual artist’s models. Its aim is to provide a much-needed body of research that can serve both as a reference tool and also as a springboard for further investigation of this frequently neglected subject.

The Dictionary provides information on 200 artists’ models, from the Renaissance to the present day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a short biography, a selected list of works in which the model appears, with location, a list of further reading, and a signed interpretive essay. It will give the reader a richer understanding of the model’s relevance to art historical study.

The Dictionary of Artists’ Models will prove an invaluable reference work for art historians, librarians, museum and gallery curators, as well as students and researchers. 

Juliette Peers - A Contributer

Artlink Vol 20 #4
December 2000

Artlink Vol 20 #3
September 2000
 

A bold and challenging issue that examines taste and kitsch, art beyond the 'canon'...
Juliet Peers - Wer ist Unschuldig?

Article by
Juliet Peers
Artlink 
Vol 16 #2 & 3 S

Major catalogue  article by 
Dr Juliet Peers

ISBN 0-9579171-0-4

Edited by Jeanette Hoorn and David Goodman essay by Juliet Peers:
Accept any Woman's Word?

 Two chapters on Bernhard Smith and Thomas Woolner 
by Juliet Peers

by
Juliet Peers

Bridgett McDonnell Gallery 
by 
Juliet Peers

An Installation by Tony Twigg at the Queensland Art Gallery 
by  Juliet Peers

Women's Art Register magazine
editor

by 
Juliet Peers

article on artist 
Jane Price 
by 
Juliet Peers

Edited by Kerry Greenwood 

Chapter by Juliet Peers on the Cowra Shooting 1902

Four essays by Juliet Peers: Survey of Australian Women Artists 19 and 20th Centuries, Jane Sutherland, Ethel Carrick-Fox, Margaret Preston  -Published Fitzroy Dearborn 1997 

New essays by Juliet M.J.Peers, Jane Clark and Helen Cohn covering the work of Anne Marie Graham and in particular her most recent series of works from Melbourne's beautiful Royal Botanical Gardens 
 

Contemporary art and culture journal published by West Space, Melbourne 

essays, artworks and creative writing on Failure, essay by Juliet Peers

curated by 
Rosemary Crumlin. 

Essay on Max Ernst's, pre W.W.I crucifixion. 

This exhibition is about 20th Century religious art, with major artists including many women.