Selected publications
1985
‘Past the Post: Postmodernism and Postfeminism’, 150 Women Artists by Women 150
1988
‘She’s Not Just a Vehicle: Margaret Dodd, Bridal Holden, 1977’, Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988, pp.186-187
1989
'Paint, Pearls and Swine: Robert Hunter Paintings, 1968-88,' Art Monthly, no. 24, September, pp.11-13
'Going to Town,' Australian Craft Triennial, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
1990
'David Jensz: Unveiling of a Mystery,' Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 1990, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
'Rhyme and Reason: Margaret Morgan's Tales of Love,' Art and Australia, 90, v.27, no. 4, pp.592-7
1991
'’An Essay: The Future of Aboriginal Art,' The Concept of Country, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
'Cuckoos in the Nest: Crafts and the Museum,' Eyeline, no.16, pp.8-11
1990
‘which details?’, in in detail: a small exhibition in the environment, curated Julie Ewington) Canberra: Canberra School of Art Gallery, pp. 2-3.
1992
'Enduring Patterns: The Art of Vivienne Binns,' Art Monthly, No. 51 July, pp. 3-5
'After Being and Nothingness: Reconsidering Bea Maddock,' Binocular 2, Sydney,
‘Playing with Class’, Keith Looby: School Class to Playground 1959-1992, Canberra: Canberra School of Art Gallery (no pagination)
1993
'Archipelago Art: an introduction to contemporary art practice in the Philippines':
Art and AsiaPacific, vol.1, no. 1
1994
Adelaide Biennial: Adelaide Installations, Adelaide Festival of Arts/ Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, essays on Santiago Bose and Pat Hoffie
'Eugenio Dittborn: The 5th History of the Human Face’ in Powerworks, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Zealand
1995
'In the Wild: Nature, Culture and Gender in Installation Art,' (ed.) Catriona Moore, Dissonance, Allen and Unwin
'Number Magic: the trouble with women, art and representation', (ed. Barbara Caine &
Rosemary Pringle), Transitions: New Australian Feminisms, Allen and Unwin
‘Five Elements: Is installation the medium of Southeast Asia?’, Art AsiaPacific, vol. 2, no. 1, pp.108-115
'The Jewellery of Warwick Freeman', Owner's Manual, Starform, Auckland
‘Elizabeth Gertsakis’, in Beyond Missolonghi, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1996
'On Not Being Japanese: The jewellery of Catherine Truman', Art AsiaPacific, vol. 3, no. 2
'A Contemporary Prospectus for Pilgrimage', Above and Beyond, (catalogue essay), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne/Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
'Between the Cracks', Art and AsiaPacific, vol. 3, no. 4
1998
‘This place, that place: embodiment and displacement in Jenny Holzer's Lustmord', Adelaide Festival of Arts, Visual Arts Program, Adelaide
Brought to light: Australian Art, 1850-1965: From the Queensland Art Gallery Collection, (eds.) Lynne Seear and Julie Ewington, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
'Inside the light: Helga Groves and the secret spaces of painting', Helga Groves, Möet & Chandon, Paris
'In and of the world: Australian visual artists in 1999', Reaching the world, Olympics Arts Festivals, SOCOG, Sydney
1999
Yvonne Audette: abstract paintings 1950s & 1960s (exhibition catalogue), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
‘Fiona Hall’ and ‘Robert Hunter’, (catalogue essays), Clemenger Prize, National Gallery of Victoria and Museum of Modern Art, Heide
‘Parallel worlds: two exhibitions of Indigenous women’s fibre art’’, Art Monthly, June, no. 120, pp. 4-6.
‘Installing Bonita Ely in Dhaka’, in Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh ’99 (exhibition catalogue), Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
‘Cash crop: a new work by Fiona Hall’, Artlink, vol. 19 no. 4, December, pp. 41-3
2000
‘Foreword – jewellery travels and so do books’, and ‘Sharing the self – Ten years of jewellery by Leslie Matthews’, in Gray Street Workshop – Celebrating 15 years: an anthology, Gray Street Workshop, Adelaide, South Australia and Object, Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney, NSW.
‘Wide (true) blue yonder: Recent jewellery by Margaret West’, Object, no.1, 2000, pp.28-31
‘techno craft: the work of Susan Cohn 1980 to 2000’, Eyeline, no. 44, Summer 2000-2001, pp.19-24
2001
‘Review: alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media and Popular culture’, Postwest, no. 18, 2001, pp. 70-1.
‘The go between”, catalogue essay, Grammar: New Zealand Jewellery Biennial, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
‘Fiona Foley: Pir'ri – Mangrove’ (exhibition catalogue), Queensland art Gallery, Brisbane
‘Northern journey: Conrad Martens in early Queenslan’ (videorecording, with John Steele, John; Janet Hogan, Janet; Rod Fensham), Queensland art Gallery, Brisbane 2001, 28 min.
‘Time to go’. Time to go: Robin White: Work from 1982 to 2000. Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
2002
‘Susan Norrie: Inquisition’ in Jason Smith, Jason and Charles Green, (curators) Fieldwork, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002, pp.138-43
2003
‘Water’ in sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson 1989-2003, (ed. Ted Snell), John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth
2005
‘Aboriginal Flowers 1928’, Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, pp. 108-121.
Fiona Hall, Piper Press, Sydney
2006
‘Sangeeta Sandrasegar: Shadows and substance’ (eds.) Lynne Seear and Suhanya Raffel’, The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAG, Brisbane, pp.208-11
2007
‘In Form’, Robert MacPherson: Popov and The Lost Constructivists, IMA, 2007.
Brought To Light II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966 -2006,(eds.) Lynne Seear and Julie Ewington, QAG, Brisbane, pp.72-77, 268-75 and 440-45
2008
Lead essay, Contemporary Australia: Optimism, QAGOMA, 2012
2010
Scott Redford : Introducing Reinhardt Dammn, QAGOMA, 2010
2010
‘Big maman: the curious case of Louise Bourgeois and Australia’, Art and Australia, vol. 48, no. 2, December, 2010, pp.326-33, reprinted in Louise Bourgeois in Australia, Heide Museum of Art, VIC., 2012
2012
Lead essay, Contemporary Australia: Women, QAGOMA, 2012
2013
Del Kathryn Barton, Piper Press, Sydney
'Now and then: thinking about contemporary art and jewellery’, in Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective (ed. Damian Skinner), Asheville, NC, USA: Lark Crafts in association with Art Jewelry Forum, 2013, pp.221-7
2014
‘Pierre Huyghe and Parallel Presents’, Art Monthly, no. 274, October, pp.58-63
‘Flux: Wunderruma on the Move’, Art New Zealand, No.152, Summer, 2014-15, pp.84-7
‘Notes from the North’, Art Monthly, no. 276, Summer 2014/15, pp.38-41
‘Lee MIngwei: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo’, Art Forum, vol. 53, no. 4, Dec. 2014, p. 326
2015
‘Robert Gober’s The Heart is not a Metaphor’, Art Monthly Australia, Issue 279, May
‘Made in Oz: Julie Ewington on Pop to Popism at the Art Gallery of New South Wales’, The Monthly, February. Pp.
‘All the World’s Futures: Julie Ewington on the 56th Venice Biennale’, The Monthly, July
‘A Theatre of mixed means’, (originally published 1988) in (editors) Glenn Barkley and Lesley Harding, Aleks Denko: My Fellow Aus-Tra-Aliens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and Heide Museum of Art, Victoria, p.73
‘Russia’s longest charm offensive: Catherine the Great still reigns in the NGV’s ‘Masterpieces from the Hermitage’, The Monthly, Sept. 2015
‘Intimacy and Distance: Linda Marrinon’s figures’, in Charlotte Day (et al.), Linda Marrinon: Figure Sculptures, MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art), Caulfield East, Vic.
‘Still: Kirsten Coelho’s ceramics’ in Kevin Murray (ed.) Garland, Issue no 1, Dec. 2015,
‘Duchamp returns: Marcel Duchamp: La Peinture, même’, eyeline, number 83, p.80
2016
‘Double happiness: Convergence and contradiction at the NGV’s Andy Warhol/ Ai Weiwei, The Monthly, February
‘Tim Silver: 1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear Before They Die’, in Tim Silver: Talking to the Shadows, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Langwarrin, VIC.
‘Artistic Immunity: Julie Ewington on the 20th Biennale of Sydney’, The Monthly, May
‘Open Space: National Gallery Singapore’, Art Monthly Australia, August, issue 291, pp.46-9
The Sculpture of Bronwyn Oliver (exhibition brochure), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC.
‘Beauty and darkness in suburbia: Yvonne Todd’; Balanced dualities: Sangeeta Sandrasegar’, and ‘Love and harmony: Nell’, ‘In (editor Antonia Syme), Many Hands: The First 40 Years of the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, pp.44-7, 52-5 and 60-63
2017
‘Five Elements: An Abbreviated Account of Installation Art in Southeast Asia’, in (editors Patrick D. Flores and Kajiya Kenji), Shaping the History of Art in Southeast Asia, The Japan Foundation | Asia Center, Tokyo, pp.35-9. (Originally published 1995)
‘The State of Our Art: What does The National say about contemporary Australian art?’ The Monthly, May
‘What must be said: Australia’s Tracey Moffatt leads the way at the 57th Venice Biennale, The Monthly, July
‘The Apotheosis of Dirt’, (essay) in (edited Rebecca Coates) 2017 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, SAM (Shepparton Art Museum), VIC.
’The Value of Maturity: Anne Ferran, Judith Wright, Lindy Lee’, in (edited Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore) Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outakes, Routlege, London and New York, pp. 24-37
‘Unfinished feminism, unceasing activism: Australian art over five decades’, in (editors Max Delany & Annika Kristensen, Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism, ACCA, Melbourne, pp. 22-29.
2018
‘Inverse Ratios: Julie Ewington on the NGV Triennial’, The Monthly, March
The Five Elements: Julie Ewington on the 21st Biennale of Sydney, The Monthly, May, 2018
‘Recurring Questions, Cyclical Energies: A History of Feminist Art Practices in Australia’, A Companion to Feminist Art, 2019, pp. 17-35.
‘Painting, Pleasure, Perversity’, in Gemma Smith: Found Ground, Formist, Sydney, 2018, pp. 3-13.
Drawing….out, on, upon’, in Margaret West: Drawing, Jewellery, Poetry, Sydney: LHR Press, pp. 11-18.
2019
‘Tala Madani’s Comic Cuts’, On Vulnerability and Doubt, Australian Centre for Contemporary art, 2019, pp. 46-51.
‘Recurring Questions, Cyclical Energies: A History of Feminist Art Practices in Australia’, A Companion to Feminist Art, 2019, pp. 17-35.
‘The Planetary Garden: Manifesta 12, Palermo’, eyeline, no. 90, 2019, pp.62-9.
‘The joker in the pack: Bruce Nauman’, eyeline, no. 90, 2019, pp.86-7.
‘Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence: Contemporary Art in Chengdu’, eyeline, no. 91, September 2019, pp.64-71.
‘A Place to Paint: Colin McCahon in Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki’, Australian Book Review, December 2019 (online).
‘Clothing our youth’, in (ed) Kathie Muir, Annabelle Collett: Creator and Catalyst, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, p. 139.
‘Encyclopedic artist, enormous book: At home in the world: the art and life of Gulammohammed Sheikh’, Art Monthly Australia, No. 321, (Summer 2019/2020), p.52
2020
‘Situated Reading’, in Agatha Gothe-Snape: The Outcome is Certain, Perimeter Editions, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, pp. 21-32.
‘Mel O’Callaghan: Centre of the Centre by Talia Linz and Michelle Newton’, Australian Book Review, no. 421, May 2020.
‘Feminist Effects: Australian Visual Artists Past, Present, Future’, in Tony Bennett, Deborah Stevenson, Fred Myers, Tamara Winikoff (eds.), The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Institutions, Routledge, 2020, pp. 69-81.
2021
‘Blanche Tilden in Five Movements’ in Blanche Tilden, Ripple Effect, A 25 Year Survey, Geelong Gallery pp. 6-13.
(edited) John Clark (introduction by Patrick D. Flores, and contribution by Phoebe Scott), The Asian Modern, Singapore: National Gallery Singapore
‘The Women’s Show Collective at work’, (pp.369-70); ‘Political postering’, (pp.370-2); ‘Fragmentation and feminism’ (pp.417-20); Past the post: Postmodernism and postfeminism’, (pp. 421-5); ‘Frames of Reference’ (pp. 485-6) ‘; in Anne Marsh (edited and text) Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne
‘Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings’: A gift of an exhibition in Sydney’, ABR Arts, 24 June
‘Doug Aitken: NEW ERA: An exhibition for our times’, ABR Arts, 4 November
‘Matisse: Life and spirit: An unforgettable shrine to colour at the AGNSW’, ABR Arts, 7 December
2022
‘moving still’ in Jessica Loughlin: from here, Wakefield Press & JamFactory, Adelaide, pp. 12-35. & pp. 164-173.
‘Three Moments’, in (edited Sarah Farrar, Jill Trevelyan, Nina Tonga, Robin White: Something is Happening Here, Wellington: Te Papa Press/Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tãmaki, pp.158-161.
‘The 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus: An exemplary puzzle’, ABR Arts, 28 March
‘The chrysalis effect: Thinking through new practices in glass’, Art Monthly Australasia, No. 334, Summer 2022, pp. 92-9.
2023
‘Edging ecstasy’ in (editor) Marielle Soni, Tomislav Nikolic: Invocations of consciousness, MER. Borgerhoff & Lamberights, Gent, Belgium
Meet the Artists: The James C. Sourris AM Artist Interviews, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
T.K Sapapathy and Patrick Flores (eds.) The Modern in Southeast Asian Art, (volumes I and II), National Gallery Singapore (associate editor, with Phoebe Scott)
‘Looking for them: The legacy of Christine de Pizan’, Australian Book Review, January-February, no. 450.
‘Sydney Modern: A glorious building at AGNSW’, Australian Book Review, April 2023, no. 452
‘Making memory’, Art Guide, 13 June.
The ABR Podcast: Sydney Modern: A new landmark building 30/3/2023
‘Heather Dorrough: “Mid-life reflection”’, In Terry Dorrough (with contributions by Christine France, Julie Ewington, Anne Brennan, Peter Emmett), Heather Dorrough: Life. Design. Craft. Art. Life, Dangar Island, NSW: Across the River Press, pp.130-3.
Dossier of 12 texts for Gosia Wlodarczak: 365: ARTIST NOT @ WORK, artist’s folio, 365 unique offset pigment prints, in solander box. Limited edition of 100, each editioned and signed by the artist. See full details at gallerysmith.com.au/products/365-artist-not-work
2024
‘Nusra Latif Qureshi: the woman in a green field’, in (edited Matt Cox), Nusra Latif Qureshi: Birds in Far Pavilions, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Anne Penelope Minogue (1873-1964)’ in H Oma Je: Laure Provost, (eds. Max Delany, Annika Kristensen and Mona Pouillon), ACCA, Melbourne, p.134.
‘Multiple codings: Camille Laddawan’, in (editors Anne Brennan, Julie Ewington and Blake Griffiths) Art Monthly Australasia, Winter 2024, no. 339, pp. 78-83.
‘Radical Textiles: A sumptuous yet oddly unsatisfactory exhibition’, ABR Arts, 10 December 2024.
2025
‘Picasso/Asia: A conversation: Pablo Picasso in Hong Kong’, ABR Arts, 1 April 2025
‘The Gascoigne Puzzle: Writing around a life's core’, Australian Book Review, April, no. 474