Janine Burke is an Australian author, art historian, biographer, novelist and photographer.
29 Facts About Janine Burke
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Janine Burke is Honorary Senior Fellow, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.
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Janine Burke won a Commonwealth Government Scholarship which enabled her to attend the University of Melbourne.
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Janine Burke graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in art history.
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In 1973, Janine Burke began to publish art reviews and essays.
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In 1975, Janine Burke was a founding member of the Women's Art Movement in Melbourne.
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From 1977 to 1982, Janine Burke was the inaugural art history lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts where she designed and taught the art history course for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
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Janine Burke resigned to become a novelist and independent scholar.
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In 1983, after the publication of Joy Hester, Janine Burke left Australia for Tuscany.
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Janine Burke had a residency at Paretaio, the house belonging to Australian artist Arthur Boyd and his wife Yvonne situated halfway between Pisa and Florence.
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Artists resident around the same time as Burke included Janet Laurence, Elizabeth Gower, John R Neeson and Domenico de Clario.
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Janine Burke moved to Florence where she studied Italian at the British Institute.
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Janine Burke then returned to Australia for the publication of Speaking.
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In 1986, Janine Burke was appointed to the inaugural board of the Melbourne Writers Festival held at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne's CBD.
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Janine Burke continued to write fiction, both novels and short stories, as well as contributing art reviews and essays to journals and newspapers.
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Janine Burke was an advisory editor to art and literary journals including Art and Australia, Imprint, Island and Meanjin.
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Janine Burke has judged literary awards, including the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship and The Age Book of the Year.
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In 1995, Janine Burke published Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed, the correspondence between Hester and arts patron Sunday Reed.
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When Janine Burke was a lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, Sweeney, an artist and a former gallery director, was a mature age student in the printmaking department.
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From 1996 to 2004, Janine Burke was a trustee of Heide MoMA.
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Janine Burke was a member of the committee which oversaw the restoration of Heide I, the Reed's original home on the property, which opened to the public in 2001.
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In 1998, Janine Burke had curated an exhibition of Tucker's photographs, titled The Eye of the Beholder: Albert Tucker's Photographs which opened at Heide MoMA and then toured nationally.
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In late 2001, when the issues about the book became public, Janine Burke was asked to resign from the Heide MoMA board.
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Janine Burke based her comments on conversations with Tucker, Sweeney, Gray Smith, Peregrine Smith and Nadine Amadio, a close friend of Sunday Reed's.
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Janine Burke curated "Freud and Eros: Love, Lust and Longing" at the Freud Museum London in 2014.
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Nest: The Art of Birds was an exhibition of the same title which Janine Burke curated for McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery in 2013.
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In 2014, Janine Burke organised the conference "Kiffy Rubbo and the George Paton Gallery: Curating the 1970s" at the University of Melbourne.
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Janine Burke's papers are in the collections of the State Library of Victoria and the University of New South Wales Library, Canberra.
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Janine Burke's photographs are in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia Library, Heide Museum of Modern Art and Monash University of Modern Art.