Name

Louise Voll Box

Culture

Australian

Gender

Female

Birth date

active by 2018

Occupations

Art administrator | Art historian

Summary

Worked: Australia (VIC).

Context

Australia

Biography

Louise Voll Box is a researcher, educator and curator. She is currently a doctoral candidate at The University of Melbourne, studying the print collection of Elizabeth Seymour Percy (1716 - 1776), 1st Duchess of Northumberland. Louise has undertaken research in collections and archives in the UK, USA and Europe supported by the Francis Haskell Memorial Fund, a Paul Mellon Research Support Grant, and a Norman Macgeorge Travelling Scholarship. In 2018 she was the Harold Wright and Sarah and William Holmes Scholar at the British Museum. She is an alumna of the Attingham Study Programme and has attended specialist book history courses at the University of London and the University of Oxford. Her research interests include print collecting and display; eighteenth-century culture; furniture and library history; the material culture of the English country house; and the intersection of business and the arts. Her recent publications include an article for Journal18 on the materiality of print albums; and an essay in Horizon Lines, 50 Years of Print Scholarship (ed. Kerrianne Stone). Louise is on the board of the Melbourne Athenaeum Library, and is a Trustee of the Colin Holden Charitable Trust, which supports print scholarship, exhibitions and publishing (with a focus on Geelong Gallery). [Prints, printmaking and Philanthropy, 2019]

Last Updated

12 Apr 2021