Name

Sheridan Palmer

Culture

Australian

Gender

Female

Birth date

active by 1973

Occupations

Art curator | Art historian | Artist | Author

Summary

Worked: Australia (VIC).

Context

Australia

Biography

Sheridan Palmer is an art historian with degrees from the Victorian College of Arts, La Trobe University and a PhD from The University of Melbourne where she is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Communications and CoVA at the VCA. She has been awarded numerous grants, including a CoVA seed grant (2019), a Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art research grant (2012), a Harold White Fellowship – National Library of Australia (2010), a Sidney Myer Arts Grant and a Manning Clark CAL Fellowship (2009).

As a young artist she was awarded a National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Prize for sculpture (1973) and the Joseph Brown Prize for Drawing (1976). She worked in conservation at the National Gallery of Australia and as a curator at the Ballarat Art Gallery.

She has published extensively and curated numerous exhibitions including The Goddess Grins: Albert Tucker and the Female Image, Heide MoMA (2007). Her major publications include Centre of the Periphery: Three European Art Historians in Melbourne, (2008); Hegel’s Owl: The life of Bernard Smith, (2016), and Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith, co-edited with Rex Butler, 2018. She is currently researching post-war Australian modernism. [Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy, 2019].