Georgina Downey

Dr Georgina Downey

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Dr Georgina Downey is a Visiting Research Fellow in Art History at the University of Adelaide. Her PhD (2005), undertaken in the School of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia, focussed on the work of expatriate Australian woman artists in Paris in the modern period. She has published widely on the domestic interior in art, in pursuit of which she has received an Australian Academy of the Humanities Travel Grant (2006) and University of Adelaide research grants. Her most recent books are; Domestic Interiors: Representing Home from the Victorians to the Moderns, (2013), which won the AAANZ Anthology of the Year Award 2014, and Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media (2015) with Anca Lasc and Mark Taylor. She is a member of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Museums Australia, and the networks of the Centre for Studies of Home, and Edwardian Culture.

Date Position Institution name
2017 - 2020 Visiting Research Fellow University of Adelaide
2016 - 2018 Visiting Research Fellow University of Adelaide

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2014 Award Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Prize for Best Anthology 2014 Cash Prize donated by University of Sydney Australia $500
2007 Fellowship The Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship (2006) The Australian Academy of the Humanities Australia $4000

Date Institution name Country Title
1998 - 2005 University of South Australia Australia Phd

Year Citation
2025 Downey, G. (2025). Springfield, South Australia 1928–1952: From Prestige Subdivision to Elite Suburb. Fabrications, 35(1), 25-49.
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2024 Tong, F., Griffiths, T., Draper, S., An, H., & Cheng, L. (2024). INFLUENCE OF BAG SHAPES ON THE HYDRODYNAMICS OF SUBSEA FILTER UNIT IN POWER CABLE PROTECTION. Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering OMAE, 7, 1-14.
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2018 Downey, G. (2018). Becoming-horse: Jenny Watson, Art Oriente Objet and Berlinde De Bruychkere. Artlink, 38(1), 46-53.
2015 Downey, G. (2015). Awakening: Four lives in art by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2015, pp. 256, AUD $39.95 Paperback, ISB: 9781743053652. RAS: Reviews in Australian Studies, 9(2), 1-3.
2012 Downey, G. (2012). The Poetic Home: Designing the 19th-Century Domestic Interior by Stefan Muthesius; pp. 352. London: Thames and Hudson, 2009. $55.44 cloth. Victorian Review: an interdisciplinary journal of victorian studies, 38(1), 239-242.
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2009 Speck, C., & Downey, G. (2009). Cosmopolitanism and modernism: on writing a new Australian art history. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 9(1/2), 101-118.
2007 Downey, G. (2007). Arts-Gods-Origins [Book review]. Broadsheet, 36(3), 174-175.
2006 Downey, G. (2006). Stella Bowen's anxious interiors. ACH: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia, 24, 99-113.
2004 Downey, G. (2004). Armchair tourists: two 'furniture portraits' by expatriate South Australian women artists. Journal of Australian Studies, 80(80), 87-98.
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Year Citation
2023 Downey, G. (2023). Under siege: The wartime home in British art of the London Blitz. In M. Taylor, G. Downey, & T. Meade (Eds.), Domesticity Under Siege: Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home (pp. 99-124). Bloomsbury Publishing.
2018 Downey, G. (2018). To dwell means to leave traces: Modernism, mastery, and meaning in the house museums of Gaudí and Le Corbusier. In G. Marinic (Ed.), The Interior Architecture Theory Reader (1st ed., pp. 291-299). United Kingdom: Routledge.
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2016 Downey, G. (2016). The novelist and the artist: Rachilde, Félix Vallotton, and Shared Strategies in the representation of the Decadent interior. In A. Lasc (Ed.), Visualizing the Nineteenth-Century Home Modern Art and the Decorative Impulse (1 ed., pp. 68-84). London: Routledge.
2015 Downey, G., & Taylor, M. (2015). Impolite reading and erotic interiors in eighteenth-century France. In A. Lasc, G. Downey, & M. Taylor (Eds.), Designing the French interior : the modern home and mass media (Vol. 1, 1st ed., pp. 13-28). London: Bloomsbury.
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2015 Downey, G., & Taylor, M. (2015). Impolite reading and erotic interiors in eighteenth-century France. In A. Lasc, G. Downey, & M. Taylor (Eds.), Designing the French interior : the modern home and mass media (Vol. 1, 1st ed., pp. 13-28). London: Bloomsbury.
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2015 Lasc, A., Downey, G., & Taylor, M. (2015). French connections: the modern interior and mass media. In A. Lasc, G. Downey, & M. Taylor (Eds.), Designing the French interior: the modern home and mass media (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-9). London: Bloomsbury.
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2015 Lasc, A., Downey, G., & Taylor, M. (2015). French connections: the modern interior and mass media. In A. Lasc, G. Downey, & M. Taylor (Eds.), Designing the French interior: the modern home and mass media (Vol. 1, 1 ed., pp. 1-9). London: Bloomsbury.
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2013 Downey, G. (2013). Introduction. In G. Downey (Ed.), Domestic interiors: representing homes from the Victorians to the Moderns (1 ed., pp. 1-11). London: Bloomsbury.
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2013 Downey, G. (2013). Bathrooms: plumbing the canon - the bathtub nudes of Alfred Stevens, Edgar Degas and Pierre Bonnard reconsidered. In G. Downey (Ed.), Domestic Interiors: representing homes from the Victorians to the Moderns (1 ed., pp. 111-128). United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
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2013 Downey, G. (2013). Maisons d'artistes: Sympathetic frame and wandering aesthetic. In M. Taylor (Ed.), Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources. Volume 3 Cinematic Expectation (Vol. 3, pp. 266-278). London: Bloomsbury.
2002 Anderson, K., Stringer, R., & Feridhanusetyawan, T. (2002). Introduction. In K. Anderson, R. Stringer, & T. Feridhanusetyawan (Eds.), Indonesia in a reforming world economy: effects on agriculture, trade and the environment, 2002 (pp. 1-9). Adelaide: Centre for International Economic Studies, University of Adelaide.
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Year Citation
2014 Authors: Downey G. Title: Introduction "Domestic Bliss" Deakin University Art Gallery 5 June - 19 July 2014. Extent: 2 pages.
2011 Authors: Downey G. Title: Cosmopolitans and expatriates. Extent: 22 pages.

Date Institution Department Organisation Type Country
2014 - 2014 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) - School or college United States
2013 - 2013 Research Foundation Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO) - Cultural or historical Netherlands

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