Georgina Downey

Georgina Downey

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

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.

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

  • Awards and Achievements
    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

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