Dr Charlotte Galloway
Areas of expertise
- Curatorial And Related Studies 2102
- Heritage And Cultural Conservation 210202
- Art History 190102
- Museum Studies 210204
- Asian History 210302
- History And Archaeology Not Elsewhere Classified 219999
Research interests
Asian art history, particularly the Buddhist art of Myanmar (Burma), Curatorial and Museum Studies, Cultural heritage management (Asia)
Biography
Dr Galloway completed her BA (Art History and Curatorship) at ANU, and worked at the National Gallery of Australia as a curator in the Asian Art department, and then as Associate Registrar Loans and Exhibitions. On completing her PhD in the Buddhist imagery of the early Bagan period, Myanmar, she returned to ANU to lecture in Curatorial Studies, and Asian art history. Dr Galloway established and convenes the undergraduate minor in Asian art history. She is a frequent visitor to Myanmar and is working on musem collection projects at Sri Ksetra, Myanmar's first UNESCO listed site, and Bagan. She also lectures to students from the Field School of Archaeology and Department of Archaeology, Yangon University.
Dr Galloway is member of a number of professional organisations including ICOM and Museums Australia, the Association of Asian Studies, Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies, and the Asian Studies Association of Australia.
She holds the following positions:
Management Committee Myanmar Research Centre ANU
Member Humanities and Creative Arts Editorial Board, ANU Press
Co-Chair Humanities and Social Sciences Delegated Ethics Review Committee
Deputy Chair AusHeritage
Publication committee TAASA Review, Journal of The Asian Arts Society of Australia
In 2012 Dr Galloway received the College of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was nominated for the Collaborator of the Year award in 2012 and 2013. In 2013, she was a candidate for the Vice Chancellor's award for teaching excellence. http://cedam.anu.edu.au/promoting-excellence/awards/vc/recognising-excellence
Dr Galloway is currently postgraduate coursework convenor for the MA Art History and Curatorial Studies and convenes the following courses:
ARTH2056/ARTH6056 Art and Architecture of Southeast Asia: Tradition and Transformation
ARTH2059/ARTH6059 Art and Architecture of Asia: Continuity and Change
ARTH2104/ARTH6104 Asian Art In-country
ARTH2044/ARTH6044 Art and its Context: Materials, Techniques, Display
ARTH3001 Art History and Curatorship Internship
ARTH4018/ARTH8013 East-West Interactions
http://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/
Researcher's projects
Current:
2016 Museum development, Bagan Museum, Myanmar
2013-16 Collection documentation and research Sri Ksetra Museum, Pyay, Myanmar https://archive.org/details/InventorySriKsetraMuseum1.0
2015-16 Development of the Department of Archaeology Museum, Yangon University, Myanmar
Past:
2013, Australia-India Council (DFAT) grant through AusHeritage to further engagement with the J.C.Bose Trust, Kolkata to assist with planning of the J.C. Bose House Museum http://www.ausheritage.org.au/assets/0000/1088/Hindustan_Times.pdf
2010, Australia-Malaysia Institute grant, "Curating Malaysian Textile Online" - with Dr Hwei-fen Cheah, in collaboration with Museum Seni Asia, University of Malaya.
Available student projects
Dr Galloway is available to supervise students in various fields related to Asian art history and curatorial studies
Current student projects
PhD research:
Sally Bamford: "The Nat imagery of Myanmar"
Pat Stone: "From Gothic Revival to Gum-leaves: fashion changes in church textiles in 20th century Australia"
Lucie Folan: "Jain pilgrimage art: tracing history, creation, meaning and content in Jain tirtha paintings"
Melanie Eastburn: "Collecting Khmer Sculpture: its appeal, interpretation and international trade, 1860s to 1960s"
Past student projects
MA research theses:
Chiei Ishida: "Chinese and Taiwanese Performance art of the 1980s" (completed July 2014)
Haolan Liang: "Two Traditions Engage: Contemporary Chinese Ink and Wash Painting of Zhao Xiaoping" (completed July 2014)
Publications
- Galloway, C 2016, 'Chinese antiquities: authentication and law. The role of the art historian', TAASA Review: Journal of the Asian Art Society of Australia, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 20-21.
- Galloway, C., 2015, 'Three Artists from Myanmar' in D.Williams and C.Turner, eds., Making Connections: Southeast Asian Art @ ANU, Canberra: The Australian National University 40-41.
- Galloway, C 2015, 'Artists in red and the vote', New Mandala (Blog), vol. November. http://www.newmandala.org/artists-in-red-and-the-vote/
- Galloway, C 2015, 'Buddhist Art of Myanmar', TAASA Review: Journal of the Asian Art Society of Australia, vol. 24, no. 3, p. 26.
- Galloway, C 2014, 'Researching in the Field: the Sri Ksetra Museum, Pyay, Myanmar', TAASA Review: Journal of the Asian Art Society of Australia, vol. 23, no. no.3 September, p. 26.
- Galloway, C 2014, 'The Jewelled World of Burmese Kings', The Journal of The Asian Arts Society of Australia, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 10-11.
- Galloway, C 2013, 'Le Arti e l'artigianato tradizionalo birmani al servizio del buddismo', in C. Coderey (ed.), L'Arte Birmana del Dono: Capolavori della Collezione Peppler, Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta , Milan Italy, p. 1.
- Galloway, C 2013, 'Buddhist Narrative Imagery during the Eleventh Century at Pagan, Burma: Reviewing Origins and Purpose', in Alexandra Green (ed.), Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 159-174.
- Galloway, C 2012, 'Researching Burma:The Australian National University Library', TAASA Review: Journal of the Asian Art Society of Australia, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 18-19.
- Galloway, C 2011, 'Ways of Seeing a Pyu, Mon and Dvaravati Artistic Continuum', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. Vol 30, pp. 70-78.
- Galloway, C 2005 'Sculptural depictions of Maya and the nativity from early Bagan - origins and change' Myanmar Historical Commission Conference Proceedings 12-14 January, Yangon Part 2 pp. 115-63.
- Galloway, C 2003, 'Transcending Time and Place', in Pauline Green (ed.), Building the Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, pp. 261-271.
- Galloway, C 2002, 'Relationships between Buddhist texts and images of the Enlightenment during the early Pagan period', in Alexandra Green and T. Richard Blurton (ed.), Burma Art and Archaeology, British Museum Press, London, United Kingdom, pp. 45-53.
