Dr Mary Hutchison
Visitor, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, RSHA
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Australian History (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History) 210303
- Museum Studies 210204
- Curatorial And Related Studies 2102
- Other Studies In Creative Arts And Writing 1999
Research interests
- Australian immigration history
- oral history
- museum and heritage interpretation
- community arts and cultural development
- collaborative research
- practice-led research
Biography
Mary is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Research School of Humanities and the Arts. Her association with RSHA began with her work as Research Associate on an ARC Linkage project with the National Museum of Australia, Migration Memories, 2005-08. She has worked professionally as a museum exhibition curator, oral historian, creator of interpretive public art, heritage researcher, adult educator, writer (including radio and theatre) and community artsworker. She is a past member of the ACT Heritage Council (2014-17) and contributes to the activites of the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies.
Researcher's projects
- Oral history interviewer National Library of Australia
- Ginninderry Local History Study
- A portrait of my father as a young man, Photoaccess residency 2014, exhibition, June 2015
- The QEII Years: Staff Remember, for Canberra Mothercraft Society, 2014
- Convenor, Shaping Canberra: the lived experience of place, home and capital, conference and exhibition, Humanities Research Centre, Centenary of Canberra project 2013
- A Canberra Sound Album, sound installation with Lea Collins, supported by ACT Arts Fund, artsACT, PhotoAccess, September 2012
- Evaluation of Four Winds' Creative Community Partnerships Initiative program funded by the Australia Council for the Arts 2010-2012 (Partnership between Four Winds Music Festival and RSHA)
Publications
- Hutchison, M 2021, 'Reforming and remembering: gardens and gardening in a landscape of in/justice', Landscape Research.
- Hutchison, M, Waterton, E & Saul, H 2021, 'Multidisciplinary engagements with Port Arthur's landscapes of in/justice', Landscape Research, vol. 46, no. 3.
- Hutchison, M & Grist, P 2020, 'Building on experience: The potential of oral history to conserve the 'deep city' in Australia's national capital', in K Fouseki, T S Guttormsen & G Swensen (ed.), Heritage and Sustainable Urban Transformations Deep Cities, Routledge, London, pp. 149-164.
- Hutchison, M 2015, ''A portrait of my father as a young man'', PhotoAccess, 28May-28 June, Canberra.
- Hutchison, M & Witcomb, A 2014, 'Migration exhibitions and the question of identity: reflections on the history of representation of migration in Australian Museums 1986-2011', in Laurence Gourievidis (ed.), Museums and Migration : History, Memory and Politics, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 228-243.
- Hutchison, M and Sassoon, J 2014, 'Introduction: Archives, Memory and Place from the Perspective of Canberra', Public History Review, vol. 21, pp. 41-44.
- Hutchison, M 2013, '"Shared Authority": Collaboration, Curatorial Voice, and Exhibition Design in Canberra, Australia', in Viv Golding & Wayne Modest (ed.), Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaboration, Bloomsbury Academic, UK, pp. 143-162.
- Hutchison, M 2011, 'The social life of a denim jacket', Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 475-493.
- Hutchison, M & Andrew, M 2009, A Work-in-Progress: A History of the YWCA in Canberra, 1929-2009, YWCA Canberra, Canberra.
- Hutchison, M & Collins, L 2009, 'Translations: Experiments in Dialogic Representation of Cultural Diversity in Three Museum Sound Installations', Museum and Society, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 92 - 109.
- Hutchison, M 2009, 'Dimensions for a folding exhibition: Exhibiting diversity in theory and practice in the 'Migration Memories' exhibiton', Humanities Research, vol. XV, no. 2, pp. 67-90.
- Hutchison, M. 2005, Making the Journey: Arts and Disability in Australia Sydney: Arts Access Australia
- Hutchison, M. 2005, If These Walls Could Speak: Currong Apartments from Construction to Decommission 1958-2004, Canberra: ACT Government
- Hutchison, M. 2000, Developing Images: Mildenhall's Photographs of Early Canberra, Canberra; Commonwealth of Australia
- Bolitho, A and Hutchison, M. 1998, Out of the Ordinary: Inventive Ways of Bringing Communities, their Stories and Audiences to Light, Murrumbateman, NSW: Canberra Stories Group
