Dr Caroline Turner
Areas of expertise
- Museum Studies 210204
- Asian Cultural Studies 200202
- Art History 190102
- Visual Cultures 190104
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- Art Theory And Criticism 1901
- Visual Arts And Crafts 1905
Research interests
Contemporary Asian and Pacific Art (especially Japan and Indonesia); Museums and museology; Art and Human Rights; Cultural Diplomacy.
Biography
Dr Caroline Turner is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU. She was Deputy Director of the Humanities Research Centre ANU from 2000-2006.As a senior museum professional and Deputy Director of the Queensland Art Gallery from 1982-1999 she played a key role in the Gallery's international programmes.
Dr Turner was co-founder and Project Director for ten years for the Asia-Pacific Triennial Project which, over three exhibitions in 1993, 1996 and 1999, attracted audiences of 60,000, 120,000, and 155,000. Turner was also the scholarly editor of the three major catalogues in the 1990s and the book Tradition and Change: Contemporary Art of Asia and the Pacific, University of Queensland Press, 1993 and has written extensively on contemporary Asian art as well as lecturing on this subject internationally, including in China and Japan. Recent publications include a jointly written book with Jen Webb Art and Human Rights: Contemporary Asian Contexts, Manchester University Press, 2016.
Her book of essays Art and Social Change: Contemporary Art of Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Books, 2005 is a survey of developments in Asian and Pacific contemporary art. She has held four ARC grants including "The Limits of Tolerance" which explored the links between art and human rights and is also working on several research projects related to museums, museology and human rights. Her most recent ARC grant "The rise of new cultural networks in Asia" (with Dr Michelle Antoinette) explores cultural changes in our region. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London (FRSA). She was appointed to the Board of Cultural Facilities Corporation by the ACT Government 2003-2009.
The Australian Government appointed Dr Turner to the Australia-China Council in the 1980s and the Australia-Indonesia Institute in the 1990's.She was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2009 for contributions to the visual arts and to the establishment and fostering of cultural relationships in the Asia-Pacific region.
Publications
- Turner, C 2017, 'Cultural Transformations in the Asia-Pacific: The Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art and the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale Compared', in Furuichi Yasuko (ed.), Art Studies 3: Anthology: Shaping the History of Art in Southeast Asia, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Japan, pp. 62-71.
- Clark, C & Turner, C 2016, 'Cross-Cultural Exchanges and Interconnections from the 1980s and 1990s: ARX and the APT', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 167-184pp.
- Turner, C 2016, The Spirit of Water: Flows of Art in Cross-Cultural Connections and Collaborations between Japan and Australia.
- Turner, C & Van Ooyen, V 2016, 'Remembering the Victims: the Exhibition 1965 and the Art of Dadang Christanto', in Evie Franzidis (ed.), Dadang Christanto: 1965, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, pp. 29-43pp.
- Turner, C & Webb, J 2016, Art and Human Rights: Contemporary Asian Contexts, Manchester University Press, Manchester.
- Williams, D & Turner, C 2015, Making Connections: Southeast Asian Art @ ANU.
- Turner, C 2014, 'Introduction Part 1 - Critical Themes, Geopolitical Change and Global Contexts in Contemporary Asian Art', in Michelle Antoinette and Caroline Turner (ed.), Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions: Connectivities and World-making, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 1-22.
- Antoinette, M & Turner C eds, 2014 Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions: Connectivities and World-making, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Turner, C & Barclay, G 2013, 'Recovering Lives Through Art: Hidden Histories and Commemoration in the Works of Katsushige Nakahashi and Dadang Christanto', in Paul Longley Arthur (ed.), International Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Global Context, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 107-125.
- Turner, C & Antoinette, M 2013, 'Introduction: The World and World-Making in Art', Humanities Research, vol. Vol XIX., no. No.2. 2013, pp. 1-9; http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/humanities-research-journal-series/volume-xix-no-2-2013
- Turner, C, Antoinette, M & Stanhope, Z, eds, 2013, "The World and World-Making in Art", special issue Humanities Research, vol. Vol XIX., no. No.2. 2013; http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/humanities-research-journal-series/volume-xix-no-2-2013
- Turner, C 2012, 'A new horizon: Contemporary Chinese art', reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. n/a published on-line.
- Turner, C 2012, 'Antarctica: Rethinking humanity's future', in Nancy Sever, Caroline Turner and Anthony Oates (ed.), Antarctica: Sidney Nolan, Jan Senbergs, Bea Maddock, Jorg Schmeisser, Anne Noble, Philip Hughes, Chris Drury, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, Australia, pp. 5-7.
- Sever, N, Turner, C & Oates, A 2012, Antarctica: Sidney Nolan, Jan Senbergs, Bea Maddock, Jorg Schmeisser, Anne Noble, Philip Hughes, Chris Drury, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, Australia.
- Sever, N, Turner, C & Oates, A 2012, 'Antarctica'.
- Turner, C 2012, 'The Object as Subject in Transcultural Dialogue', 33rd congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (33. Internationaler Kunsthistoriker Kongress Nurnberg), ed. G. Ulrich Grossmann and Petra Krutisch, Verlag des Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, pp. 319-323pp.
- Turner, C & Barclay, G 2011, 'Recovering lives through art: Hidden histories and commemoration in the works of Katsushige Nakahashi and Dadang Christanto', Life Writing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 67-85.
- Turner, C 2011, 'Book Review: 'The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan' by Masaaki Morishita, Ashgate, Farnham, 2010', reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. Online.
- Turner, C 2011, 'International exhibitions', in Des Griffin and Leon Paroissien (ed.), Understanding Museums: Australian Museums and Museology, National Museum of Australia, Canberra Australia, pp. 124-130.
- Turner, C 2011, 'Dadang Christanto: artist of conscience for humanity', Art Monthly Australia (AMA), vol. 244, pp. 24-27.
- Turner, C & Barclay, G 2010, 'Dadang Christanto: Wounds in our Heart', in Caroline Turner and Nancy Sever (ed.), Dadang Christanto: Wounds in our Heart, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 9-21.
- Turner, C 2010, 'Rescuing Humanity': Contemporary artists reconciling the past with the future in the Asia-Pacific region', in Pat Hoffie (ed.), Utopia/Dystopia/Disturbia, Griffith University, Queensland, pp. 60-69.
- Turner, C 2010, 'Art and Social Change', Global Art and the Museum, vol. April 2010, pp. 6pp.
- Turner, C & Sever, N, eds, 2010, Dadang Christanto: Wounds in our Heart, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
- Turner, C & Barclay, G 2010, 'Art against War', in Nigel J. Young (ed.), The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 132-137pp.
- Turner, C 2010, 'Asian collaborations: networks, 'soft power' and the challenge of the contemporary moment', Museums Australia Magazine, vol. 18, no. 3&4, pp. 14-19.
- Turner, C 2010, 'Dadang Christanto: Wounds in our Heart'.
- Turner, C 2010, 'Book Review: The revolutionary century: art in Asia, 1900-2000', Art Monthly Australia (AMA), vol. December 2010-February 2011, no. 236, pp. 66-67.
- Turner, C 2009, 'Imagining the Future/Understanding Past and Present', in (ed.), The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2009, Conference Organising Committee, Japan, pp. 209-210.
- Turner, C 2009, 'The Asia-Pacific Triennial A Forum', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol. 9, no. 1/2 2008/9, pp. 189-219.
- Turner, C 2009, 'Enriching Collaborations in a Changing World', Asian Art Museum Directors' forum 2008, National Museum of Art, Tokyo, pp. 54-61.
- Turner, C, ed., 2005, Art and Social Change: Contemporary Art in Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Books, Canberra, Australia.
- Turner, C 2009, 'Art and Images', in David P Forsythe (ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 104-113.
- Turner, C 2008, 'And Now China?', Ctrl+P: Journal of Contemporary Art, vol. 2008, no. 11, pp. 26-27.
- Barclay, G & Turner, C 2008, 'Fatima Killeen: A Memorial for Peace and Beauty', in Nancy Sever and Caroline Turner (ed.), Recovering Lives - Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 15-18.
- Turner, C 2008, 'Dadang Christanto: Measuring the Tears', in Nancy Sever and Caroline Turner (ed.), Recovering Lives - Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 21-27.
- Turner, C 2008, 'A New Global Art History', Artlink, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. online.
- Turner, C & Sever, N, eds, 2008, Recovering Lives Catalogue - Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
- Turner, C & Barclay, G 2008, 'Katsushige Nakahashi: Transience', in Nancy Sever and Caroline Turner (ed.), Recovering Lives - Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 19-24.
- Turner, C & Sever, N 2008, 'Recovering Lives - Drill Hall Gallery'.
- Turner, C, Morris, M & Reisenleitner, M, eds, 2008, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 9, Issue 4.
- Turner, C 2007, Web publication commentary on exhibition 'Echoes of Home' November 2007.
- Turner, C 2007, 'Limiting Tolerance: Art and Human Rights', in Caroline Turner & David Williams (ed.), Thresholds of Tolerance, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 9 - 15.
- Turner, C 2007, 'Dadang Christanto: The Head as the Site of Memory', in Caroline Turner & David Williams (ed.), Thresholds of Tolerance, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 45-50.
- Turner, C 2007, 'Pat Hoffie: Memories of Justice', in Caroline Turner & David Williams (ed.), Thresholds of Tolerance, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 57-60.
- Turner, C 2007, ''Other Histories' and Cross-Cultural Engagement in Asian Museums', Asian Currents, vol. 2007, no. 33 - March.
- Turner, C & Barclay, G 2007, 'Michael Mel: Reconciling the Irreconcilable', in Caroline Turner & David Williams (ed.), Thresholds of Tolerance, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 67-69.
- Turner, C 2007, 'Wounds in Our Heart: Indentity and Social Justice in the Art of Dadang Christanto', in K Robinson (ed.), Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke UK, pp. 77-99.
- Turner, C & Williams, D, eds, 2007, Thresholds of Tolerance, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
- Turner, C 2006, 'Cultural Transformations in the Asia-Pacific: The Asia Pacific Triennial and the Fukuoka Triennial Compared', in John Clark, T.K. Sabapathy, Maurizio Peleggi (ed.), Eye of the beholder: reception, audience, and practice of modern Asian art, Wild Peony Press, Sydney, Australia, pp. x-x.
- Turner, C 2006, 'Michael Mel - Bridge Between Two Worlds', in Fariba de Bruin-Derakhshani, Barbara Murray (ed.), 10 Years Prince Claus Awards, Prince Claus Fund, The Netherlands, pp. 133-135.
- Turner, C 2006, Imagining the Future: Museums, Artist Spaces and Communities, Asia Art Archive.
- Turner, C 2005, 'The Enigma of Japanese Contemporary Art', in Caroline Turner (ed.), Art and Social Change: Contempory Art in Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Books, Canberra, Australia, pp. 385-430.
- Barclay, G & Turner, C 2005, 'Singapore: A case study', in Caroline Turner (ed.), Art and Social Change: Contempory Art in Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Books, Canberra, Australia, pp. 267-277.
- Turner, C 2005, 'Beyond Politics - Memorialising the Human Soul: the international career of Dadang Christanto', in Dadang Christanto (ed.), di ujung kelopak daunnya tetap ada airmata [on the edge of the petal there are still tears], Penerbit Buku Baik, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, pp. 115-130.
- Hoffie, P, Wright, S & Turner, C 2005, 'FUTURE TENSE: Security and Human Rights'.
- Turner, C 2005, 'Security and Human Rights', in Pat Hoffie and Caroline Turner (ed.), Future Tense: Security and Human Rights, Griffith Artworks, Australia, pp. 2-7.
- Turner, C 2005, 'Art and Social Change', in Caroline Turner (ed.), Art and Social Change: Contempory Art in Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Books, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1- 13.
- Turner, C 2005, 'Indonesia: Art, freedom, human rights and engagement with the West', in Caroline Turner (ed.), Art and Social Change: Contempory Art in Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Books, Canberra, Australia, pp. 196-217.
- Turner, C 2005, Security and Human Rights, Article in a catalogue for an exhibition 'Future Tense: security and human rights' at Queensland College of Art between 26 August - 11 September 2005., Griffith University, Brisbane, pp. 8 pages.
- Barclay, G & Turner, C 2004, Humanities Research Centre: A History of the first 30 years of the HRC at The Australian National University, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT.
- Turner, C 2003, 'Witnessing to Silence: Arts and Human Rights', in Caroline Turner and Nancy Sever (ed.), Witnessing to silence: art and human rights, Australian National University School of Art Gallery, Canberra School of Art. Gallery.
- Turner, C 2002, 'Linking past and future: Cultural exchanges and cross-cultural engagements in four asian museums', Humanities Research, vol. IX, no. 1, 2002, pp. 13-28.
- Turner, C 2001, 'Images of Mai', in Francesca Rendle-Short (ed.), Cook and Omai: The Cult of the South Seas, National Library of Australia, Canberra, pp. 23-35.