Margo Neale

Margo Neale

Margo Neale is a Senior Research Fellow, Senior Curator and Principal Advisor to the Director on Indigenous matters at the National Museum of Australia.

Margo is also an Adjunct Professor in the History Program at the Australian National University's Centre for Indigenous History.

Margo has published widely on topics including social history, art in the Asia-Pacific region and Indigenous art, history and culture. Her publications include The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Culture, which she co-edited with Dr Sylvia Kleinert; Urban Dingo: The Art and Life of Lin Onus; and Emily Kame Kngwarrreye - Alhalkere - Paintings from Utopia.

Margo worked in schools, universities, art galleries and in private enterprise before joining the National Museum, where she was the inaugural Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program.

Margo has been a visiting scholar at the University of Queensland and at the Australian National University's Centre for Cross-Cultural Research and the Humanities Research Centre.

Margo has worked on a number of Australian Research Council grants in partnership with the Australian National University. These include 'Art and human rights in the Asia-Pacific: The limits of tolerance'; 'Unsettling history: Australian Indigenous modes of historical practice'; and 'The other within', which examined Indigenous and multicultural displays in contemporary museums.

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Margo is currently curating a major international exhibition on Emily Kame Kngwarreye. The exhibition catalogue, Marks of Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, co-written by Professor Akira Tatehata, is due to be published by Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo, in 2008.

With Peter Sutton and Peter Veth, Margo has also co-authored the forthcoming National Museum of Australia Press publication Strangers on the Shore: Early Coastal Contacts with Australia.

Margo's future research projects include publishing a definitive book on the life and art of Emily Kame Kngwarreye with McCulloch's Aus Art Editions.

Margo also plans to start a comprehensive research project and exhibition on the 1948 American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land.

M Neale (ed.), Urban Dingo: the Art of Lin Onus 1948-1996, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2000.

M Neale (ed.), Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Alhalkere - Paintings from Utopia, Queensland Art Gallery and Macmillan Publishers Australia, Melbourne, 1998.

M Neale and A Jackson-Nakano, Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Barrie Publishing, Melbourne, 2003.

S Kleinert and M Neale (eds), The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, Australia and New Zealand, 2001.

M Neale, 'Out of the dark: telling our own stories in the First Australians gallery at the National Museum of Australia', Representation in Museum Exhibitions - Ethnicity, War and Education, Rekihaku National Museum of Japanese History, Tokyo, Japan, 2005.

M Neale, 'The politics of visibility: how Indigenous Australian art found its way into art galleries', in C Turner (ed.), Art and Social Change: Contemporary Art in Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Press, Canberra, 2005, pp. 483-497.

M Neale, 'The presentation and interpretation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art: the Yiribana Gallery in focus', in M Grossman (ed.), Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians, Melbourne University Publishing, 2003, pp. 104-108.

A Edmundson and M Neale, 'Learning to be Proppa: Aboriginal Artists' Collective, proppaNOW,' in C Turner and D Williams (eds), Thresholds of Tolerance, Australian National University, Canberra, 2007, pp. 29-38.

M Neale and T Morrell, 'Who's laughing: humour in Indigenous Australian photography', Photofile, August 2004, no. 72, pp. 54-57.

M Neale and M Mel, 'Touch a native', in C Turner and N Sever (eds), Witnessing to Silence, Art and Human Rights, Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, pp. 72-75.

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