Janine Burke is an art historian, biographer, novelist and freelance curator. She has written a series of books about the Heide circle that includes Joy Hester, Australian Gothic: A Life of Albert Tucker and The Heart Garden: Sunday Reed and Heide.
In 1987, she won the Victorian Premier’s Award for her novel, Second Sight. With the Freud Museum London, she curated ‘An Archaeology of the Mind: Sigmund Freud’s Art Collection’ for Monash University Museum of Art and Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney in 2007.
Her most recent book is Source: Nature’s Healing Role in Art and Writing. Dr Burke is a research fellow of Monash University based in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies.
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Book launch | Monash University Low FODMAP: The Cookbook (Invitation Only)
Monash University Caulfield
Monash Art, Design and Architecture Exhibition Space,, Caulfield
120 delicious and easy-to-follow recipes developed by the founders of the FODMAP diet This is the perfect cooking companion to better manage symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Offering 120...
Book Launch: The Uncertainty Effect by Michelle Lazarus
Matheson Library
Monash University, Clayton, VIC
To be launched by Professor Sharon Pickering A smart, practical book that shows us how to navigate uncertain times In an age of pandemic and economic precarity, how can we...
Justice in Kelly Country book talk by Lachlan Strahan (National Trust Australian Heritage Festival Event, Glenroy)
Glenroy Community Hub Library
50 Wheatsheaf Road, Glenroy, VIC
Partway through the Jerilderie Letter, Ned Kelly accused Senior Constable Anthony Strahan of threatening to shoot him ‘like a dog’. Two days after Anthony reputedly made his threat, Ned and...
Gender Equality Forum (including Inala Cooper)
Wurriki Nyal
137-149 Mercer Street, Geelong, VIC
The fight for gender equality has been a drawn-out battle. Since the 1900’s, women have led the conversation. They have been challenging patriarchal systems, policies, and laws to ensure that...
Book launch | Monash University Low FODMAP: The Cookbook (Invitation Only)
Monash University Caulfield Monash Art, Design and Architecture Exhibition Space,, Caulfield120 delicious and easy-to-follow recipes developed by the founders of the FODMAP diet This is the perfect cooking companion to better manage symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Offering 120...
Book Launch: The Uncertainty Effect by Michelle Lazarus
Matheson Library Monash University, Clayton, VICTo be launched by Professor Sharon Pickering A smart, practical book that shows us how to navigate uncertain times In an age of pandemic and economic precarity, how can we...
Justice in Kelly Country book talk by Lachlan Strahan (National Trust Australian Heritage Festival Event, Glenroy)
Glenroy Community Hub Library 50 Wheatsheaf Road, Glenroy, VICPartway through the Jerilderie Letter, Ned Kelly accused Senior Constable Anthony Strahan of threatening to shoot him ‘like a dog’. Two days after Anthony reputedly made his threat, Ned and...
Gender Equality Forum (including Inala Cooper)
Wurriki Nyal 137-149 Mercer Street, Geelong, VICThe fight for gender equality has been a drawn-out battle. Since the 1900’s, women have led the conversation. They have been challenging patriarchal systems, policies, and laws to ensure that...
