Position: PhD Student, ICCR
School and/or Centres: Humanities Research Centre
Email: Jennifer.Coombes@anu.edu.au
Qualification: Master of Arts, Museums and Collections, Australian National University
Graduate Diploma, Information Management/Library Studies, University of Canberra
Graduate Diploma of Arts, Women’s Studies, Australian National University
Jennifer has worked in collection and exhibition curatorial roles at the Australian War Memorial, National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. She also worked as a Special Collections Archivist setting up the artist archives at the National Gallery of Australia for three years. She is currently researching the role of collaborative practices and interdisciplinarity in national photography exhibitions held in archives and museums.
Art history, photography, exhibition history, public culture, curatorship, museum, studies, gender studies.
Book chapters
Coombes, Jennifer (2017) The still image: documenting Australian filmmaking. In Eyre, Karen-Jane, (editor) Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits. Canberra, ACT: National Portrait Gallery (Australia): National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, p44-51
Coombes, Jennifer & Roslyn Russell (2015) Documenting Visual Arts in Australia in Russell, Roslyn & Anne Marie Conde (editors) The Australian Register: UNESCO Memory of the World Program. Deakin, ACT: UNESCO Memory of the World Committee.
Articles
Coombes, Jennifer. ‘Different Histories: A story of three exhibitions in Canberra’, Museum Worlds, Volume 9, 2021.
Coombes, Jennifer. ‘Talking art and drawing words: personal records and oral history collections in the National Gallery’s Research Library’. Australian Academic and Research Library Journal. Vol. 40, 2009
Coombes, Jennifer and Joye Volker. ‘The art of life online: creating artists’ biographies on the web’, Art Libraries (UK).Vol.34, No.1, 2009. p.12-16.
Coombes, Jennifer. ‘More perspiration than inspiration: the art and archives of Edith and Rachel Grieve’, Journal of the Art Libraries Society of Australia and New Zealand. Vol. 68, October 2009
Coombes, Jennifer. ‘Painting words: artist’s manuscripts at the National Gallery’, Journal of the Art Libraries Society of Australia and New Zealand. Volume 63, June 2007.