Bachelor of Art History and Curatorial Studies

Dr Emily Brink

Dr Emily Eastgate Brink is an Associate Professor in the History of Art at the University of Western Australia, where she focuses on the art and visual culture of the global eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  Her scholarship explores the European engagement with Asian ‘otherness,’ monstrosity, marginalised communities, and health.  In this work, material meaning informs the interpretation of objects, engaging the poetics of mediums, such as porcelain, silk, wax, and paper.  This research has broad applications to the visual study of science, the history of material economies, as well as the construction of identity in the modern period.  Brink’s work has received support from a variety of organisations, including: The Australian Institute of Art History, the National Library of Australia, the Mellon Foundation, and the Stanford Humanities Center.

Susanne Meurer

Susanne Meurer worked in archives and the museum sector for seven years prior to becoming a lecturer in early modern art and curatorial studies. As part of her museum and archive work, Susanne handled letters by Albert Einstein, catalogued prints by Albrecht Durer and couriered medieval manuscripts. She has contributed to major international exhibition catalogues on Renaissance Art and entered more than 13000 prints on the British Museum online database. Her research focuses on cultural and technical aspects of printmaking from 15th century Europe to 21st century Australia, on biographies of artists and on the history of collecting and curation. She has published in leading international journals and held fellowships at the Warburg Institute in London, the Max-Planck Institute for Art History in Florence, and Harvard University’s Houghton Library.

Arvi Wattel

Arvi Wattel received his education from the Radboud University Nijmegen and is a lecturer in the History of Art at UWA. Before moving to Perth, he was awarded grants from the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund and Dr Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds, was a visiting fellow at the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, held fellowships at the Fondazione Ermitage in Ferrara, the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Gesellschaft) in Florence, the Dutch Institute for Art History in Florence and the Royal Netherlandish Institute in Rome. Previously, he lectured at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the University of Maastricht and for Oberlin College in Arezzo.

Darren Jorgensen

Darren Jorgensen is most recently the author of Clyma Est Mort (Bloomsbury, 2023) and was with Tami Xiang a co-curator of the 2023 exhibition Beijing Realism that was part of the Perth Festival. With UWA undergraduate students Darren edits the journal Guan Kan: Thinking with Contemporary Chinese Art and contributes to Perth's leading art review, Dispatch Review, as well as to the national publication Artlink. His writing on Australian art has appeared in Art Bulletin, Aboriginal History, History Australia, Third Text and World Art. He is currently running a research project on illustrated literature from remote Aboriginal communities, and is finishing a study of art and literature from sheep and cattle stations in nineteenth and twentieth century Australia.