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• A Frances Johnson is a writer and painter with particular interests in postcolonialism, cultural memory, and modernism. She taught writing for seven years at the University of Melbourne. She has a Masters in painting from Victorian College of the Ar...More

  A Frances Johnson is a writer and painter with particular interests in postcolonialism, cultural memory, and modernism. She taught writing for seven years at the University of Melbourne. She has a Masters in painting from Victorian College of the Arts, and a Masters in creative writing from the University of Melbourne and has completed her PhD thesis on the representation of indigenous voices in Australian historical novels (1989-2006). Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in Westerly, Southerly, Meanjin, The New Antigone, Space, Strange, Antithesis and Arena Magazine, and her paintings have been shown in Indonesia and Australia. She has been the recipient of Asialink and Arthur Boyd Bundanon residencies in painting, and an Australia Council Literature Board grant for the development of a new narrative-based history of nylon. Her novel Eugene’s Falls, (Arcadia 2007) about colonial painter, Eugene Von Guerard, unites her interests in the links between official art histories, biography, and cultural memory. A book of poetry, The Pallbearer’s Garden, was published by Whitmore Press in late 2007. Less

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