Person Sheet
NameSusan Elizabeth ROWLEY Dr. 
Birth18 Nov 1948
Christen3 Jun 1957, St John's Ch, Croydon, Vic
OccupationProfessor of Contemporary Australian Art History
FatherFrank ROWLEY (1916-1991)
MotherKathleen Nancy Woodzell AYERS (1920-)
Misc. Notes
Educ. Ruyton Girls' Grammar School, Monash Univ., Victoria, (BA, DipEd, BCA.), Wollongong University (Creative Arts Degree, PhD)
Lecturer & Director of Visual Arts in the School of Creative Arts of Wollongong Univ., NSW; member of Australian Arts Council; editor & writer of Debutante NATION - Feminism Contests the 1890s.
From University Of NSW web site:
The Head of the School of Art History and Theory is Professor Sue Rowley, who was appointed to the Foundation Chair of Contemporary Australian Art History in 1995.
Sue Rowley's research interests include contemporary Australian art and national culture, contemporary Australian craft, gender and nation formation, and late nineteenth century Australian 'bush' mythology. Her collaborative work with artists, and particularly her supervision of artists in postgraduate research degrees, has laid the foundations for her research into artists' autobiographical processes and artists' research. Her research is in principle cross-disciplinary, bringing insights from literature, visual arts and cultural history to bear on the analysis of cultural imagination and its literary and visual expression.
It is on the basis of her theoretical interest in the intersection of literary, cultural and visual theory that she has contributed to ground-breaking craft theory and to the professional development of craftspractitioners, writers and curators.
Complementing her research is her involvement in critical writing and curatorship., with a particular emphasis on contemporary craft. She recently co-curated (with U.S. colleague Christopher Leitch) Crossing Borders—History, Culture and Identity in Australian Contemporary Textile Art, the first major exhibition of contemporary Australian textiles to tour the United States of America.
Profesor Rowley plays an active role in the Australian arts community, and is currently President of Centre for Contemporary Craft in Sydney and Deputy Chair of Australian Council of University Art and Design School (ACUADS). She is a keen advocate for the recognition of the research contribution made by artists within the university sector, and has contributed to the development of postgraduate research degrees, especially at the doctoral level.
Lecturer & Director of Visual Arts in the School of Creative Arts of Wollongong Univ., NSW; member of Australian Arts Council; editor & writer of Debutante NATION - Feminism Contests the 1890s.
From University Of NSW web site:
The Head of the School of Art History and Theory is Professor Sue Rowley, who was appointed to the Foundation Chair of Contemporary Australian Art History in 1995.
Sue Rowley's research interests include contemporary Australian art and national culture, contemporary Australian craft, gender and nation formation, and late nineteenth century Australian 'bush' mythology. Her collaborative work with artists, and particularly her supervision of artists in postgraduate research degrees, has laid the foundations for her research into artists' autobiographical processes and artists' research. Her research is in principle cross-disciplinary, bringing insights from literature, visual arts and cultural history to bear on the analysis of cultural imagination and its literary and visual expression.
It is on the basis of her theoretical interest in the intersection of literary, cultural and visual theory that she has contributed to ground-breaking craft theory and to the professional development of craftspractitioners, writers and curators.
Complementing her research is her involvement in critical writing and curatorship., with a particular emphasis on contemporary craft. She recently co-curated (with U.S. colleague Christopher Leitch) Crossing Borders—History, Culture and Identity in Australian Contemporary Textile Art, the first major exhibition of contemporary Australian textiles to tour the United States of America.
Profesor Rowley plays an active role in the Australian arts community, and is currently President of Centre for Contemporary Craft in Sydney and Deputy Chair of Australian Council of University Art and Design School (ACUADS). She is a keen advocate for the recognition of the research contribution made by artists within the university sector, and has contributed to the development of postgraduate research degrees, especially at the doctoral level.
Spouses
Birth26 Oct 1946
OccupationPro Vice Chancellor of The University of Victoria
FatherWerner David Falk Prof. (1906-1991)
MotherBarbara Cohen Dr. (1910-)
Misc. Notes
Prof. & lecturer at Wollongong Univ
He is the author of "Red Light for Yellow Cake", "Taking Australia Off the Map", "Global Fission", "The Greenhouse Challenge" (with Brownlow), "The End of Sovereignty? Politics in a Shrinking Fragmenting World!" (with Camilleri).
Jim and Sue
I first spied Sue as she wandered through the Union at Monash University in late 1968. I still have a strong image of her as she walked across the Small Cafe in brown stockings and a brown leather mini skirt. I asked a friend who she was.
She was then going out with Grahame Hubberd, a fellow postgraduate student in the Physics Department. Sue was involved in the Walk for Biafra campaign which was organised out of the MAS office. One day she came across to the MAS office and Noel Lethborg invited her to come down to the Notting Hill Pub for a drink. I said that was a good idea and I went too. I can remember teasing Sue about the fact that she had no money so I had to buy her a drink. Wasn’t she into women’s liberation? She said she was but she had no money!
Sue broke up with Grahame Hubberd and I got her telephone number off Grahame, but did nothing much with it since I was tortuously breaking up with my current girl friend Barbara Burton. I then went off on a trip up the Malay peninsular to Cambodia and Vietnam, leaving on 16 December 1968.
I arrived in Vietnam on 14 January 1969 with a 14 day visa. This was later extended to a 28 day visa on the basis of letters of press acreditation (which I had forged. I stayed the entire length of the visa, so I probably left Vietnam on Tuesday 11 February 1969, flew to Singapore, stayed overnight and departed for Melbourne on 12 February 1969. I returned on that day, and the next day I was looking through my diary when I discovered Sue’s telephone number. I rang her up and invited her to a picture (War and Peace part I & Mama Mia’s Pizza). I think I probably would have gone out with her on the following Friday or Saturday night probably 14-15 February 1969 (although possibly 21-22 February 1969).
That, as close as I can work it out, is our “anniversary”.
One other day stands out as being a candidate for the “anniversary”. On 8 July 1970 I set off on a trip to the US and Europe - the US to visit my dad, and Europe to attend a Summer School in Quantum Chemistry, Bio-chemistry and Bio-Physics at Upsalla University in Sweden. (On the trip I also visited Mexico, Spain and Cuba). I arrived in Chapel Hill on 14 July 1970. I was missing Sue very much and when I got to may dad’s house there were no letters waiting for me. So I decided to write her a letter whilst taking a bath. In that letter I said “lets live together”. Sue wrote back saying “yes”. I came back on 14 September 1970, and really, from that moment on we were “living together”.
Prof. & lecturer at Wollongong Univ. Pro Vice Chancellor Of The University Of Western Sydney 1997 - 2001. Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Victoria.
He is the author of "Red Light for Yellow Cake", "Taking Australia Off the Map", "Global Fission", "The Greenhouse Challenge" (with Brownlow), "The End of Sovereignty? Politics in a Shrinking Fragmenting World!" (with Camilleri).
Jim and Sue
I first spied Sue as she wandered through the Union at Monash University in late 1968. I still have a strong image of her as she walked across the Small Cafe in brown stockings and a brown leather mini skirt. I asked a friend who she was.
She was then going out with Grahame Hubberd, a fellow postgraduate student in the Physics Department. Sue was involved in the Walk for Biafra campaign which was organised out of the MAS office. One day she came across to the MAS office and Noel Lethborg invited her to come down to the Notting Hill Pub for a drink. I said that was a good idea and I went too. I can remember teasing Sue about the fact that she had no money so I had to buy her a drink. Wasn’t she into women’s liberation? She said she was but she had no money!
Sue broke up with Grahame Hubberd and I got her telephone number off Grahame, but did nothing much with it since I was tortuously breaking up with my current girl friend Barbara Burton. I then went off on a trip up the Malay peninsular to Cambodia and Vietnam, leaving on 16 December 1968.
I arrived in Vietnam on 14 January 1969 with a 14 day visa. This was later extended to a 28 day visa on the basis of letters of press acreditation (which I had forged. I stayed the entire length of the visa, so I probably left Vietnam on Tuesday 11 February 1969, flew to Singapore, stayed overnight and departed for Melbourne on 12 February 1969. I returned on that day, and the next day I was looking through my diary when I discovered Sue’s telephone number. I rang her up and invited her to a picture (War and Peace part I & Mama Mia’s Pizza). I think I probably would have gone out with her on the following Friday or Saturday night probably 14-15 February 1969 (although possibly 21-22 February 1969).
That, as close as I can work it out, is our “anniversary”.
One other day stands out as being a candidate for the “anniversary”. On 8 July 1970 I set off on a trip to the US and Europe - the US to visit my dad, and Europe to attend a Summer School in Quantum Chemistry, Bio-chemistry and Bio-Physics at Upsalla University in Sweden. (On the trip I also visited Mexico, Spain and Cuba). I arrived in Chapel Hill on 14 July 1970. I was missing Sue very much and when I got to may dad’s house there were no letters waiting for me. So I decided to write her a letter whilst taking a bath. In that letter I said “lets live together”. Sue wrote back saying “yes”. I came back on 14 September 1970, and really, from that moment on we were “living together”.
Prof. & lecturer at Wollongong Univ. Pro Vice Chancellor Of The University Of Western Sydney 1997 - 2001. Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Victoria.
ChildrenAnna Rowley (1980-)
Michael Rowley (1982-)
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