Dr Luke Taylor |
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| Deputy Principal, Research and Information | |
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GPO Box 553, AIATSIS, Canberra ACT 2601 |
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Telephone: +61 2 6246 1159 Facsimile: +61 2 6249 7714 |
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| Email Luke Taylor | |
Luke Taylor is the Deputy Principal, Research and Information at AIATSIS. In this position he maintains broad oversight of the work of the Research program and Aboriginal Studies Press and is a member of the Institute’s senior executive. He is an anthropologist who specialises in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and has written a number of books on Aboriginal art including Seeing the Inside: Bark Painting in Western Arnhem Land (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996), Painting the Land Story (National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 1999), and is co-editor with Jon Altman of Marketing Aboriginal Art in the 1990s (Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1990). He produced the first edition of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Artists’ Database (electronically published by Discovery Media). Recently he was joint editor of The Power of Knowledge, The Resonance of Tradition (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005).
Previously he was Curator and then Senior Curator in the Gallery of Aboriginal Australia at the National Museum of Australia for ten years from 1990 to 2000. During the construction phase of the Museum he was project manager for development of the current Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander exhibits. He is also currently Adjunct Professor with the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University where he teaches about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and supervises a number of students.
Projects Luke is currently involved in include: