Jo-Anne Duggan

The late Dr Jo-Anne Duggan (1962-2011), our campus' first artist-in-residence, was a scholar and photomedia artist. Jo-Anne investigated site-specificity, the complexity of the museum, and the pasts that collide in the context of viewing art and historical materials.

Jo-Anne had a longstanding focus on Italian material culture and history and her practice as a photomedia artist was profoundly influenced by the heritage associated with Italian Renaissance painting.

A Site of Convergence: Celebrating 10 years of the Monash University Prato Centre, published by Monash University Publishing in 2011, is the result of collaboration between writer and editor Cynthia Troup, and Jo-Anne. It is a tribute to the humanist vision that shaped the development of our campus, and a celebration of Jo-Anne’s photographic art. It includes Jo-Anne’s account of the effect of her association with our campus on her creative vision and practice.

Jo-Anne's association with our campus began in 2003 and culminated with her exhibition ‘Wondrous Possessions’ in 2010. Jo-Anne gifted a triptych of the State Archives of Mantova from this exhibition. The photographs are on display in our reading room.