Sophie Matthiesson
Curator of European and North American Art 1200-1980, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. Experienced in museum collection research and development (paintings, sculpture, works on paper), researching and mounting exhibitions, teaching, public speaking and publishing.
Current curatorial projects: cataloguing eighteenth and nineteenth-century British works on paper and researching and publishing British sculpture online. Researching French and British new acquisitions.
Specialised research: Eighteenth-century French painting and sculpture. Artists in prison in the French Revolution.
Awards: Recipient of British Academy doctoral research award. Recipient of the Tomlin Award, Greenwich Maritime Museum Society for Nautical Research London, for research on French Prisoner-of-War art 1789-1814. Nominated by Monash University School of Historical Studies for Mollie Hollman medal for best Arts Faculty doctoral study in 2016. Recipient of the inaugural Monash University School of Historical Studies prize for best doctoral thesis of 2016. Winner of the 2018 Prix Marianne Roland-Michel to assist in the publication of ‘The Art of Surviving: Prison Art in Revolutionary France 1793–1795’ (provisional title). Winner of the inaugural 2019 Mary D. Sheriff Research Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for feminist topics in eighteenth-century art history and visual culture.
Other interests: Historical Indian, South-East Asian and Oceanic art
Supervisors: Professor David Garrioch, Monash University, Professor Thomas Crow, University of Sussex, and Professor Susan Siegfried, University of Leeds
Address: Auckland New Zealand
Current curatorial projects: cataloguing eighteenth and nineteenth-century British works on paper and researching and publishing British sculpture online. Researching French and British new acquisitions.
Specialised research: Eighteenth-century French painting and sculpture. Artists in prison in the French Revolution.
Awards: Recipient of British Academy doctoral research award. Recipient of the Tomlin Award, Greenwich Maritime Museum Society for Nautical Research London, for research on French Prisoner-of-War art 1789-1814. Nominated by Monash University School of Historical Studies for Mollie Hollman medal for best Arts Faculty doctoral study in 2016. Recipient of the inaugural Monash University School of Historical Studies prize for best doctoral thesis of 2016. Winner of the 2018 Prix Marianne Roland-Michel to assist in the publication of ‘The Art of Surviving: Prison Art in Revolutionary France 1793–1795’ (provisional title). Winner of the inaugural 2019 Mary D. Sheriff Research Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for feminist topics in eighteenth-century art history and visual culture.
Other interests: Historical Indian, South-East Asian and Oceanic art
Supervisors: Professor David Garrioch, Monash University, Professor Thomas Crow, University of Sussex, and Professor Susan Siegfried, University of Leeds
Address: Auckland New Zealand
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