Member Profile
Name:
Marguerite Gibson
Institution:
Curtin University
Academic status:
Student
Main discipline:
Art History
Additional disciplines:
Cultural Studies
History
Literary Studies
History
Literary Studies
Other societies:
Romanticism Studies Association of Australasia;
Enlightenment Romanticism Contemporary Culture Research Unit;
The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand;
Australian Museums and Galleries Association;
The International Heyer Society.
Enlightenment Romanticism Contemporary Culture Research Unit;
The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand;
Australian Museums and Galleries Association;
The International Heyer Society.
Research interests:
Marguerite Gibson focuses on nineteenth century Australian colonial art, particularly in relation to the themes of aesthetics, landscape and the emotional traditions of the sublime. Currently, her research project is investigating the utilization of the sublime through motifs, nuances and Australian landscape depiction within art, representing the emotional experiences of the historical period of the Gold Rush era, 1850-1900. Through the primary texts of Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, along with the contemporary concept of the colonial sublime, she explores the relationship between these ideas, termed the Australian colonial sublime within the research. Her most recent book chapter publication can be found within Song of Death in Paradise: Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film, edited by Feryal Cubukcu and Sabine Planka (Lexington Books), entitled “Wilderness Garden: Death, Landscape and the Australian Colonial Sublime”.