Anna Lawrenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 2564494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Lawrenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawrenson |
| SIGNATURE | LAWRENSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7731-5532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Leading community engagement on climate change
Imagine a place where global climate challenges are tackled through the lens of local stories and art. Building on scholarship that frames museums as ‘lifeboats’ and ‘pathways’ through the climate crisis, this article demonstrates the unique strengths of regional institutions: their deep community embeddedness, local knowledge, and capacity for agile, place-based engagement. Regional institutions are closely attuned to the social and ecological s…
Being in and of local communities
In Australia, environmental catastrophe is part of our identity: the country and community have all been shaped by repeated droughts, floods and fires.The experience of the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires was, however, unprecedented.It destroyed vast swathes of country, impacting places, lives, livelihoods and communities, and its duration and severity caused untold grief.These catastrophic fires occurred in close succession to sustained droughts …
Disrupting Museum Authority
Museums are wrestling with their past and exhibitions provide important spaces to create new dialogues and include previously excluded voices. This review examines two exhibitions from 2021 at museums in Sydney, Australia – Unsettled at the Australian Museum and Eucalyptusdom at the nearby Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences – as these exhibits are significant markers of fundamental changes in Australian museum practice. It examines how these mus…
Exhibition Reviews and Advancing Museum Practice
The Future of Museums
The following conversation took place on 18 May 2021 during a panel discussion to coincide with marking the six months since the opening of the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, along with the annual occurrence of International Museum Day
Democratising audience experience
The art museum, as observed by Duncan, is a ‘ritual’ space ‘reserved for a special quality of attention’ materialised in a narrow set of acceptable behaviours [Duncan, Carol. 1991. “Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship.” In The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, 88–103. Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press]. In recent decades, under the auspices of the new museology, the ritualised space was …
Revenue, relevance and reflecting community
Museums are judged not solely on the basis of their exhibition quality and collection care but, within a corporate model, they are also judged on quantitative measures such as audience numbers and, in turn, their financial viability. Programming has, therefore, become a major focus of forward planning and the basis for funding development. Blockbuster exhibitions, strategically placed throughout annual programs, have been a common way to increase…
Revenue, relevance and reflecting community
Museums are judged not solely on the basis of their exhibition quality and collection care but, within a corporate model, they are also judged on quantitative measures such as audience numbers and, in turn, their financial viability. Programming has, therefore, become a major focus of forward planning and the basis for funding development. Blockbuster exhibitions, strategically placed throughout annual programs, have been a common way to increase…
Democratising audience experience
The art museum, as observed by Duncan, is a ‘ritual’ space ‘reserved for a special quality of attention’ materialised in a narrow set of acceptable behaviours [Duncan, Carol. 1991. “Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship.” In The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, 88–103. Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press]. In recent decades, under the auspices of the new museology, the ritualised space was …
Revenue, relevance and reflecting community
Museums are judged not solely on the basis of their exhibition quality and collection care but, within a corporate model, they are also judged on quantitative measures such as audience numbers and, in turn, their financial viability. Programming has, therefore, become a major focus of forward planning and the basis for funding development. Blockbuster exhibitions, strategically placed throughout annual programs, have been a common way to increase…
Democratising audience experience
The art museum, as observed by Duncan, is a ‘ritual’ space ‘reserved for a special quality of attention’ materialised in a narrow set of acceptable behaviours [Duncan, Carol. 1991. “Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship.” In The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, 88–103. Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press]. In recent decades, under the auspices of the new museology, the ritualised space was …
The Future of Museums
The following conversation took place on 18 May 2021 during a panel discussion to coincide with marking the six months since the opening of the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, along with the annual occurrence of International Museum Day
Disrupting Museum Authority
Museums are wrestling with their past and exhibitions provide important spaces to create new dialogues and include previously excluded voices. This review examines two exhibitions from 2021 at museums in Sydney, Australia – Unsettled at the Australian Museum and Eucalyptusdom at the nearby Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences – as these exhibits are significant markers of fundamental changes in Australian museum practice. It examines how these mus…
Exhibition Reviews and Advancing Museum Practice
Being in and of local communities
In Australia, environmental catastrophe is part of our identity: the country and community have all been shaped by repeated droughts, floods and fires.The experience of the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires was, however, unprecedented.It destroyed vast swathes of country, impacting places, lives, livelihoods and communities, and its duration and severity caused untold grief.These catastrophic fires occurred in close succession to sustained droughts …
Leading community engagement on climate change
Imagine a place where global climate challenges are tackled through the lens of local stories and art. Building on scholarship that frames museums as ‘lifeboats’ and ‘pathways’ through the climate crisis, this article demonstrates the unique strengths of regional institutions: their deep community embeddedness, local knowledge, and capacity for agile, place-based engagement. Regional institutions are closely attuned to the social and ecological s…
Museums and Cultural Heritage (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Exhibition (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works)