Janine Burke

Janine Burke is an art historian, biographer, curator, photographer, and award-winning novelist. An Honorary Senior Fellow in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne, she has published landmark studies of Australian women artists as well as studies and biographies of members of the Heide modernist circle, including Joy Hester, Albert Tucker, and Sunday Reed. She has also worked on Sigmund Freud’s art collection and in 2014 curated ‘Freud and Eros: Love, Lust and Longing’ for the Freud Museum London. Her most recent book is My Forests: Travels with trees (2021).