Janda Gooding

Janda Gooding worked as a Curator at the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 1979 to 2005 where she curated many thematic and survey exhibitions as well as retrospectives of Australian artists A.B. Webb and Kathleen O’Connor. It was while working on the 1991 exhibition Wildflowers in Art that she met the artists who formed the Botanical Artists Group, Western Australia. In 2005 she moved to Canberra to take up a position as Senior Curator of Art at the Australian War Memorial where she is currently exploring the connections between art, landscape and history for a forthcoming publication on Gallipoli. Her current preoccupations beyond this are characterised by being at odds with her environment while trying to establish a garden in a drought stricken region and painting botanical studies of seaweeds in a land locked capital.

Awards

Gordon Darling Foundation Travel Grant (Global), 2007
AWM Staff Research Grant, 2007
Visiting Fellowship, Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, USA, 1998
Harold Wright and Sarah and William Holmes Scholar, British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, 1991
Short listed WA Premier’s Book Awards for Special Category, 1991

Books available from Fremantle Press

• Brush with Gondwana 2013

Other Books by this Author

• Sunshine & Shadow: A B Webb and the Poetics of Place
• South West Central: Indigenous Art from South Western Australia 1833-2002
• Chasing Shadows: The Art of Kathleen O’Connor
• Wildflowers in Art: Artist’s Impressions of Western Australian Wildflowers 1699-1991
• The Song of the Lamb: The Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art
• Contemporary Folk Painting from Zhejiang Province, China
• Western Australian Art and Artists 1900-1950