Darren Jorgensen

Darren is most recently the author of Clyma Est Mort (Bloomsbury, 2023) and was with Tami Xiang a co-curator of the 2023 exhibition Beijing Realism that was part of the Perth Festival. With UWA undergraduate students Darren edits the journal Guan Kan: Thinking with Contemporary Chinese Art (https://www.guankanjournal.art/) and contributes to Perth's leading art review, Dispatch Review (dispatchreview.info), as well as to the national publication Artlink. His writing on Australian art has appeared in Art Bulletin, Aboriginal History, History Australia, Third Text and World Art. He is currently running a research project on illustrated literature from remote Aboriginal communities, and is finishing a study of art and literature from sheep and cattle stations in nineteenth and twentieth century Australia.