Brien, Donna Lee
Central Queensland University
Australia
Professor Donna Lee Brien, BEd (Deakin), MA (UTS), PhD (QUT), Grad Cert in Higher Ed (UNE), is Professor of Creative Industries at Central Queensland University, where she supervises doctoral and masters students in creative writing and other creative art forms. She has designed and taught programs in the creative arts in Australia and internationally, including in the UK and Hong Kong, and has won national university teaching awards. Brien’s biography John Power 1881-1943 is the standard biography of this creative expatriate Australian. She is also the co-author of the bestselling trade self-help ‘Girls Guide’ series for Allen & Unwin, and author of more than 20 sole-authored books and exhibition catalogues, and more than 150 refereed journal articles and book chapters.
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ArticlesAs the distinction between disclosure-fuelled celebrity and lasting fame becomes difficult to discern, the “based on a true story” label has gained a particular traction among readers and viewers. This is despite much public approbation and private angst sometimes resulting from such disclosure as “little in the law or in society protects people from the consequences of others’ revelations...Read more
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ArticlesIntroduction: Our current obsession with the lives of others “Biography—that is to say, our creative and non-fictional output devoted to recording and interpreting real lives—has enjoyed an extraordinary renaissance in recent years,” writes Nigel Hamilton in...Read more
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ArticlesIntroduction The exhibition of an artist’s work is traditionally accepted as representing the final stage of the creative process (Staniszewski). This article asks, however, whether this traditional view can be reassessed so that the curatorial practice of mounting...Read more