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Dr Elly Kent is a lecturer, researcher, writer, translator, artist and intercultural professional with 20 years of experience working in academia and the arts in Indonesia and Australia. Her professional roles have included higher education teaching, curatorial and collection research, education and public programs in the museum and gallery sector and project management in the youth mobility/international education sector. Her intercultural expertise, extensive networks in Southeast Asia and Australia, and proficiency at project management have allowed her to fill diverse roles in the education, academic, government and arts sectors. Dr Kent is the author of Artists and the People: Ideologies of Indonesian Art (NUS Press, 2022), which was Highly Commended in the Arts Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) 2024 Best Book Prize and won an Accolade in the International Convention of Asia Scholars' 2023 Book Prize. She was co-editor, (with Emeritus Professor Virginia Hooker and Dr Caroline Turner) of Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History (ANU Press 2023) also contributing chapters and translations.
PhD, Visual Art and Art History, ANU School of Art and Design
Indonesia, Indonesian language, contemporary art, Southeast Asian art, socially-engaged and participatory art practice, museums and galleries, museum education, environmental activism, artivism, gender relations in cultural practice, centre-periphery constructs, modernity and social change
Research output: Non-textual form › Hosted Exhibition or Event
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review