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Blog writing
‘Salvaging Southeast Asian History: Shipwrecks and Chinese Blue-and-White’, New Mandala, 22 October 2021. Based on research first shared for the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre’s ‘Heritage and the Arts’ webinar series.
‘The Chau Chak Wing Museum in Sydney, Australia’, Mainly Museums, 22 June 2021.
‘Obstacles and opportunities in arts publishing + Arts Monthly Australia offer to HDR candidates’, NiTRO (Non-Traditional Research Outcomes), no. 31, 23 October 2020.
‘Winners announced for the 2020 FUSE Glass Prize and 18th Meroogal Women’s Art Prize’, Art Monthly Australasia Blog, 1 October 2020.
‘Altered states of consciousness in Mel O’Callaghan’s “Centre of the Centre”‘, AMA Blog, 4 Aug 2020.
‘A blueprint for a brave new world at Carriageworks‘, AMA Blog, 28 July 2020.
‘Finding a post-internet self‘, AMA Blog, 8 July 2020.
‘Decentring whiteness: “Wansolwara” and the need for critical diversity’, AMA Blog, 1 July 2020.
‘Artists in isolation, the “Lockdown Studio” and a COVIDSafe arts ecology’, AMA Blog, 24 June 2020.
‘Crossing continents and time: Daniel Thomas on the incomparable Christo‘, AMA Blog, 3 June 2020.
‘Familiarity and intimacy: “Together in Art”’, AMA Blog, 27 May 2020.
‘Reopening windows to other worlds through art’, AMA Blog, 20 May 2020.
‘Artist conversations “dig deep within the soul”’, AMA Blog, 13 May 2020.
‘Remembering James Mollison: A flair for collection-building‘, AMA Blog, 28 April 2020.
‘Turning inwards, and outwards: Galleries in the time of coronavirus’, AMA Blog, 7 April 2020.
Podcasts & Radio
ABC Canberra Sunday Brunch, interview with Kim Huynh (from 2:50), 25 January 2026..
‘New Export China: Translations Across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art‘, interview with Sarah Bramao-Ramos, New Books in East Asian Studies, 2 February 2024, New Books Network.
‘Export China: Reimagining Chineseness through the Ceramics Trade in Southeast Asia’, SSEAC Stories, 7 January 2022, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre.
‘Chinese Willow Pattern Dish’, Object Matters, 1 February 2022, Chau Chak Wing Museum.
Public talks
‘Out of the Melting Pot, into the Garden? Aboriginal-Chinese-Australian Artistic Encounters‘, 18 September 2025, Global Encounters Network Seminar Series, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre.
‘Porcelain Renaissance: Sin-ying Ho’s “New Export China”‘, 18 March 2024, The Asian Arts Society of Australia.
‘Cūra: Collection, Community, Care‘, Sydney Asian Art Series 2023 (co-convenor), Power Institute Foundation for Art & Visual Culture, University of Sydney. Speakers: Professor Kavita Singh; Professor Yael Rice; Professor Melody Rod-ari; Professor Stacey Pierson.
‘New Export China: Translations Across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art‘ (in conversation with Professor Ari Heinrich), 1 August 2023, Centre for Art History and Art Theory, School of Art & Design, Australian National University.
‘Why do so many Chinese artists use porcelain? Charting the rise of New Export China‘ (in conversation with Professor Claire Roberts), Bookworm, 28 July 2023, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney.
‘New Export China: Reconciling Surface and Depth in Ah Xian’s Porcelain Busts‘, Art Talks, 26 July 2023, Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University.
‘Grand Narrative(s) of Blue and White’, online public lecture for the Sydney Lunar New Festival 2022, 10 February 2022, in partnership with the China Studies Centre and Chau Chak Wing Museum.
‘The Power and Privilege of Blue-and-White in 14th-century Vietnam and the Malay Peninsula’, online public lecture delivered as part of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre’s ‘Heritage and the Arts‘ webinar series, 16 September 2021.
‘The Future of Museums’, public panel with Craig Barker, Anna Lawrenson, Helena Robinson, and James Flexner at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney, 18 May 2021; recorded as Episode 17 of the Museum’s Object Matters podcast series.
‘Speaking with/to/for artists and my efforts to find balance between these positions’, Issues in Asian Art Research, University of Melbourne, August 2018.
‘Transexperience and the in-between in the porcelain sculptures of Sin-ying Ho’, The Transnational in Asian Art, Australian National University, September 2017.
‘Time and the Body: Ah Xian and the Chinese Artisans of Jingdezhen’, for Ah Xian: Axiom at Hamilton Gallery, Victoria, February 2017.
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