Dr Kerry Heckenberg
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Communication and Arts
Researcher biography
Kerry Heckenberg is currently an active research member in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland with experience in teaching both science (physiology) and art history at this university.
Book Chapters
Heckenberg, Kerry (2011). The statue of Zeus at Olympia and the iconography of power and majesty in European, American and Australian art. The statue of Zeus at Olympia: New approaches. (pp. 189-208) edited by Janette McWilliam, Sonia Puttock, Tom Stevenson and Rashna Tarapolewalla. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2010). Bush Friends in Tasmania and Loved, and Lost!. Found in Fryer: Stories from the Fryer Library Collection. (pp. 60-61) edited by Roslyn Follett. The University of Queensland: The University of Queensland Library.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2008). Traffic in pictures: The circulation of imagery in nineteenth-century Australian art and illustrations. Victorian Traffic: Identity, Exchange, Performance. (pp. 192-212) edited by Sue Thomas. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2008). Vulgar art: issues of genre and modernity in the reception of the flower paintings of Ellis Rowan. Impact of the Modern: Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s. (pp. 75-90) edited by Robert Dixon and Veronica Kelly. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Journal Articles
Heckenberg, Kerry (2018). A taste for art in colonial Queensland: The Queensland Art Gallery Foundational Bequest of Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior. Queensland Review, 25 (1), 119-136. doi: 10.1017/qre.2018.11
Heckenberg, Kerry (2015). Nude Bathing Scenes as an Australian Pastoral Mode: strategies and tactics in Australian art around the turn of the twentieth century. Australian Literary Studies, 30 (2), 78-93.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2015). Visions of Colonial Grandeur: John Twycross at Melbourne's International Exhibitions, Melbourne.. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (1), 137-137.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2014). Retrieving an archive: Brook Andrew and William Blandowski's Australien in 142 Photographischen Abbildungen. Journal of Art Historiography (11).
Heckenberg, Kerry (2013). 'A penchant for picture making': Alfred Coleman and his watercolour sketches. Fryer folios, 8 (1), 3-6.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2012). Exactitude and pleasure: late nineteenth-century Australian pictorial atlases and their illustrations. Script and Print, 36 (4), 213-229.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2011). Shifting terrain: Vision and visual representation in Our Antipodes (1852) and Australia Terra Cognita (1855--6). Journal of Australian Studies, 35 (3), 373-388. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2011.593537
Heckenberg, Kerry (2011). A lady's point of view: Female curiosity and Mrs Allan Macpherson's experiences in Australia (1860). Journal of Australian Colonial History, 13, 125-150.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2010). Queensland's own sea monster: a curious tale of loss and regret. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes, 2009-2010.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2010). The King of the Sea and other stories of prehistoric life at the University of Queensland. reCollections, 5 (1).
Heckenberg, Kerry (2010). Don Cowen b. 1920 Brisbane, QLD. Dictionary of Australian Artists Online.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2010). Out of the frying pan: Voyaging to Queensland in 1863 on board the Fiery Star. Queensland Review, 17 (2), 37-52.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2009). Review - Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape by Jeanette Hoorn. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 9 (1/2), 243-246.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2009). William George Wilson. Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, 1, 1-4.
Heckenberg, Kerry (2008). J. J. Hilder and the languages of art. Queensland Review, 15 (1), 33-49.
Heckenberg, K. (2007). Photography and exploration: Issues related to the uptake of photography in Australian exploration. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 9, 155-188.
Heckenberg, K A (2006). Masters and Moderns: Tradition, Modernity and the Role of Two Australian Artisits' Self-Portraits from the Interwar Period. Crossings (10.3/11.1), 1-12.
Heckenberg, K. A. (2006). '...bringing facts into some connexion with each other...': Ludwig Becker's Narrative Strategies in his Burke and Wills Illustrations. The La Trobe Journal, 77 (Autumn), 68-88.
Heckenberg, K. A. (2006). Conflicting visions: the art and life of William George Wilson (1849 - 1924), Anglo-Australian gentleman-painter. Queensland Review, 13 (1), 1-21.
Heckenberg, K. A. (2005). Contingencies of colonial fame: William Wilson of Pilton. University of Queensland Historical Proceedings, 16, 21-32.
Heckenberg, K. (2005). Thomas Mitchell and the Wellington caves: The relationship among science, religion, and aesthetics in early-nineteenth-century Australia. Victorian Literature And Culture, 33 (1), 203-218. doi: 10.1017/S106015030500080X
Heckenberg, K. A. (2004). "Monarch of all I surveyed and lord of the fowl and the brute" or man of science: The dilemma of the explorer in nineteenth-century Australia. Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, 9, 67-88.
Heckenberg, K. (2000). The poetry and portraiture of a national landscape: The 1913 Federal Capital site landscape competition. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 1 (2), 80-98. doi: 10.1080/14434318.2000.11432670
Heckenberg, Kerry (1997). What Sir Thomas Mitchell omits from his Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia (1848. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 16 (6), 249-258.
Conference Paper
Heckenberg, K.A. (2004). The nineteenth-century Australian exploration journal and pleasurable instruction. Books & empire: Textual production, distribution and consumption in colonial and postcolonial countries, Sydney, Australia, 30 Jan - 1 Feb, 2003. Wagga Wagga, Australia: Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand.
Thesis
Heckenberg, Kerry (2002). The art and science of exploration : a study of genre, vision and visual representation in nineteenth century journals and reports of Australian inland exploration. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/205342