As an independent scholar, curator and freelance writer, Chris McAuliffe is pursuing projects encompassing cultural policy, art history, local history and popular music. Like all research projects, some are undertaken with a defined goal in mind while others are simply driven by curiosity.

Current projects include:

• ‘Fringe to famous’: examining the crossover between ‘alternative’ and ‘mainstream’ Australian cultural production since the 1980s
• The global circulation of Jackson Pollock’s drip-painting as an early example of the ‘meme’
• Interpretation of the City of Melbourne contemporary art collection
• Photographic portraits of the Kelly Gang
• Indonesian punk band, Punkasila, and their collaborations with Melbourne artist, Danius Kesminas
• Charles Summers’s sculptural memorial to the Burke and Wills expedition
• Sir Peter Blake’s Elvis paintings

For more information, go to the current projects page.

Past projects include:

• Exhibitions on Australian rules football and Neil Diamond
• A symposium on art and rock music
• Books on art, artists and art collections

For more information, go to the past projects page.