Dr June Ross

Biography

Trained as a designer, my early career included periods teaching at secondary level, working as Education/Public Programs Officer at the New England Regional Art Museum and lecturing in Arts Education at the University of New England (UNE). After completing a degree in Aboriginal Studies and Archaeology at UNE, I undertook postgraduate studies focused on rock art in northwest Queensland. Always drawn to remote areas of Australia, I completed my PhD in Central Australia researching rock art and its role in ritual.

More recently, along with colleagues, I have been Chief Investigator on three Australian Research Council projects; Change and Continuity: Archaeology, Chronology and Art in the Northwest Kimberley, PicturingChange: Contact Rock Art and Alive with the Dreaming: Songlines of the Western Desert.The latter culminated in the recent Seven Sisters exhibition at the National Museum of Australia. During the last two decades I have taught into courses at UNE on Rock Art, Art and Society and Australian Archaeology, supervised postgraduate students, produced rock art management and conservation plans for government agencies, and worked with Indigenous communities in Central Australia and the New England.