Neill Overton
Senior Lecturer
School of Communication and Creative studies
Charles Sturt University
Australia
Biography
Dr Neill Overton is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. His research interests are in contemporary Australian drawing, art prizes, awards and surveys. He was a lecturer at RMIT, Victoria College, and Melbourne University in Art History and Drawing, and worked extensively as a newspaper illustrator, exhibiting artist, art reviewer and novelist. He has curated major exhibitions towards histories of Australian film, theatre and television. His PhD was on Icons and Images in Australian Drawing 1970 - 2003, and his critical essays address the relationship between contemporary regional and urban art.
Research Interest
Visual culture
