Moira Simpson - Publications
I am a freelance writer and editor and have been writing professionally for nearly thirty years, and have published widely on topics related to visual arts, and contemporary fibre arts, non-western arts in education, exhibition design for children, museums and cultural diversity, and repatriation of Indigenous cultural heritage and ancestral remains.
I regularly contribute material to Textile Fibre Forum magazine, writing feature articles on aspects of fibre arts, artist profiles, exhibition reviews, and book reviews. While teaching art education to pre-service teachers, I initiated and taught courses in museum and gallery education and the teaching of non-westerns arts in schools, and published a series of articles in Arts and Crafts magazine, aimed at classroom teachers. These articles introduced the arts from various non-western cultures and provided strategies for using culturally-sensitive approaches to teaching using non-western art forms.
Click here to see a list of my publications in the fields of visual arts and arts education.
Many of my publications have been in the field of museology; these include two monographs: ‘Making Representations: Museums in the Post-colonial Era’ (Routledge, 2001) and ‘Museums and Repatriation’ (Museums Association, 1997), numerous articles for academic and professional journals, and chapters in several edited volumes on issues related to museum, cultural heritage and repatriation. You can buy Making Representations by clicking here. Indigenous arts and cultural heritage have been a primary area of interest since I was in my teens. At art college, I was awarded a first class honours grade for my BA(Hons) thesis which examined the influence of the environment on the visual arts produced by First Nations communities on the Northwest Coast of North America.
While studying for a Masters Degree in Museum Studies, I became interested in the display and interpretation of culturally diverse artefacts and artworks in museum and galleries, cultural politics, cultural appropriation, and repatriation. These have continued to be central themes of my research, publications and my Doctoral thesis, which focused on the links between cultural heritage, repatriation and cultural renewal in Indigenous Australian communities and First Nations communities in Canada, and the development of ethnomuseology.
I have also undertaken consultation projects for museums and peak bodies, and contributed to UK government inquiries relating to cultural heritage and repatriation.
Click here to see a list of my publications and reports in the fields of museology, cultural heritage and repatriation. I have presented papers and keynote presentations at several dozen national and international conferences in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, Portugal, Thailand, Greece and South Africa. These have been in the fields of arts education, museum practice, cultural heritage, and repatriation.
Click here to see a list of these presentations. You can contact me here.
I regularly contribute material to Textile Fibre Forum magazine, writing feature articles on aspects of fibre arts, artist profiles, exhibition reviews, and book reviews. While teaching art education to pre-service teachers, I initiated and taught courses in museum and gallery education and the teaching of non-westerns arts in schools, and published a series of articles in Arts and Crafts magazine, aimed at classroom teachers. These articles introduced the arts from various non-western cultures and provided strategies for using culturally-sensitive approaches to teaching using non-western art forms.
Click here to see a list of my publications in the fields of visual arts and arts education.
Many of my publications have been in the field of museology; these include two monographs: ‘Making Representations: Museums in the Post-colonial Era’ (Routledge, 2001) and ‘Museums and Repatriation’ (Museums Association, 1997), numerous articles for academic and professional journals, and chapters in several edited volumes on issues related to museum, cultural heritage and repatriation. You can buy Making Representations by clicking here. Indigenous arts and cultural heritage have been a primary area of interest since I was in my teens. At art college, I was awarded a first class honours grade for my BA(Hons) thesis which examined the influence of the environment on the visual arts produced by First Nations communities on the Northwest Coast of North America.
While studying for a Masters Degree in Museum Studies, I became interested in the display and interpretation of culturally diverse artefacts and artworks in museum and galleries, cultural politics, cultural appropriation, and repatriation. These have continued to be central themes of my research, publications and my Doctoral thesis, which focused on the links between cultural heritage, repatriation and cultural renewal in Indigenous Australian communities and First Nations communities in Canada, and the development of ethnomuseology.
I have also undertaken consultation projects for museums and peak bodies, and contributed to UK government inquiries relating to cultural heritage and repatriation.
Click here to see a list of my publications and reports in the fields of museology, cultural heritage and repatriation. I have presented papers and keynote presentations at several dozen national and international conferences in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, Portugal, Thailand, Greece and South Africa. These have been in the fields of arts education, museum practice, cultural heritage, and repatriation.
Click here to see a list of these presentations. You can contact me here.
