Nancy Underhill

Dr Nancy Underhill joined the Board in January 2016. Dr Underhill is an author, curator and art historian. Educated at Bryn Mawr College and the Courtauld Institute she was Foundation Head of Art History and Inaugural Director of the University Art Museum at the University of Queensland. She has served on the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, chaired the Art Association of Australia and the Museums Association of Australia, been a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at ANU, and the Centre of Australian Studies, Kings College, London. Her books include Sidney Nolan: A Life (2015), Nolan on Nolan: Sidney Nolan in his Own Words (2007), Letters of John Reed (co-edit 2001), and Making Australian Art 1916–1949 (1991). She is currently Deputy to Lisa Gasteen AO for the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School.