Public Engagement
About the author
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Tracy is an art historian, writer and curator who, in 2006, completed a PhD thesis on the art and life of Vali Myers. In 2013 – 2014 she curated Between the Dusk and Dawn, the first major retrospective exhibition of Myers’ work, bringing together over 60 original drawings from both private national and international collections. This exhibition, hosted by La Trobe University Museum of Art, toured Victoria and NSW and was visited by over 4500 people.Recognized worldwide as the leading authority on Vali Myers, Tracy is now collaborating with award-winning Australian film-maker Ian White to create a feature documentary on the artist’s life and legacy.
Photo of author at Dingo Farm, by Vali Myers, 2002
In 2018 the State Library of Victoria was bequethed the contents of an inner city storage vault that was crammed with possessions that once belonged to artist Vali Myers. I had seen this archive before when Vali had welcomed me into her life, and her studio, on the 7th floor of the Nicholas Building on Swanston St Melbourne in 2002. Over the next six months our lives became entwined. Dream within a Dream is the culmination of many years of research and my homage to an extraordinary visionary artist and a relationship that changed the course of my life!
Tracy Spinks 2024
Previous work
More information available via LinkedIn
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Vali Myers: Dream within a Dream, Yarra and Hunter Arts Press, 1 November, 2024
Spinks, Tracy (Ed.) That’s the Way it Was: Memoir of Agnes Craig, Melbourne, 2015
Vali Myers: Between the Dusk and Dawn, Latrobe University, 1 September 2013
Beyond the Three Trees, Cunninham Dax Collection, 13 November, 2008-2009
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SALT CONTEMPROARY ART
Gus Leunig and Helga Leunig: Here and There, 11-25 March 2018
EPWORTH GALLERY
Art From the Epworth Collection September 2018 to January
2019 Jenny Laidlaw: Friendship is a Flowering Tree May 2018 to September 2018
Bonnie Hanlon: Chemical Skies January 2018 to April 2018
The Art of Robert Ingpen: Classics October 2017 to January 2018
Steve Salo: Halcyon Days July 2017 to September 2017
Helga Leunig: Three Weeks in Havana April 2017 to July 2017
Simon Benz: Other January 2017 to April 2017
Karen Annett-Thomas: Travelling South October 2016 to January 2017
Geoff Newton: The Victorian Scene July 2016 to October 2016
LATROBE UNIVERSITY OF ART
Vali Myers: Between the Dusk and Dawn,
Maitland Regional Art Galley 11 April – 6 July 2014
VAC/Latrobe University Visual Arts Centre 4 January – 23 February 2014
LUMA/Bundoora, Victoria 11 September – 1 November 2013
CUNNINGHAM DAX COLLECTION
Beyond the Three Trees, November, 2008-2009