| History | Adam Dutkiewicz (BA Comm. Studies [Hons.], PhD (Art History & Theory) was the second recipient of the Department for Environment and Heritage South Australian Built Heritage Research Fellow at the Architecture Museum, Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design,University of South Australia.He is the second son of prominent Adelaide post-war modern artist Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz. He was founder of WAV Publications in the 1980s, and since then has worked as art critic for The Advertiser newspaper (1992-2005) and as a freelance critic for Business Review Weekly and Art Monthly Australia online. Recently he has worked as visual art critic for The Independent Weekly in Adelaide. He has held several exhibitions of his own paintings, and is now the editor and publisher of Moon Arrow Press.In 2000 he completed his thesis titled ‘Raising ghosts: Post-WWII European émigré and migrant artists and the evolution of abstract painting in Aus¬tralia ca.1950-1965.’ Since then he has specialised in post-war modernism in South Australia, and was a contributing author for the monograph Franz Kempf: Thinking on paper (2002) and author of the monographs titled Mervyn Smith: Watercolours (2004), A Matter of Mind: an Introduction to the Art of Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz (1918-1999) (2006); and, with Gaynor Sádlo, Alexander Sádlo: Experimental Journey - An Artist in Three Countries (2007). |