Angus Trumble Angus Trumble i(A73214 works by)
Born: Established: 1964 Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: Aug 2022
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Angus Trumble was recognised as the pre-eminent interpreter of Victorian and Edwardian art and culture in Australia. 

He studied Fine Arts and History at the University of Melbourne, graduating BA (Hons) in 1986. In 1987, he was an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. He studied for a year at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, graduating MA (University of Melbourne) in 1993. From 1987 to 1991, he served as aide to Dr J. D. McCaughey AC, Governor of Victoria. In 1994, Angus won a Fulbright Scholarship for further study at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. He graduated MA (IFA/NYU) in January 1998. In January 1996, Angus was appointed Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide. Angus then served as Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, from 2003 to 2014. He took up the post of Director of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra in February 2014, and left the role in 2018.

(Source : Australian Academy of the Humanities website)

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Helena Rubinstein : The Australian Years Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2023 26030147 2023 single work biography

'The captivating story of the first global cosmetics empire, the fascinating woman who built it, and the past she preferred to leave behind

'This meticulously researched and wryly entertaining portrait of Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965) focuses on the years she spent in Australia as a young woman, recovering a 'lost' chapter in the grand narrative of the woman who created one of the first global cosmetics corporations. At its height, Rubinstein's brand was synonymous with elegance and employed 30,000 women around the world.

'Rubinstein arrived in Australia from Poland when she was twenty-three years old. She lived in Australia for the next eleven years, working first as a governess and then as a waitress, before opening her first beauty salon in Melbourne.

'In later years, owing to the degree of control she exercised over her glamorous image, many details of her early life in Australia were suppressed. But the events she airbrushed out of her own myth reveal the surprising origins of her extraordinary rise. In this absorbing book, we see her laying the foundations for a global empire.

'With a foreword by Sarah Krasnostein' (Publication summary)

2024 highly commended ACT Notable Awards ACT Literary Awards Nonfiction Traditionally published
2024 shortlisted ACT Writing and Publishing Awards Non-fiction
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