Ruth Skilbeck Ruth Skilbeck i(A79128 works by)
Born: Established: London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Ruth Skilbeck was born in London to Australian-British parents and moved to Australia with her family when she was sixteen. She has studied in London, Sydney and Adelaide, and worked internationally as a freelance arts journalist, writer, designer, editor and publisher (founding both Postmistress Press and Borderstream Books), and in Australia as a university researcher and lecturer.

Sources include Cafe Life in the Antipodes.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • In addition to works individually indexed on AustLit, Ruth Skilbeck has also published extensively on art and curation, particularly in Australian Art Collector. She has also published on social issues, including the Adani Mine development. In the early 1980s, she published extensively in Irish magazines and newspapers. These works are outside AustLit's scope. For full details, please see the author's website, linked from her record.


    Other works on international literature and Australian art (particularly Indigenous art) by Ruth Skilbeck not individually indexed include:

    ‘Exiled Writers, Human Rights, and Social Advocacy Movements in
    Australia: A Critical Fugal Analysis’. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, Issue 3, Sept 2010, pp. 280-296

    The Writer's Fugue : Musicalization, Trauma and Subjectivity in the Literature of Modernity.

    Preface In : A Brief Guide to Middle Class Homelessness: A Memoir by Kenneth Wolman.

    'The Spiderweb' (poem), published in Puffin Post, Kaye Webb (editor), Penguin: UK, 1972.

    ‘Remembering Australia’s Forgotten Mothers: Reclaiming Lost Identity in Colonial History,’ Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2012, pp. 163-177.

    ‘Gazing Boldly Back and Forward: Urban Aboriginal Women Artists and
    New Global Feminisms in Transnational Art’, International Journal of the Arts in Society. Vol. 5, Issue 6, 2011, pp. 261-276.

    ‘Through the ‘I’s’ of Lost Time: Proust’s Performative Fugue of Temps Perdu.’ Time. Transcendence. Performance. International Conference. Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, October 2009. Online publication.

    ‘Persephone’s Paradox: The Author’s Journey into the Underworld’, Motham, L et al (eds), Women Doing Research. Women in Research Conference, 1-10. Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland, 2005.

    ‘War Drums Beat Over Beckett’, Dublin: The Irish Times, 17 January 2003. (See also: 'War Drums Beat over Beckett’, Escape Artists Anthology, pp. 225-230.)

    'Emotional Trauma Steals Memories and Lives’, The Sydney Morning
    Herald
    , 15 July 2015.

    ‘Book extract: The Writer’s Fugue: Musicalization, Trauma and Subjectivity
    in the Literature of Modernity
    (2nd ed.) From Chapter one: Exiled Writers’ Human Rights and Social Advocacy Movements in Australia: A Critical Fugal Analysis,’ Arts Features International, April-June 2019: Destruction and Disruption (Issue 3), 2019 pp. 55-81.

    ‘On Karen Pearlman’s Documentary: Woman with an Editing Bench:
    Recovering the Creative Work of the Uncredited Women Editors and Filmmakers of Soviet Cultural History,’ pp. 30-37.

    ‘Dushko Petrovic in Interview with Ruth Skilbeck,’ Escape Artists Anthology 2013-2017.

    ‘Inside the Covers: Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists: Author Interview with
    Vivien Johnson,’ Australian Art Collector, Issue 47 January-March 2009.

    ‘Tracey Moffatt,’ (Long feature and preview of upcoming exhibition), Pol
    Oxygen: Design, Art, Architecture
    , Issue 8, 2004, 44-52.

    ‘Kathy Acker,’ City Limits, London, UK, Issue 150, 1985.

    ‘Kathy Acker and Psychic TV,’ London, UK, Melody Maker, August 15,
    1985.

    Skilbeck, Ruth, ‘Genesis P. Orridge at the ICA with Kathy Acker,’ New Musical Express, London, UK, August 30, 1985.

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