Bio
Una Rey is an artist, academic and curator born in Sydney in 1970. She spent several years in northern Australia, completing a Fine Arts degree in Darwin in 1995. She has extensive experience across the Indigenous art sector, managing high-end commercial art galleries and remote community art centres at Haasts Bluff, Milikapiti (The Tiwi Islands) and Balgo.
In 2006 Una relocated to Newcastle completing her PhD in cross-cultural narratives in Australian painting in 2009. She is a full-time lecturer in Art History and related disciplines at The University of Newcastle and her work on Australian contemporary art and Indigenous art in particular is published regularly in catalogues, journals and news media. See her staff profile, University of Newcastle, for a list of publications.
Image: installation Una Rey's work in Big Scope, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery 2013
In 2006 Una relocated to Newcastle completing her PhD in cross-cultural narratives in Australian painting in 2009. She is a full-time lecturer in Art History and related disciplines at The University of Newcastle and her work on Australian contemporary art and Indigenous art in particular is published regularly in catalogues, journals and news media. See her staff profile, University of Newcastle, for a list of publications.
Image: installation Una Rey's work in Big Scope, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery 2013
