Dr. Neill Overton was formerly Associate Head of School, and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture, in the School of Communication and Creative Industries at Charles Sturt       University, from 1998 until 2018.  Prior to this he was a lecturer at RMIT, Victoria College, Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts, in Art History, Drawing, and Design, for the past 20 years.  He has also worked extensively as a newspaper journalist, interviewer, illustrator, graphic artist, exhibiting artist, art reviewer and novelist.  

His awards include the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award.  His novel, The Neon Eclipse (1986), published by Penguin, was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award.  He is currently              engaged in independent curatorial and writing projects.

 
Neill Overton’s research interests are in contemporary Australian drawing, art prizes, awards and surveys.  He has written widely about Australian film and television history, and its mythologies    of place.  He has curated numerous major art exhibitions, including Transference (2000), at the Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery. He completed his PhD on Icons and Images in            Australian Drawing 1970 - 2003 (2004), and continues to research, curate, and write catalogue essays and texts towards arts practice emanating from a regional context - and the relationship between contemporary regional and urban art.