William Ohly at the Abbey Art Centre, c. 1950–55, photographer unknown, courtesy Louis Figgis and the estate of William Ohly
Jane Eckett is a lecturer in art history and art curatorship at the University of Melbourne. She teaches and researches in modern and contemporary art, specialising in modernist sculpture and prints, diasporic avant-gardes in the global south, and cross-cultural exchange. She is the editor and co-author of On Bunurong Country: art and design in Frankston (McClelland, 2023), which won best Collaborative Community History at the 2024 Victorian Community History Awards, and guest curator of Centre Five: bridging the gap (McClelland, Langwarrin, Vic., 2022–23), and Melbourne Modern: European art and design at RMIT since 1945 (RMIT Galleries, Melbourne, 2019).
