Margaret Plant

== Career ==

== Career ==

Born in [[South Australia]] in 1940, Plant grew up in [[Williamstown, Victoria|Williamstown]] and as a schoolgirl saw paintings by [[John Perceval]] of fishing boats in the suburb's harbour in Melbourne,{{Cite journal |last=Plant |first=Margaret |date=2001 |title=John Perceval 1923-2000 |journal=Art and Australia 2001 |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=389–390}} and later wrote the first monograph on the artist.{{Cite news |last=Roberts |first=Jo |date=18 October 2000 |title=John Perceval 1923-2000: Landscapes of innocence and angels of clay |pages=25 |work=The Age}}

Born in [[South Australia]] in 1940, Plant grew up in [[Williamstown, Victoria|Williamstown]] and as a schoolgirl saw paintings by [[John Perceval]] of fishing boats in the suburb's harbour in Melbourne,{{Cite journal |last=Plant |first=Margaret |date=2001 |title=John Perceval 1923-2000 |journal=Art and Australia |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=389–390}} and later wrote the first monograph on the artist.{{Cite news |last=Roberts |first=Jo |date=18 October 2000 |title=John Perceval 1923-2000: Landscapes of innocence and angels of clay |pages=25 |work=The Age}}

Plant began tutoring in the [[University of Melbourne]] Department of Fine Arts in 1962 until 1965 and completed a Master of Arts in 1969 there with her thesis ''The Realm of the Curtain : Paul Klee and Theatre''.{{Cite book |last=Plant |first=Margaret |title=The Realm of the Curtain: Paul Klee and Theatre |publisher=University of Melbourne |year=1969 |edition=Master of Arts Thesis |location=Melbourne |oclc=222922330}} Awarded a Pro Helvetia residency in 1967, she studied Klee's work in the Klee-Stiftung in Bern, Switzerland. She wrote art criticism for newspapers [[The Age]] and [[The Australian]] between 1965 and 1970. With [[Ursula Hoff]] she wrote on contemporary art in ''The National Gallery of Victoria; Painting, Drawing, Sculpture'' published in 1968,{{Cite book |last1=Hoff |first1=Ursula |last2=Plant |first2=Margaret |title=National Gallery of Victoria: a painting, drawing, sculpture |date=1968 |publisher=F. W. Cheshire |oclc=1239774759}} and that year was appointed Lecturer at [[RMIT University]]. Hers was the first academic appointment of an art historian within an Australian art school; she was made Senior Lecturer there, a position she held until 1975.

Plant began tutoring in the [[University of Melbourne]] Department of Fine Arts in 1962 until 1965 and completed a Master of Arts in 1969 there with her thesis ''The Realm of the Curtain : Paul Klee and Theatre''.{{Cite book |last=Plant |first=Margaret |title=The Realm of the Curtain: Paul Klee and Theatre |publisher=University of Melbourne |year=1969 |edition=Master of Arts Thesis |location=Melbourne |oclc=222922330}} Awarded a Pro Helvetia residency in 1967, she studied Klee's work in the Klee-Stiftung in Bern, Switzerland. She wrote art criticism for newspapers [[The Age]] and [[The Australian]] between 1965 and 1970. With [[Ursula Hoff]] she wrote on contemporary art in ''The National Gallery of Victoria; Painting, Drawing, Sculpture'' published in 1968,{{Cite book |last1=Hoff |first1=Ursula |last2=Plant |first2=Margaret |title=National Gallery of Victoria: a painting, drawing, sculpture |date=1968 |publisher=F. W. Cheshire |oclc=1239774759}} and that year was appointed Lecturer at [[RMIT University]]. Hers was the first academic appointment of an art historian within an Australian art school; she was made Senior Lecturer there, a position she held until 1975.