Dr Jessica Priebe is an art historian, author and educator whose research explores how images, objects and the spaces in which they are created, displayed and encountered shape our understanding of art and visual culture.

 

Her scholarship centres on eighteenth-century European art, collecting, material culture and museum history. She is the author of François Boucher and the Art of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century France (Routledge, 2022). Her research extends from artists’ working and collecting spaces at the Louvre to historical museum interiors, colonial object histories and the relationships between visual representation and spatial experience.

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She has taught art history and visual literacy for more than two decades at the University of Sydney, UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture and the National Art School, where she teaches Art History and Theory and Professional Studies. Her teaching combines close visual analysis with historical enquiry, helping students understand how artists communicate through form, material, space and context.

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Alongside her academic work, Jessica is a museum consultant, advising on emerging technologies and their implications for artistic practice, interpretation and public engagement. She is also the founder of Artverse Lab, which develops educational and cultural programmes connecting historical scholarship, creative practice and emerging technologies.

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Her contemporary interests include generative AI, computational image-making and the changing relationships between artistic agency, visual interpretation and technology. She is particularly interested in the critical evaluation of visual and historical evidence and how emerging technologies are reshaping the ways we create, encounter and understand images.

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