Research and Publications

Collaborative research and materials exploration alongside artists, peers and allied arts practitioners.

Journal Articles

Destruction as Conservation in Dane Mitchell’s ‘Iris, Iris, Iris’

Ellie Thomas, 2024, AICCM Bulletin, 45(1), pp. 58–71.

A feminist reframing: The reconstruction of knowledge in conservation

Ellie Thomas and Sarah Dodson, 2022, Scroll: A journal by the Conservators at Melbourne University, 2 (1), pp. 45-52.

Art Crime and Public Sculpture in Aotearoa New Zealand

Robin Woodward and Ellie Thomas, 2021, Journal of Art Crime, 25 (1), pp. 69-82.

Publications etc.

Shaping the Archive: Considerations for art conservation in Australia

Ellie Thomas, pp. 165-170, in Keeping Things Together: 50 Years of the Womens’ Art Register, Melbourne University Press, 2025.

Machine for Conversation? Cracking open the National Communication Museum

Jemimah Widdicombe and Ellie Thomas, K.S. Inglis Address, in Archives and Archetypes: Renewal and Recovery - 14th Australian Media Traditions Conference, 4-5 September 2025, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.