Cynthia Troup's latest publication is the limited edition
Sonorities of Site: Aphids, Architecture
& New Music 1998–2010, designed by Paul Ducco and Jacob Thompson.
Launched in March 2012 by Robyn Archer AO at Pieces of Eight Gallery, Sonorities of Site reflects the visionary
collaborative ethos that made possible the founding of Aphids in 1994; architect and artist Anna Tweeddale,
art historian and designer Bronwyn Stocks, composer Juliana Hodkinson, soprano Deborah Kayser, percussionist Matthias Schack-Arnott, artist Rosemary Joy,
Aphids' founding artistic director David Young, and current Artistic Director Willoh S. Weiland are the contributors.
A writer and editor based in Melbourne Australia, Cynthia is a full member of the Society of Editors Victoria, and serves on the Committee of PEN Melbourne. She has extensive experience working closely with researchers, curators, artists, writers and performers, and significant expertise in non-fiction writing and editing, gained through helping to bring to publication scholarly monographs and edited collections for publishers based in Australia, UK, Italy and Belgium. Recent books include A Site of Convergence: Celebrating 10 Years of the Monash University Prato Centre, with photomedia artist Jo-Anne Duggan, published by Monash University Publishing in 2011, and Parlato in Italiano: The Heyday of Italian Cinema in Myrtleford in the 1960s, edited with John Taylor (Myrtleford & District Historical Society, 2010)–shortlisted for the 2010 Victorian Community History Awards.
As a writer Cynthia's publications include short fiction, articles in Italian Studies, and numerous essays and interviews in the fields of contemporary art and music. A founding member of the arts company Aphids, Cynthia also writes for performance. In June 2011 her play And When They Were Good was seen as part of the much-loved Aphids production A Quarreling Pair: A Triptych of Small Puppet Plays in the Festival dei Mondi at Rome's Teatro Patologico. May 2011 saw the first season of Dwelling Structure: An Opera in 8 Time-Use Episodes, presented by Chamber Made Opera and New Music Network, the result of collaboration with composers and sound artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey. Cynthia has held writer’s residencies at Queen’s College Tower Studio (Melbourne, 2003), at Les Bains::Connective (Brussels, 2004), and at Bundanon (Southern NSW, 2007).
Cynthia received an inaugural Australian Foundation for Studies in Italy award in 1995. At Monash University she has taught in the School of Historical Studies and in the Faculty of Art and Design. Also at Monash during 2008–09 she worked on the establishment of the Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and on the development of pathways in Medieval and Renaissance Studies premised on the Consortium and its aims. At The University of Melbourne Troup currently works in Italian Studies.
A writer and editor based in Melbourne Australia, Cynthia is a full member of the Society of Editors Victoria, and serves on the Committee of PEN Melbourne. She has extensive experience working closely with researchers, curators, artists, writers and performers, and significant expertise in non-fiction writing and editing, gained through helping to bring to publication scholarly monographs and edited collections for publishers based in Australia, UK, Italy and Belgium. Recent books include A Site of Convergence: Celebrating 10 Years of the Monash University Prato Centre, with photomedia artist Jo-Anne Duggan, published by Monash University Publishing in 2011, and Parlato in Italiano: The Heyday of Italian Cinema in Myrtleford in the 1960s, edited with John Taylor (Myrtleford & District Historical Society, 2010)–shortlisted for the 2010 Victorian Community History Awards.
As a writer Cynthia's publications include short fiction, articles in Italian Studies, and numerous essays and interviews in the fields of contemporary art and music. A founding member of the arts company Aphids, Cynthia also writes for performance. In June 2011 her play And When They Were Good was seen as part of the much-loved Aphids production A Quarreling Pair: A Triptych of Small Puppet Plays in the Festival dei Mondi at Rome's Teatro Patologico. May 2011 saw the first season of Dwelling Structure: An Opera in 8 Time-Use Episodes, presented by Chamber Made Opera and New Music Network, the result of collaboration with composers and sound artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey. Cynthia has held writer’s residencies at Queen’s College Tower Studio (Melbourne, 2003), at Les Bains::Connective (Brussels, 2004), and at Bundanon (Southern NSW, 2007).
Cynthia received an inaugural Australian Foundation for Studies in Italy award in 1995. At Monash University she has taught in the School of Historical Studies and in the Faculty of Art and Design. Also at Monash during 2008–09 she worked on the establishment of the Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and on the development of pathways in Medieval and Renaissance Studies premised on the Consortium and its aims. At The University of Melbourne Troup currently works in Italian Studies.
photo: Yatzek
Image from Miss Shaw Dreams, month-long residency with filmmaker Louise Curham, no. 4 of 6 Conjectural Modules curated by Sandra Bridie, Queen’s College,
The University of Melbourne, December 2002–January 2003