Ian Howard (b. Australia 1947) trained as an artist and art educator in Sydney, London and Montreal, and has worked extensively with Australian, British and US defence departments, including the Pentagon. He has been a practising artist since 1969, concentrating on the relationship between military, industrial and civilian populations, and their material and symbolic products. He was the curatorial co-ordinator of Vietnamese artists and a National Advisory Committee member of Queensland Art Gallery's Asia Pacific Triennials. He has taught visual arts in Australia, England, the USA and Canada, and was Provost and Director at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Queensland, from 1992 to 1998.

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