Postgraduate Research Conference

28 - 30 October 2024

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Sarah Eddowes, Hug midrender, 2024, digital image, image courtesy of artist.

A snapshot of the diverse and inventive research projects underway in our PhD, MFA and MPhil programs.

Join us in A Block (Campus Map) for the below conference sessions, which are open to all. 

Monday 28 October

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 1: Mapping & Navigation

    Chair: Rochelle Haley

    Panel Member: Shuxia Chen

    Presentations

    Jeremy Smith (PhD), 'Counter-Mapping the Gay Male Body in Sydney Post PrEP'. Supervisors: Michael Garbutt, Emma Robertson, Gary Carsley.

    Shireen Taweel (PhD), 'Pilgrimage of a Hajjonaut; A futurism of Space migration'. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Fernando do Campo.  

    Jianxiong Jing (PhD), 'How to understand the spatial representation in classical Chinese maps from the Ming and Qing dynasties?'. Supervisors: Paul Gladston, Ian McArthur, Marnie Feneley.  

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 2: Wellbeing & Vulnerability

    Chair: John McGhee

    Panel Member: Lizzie Muller

    Presentations

    Sally McKay (MPhil), 'Development of the AI Character 'Sophie' to support a Huntington's Disease community-wide focus on brain health'. Supervisors: Jill Bennett, Volker Kuchelmeister.

    April Mountfort (MFA), 'Productive engagements with vulnerability and control through puppetry and video artwork'. Supervisors: Stephen Loo, Fernando do Campo.  

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 3: Cultures, Histories & Counter-Histories

    Chair: Michael Garbutt

    Panel Member: Jennifer Biddle

    Presentations

    June Acido Miskell (PhD), 'Archipelagic Imaginaries: Contemporary Filipina/o/x Art in Australia’. Supervisors: Verónica Tello, Mina Roces, Astrid Lorange.

    Julie Gai Oliver (PhD), ‘The role of social and cultural stories in enlivening colonial jewellery displays in museums and galleries in Australia’. Supervisors: Zoe Veness, Kasia Jezowska.

    Lin Zhou (PhD), ‘Semiotics and Contemporary Chinese Peasant Painting: Recontextualising Traditional Folk Crafts’. Supervisors: Ian McArthur, Paul Gladston.

    Bridie Moran (PhD), ‘Community, practice, policy - Australia's craft policy networks’. Supervisors: Livia Rezende, Diana Perche.

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 4: More-Than-Human Experience

    Chair: Stephen Loo

    Panel Member: Jill Bennett

    Presentations

    Ashley Eriksmoen (PhD), ‘Making-With: Crafting Counter-Narratives from Salvaged Wood as a Reparative Practice’. Supervisors: Livia Rezende, Fernando do Campo.

    Lara Clemente (MFA), ‘The aesthetic reformulation of tree modelling for 3D environments’. Supervisors: Dennis Del Favero, Grant Stevens, Susanne Thurow.

    Nagida Helsby-Clark (PhD), ‘Tracing turbulence: Explorations in more-than-human design’. Supervisors: Dennis Del Favero, Andrew Yip, Maximilian Ott.

    Jane Michaele Cameron (PhD), ‘I think, therefore I am (an ant)’. Supervisors: Rebecca Green, John McGhee.

Tuesday 29 October

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 5: Site-Based Materials

    Chair: Emma Robertson

    Panel Member: Prue Gibson

    Presentations

    Amelia van der Laan de Vries (MFA), ‘Site-specificity and the collaborative production of ecological knowledges’. Supervisors: Allan Giddy, Peter Sharp.

    Emma Pinsent (PhD), ‘Aesthetics of Extraction and Erosion: Tracing spatiotemporal transformations of sand within the beach’. Supervisors: David Eastwood, Bianca Hester.

    Sadhbha Cockburn (PhD), ‘Object-body-place relations: a psychodynamic approach to sculptural practice’. Supervisors: David Eastwood, Prue Gibson, Bianca Hester.

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 6: Poetic Encounters

    Chair: Caleb Kelly

    Panel Member: Clare Milledge

    Presentations

    Rachel Schenberg (PhD), ‘Rose Mellie Rose: (re)naming as lyric enunciation’.  Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Brigitta Olubas.

    Gabriel Curtin (PhD), ‘Calippo: Theorising a Poetics of Overdetermination’. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Tim Gregory.

    Jingwen Yuan (PhD), ‘Poetic embodiments: Contemporary jewellery practice in times of transmediation’. Supervisors: Patricia Flanagan, Zoe Veness.

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 7: Encountering Place

    Chair: Livia Rezende

    Panel Member: Allan Giddy

    Presentations

    Felix Cehak (PhD), ‘Natural History Aesthetics: practice and recording in the Gondwanan rainforest’. Supervisors: Clare Milledge, Izabela Pluta.

    Joel Arthur (MFA), ‘Counter-landscape: Remodelling a colonised space’. Supervisors: David Eastwood, Peter Sharp.

    Alex Moulis (PhD), ‘The beach as desert: the affective entanglement of patriarchal white sovereignty, the visual archive and land between settler-colonial projects’. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Nicholas Apoifis.

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 8: Revenant Histories

    Chair: Anna Munster 

    Panel Member: John Gillies

    Presentations

    Jade Muratore (PhD), ‘Going down: being with/ becoming the queer (un)dead through image-based practice’. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Rochelle Haley, Verónica Tello.  

    Emma Fielden (MFA), ‘Alchemic Histories: Engaging Feminist Legacies through Materiality and the Body’. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Fernando do Campo.

    Lisa Myeong-Joo (MFA), ‘“The red chair in your picture does not exist”: Counter-memory, performance and the poetics of sitting’. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Verónica Tello.

Wednesday 30 October

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 9: Surface & Tactility

    Chair: Alison Gwilt

    Panel Member: Jaye Early 

    Presentations

    Mason Kimber (PhD), ‘Assembling at the Surface: Painting, Casting, Framing’. Supervisors: Bianca Hester, Stephen Loo.

    Kristen Radge (MFA), ‘Encountering traditional lands through touch: Working with found clay onsite to reveal how materials can be embedded with coloniality’. Supervisors: Izabela Pluta, Fernando do Campo.

    Sarah Eddowes (PhD), ‘Noodle Soup: A practice-based investigation of the emergent dialogue between sculptural extrusion and computer-generated simulation’. Supervisors: John McGhee, Peter Sharp.

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 10: Reading & Legibility

    Chair: Astrid Lorange

    Panel Member: Tim Gregory

    Presentations

    Tia Madden (MFA), ‘Misreading Drawing: Legibility in the Gap Between Image and Word’. Supervisors: Peter Sharp, Rochelle Haley.

    Wei Wang (PhD), ‘Participatory Method for Developing Fonts to Improve Dyslexic Readers' Experience’. Supervisors: Ian McArthur, Scott Brown.

    elaine su-hui (MFA), ‘Embodied Epistemologies: A Buddhist Reading of Resistance Literature’. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Clare Milledge.

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 11: Social & Communal Practices

    Chair: Izabela Pluta

    Panel Member: Scott East

    Presentations

    Anabelle Lacroix (PhD), ‘A Curatorial Ear: Rhythming the museum after hours with public programs’. Supervisors: Caleb Kelly, Verónica Tello.

    Tulla Carson (MFA), ‘Relationality, Indigenous Knowledge and Cross-cultural Co-design within Country’. Supervisors: Trent Jansen, Livia Rezende, Fabri Blacklock.

    Aulia Yeru (PhD), ‘Teuleum/Immersed: An Overview of Attempts to the Hydrosocially Engaged Art’. Supervisors: Felicity Fenner, Clare Milledge, Arini Arumsari.

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 12: Reclaimed Textiles

    Chair: Patricia Flanagan

    Panel Member: Kasia Jezowska

    Presentations

    Monika Cvitanovic (PhD), ‘Crafting Time To Care: Some thoughts about slowing down for environmental and social sustainability of practice’. Supervisors: Rochelle Haley, Alison Gwilt, Bianca Hester.

    Changrui He (PhD), ‘Reimagining Design Approaches to Foster Textile Up-cycling in a Circular Economy’. Supervisors: Alison Gwilt, Zoe Veness.

    Emma Peters (PhD), ‘Sleeping Soundly: Transformative opportunities for bedlinen waste’. Supervisors: Alison Gwilt, Zoe Veness.

Header image: Sarah Eddowes, Hug midrender 2024, digital image. Image courtesy of artist.

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We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.