Staff profile

Mr Geoff Hocking

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Graphic Design Building 2.50, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

DIP Adv Art., BTC; TTTC (Hawthorn).; BA [GD] (Swinburne); MA (La Trobe) [Pending].

Area of study

Graphic Design

Brief profile

Geoff Hocking has published widely on Australian history. His expertise in design and communication through the visual representation of history and events informs his writing. He has published several pictorial histories covering areas such as:  Australian Bushrangers, The Goldfields, The Eureka Stockade, Australian Advertising, Australian Album Cover Design, Military Conflict etc. He also paints, sculpts, writes contemporary ‘opinion pieces’ for popular magazines and is often invited to comment across various media.

 

Research interests

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History

- Letterform and Advertising Signage

Visual Communication

- Book design and Illustration

- Graphic Design

- Visual Arts

Teaching units

  • VPA2AP3/4 - Applied Design 3 & 4.
  • VPA1DS1/2 - Design Studies 1& 2.
  • VPA3DS5/6 - Design Studies 5 & 6.
  • VPA1MWA/B -Visual Arts Media Workshop A & B.
  • VPA3PSA/B - Professional Studies A & B.

Recent publications

It's Another World Record Album Cover Art from the studio of The World Record Club 1958-76, New Chum Press, 2009.

 

Castlemaine, From Camp to City (Second Edition), New Chum Press, published 2008.

 

The Rebel Chorus Dissident Voices in Australian History, Five Mile Press, published 2007.

 

One Million Human Beings, One Million Bombs Five Mile Press, published 2007.

 

Gold! A Pictorial History of the Australian Gold Rush, Five Mile Press, published 2006.

 

Signs of the Times A Nostalgic Celebration of Australian Advertising Signs, Five Mile Press, published 2005.

 

Eureka Stockade A pictorial history of the events that led to the attack on the stockade on 3rd December 1854, Five Mile Press, published 2004.

 

Bail Up! A pictorial history of Australia’s Most Notorious Bushrangers, Five Mile Press, published 2002.

 

The Australian Flag. The first 100 years, Five Mile Press published 2002.

 

The Red Ribbon Rebellion. A Decade of Dissent  New Chum Press, published 2001.

 

Mr Burke & Mr Wills, Waverton Press, published 2005.

 

The Rush to Gold, Waverton Press, published 2005.

 

They Came by Sea, Waverton Press, published 2005.

 

The Eureka Stockade, Waverton Press, published 2005.

 

Currency, Lads & Lasses, The Faces on Australian Banknotes, Lothian Books, published 2004.

 

The Kelly Gang, Harcourt Education, published 2004.

 

Kings of the Road, Harcourt Education, published 2004.

 

Bound for Botany Bay, Harcourt Education, published 2004.

 

Robbery Under Arms, Harcourt Education, published 2004.

 

To The Diggings, Lothian Books, published 2001.

 

Wonderful Swaps, Annick Press Canada, 1998, with Troon Harrison.

 

New Chum Press, published 1998.

 

Castlemaine From Camp To City, The Five Mile Press, published 1994.

 

(We'll All Be Rooned) Said Hanrahan, Five Mile Press, 1991

 

It's One World, Five Mile Press, 1989.

 

I Shot an Arrow, Penguin Books, 1987, with Robin Klein.

 

Saturday Street Penguin Books, 1986 with Jill Morris.

 

The Boy Who Painted The Sun, Penguin Books, with Jill Morris.

 

Recent exhibitions

 

Something Borrowed – exhibition Ten Shed Arts, Malmsbury, 2009. New painting, prints, assemblages, Oct/Nov 2009.

 

It's Another World Record – La Trobe University Access Gallery, 121 View Street Bendigo, Oct, 2009.

 

Creative Imperatives – group exhibition at Phyllis Palmer Gallery, School of Visual Arts & Design, La Trobe University, Bendigo, 2009.

 

Reprise – solo exhibition at Albion Hotel during the Castlemaine State Festival 2009.

 

Disclosure – group exhibition at La Trobe University Gallery 121, View Street Bendigo, 2008.

 

An-Archeology – exhibition at Tin Shed Arts, Malmsbury, 2007.

 

One Million Human Beings, One Million Bombs – solo exhibition/installation at La Trobe University Gallery 121, View Street Bendigo, 2007.

 

One Million Human Beings, One Million Bombs – solo exhibition/installation at Castlemaine Post Office Gallery during the Castlemaine State Festival 2007.

 

A Mixed Bag – solo exhibition at Albion Hotel during the Castlemaine State Festival 2007.

 

One Million Human Beings, One Million Bombs – solo exhibition/installation at Span Galleries Flinders Lane Melbourne, 2006.

 

Common, Uncommon – group exhibition of invited artists during Commonwealth Games in Bendigo Town Hall, 2006.

 

Garden Paintings exhibited in the Castlemaine Phee Broadway Theatre Foyer during the Castlemaine and District Festival of Gardens, 2005.

 

Miniatures – group exhibition La Trobe University Gallery, Bundoora, 2005.

 

Untitled exhibition – solo exhibition at Albion Hotel during the Castlemaine State Festival 2005.

 

Land, Labour and Gold – exhibition at Penny School Gallery, Maldon with Bendigo artist Pauline Mathrick, 2005.

 

The Bush Reclaims Its Own – solo exhibition of new paintings at Chambers Cafe/Gallery, Barker Street Castlemaine, during the Castlemaine State Festival, 2003.

 

Picture this – exhibition of drawings and illustrations for childrens books, Bendigo Art Gallery, with Irena Sibley, 2000.

Research projects

  • The Long Paddock Project for ArtBack, sculpture installation, Cobb Highway NSW, 2009
  • Currently: re-editing, re-designing, third edition (expanded) ‘GOLD! — Off to the diggings’, first published 2001. For publication 2010.