Staff profile

Mr Neil Fettling

Campus Director Mildura, Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

Mildura Campus 107, Mildura

 

Qualifications

MA (Research-RMIT), Cert Fine Art and Language Paris (American Academy), France Dip Ed (Art-State College of Victoria), Dip Art (Painting-Bendigo Institute of Technology).

Area of study

Visual Arts

Brief Profile

Neil Fettling’s current work and research involves the history and sociology of North West Victorian Mallee dry land farmers and their determination to tame a vast semi-desert land. This is traced through the collection and re-interpretation of the relics left behind on their farming properties. Fettling is interested in the abundant waste and bloated heritage of our post industrial materialism and how the cultural artefact has replaced nature as a signifier of meaning.

Research interests

Visual Communication

- Contemporary Visual Arts

- Contemporary Visual Arts in the Philippines

- Visual Arts in Regional Australia

Teaching Units

  • VPA1MWA/B - Visual Arts Media Workshop.
  • VPA2MWC/D - Visual Arts Media Workshop.
  • VPA3MWE/F - Visual Arts Media Workshop.
  • VPA1CVA/B - Comparative Studies in Visual Media.
  • VPA2CVC/D - Comparative Studies in Visual Media.
  • VPA3CVE/F - Comparative Studies in Visual Media.
  • VPA1TMA/B - Theories and Methodologies in Studio Practice.
  • VPA2TMC/D - Theories and Methodologies in Studio Practice.
  • VPA3TME/F - Theories and Methodologies in Studio Practice.
  • VPA3PSA/B - Professional Studies A-B.
  • VPA40SP - Studio practice (Honours).

Recent Publications

  • Exhibition: Clandestine: An ash installation Gallery 25 Mildura 2009 and La Trobe Visual Arts Centre 2010.
  • Exhibition: Creative Imperatives, (Group exhibition 21 artist) Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Latrobe University, 2009.
  • Exhibition: Water and Shed: A twenty year survey of work based on the issue of water. Mildura Regional Arts Centre 2009-10.
  • Exhibition: Murray Darling Palimpsest, Wentworth Gaol 2009
  • Publication: Hired hands: The Filipino collaborations of David Griggs. Artlink. June, 2009. 
  • Publication: The Space of Palimpsest, Budhi: A journal of ideas and culture. Vol X1.No 5. Ateneo de Manila University.

Research projects

Neil Fettling is currently completing a PhD with a focus on the secular relic in contemporary art practice.