Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Visual Arts and Design

Current and recent research by Visual Arts and Design Staff and Honorary Associates

• Mr Chris Atkins -Photography - image in the built environment
• Lynne Boyd - Painting
• Mr Anthony Conway - slip cast fabrication of porcelaineous sculptural forms and coefficient of thermal expansion in local clay bodies.
• Mr Neil Fettling - Research explores the sociologies of small communities in the Mallee that are being transformed by cultural, economic, political and environmental change.
• Mr Kristian Haggblom- examines the modes in which modern society mediates and instructs our fears, desires and expectations of nature and how we collectively and individually project them back upon the landscape.
• Dr Anton Hasell - Sculpture for public spaces.
• Mr Geoff Hocking - Album cover art 1958–76
• Mr Tim Joness - Printmaking and sculpture
• Dr James Mc Ardle investigates metaphoric uses of focal effects and the differences between human and camera vision.
• Ms Julia Mc Cormick - Once fired, wood fired wheel thrown and slab built ceramics.
• Ms Julie Millowick - Exploration of the expressive potential of the cyanotype and photogram processes used in sequences of images.
• Mr Paul Morris - Tactile Book design methods for visually impaired children. This research re-defines the kit that holds reading material The proto-type, considered to be a book itself,aims to deliver more effective housing, user interaction and delivery of existing reading materials.
• Michael Needham - Needham’s work explores myth, belief and residual melancholia in the contemporary psyche.
• Mr Stephen Turpie - Individual art practice concerning questions about the self, visual analogy and the engineered world, expressed in a metaphorical landscape format.
• Mr Malcolm Webster- Looking closely at the relationship between text and image in children's picture books.

Honorary Associates

• Ms Dee Gill Lake Mungo - a landscape that has taken millions of years to form but within the space of a little over two hundred years, loosened by the imposition of inappropriate European farming practices on the land, we now see it literally blowing away.
• Mr Gary Hil 14th Century ceramics from North Thailand
• Mr David Stuchbery - Stoneware glazes