Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Visual Arts and Design

Current and recent research by Postgraduate Students

Current Postgraduate Students

• Mr Chris Atkins (Masters candidate) - Image in the built environment
• Ms Donna Bailey (PHD candidate) - both her research and her photographic practice focus upon issues surrounding the relationship between photographer, subject and place.
• Ms Susan McMinn (PHD candidate) -Hooves and Steel: The Warhorse in Conflict. Exploration of the romanticised and mythological narratives depicting the fate of the Australian Light Horse, with particular interest in the dynamics of the warhorse in conflict.
• Ms Suzie O'Shea (Masters Candidate) -Ceramic Sculptural Forms
• Ms Frida Schoo (Masters Candidate)- Sustainability in Graphic Design
• Ms Lee-anne Trewartha (PHD Candidate) - Born-Again Baroque: Contemporary Notions of the Historical Bel Composto.
• Mr Dick Turner (Masters candidate) - Turner's research is divided into two linked parts, both parts culminating in an exhibition with catalogue.  The first exhibition was ‘European Sensibilities the Art of George Baldessin and his Circle of Friends 1963 to 1980’. The second exhibition will be of Turner's artwork. The visual imagery will be drawn from a site in Central Victoria. 
• Ms Maria Vanhees (PHD candidate) Abstract cocoon-like shapes that represent the protective cocoon, an emotional carapace that we all carry with us inherent in our behaviour, using the ceramic techniques of coil building and soda firing
• Ms Sandi Van Rompaey(PHD candidate) Mandean sybolic art

Recent Postgraduate Students

• Dr Karen Annett - Thomas (PHD) addresses the temporality and fragility of memory with a particular focus on the memories of the First World War. She addresses the nature of these memories through the use of paint and collage with a highly tactile quality.
• Ms Rosalind Atkins (Masters by Research) - Private press and artist books have influenced the production of visual images concerned with the use of trees, birds and insects as symbols of our culture.
• Dr Gary Hil (PHD) The major focus of Gary's research was an investigation into ceramics produced at Sukhothai in north central Thailand in the 13th to 16th Centuries.
• Ms Flo Jones (Masters by Research) - An Investigation into a Specific Environmental Location:  Malmsbury and Memory, a Ceramic Landscape. Ceramic work inspired by landscape and involving the use of colour and texture to evoke a sense of geology and plant forms. 
• Mr David Marshall (Masters candidate) -recent residency at Merrepen Arts on the Daly River gaining an Indigenous perspective of landscape.
• Ms Margaret Parker (Masters by Research)- Landscape Painting: Connection, Perception and Attention
• Ms Rhyll Plant (Masters by Research) Researching, creation of artworks, leading to an exhibition of original printmaking titled Moray Patterns. This exhibition is a collection of wood engravings based on naturalistic representations with a piscine theme.
• Mr Malcolm Webster (Masters by Research) - Looking closely at the relationship between text and image in children's picture books.