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Kay Lawrence

QCA Research — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:47:41 +0000

Kay Lawrence is a Doctor of Visual Arts student at Queensland College of Art.

Her art practice critically engages with matters of personal identity, ecology, social justice, memory and contemporary cultural phenomena. Using elements of photography, digital media and textiles, she seeks ways to develop her practice to further integrate these (seemingly) disparate media through individual works and those made in collaboration with others. Her conceptual concerns as a visual artist are focussed on embracing and understanding the human condition.

Adrian Strong

SECAP — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:34:53 +0000

Adrian Strong is currently undertaking doctoral research at Griffith University in the field of ethnographic film, with particular reference to the representation of indigenous people. Adrian grew up in the UK, where he studied Science and Philosophy before moving to Africa in 1984. Adrian’s had many work incarnations ranging from farming to development work to business. It was in the late 1980s that Adrian lived and worked in the Kalahari with the Ju/’hoansi and also developed an interest in film-making.

In 1997 Adrian moved from Namibia to California for additional post-graduate studies, gaining a Masters in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has been living in Australia since 2000, where he has also worn many hats, but is at his happiest teaching, researching and film-making.

Abraham Jr Ambo Garcia

SECAP — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:09:24 +0000

Completing MVA at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

These photographic works form a visual narrative that highlight the notion of ‘home’ and ‘identity’ in community — specifically within a pocket of Filipino-Australians in Brisbane. This gathering of people around food form a singular bond wherein relations, association, and taste bring back past and recent everyday stories, memory, and place coming from their respective provinces in the Philippines. The Filipino word Salu-salo means ‘gathering,’ while the term halo-halo refers to mixing together, and is also the name of a wonderfully sweet, layered Filipino drink. (Pat Hoffie)

Simon P. Wright

SECAP — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:25:52 +0000

Director, Griffith Artworks

Griffith Artworks is responsible for the management and programming of exhibitions at Griffith University Art Gallery, based at the Queensland College of Art, South Bank campus.

Judy Watson

SECAP — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:35:40 +0000

Judy Watson’s matrilineal Waanyi inheritance is her artistic touchstone and she has explored aspects of her heritage through the mediums of printmaking, drawing, painting and a series of major public art commissions. During her numerous residencies and journeys abroad, Watson has observed other cultures and used her experiences to enrich her understanding of her own.

Watson co-represented Australia at the 1997 Venice Biennale and has completed numerous public art commissions in Australia, international projects in India, Italy, France and the United States and exhibited widely over the last 20 years. Watson’s survey exhibition, sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson 1989-2003, opened in Perth in 2003 and went on to tour South East Asia.

Dadang Christanto

SECAP — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:30:27 +0000

Christanto is well known for his large-scale works on paper with drawn, painterly and calligraphic marks in ink, however performance, installation, sculpture and video cover the range of Dadang’s art practice. Christanto has recently been selected as a participating artist at the 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.

Christanto’s installations include They Give Evidence (1996-97); Cannibalism: The Memory of Jakarta – Solo 13, 14, 15 May 1998 (1998); and Red Rain (2000). His artwork, Heads from the North, has been permanently installed at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Christanto exhibits widely in Australia and has shown in Indonesia, Japan and Europe and has participated in the Venice, Yogyakarta and CP Open Biennials, and the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. He has been a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and an Australia Council New Work grant.

Dr Laini Burton

SECAP — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:43:39 +0000

Dr Laini Burton’s research interests include body politics and gender theory, critical theory of Spectacle, Situationism and contemporary Australian Art. Dr Burton was awarded her Doctor of Visual Arts in 2006 from Griffith University. Her Doctoral thesis is titled The Blonde Paradox: Power and agency through feminine masquerade and carnival (2005).
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Julie Fragar

SECAP — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:54:37 +0000

b. 05 03 1977, Gosford, NSW, Australia. Lives and works Brisbane QLD

2006-Present - Doctor of Visual Arts Candidate, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane.
2001/2002 – Master of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
1995-1998 – Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney Bachelor of Visual Arts, Honors (Class 1).

Dr Ian Burns

SECAP — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:40:51 +0000

Ian Burns (b1964, Newcastle, Australia; resides New York City, USA) puts technology to wry and witty use, employing toy vehicles and cheap consumer objects to examine the speed of modern life and test our faith in moving images.

Ian Burns’ kinetic dioramas and video feed works have engaged with subjects as diverse as the war in Iraq, TV culture, colonialism, and art history. Using plain wood and primitive electronics, and often incorporating household objects and other assorted junk, Burns creates absurdly convoluted mechanisms whose purpose is to produce a simple moving image on a screen, either by live video fed to a monitor, or as a shadow theater-like diorama.

Education:

PhD, 2008 Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

MFA, 2003 Hunter College of CUNY, New York, NY

BFA, 2000 The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

BEng, 1989 Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia

Jack Picone

SECAP — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:45:32 +0000

Lecturer In Photojournalism at Griffith University

Currently PhD candidate , PHOTOGRAPHY, VISUAL ARTS

Jack is a practicing Documentary Photographer specializing in the Asian region. Jack is also the Creative Director at, The Jack Picone Photography Workshops. The Jack Picone Photography Workshops is a series of photography workshops and private tuition on location in the most fascinating cities and outposts of Asia.