Queensland College of Art staff and post-graduate students involved in SECAP research activities include:
- Professor Pat Hoffie
Dr Pat Hoffie is a visual artist who has worked extensively in the Asia-Pacific region for the past two decades. A monograph on her work, Fully Exploited Labour (ed.Sally Butler) was published by the University of Queensland Art Gallery in 2008. She ha...
- Professor Paul Cleveland
Dr Paul Cleveland has a background in graphic design and experience in marketing, promotions and digital media. Paul's research interests include the evolution of design style, design archaeology and interactive mapping systems. He is a member of the A...
- David Lloyd
David Lloyd specialises in social documentary photography and the analysis, explanation and interpretation of social order through the politics and aesthetics of this visual medium. David and Angela Blakely, were commissioned by History Section of the ...
- Professor Ross Woodrow
Deputy Director, Post Graduate and Research, Queensland College of Art Dr Ross Woodrow has recently returned to Queensland where he was originally trained and established his early career as a painter of challenging suburban themes. He continues to ...
- Simon P. Wright
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.[gallery]
- Sebastian Di Mauro
Graphic designer, painter, sculptor and installation artist, Sebastian Di Mauro has worked in design education since 1981. Sebastian is an active and respected visual artist who has exhibited Australia-wide. His works are held in the collections of t...
- Sam Di Mauro
Salvatore 'Sam' Di Mauro has practised as a furniture designer/maker since 1969. After qualifying as a furniture craftsperson, Sam completed studies in art and design, focusing on the relationship between vernacular culture, object and environment. He ...
- Russell Craig
Russell Craig teaches drawing and printmaking. He received training in the American lithographic tradition with the Tamarind Institute (USA). His artwork includes lithography, colour laser prints, paper works, collage, mono-prints and drawing. He has c...
- Professor Mostyn Bramley-Moore
Mostyn Bramley-Moore is a visual artist whose work is included in many major collections, including the Australian National Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Queensland Art Gallery. Although he produces work in a variety of media, Mosty...
- Dr Laini Burton
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 Doctor...
- Judy Watson
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 ...
- Jennifer Herd
Theatre designer and installation artist Jennifer Herd worked in the theatre industry for 12 years before moving into teaching and Indigenous education in the late 1980s. More recently, Jennifer has made a shift to installation. Her interests are mainl...
- Jack Picone
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 Photograp...
- Dr Ian Burns
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’ ki...
- Dr George Petelin
George Petelin's interests range from art criticism to research methodology in the arts and the rise of contemporary Australian Indigenous art. He is President of the Association des Critiques d'Art, and has written for The Australian and The Courier-M...
- Dr Rosemary Hawker
Rosemary Hawker's research and teaching address theories of representation, in particular, theories of photography, concepts of visuality and image/text relationships. She has been actively involved in initiating curricula and courses in undergraduate ...
- Dr Debra Porch
Debra Porch is a Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Fine Art. Her individual work has focused on issues surrounding memory and her practice is centred on installation and objects. She has been the recipient of various awards and grants that include an Asi...
- Dr Craig Douglas
Arts educator, curator, arts administrator and arts historian Craig Douglas has practised as a curator since 1977. He began teaching in 1973, joining the Queensland College of Art in the early 1980s. Craig was the Foundation Director of the QCA Gallery...
- Dr Charles Page
Charles Page specialises in social documentary photography, with a particular concern for communicating specific aspects of the human experience. He regularly undertakes commissions, exhibitions and international projects including work for the Interna...
- Dr Donna Marcus
Donna's work has been included in several recent national sculpture exhibitions including The McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Survey and Award; The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize; The National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition at the Natio...
- Dadang Christanto
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 se...
- Associate Professor Trish FitzSimons
Trish FitzSimons is a documentary film-maker, who also has research interests in documentary history, theory and policy. She convenes the Bachelor of Film and Screen Media Production. With a first degree in social history, much of her media work has ...
- Associate Professor Marian Drew
Marian Drew's art practice in photography, video drawing and sculpture explores the connection of domestic activity to cultural identity and the relationship to place through an acknowledgment of history and the physical engagement with landscape. ...
- Associate Professor Jay Younger
Jay Younger is a practising artist, curator and writer. Her research interests focus on the body, gender and space, and find form in photomedia, public art and site-specific installation. A survey exhibition of Jay's works entitled Glare was held at...
- Associate Professor Bonnie English
Art and design historian and lecturer Bonnie English has taught theory at the Queensland College of Art since 1975. Her teaching experience has focused on visual arts history of the 20th century. Her research interests deal with the history of fashion ...
- William (Bill) Platz
William (Bill) Platz was born and educated in New York. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute and his MA from Excelsior College. In 2009, Mr. Platz began pursuing a PhD in Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, in Brisba...
- Vernon Ah Kee
Vernon Ah Kee creates work dealing with issues facing Australian Indigenous culture in a post-colonial society. He is best known for his monumentally scaled pencil portraits of Aboriginal family members, who gaze defiantly at the viewer. Vernon Ah K...
- Simone Eisler
Simone Eisler is a Brisbane based artist and has exhibited her work internationally in the Philippines, Indonesia, New York, Belgium and Paris and within Australia. Her diverse hybrid practice explores the relationship between the body and Nature. S...
- Madeleine Kelly
Brisbane-based artist Madeleine Kelly's oil paintings approach big issues through precise depictions of incongruous narratives which draw on both personal and mythological sources. Her comments on global issues like oil and pollution, human folly and i...
- Kay Lawrence
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 photogra...
- Julie Fragar
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, Univer...
- Jennie Jackson
Jennie Jackson completed a Doctorate in Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art in 2009. Jackson was highly commended for her work in the 2008 Alice Art Prize and was awarded the Thiess Acqusitive Award in 2006. Jennie Jackson is fast becoming ...
- Jack Picone
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 Photograp...
- Henri Van Nordenburg
The works by Henri van Nordenburg focus on the notion of story telling entwining visual language with performance. The stories explore elements of past and present, home and home country with poetic documentation and humorous narrative. Henri’s...
- Gordon Hookey
Hookey’s bold paintings and mixed media installations are overtly political and provocative, utilising iconic Australian imagery juxtaposed with quick wit and scathing humour to comment on the meeting of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian ...
- Glen Skien
Glen Skien has spent the major part of his exhibiting life as a printmaker and author of objects in the Central Queensland coastal city of Mackay. After completing a four year signwriting apprenticeship and a year travelling and working in Europe he ...
- Eric Rossi
Eric Rossi holds an IT degree from Griffith University. Eric has worked in IT industry, the majority of roles were at Project Manager and Team Manager level. Then he completed the Fine Art degree at the Queensland College of Art, and was awarded Fine...
- Dacchi Dang
Dacchi Dang was born in 1966 in Saigon, Vietnam, and currently lives and works in Brisbane. His personal experience as a refugee generates difference in how he sees the multiple geographical and social landscapes of Australia and Vietnam. This provides...
- Bianca Beetson
Bianca Beetson of the Gubbi Gubbi people of the Sunshine Coast was born in 1973. Her work is instantly recognisable as she always uses the colour pink. She is a member of the Campfire Group as well as ProppaNOW artists group, both based in Brisb...
- Arryn Snowball
Arryn Snowball was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1977. In 2001 he graduated from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art, and a year later received First Class Honours from the college. Snowbal...
- Alfredo Juan Aquilizan
b.1962 Cagayan Valley, the Philippines Lives and works in Brisbane, Australia The husband-and-wife team of Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan creates works that use the processes of collecting and collaborating to express ideas of migration, family and...
- Adrian Strong
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 Philos...
- Abraham Jr Ambo Garcia
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 Brisban...
- Zoe Porter
Zoe Porter is a Brisbane based visual artist who uses a range of disciplines to create work. Zoe has created her own cosmology, the creatures that inhabit this universe are derived from dreams as well as observation. Zoe reuses and recycles fo...