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Theory Spine staff are listed in alphabetical order with a link to their staff homepage.
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| Pam Zeplin, World |
Jude Adams
Jude Adams teaches Sex, Gender and Representation and The Moving Image: Film, Art and Theory. Jude presented the paper Gendering, careers and the art school curriculum (PDF file) at the 2008 Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) conference. More about Jude
Chris Brisbin
Chris Brisbin's area of expertise concerns the relation between space and image in art and architecture, from the 13 century to today. In particular Brisbin's research examines the impact of recent image-technologies in architecture through the lens of older relations between space and image in Western Art in an attempt to reveal and re-present conceptual and technical clues as to how to accommodate the embodying potentialities offered by ocular image-technologies in architecture today. Brisbin teaches architectural design studio, communication theory, and history and theory courses in architecture and interior architecture. More about Chris
Kathleen Connellan
Kathleen has been teaching art and design history and theory for two decades. Her PhD focused upon the meaning of home and the experience of modernity in South Africa. A major research question within that project concerned the existence of a comparable South African domestic appliance revolution in the kitchens and homes of Apartheid South Africa. Consequently, her research and teaching has since been informed by the politics of race in oppressive regimes and specifically how design and art are implicated in these power relations. Over the last five years Kathleen's publications have concentrated upon the politics, aesthetics and ethics of the colour white in design. More about Kathleen
Julie Collins
Julie Collins is Researcher and Collections Manager at the Architecture Museum in the School of Art, Architecture and Design. Julie researches various aspects of architectural history within the School of Art, Architecture and Design. Recent projects include work on the South Australian Home Builders' Club 1945-1965, the Small Homes Service of South Australia and the modern postwar house, the emergence of Tall Buildings in Adelaide 1912-1939, women in the architectural profession 1910-1960 and analysis of the cultural significance of architectural records. More about Julie
Robert Crocker
Robert Crocker teaches Design, Culture and Environment and Contemporary Design Theory. Robert's current research concerns the role of historical knowledge in the cultural construction and practice of design. His current research concerns the role of historical knowledge in the cultural construction and practice of design. Besides other publications, he has written the book Henry More, 1614-1687: A Biography of the Cambridge Platonist. More about Robert
Brenda Croft
Brenda L Croft was born in Perth, and has lived in Adelaide, SA, since early 2009. A member of the Gurindji/Malgnin/Mudpurra nations from Kalkaringi/Daguragu in the Northern Territory, Brenda is a lecturer at the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, and the School of Art, Architecture and Design. From 2002-9 she was Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia, where she curated the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial Culture Warriors in 2007, and travelled with the exhibition to Washington USA in 2009. Brenda has been exhibiting as an artist since 1985, and her works are held in major national and international public and private collections. Brenda has been involved in the arts and cultural sectors for since the mid 1980s as an artist, arts administrator, curator, writer, lecturer and consultant. In 1995 Brenda was awarded a Master of Art Administration from the College of Fine Arts (UNSW). In 2001 she received an Alumni Award from the University of New South Wales. In 2009, Brenda received an Honorary Doctorate in Visual Arts from the University of Sydney in acknowledgment of her contribution to contemporary Indigenous art and culture. She teaches Indigenous Arts, Cultures and Design. More about Brenda
James Curry
James Curry teaches Contemporary Design Theory. More about James
Andrew Dearman
Andrew Dearman teaches art history and theory. Andrew is interested in writing as another form of making that is analogous with - rather than different from - other forms of material practice. More about Andrew
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Sean Pickersgill, House |
Angelique Edmonds
Angelique Edmonds is trained as an architect and believes that architecture can participate in, and impact upon, people's everyday lives. She is interested in public Architecture, fostering agency, participation and engagement and has a particular interest in social sustainability in design; fostering socially inclusive design, engaging cross cultural and broad participation from diverse groups and design approaches which foster resilience. Her PhD focused upon the agency of Aboriginal people in South East Arnhem Land in Australia in determining the order of their lives, as evidenced through their responses to the living practices, planning and built forms of imposed sedentary life. She was contracted as a consultant to the NT government and lived in the remote Aboriginal community of Ngukurr (SE Arnhem Land) for a year during this contract; the outcomes and experiences of which subsequently became the focus of her PhD. She teaches Architectural Design Studio and Introduction to Sustainability (in cultural, environmental and social terms), and supervises Masters research in both the Architecture and Sustainable Design Masters programs. More about Angelique
Ruth Fazakerley
Ruth's teaching and research experience is in the field of contemporary visual art and culture. She has taught in studio- and lecture-based areas such as drawing, painting, public art, (visual arts) professional practice, urban cultures, and contemporary Australian art. Ruth has worked in multiple professional roles within the arts industry as a visual artist (exhibiting painting, sculptural installation and video works), arts administrator, and independent arts writer. Her expertise lies within the field of public art and its discourse (including policy, funding and management), with a particular interest in considering the effects of such discourse on everyday urban social and spatial relations. More about Ruth
Christine Garnaut
Christine Garnaut is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Architecture Museum in the School of Art, Architecture and Design. She has a particular interest in the application of planning history to planning and heritage policy. Much of her work lies at the nexus between the disciplines of planning and architecture and the contribution of both to academic, professional and community action. More about Christine
Mary Knights
Mary Knights is the Director, of the SASA Gallery, School of Art, Architecture and Design. Her research interests are Australian Contemporary Art, Curatorial Practices and the Symbolist movement. She recently completed a PhD in Art Theory and History at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania. Her thesis, titled On the brink of the abyss, explores the novelist and critic Joris-Karl Huysmans' critical analysis of art while aligned with the Symbolist movement. Currently she is co-writing with Prof Ian North the 2011 SALA/Wakefield Press Monograph on Hossein Valamanesh. More about Mary
Kay Lawrence
Kay Lawrence's practice led research as an artist and writer is focused on textiles, particularly the meanings invested in textiles practice by practitioners and communities. Her most recent work engages with issues of 'whiteness' and uses textile processes to explore the legacy of white settler culture in Australia. She teaches undergraduate courses in textiles and foundation studies in the Bachelor of Visual Arts program and supervises research degree students in visual arts. This Everything Water 2008 exhibition and catalogue (SASA Gallery) and a recent research paper (Craft Design Enquiry for Craft Australia, PDF file 1mb). More about Kay
Jim Moss
Jim Moss teaches Representing Visual Culture VA and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture. Jim's areas of expertise include medieval European, nineteenth century European, twentieth century modern and contemporary cultural theory. Romanticism is central to his interests because it is the dominant theme in ambitious, world changing, avant-garde representations of reality spanning ages from medieval to current times. More about Jim
Sean Pickersgill
Sean Pickersgill teaches Advanced Architectural Theory, Contemporary Design Theory, Theories and History of Architecture and Theories of Modernity. Sean's PhD artefact and thesis focused on the interrelationship between aspects of German critical theory and the idea of renovation/redemption in architecture. Currently he is exploring the use and implications of game engines in the ontology of digital architecture. More about Sean
Esther Ratner
Esther Ratner teaches in the industrial design program, specialising in form and material considerations as influenced by cultural, aesthetic, and theoretical factors. More about Esther
Linda Marie Walker
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| Linda Marie Walker, Line of Sight |
Linda Marie Walker is a writer, artist, and curator, with interests in conceptual and minimalist art practices, experimental writing practices, ficto-critical research methodologies, electronic thinking, spatial-relations, bodies, and movement. Her research area is titled: 'an archaeology of surfaces'. Linda Marie teaches Advanced Theory of Interior Architecture, Theory of Interior Architecture and Writing Culture Theory. She has a range of online publications, including Line of Sight. More about Linda Marie
Pam Zeplin
Pam Zeplin is Portfolio Leader of Research Education in Art, Architecture and Design. As a widely published author, artist and educator, her research and teaching practice specialises in contemporary non-Indigenous and Indigenous visual culture in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. This provides a strong foundation for research in regionality, intercultural art education, performance and collaborative practices. As well as supervising numerous PhD and MA research students to successful completion in theory and studio programs, Pamela's teaching expertise includes Research Methods, Arts Writing, Asia-Pacific Art, and Australian Art, Craft and Design. More about Pam