Dr Ari Chand

Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.

Other projects

Select Grants

• Howells, A, Killen, C, Chand, A, McGrath, J (2024). Activating Artifacts: Reviving, reintroducing and recontextualising the illustrated work of Margaret Senior. $10,000 (CHSF PPP Funding) + Philanthropic Funding $18,000. 
• Kenke, R, Chand, A, Weaving, S (2022). Visual Aids for Emergency Helicopter Rescue $10,000. (CHSF- Rapid Funding)
• Chand, A, Howells, A, Killen, C, (2021) International Illustration Research Network $14,000 (CHSF PPP Funding).
• Minski K, Chand A (2020) , Shadowgram Singleton: Interactive Placemaking, Singleton CBD, Singleton Council (2021) $140,000
• Chand A, Howells A, Shadbolt J, Brooker C, Morgan C, Barnes-Keoghan A (2020) Drawing Education Network $7,085 (CHSF PPP Funding).
• Grushka, K, Lawry, M, Kerrigan, S, Grupetta, M, Shadbolt, J, Chand, A, Street, K. (2017) Creative Industries Careers: Re-imagining Regional and Remote Students opportunities, $120,098 (Department of Education). 

Previous Projects:

• Chand A, Poster: 'Creativity' by Carl Caulfield, The Playhouse, Civic Theatre: Playhouse (2021)
• Chand A, Future of Singleton Illustrations ( Future of Community, Future of Industry, Future of Place), Bourkes Arcade, Singleton, Singleton Council (2021)
• High Tide Album, Threebirds Records 2018
• Creative Industries Roadshow 2018
• High Performing Students Program: Art/Science Project, DVCA Funded Longitudinal Research Project 2013-2019. 
• 2021 'Ordinary Intricacies' - Group Show: Sue Jones, Chris Capper, Brett Piva, Ari Chand, John Heaney, Lezley Tilley, Mojgan Habibi, and Maddyson Hatton, Watt Space.

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Chapters

Journal Articles

Conferences

Non Traditional Outputs

Reports

Other outputs

Thesis: Chand A, Habitus, Tacit Knowledge and Design Practice: The Context of the Designer as Illustrator, University of Newcastle (2018)

Conference Presentations:

Howells, A; Chand, A; Killen, (2024). Activating Artefacts: Recontextualising the Illustrative Works of Margaret Senior and her contribution to the visual narrative of Australian wildlife. Illustration and Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures. Nov 6th, University of Arts London.

Chand, A, Blakemore, Tamara. The Embedded Creative: the role of the creative practitioner in the program ‘Name. Narrate. Navigate’ (NNN) at Frank Baxter You Justice Centre. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NYC (June 9th, 2023).

Arnold E, Chand A, 'Visual Accessibility : A Case Study Integrating Dyslexia in the Development of a Children's Book, Sixteenth international Conference on Design Principles and Practices', University of Newcastle, Australia (2022)

Chand A, Howells A, Male A, Minichiello M, Killen C, 'Illustration Research : Exploring the Role of Non-traditional Research Outcomes and Exhibition, Sixteenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices', University of Newcastle (2022)

Minski K, Egglestone P, Saunders C, Chand A, Drummond J, Carroll N, Kenke R, 'Ars Electronica Garden: NEWCASTLE GARDEN - Singleton Laneways Panel', Newcastle (2021)

Chand A, 'Empathetic viewpoints: the role of cultural capital and designerly knowing', Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2020)

Kerrigan S, Chand A, Street K, Grushka K, 'Applying the Systems Model and the Four C model of Creativity through the Creative Industries Roadshow project', Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2020)

Chand A, 'Symbolic Violence: the importance of inclusive design stories.', The New Art School, The School of Art and Design Of Design of Valencia, Instituto Superior de Enseñanzas Artísticas (2020)

Chand A, 'Empathetic viewpoints: the role of cultural capital and designerly knowing', Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2020) CHEN2020: Creative Ecologies, Creative Futures. Creativity in Higher Education Network.

Chand A, 'The Future of Drawing Opening: Drawing in the Academy Drawing Education Network', University of Newcastle, NUSpace (2020)

The Role of mentorship within Creative Industries Career Pathways: Tertiary Student Perspectives on Creativity in Project-based Learning. Innaugural Creativity in Higher Education Symposium. Creativity in higher Education Network. 2019/8/30 Visual Borderlands: visuality, performance, fluidity and art-science learning.

Kathryn Grushka, Miranda Lawry, Ari Chand, Brian Devine. Association of Visual Pedagogies : Ocular becomings in dangerous times: The politics of 'seeing. RMIT. 2019/6/18Creative Industries in Regional High Schools: teacher and student perceptions of creative workforce opportunities.

Susan Kerrigan, Kathryn Grushka, Ari Chand, Kristi Street. Making Sense:Data, Publics and Storytelling. Australian and New Zealand Communication Association. 2019/6/2The politics of knowledge: Re-positioning transdisciplinary artscience learning.

Miranda Grushka, Kathryn: Lawry, Ari Chand. AARE CONFERENCE 2017 CONFERENCE. Australian Association for Research in Education.The politics of Funding: Re-positioning the Arts- A Creative Industries HEPPP equity initiative case study.

Kathryn Grushka, Susan Kerrigan, Kristi Street, Miranda Lawry, Jane Shadbolt, Gruppetta Maree, Ari Chand. AARE CONFERENCE 2017 CONFERENCE. 2017Creating Creative Industries (CI) opportunities with Indigenous secondary school students.

Maree Gruppetta, Kathryn Grushka, Susan Kerrigan, Kristi Street, Miranda Lawry, Jane Shadbolt, Ari Chand. AARE CONFERENCE 2017 CONFERENCE. Australian Association for Research in Education. 2017

Higher Degree Research Supervision (External):

Inclusive Design: Making Accessibility Guidelines Accessible, PhD (Design) 2023-present

Ethical and Authentic integration of generative AI in an Animation/Illustration Creative Practice, PhD (Design): Animation/Illustration/ AI: Exegesis. 2020-present.

Current  Honours Supervision

• Interactive Narrative: Illustration as educational tool exploring Australian Environmental themes (2024)

• A Court of Clay and Queerness: An exploration of Faeries and Gender Identity through Ceramic Illustration(2024).

• A Practice-based exploration of extinction stories in the form of picture book Illustration (2024).

Past Supervision:

• Doctorate: New China: The Historical Contexts of Brand Design Development (1912 - 2023), PhD (Design), Thesis. 2024 University of Newcastle. 

• Honours: Authentic Animation : Incorporating Indonesian Narrative through Practice-Based Research, 2023

• Honours: Home is where the mind is: Drawing from memory as a form of Visual Ethnography, 2022

• Honours: Uniquely Me: An investigation into designing for accessibility, inclusivity & dyslexia in Children’s Books, 2021

• Honours: Catfish: Encouraging social play through character design and anthropomorphism, 2021

• Masters: Losing Control of Comics: New Narrative Function in Comic Book Design, 2020, University of Newcastle. 

• Honours: Pandora's Box: An exploration of purposeful integration of technology in children's book literature, 2019. 

Project:

• Howells, A, Killen, C, Chand, A, McGrath, J. Activating Artifacts: Reviving, reintroducing and recontextualising the illustrated work of Margaret Senior
• Calvert, J & Chand, A. AI and Animation Production.

Associate Editor, Journal of Illustration (Intellect) and Board Member of Illustration Research Network