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Welcome to my homepage. I am a practising artist and lecturer. My studio work incorporates digital media, photography, painting and printmaking exploring concepts involving sites of fundamental change through critical analysis determining how particular historical and economic conditions for example, produce a culture of homelessness, a dislocation from traditional cultural sites and the evolution of a "homeless state of being." "The job....is....not to accept the politics of identity as given, but to show how all representations are constructed, for what purpose, by whom, and with what components." Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, 1994, p380. img
More recently I have been exploring notions of whiteness,... Read more
About me
Welcome to my homepage. I am a practising artist and lecturer. My studio work incorporates digital media, photography, painting and printmaking exploring concepts involving sites of fundamental change through critical analysis determining how particular historical and economic conditions for example, produce a culture of homelessness, a dislocation from traditional cultural sites and the evolution of a "homeless state of being." "The job....is....not to accept the politics of identity as given, but to show how all representations are constructed, for what purpose, by whom, and with what components." Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, 1994, p380. img
More recently I have been exploring notions of whiteness, erasure, transparency, transience and the inherent nature of the cultural gaze linked to the generalized and descriptively meaningless “information age”. Exposing the underlying business of surveillance, a tool in creating distance rather than social intimacy, television monitor as a method of information transmission, collapsing time and space, dislocating and destabilizing reality. In essence: I wish to subvert the media image and in doing so, “break its silence, making it speak and resonate, and transforming its hollowness into an echo chamber for human thought.” (p 27., What do pictures want? The Lives and Loves of Images. Mitchell, W.J.T. The University Chicago Press, USA., 2007.) img border="0"
About me
Master of Visual Art University of South Australia
Bachelor of Education (In-Service Art & Design Education) University of South Australia
Diploma of Teaching South Australian College of Advanced Education
Diploma of Teaching (Art) South Australian College of Advanced Education
I am exploring the linkage between image, public space and cognitive distance and the practices related to image production and representation within digital media. I incorporate digital image production into a painting, drawing and printmaking practice.
“Within the context of visual imagery in the public space, I am interested in erasure as it necessarily involves levels of transience with one layer either being removed or replaced with another and as a consequence each layer providing a level of transparency and visual information hidden or exposed below or within another. These layers of information, while not providing a conclusive narrative, produce an assumed and culturally identifiable visual... Read more
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
I am one of two Division of EAS, Research Ethics Advisors.
As a Research Ethics Advisor, my role is to assist in the promotion of ethical review through educating and communicating the principles of ethically conducted research by:
providing advice for assessing ethics applications;
providing discipline-relevant advice about research ethics to researchers (staff and students), supervisors and other researchers as and when relevant;
providing advice and assistance to those applying for ethics approval. contributing to the deliberations of UniSA's Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) about ethical issues in relation to applications from Education, Arts and Social Science disciplines, as requested by the Chair/ Deputy Chair.
facilitating communication between researchers and UniSA's HREC.
advising researchers, the Dean of Research and others, as appropriate, at the local level about changes to ethics policy.
advising the heads of relevant organisational units in relation to research ethics matters.
Research
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
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2015 |
Open access
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| 2011 |
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| 2010 |
Donovan, GP 2010, Transfigured Night 3, Kerry Packer Gallery, 6 July-5 August 2010. |
| 2009 |
Donovan, GP 2009, Spaces of Otherness. |
| 2008 |
Donovan, GP 2008, As if... Distant Image, Prospect Gallery, South Australia. |
Research
I am exploring the linkage between image, public space and cognitive distance and the practices related to image production and representation within digital media. I incorporate digital image production into a painting, drawing and printmaking practice.
“Within the context of visual imagery in the public space, I am interested in erasure as it necessarily involves levels of transience with one layer either being removed or replaced with another and as a consequence each layer providing a level of transparency and visual information hidden or exposed below or within another. These layers of information, while not providing a conclusive narrative, produce an assumed and culturally identifiable visual dialogue.”
Please visit my webpage for examples of artworks;
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
I have been lecturing in the Visual Arts since 1986, including the South Australian School of Art since 1995. I have been employed as Program Director of the Art, Architecture and Design (AAD) postgraduate coursework Graduate Diploma and Master of Visual Art and Creative Practice degrees commencing in late 2005 and actively associated with the University of South Australia as a lecturer for the past 21 years. I also lectured in the Bachelor of Education, Secondary Art and Design degree at the University of South Australia from 1995 to 1999. From 2012-2009, I was the AAD Portfolio Leader: Teaching and Learning.
The following awards are listed below:
AAD Student Nominated Teaching Award 2015
AAD Student Nominated Teaching Award 2014
UniSA, Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, Outstanding Student Evaluation Attainment Award for Postgraduate Teaching, 2013
UniSA Supported Teacher Award, 2011
Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Award, ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 2011
UniSA Supported Teacher Award 2009
UniSA Quality Teaching Award, 2008
UniSA Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 2007
UniSA 2005 Supported Teacher Award
University of South Australia Chancellor’s Awards for Community Service 2004.
University of South Australia Chancellor’s Awards for Community Service 2003.
At the core of my teaching and art practice is a continual endeavour to develop and provide stimulating learning experiences thus my consistent exploration of innovative and experimental approaches tied to both studio and learning environments.,As program director, artist and teacher, I actively engage with students and staff both within the context of the UniSA learning and teaching environment as well as beyond the studio by offering advice, support and a model of participatory action. Further, I view teaching as a profession that necessarily involves notions of mentor and is characterised by a methodology marked by cooperation, understanding, compassion, good humour, trust and respect.,At present I am most interested in further developing the extensive opportunities in research, teaching and applied methodologies with reference to digital and information technologies, experiential learning, industry links and career management.
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Picture making: towards an understanding of expertise in illustration practice | Current |
| A feeling of feeling: the romantic tendency in contemporary abstract painting | Completed |
| An Unconfirmed Number - A memory initiative of Indigenous massacres during 'The Killing Times' in the colonisation of N-E Western Australia | Completed |
| Artefacts from the black box: understanding post-digital glitch aesthetics through intermedial practice | Completed |
| Calaveras: ADL LAX MEX: interpreting the cross-cultural experience of Día de los Muertos | Completed |
| Encounter and obligation: repositioning the portrait as a socially engaged practice | Completed |
| Follow any path from A until B: 'useless' gardens: gifted ecologies | Completed |
| Inside outside: the holding - a study of the holding capacities of (the hand-eye relationship in) visual arts practice | Completed |
| Linear landscapes of the imagination: a studio-based enquiry into an ontology of line in a contemporary drawing practice. | Completed |
| Mirroring echo: exploring the interface between communication and a sense of self through a contemporary visual arts practice | Completed |
| The eternal youths. Unnatural selection in the age of the anthropocene. | Completed |
| The Uprooted Tree: reflections on displacement, memory, journeying home and hazara experience | Completed |
| Touching surfaces: a painting practice exploring loss and renewal | Completed |
| We have art in order not to die of the truth: a critique of the dominance of the conceptual model in visual art practice | Completed |
| Women in shadow; unfolding an individual experience | Completed |
