Dr Naomi Merritt joined the School of Art, Architecture, and Design at the University of South Australia as a lecturer in contemporary art and visual culture in 2015.
Naomi completed a PhD on the photography of Jeff Wall at the University of Melbourne in 2014. Naomi's PhD was nominated for the Chancellor's Prize and she is working towards publishing the work as a monograph.
Naomi's research investigates the ideologies and socio-technological dynamics that inform cultural production, with a particular focus on visual culture, art, and systems of representation. She is interested in the ways in which our sense of identity and our ways of interpreting and representing the world are culturally constructed, and... Read more
About me
Dr Naomi Merritt joined the School of Art, Architecture, and Design at the University of South Australia as a lecturer in contemporary art and visual culture in 2015.
Naomi completed a PhD on the photography of Jeff Wall at the University of Melbourne in 2014. Naomi's PhD was nominated for the Chancellor's Prize and she is working towards publishing the work as a monograph.
Naomi's research investigates the ideologies and socio-technological dynamics that inform cultural production, with a particular focus on visual culture, art, and systems of representation. She is interested in the ways in which our sense of identity and our ways of interpreting and representing the world are culturally constructed, and the ways that artists critique these processes. Naomi is interested in how digital technologies impact on and influence analog art practices. Naomi's research has an interdisciplinary outlook and is at the intersection of visual arts, visual culture, cinema studies, and cultural studies. Naomi has expertise in critical theory, cultural studies, intersectional feminism, gender / sexuality / queer theory, postcolonial theory, visual arts, cinema, photography, and creative arts research methods. Her pedagogical approach emphasises the importance of critical thinking for creative practitioners, artists, educators, and producers and consumers of culture. Naomi is a full member of the UNISA research concentration 'Digital Transformations' and an associate member of 'CP3: Creative People, Products, and Places'.
Naomi's qualifications include a PhD (University of Melbourne), Bachelor of Creative Arts - Honours First Class (University of Melbourne), Bachelor of Visual and Performing Arts (Victorian College of the Arts / University of Melbourne), Graduate Diploma of Education (University of Melbourne), and a Diploma of Applied Arts - Photography (NMIT).
About me
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Research
Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or ResearcherID or
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| Year | Output |
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| 2010 |
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| 2009 |
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Select Conference Papers and Public Presentations (Since 2013)
2018 ‘Queering the Pole: The Disruption of Heteronormative Visual Pleasure in Male Exotic Pole Dancing’, 12th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Cultural Studies Association, University of Shanghai. Also chair and organiser of panel ‘Gender, Sexuality, Culture, and the Creative Arts’ at this conference.
2016, ‘Queering the Pose: The Disruption of Heteronormative Visual Pleasure in Drag Fashion Modelling', 11th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Cultural Studies Association, University of Sydney.
2016, Finalist in the AAANZ PhD Prize, 'Jeff Wall: Reading Pictures', AAANZ conference, ANU, Camberra.
2016, 'Displacement Strategies in Hokusai's Views of Mount Fuji', AAANZ conference, ANU, Canberra.
2015, ‘The Creative Practice of Art History’, ‘Artist Speak’ lecture series, University of South Australia.
2013, ‘Lost in translation’ - Public Lecture at the National Gallery of Victoria, in conjunction with the ‘Jeff Wall: Photographs’ exhibition.
2013, ‘Jeff Wall: The Crises of the ‘Concept of the Picture’, PhD Completion Seminar, Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Symposium, University of Melbourne.
Research
Currently working on:
External engagement & recognition
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Academic Excellence, Early Career TeacherDivision of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia |
2017 |
MemberArt Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) |
2016 |
MemberThe Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) |
2016 |
Teaching Awards
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Photography and agential landscape: material subversions in seeing, time and representationalism | Current |
| The geometry of cultural space: contemporary art, ethics, aesthetics and Islam | Current |
| Zips, string and neon: Drawing a line from Abstract Expressionism to Conceptual Art; what role did line-making have in developing an abstract aesthetic to become a signifier of presence? | Current |
| Inside, outside, passing through: queer passages in a contemporary sculpture-based practice | Completed |
| Queer embodiment and network-based media: reconfiguring cartesian understanding of the body and technology within a visual arts practice | Completed |