Staff Research Profile
Ms Lorraine Jenyns Mr Ray Arnold Mr Lindsay Broughton Mr William Hart Mr Leigh Hobba Associate Professor Jonathan Holmes Mr Robert Jenyns Ms Anne MacDonald Mr Milan Milojevic Dr Llewellyn Negrin Professor Geoff Parr Mr Kevin Perkins Ms Anna Phillips Ms Mary Scott Mr John Smith Ms Penny Smith Mr David Stephenson Mr Paul Zika
Ms Lorraine Jenyns - Sculpture
Sculpture, ceramics: ancient mythologies in relation to contemporary culture; the power and status of women in the western world from early Christianity to the present day; archaeology; comparative religions; transformation; Paradise.
Mr Ray Arnold - Printmaking
Projecting/formatting the experience of landscape and issues of figure/ground within a constructed/ printed representational field.
Mr Lindsay Broughton - Drawing
Tasmanian art and history since invasion: in terms of historical method and artworks. Art education: curriculum theory, structure and development.
Mr William Hart - Electronic Media
Digital imaging and printing, the World Wide Web and emerging multimedia technologies, their aesthetic potentials and potential for social change.
Mr Leigh Hobba - Electronic Media
Audiovisual production and design; multimedia production - its context and use with particular relation to art practice; history of technological mediums as applied to art.
Associate Professor Jonathan Holmes - Art history and Theory
The origins of modernism; modern Australian art with particular emphasis on institutional forms of art practice; contemporary criticism.
Mr Robert Jenyns - Sculpture
Social and political comment on aspects of contemporary life - the cutting edge of humour in art.
Ms Anne MacDonald - Photography
Contemporary photographic practice and theory; death and representation.
Mr Milan Milojevic - Printmaking
Printmaking/digital-imaging/multi-media: the exploration of cultural identity through postwar migrant experience in Australia.
Dr Llewellyn Negrin - Art theory
Postmodern theory; popular culture; feminist aesthetics.
Professor Geoff Parr - Painting
Multimedia investigation of current models for visual art and media imagery: content, form, signification and process.
Mr Kevin Perkins - Furniture Design
Furniture influenced by place (Tasmania): furniture resource: exploring the use of under-storey tree species; furniture making: blending of traditional and contemporary skills; furniture design: reference to Tasmanian history and changing landscape.
Contemporary media, plastics; objects and feminine identity and representation.
Contemporary issues of image-making combining traditional techniques of painting with digital manipulation; investigation into surface, eroticism and fetishism in the painted image; contemporary feminist concerns.
Mr John Smith - Furniture Design
The socio-aesthetic status of furniture design as an indicator of contemporary values; the application of this research involves the cross-referencing of different materials and technologies to various fields, focussing on structural experimentation with new forms of furniture.
Ms Penny Smith - Ceramics
Theoretical context for practice: the social ritual of dining and its relationship to ceramics design; the exploitation of wilderness linked to design for the tourist economy; applied research into the translation of industrial ceramics processes to studio-based methodology.
Mr David Stephenson - Photography
Photographic history and criticism; sublime space; wilderness; reductive abstraction.