School of Creative Arts Academic staff

School of Creative Arts - Academic staff

David Akensen German Idealism: 20th Century Continental philosophy: Lacaniian psychoanalysis: 20th Century avant-garde art and American formalist art
 Scott Alderdice Investigating multimedia and multi-discipline approaches to learning through creative and performance arts; exploring the development and release of individual creativity through approaches to clown and 'player'.
Beata Batorowicz
 Russell Bauer Conducting, Arranging & Orchestrating: Developing school instrumental programs: Jazz Piano and Popular Music from 1950's onwards: orchestral Lusic from the Romantic Period
 Darryl Chalk Shakespearean plays and production techniques; theatre and culture of the European Renaissance
 Martin Crook Research and performance of contemporary violin, piano and clarinet repertoire; use of vibrato in contemporary reed playing
 Philip Gearing  Matters related to pipe organ music and performance; aural perception
 John Hetherington Satellite TV; Interactive TV; community adoption of digital technologies; cyber documentary form
 Kyle Jenkins Architecture; abstraction; furniture design
Ashley Jones Media and Society: Local media: New communities and communication: Access and Equity in Media: Community development
 Leonie Jones  Representation in film, film theory
 Janet McDonald Theatre for Regional Youth; masculinities and postcoloniality in drama-in-education and boys education; critical pedagogy and master narratives in drama teaching; history of children's theatre/s in Australia
 Rhoderick McNeill Music history and theory; repertory studies; development of the Australian symphony
 Simon Mee 18th century French painting (Boucher, Fragonard etc.); the uses of the figure in contemporary art, with a focus on the two dimensional art works. (Walton Ford, John Currin, Marcel Dzama and Amy Cutler for example)
 Marilyn Meier-Kapavale Piano technique; The music of Frederic Chopin; Performance practices; Tongan music
Patrick Petein

The combination of art & technology to communicate messages (to inform, educate, influence and/or provide an experience of aesthetic pleasure).Multimedia/graphicdesign/photography/film/audio/printmaking/drawing/painting.

 Bernadette Pryde Theatre-making; Pedagogy; language in the training environment; vocal health
 Daryl Sparkes  Documentary production; children's television production; feature film production; Australian cinema; British cinema
 Stephen Spurrier Sequential imaging, in the form of the artist's book; printmaking; works on paper
 Robyn Stewart Visuality; Australian and postcolonial contemporary art theory and praxis; research processes for the creative artist; cultural pedagogies and regionality; autobiography, memory and praxis; art education pedagogies
 Alexis Tacey Tableware specific for contemporary eating styles including Asian and French cuisine, wedding banquets; raw glazing; vases for specific flora
 Stuart Thorp  Video and animation
David Usher
 Chris Willems Interdisciplinary arts practice; application of performance skills in the corporate communication context