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Postgraduate Research Conference

Term 3 | 21 - 23 October 2025

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Tia Madden, ‘Some Sort of Notation’, 2024-25. Oxidised mild steel and copper, 300 x 800cm, installation view, Firstdraft, 2024. Photography: Jessica Maurer.

This conference showcases the work of candidates enrolled in our Higher Degree Research (HDR) programs.Ìý  

Our HDR cohort invites you to engage with their creative and impactful projects, representing all forms of research across the School. Presented at the Paddington campus from 21 – 23 October 2025, the three-day conference will be complemented by a program of ancillary events.

View the conference program for full details, including presentation abstracts, location information and registration information.  
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Tuesday 21 October

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 1: Poetry & Poetics

    Chair: Michael Garbutt

    Panel Member: Prue Gibson

    Presentations

    Gabriel Curtin (PhD), 'Fuzzy Magic: commodity fetishism and tropic form'. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Tim Gregory.Ìý

    Rachel Schenberg (PhD), 'Room Eight'. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Brigitta Olubas.Ìý

    Jingwen Yuan (PhD), 'Engraved embodiments: Contemporary jewellery practice in times of transmediation'. Supervisors: Patricia Flanagan, Zoe Veness.Ìý

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 2: Cultural Narratives & Curating

    Chair: Scott East

    Panel Member: Bianca Hester

    Presentations

    Lin Zhou (PhD), 'Rethinking Contemporary Chinese Peasant Painting in Transcultural Contexts'. Supervisors: Ian McArthur, Paul Gladston.

    Jiawen Li (PhD), 'Three Decades of Curating Contemporary Chinese Art Down Under'. Supervisors: Shuxia Chen, Lizzie Muller, Olivier Krischer.Ìý

    Angela Goddard (PhD), 'Curatorial Support Structures for research-based practices in the Australian University Art Museum'. Supervisors: Lizzie Muller, Felicity Fenner, Elisabeth Finlay, Verónica Tello.Ìý

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 3: Textiles

    Chair: Emma Robertson

    Panel Member: Patricia Flanagan

    Presentations

    Leah Giblin (MFA), 'Re-imagining textile waste for aesthetically durable garments’. Supervisors: Matthew Harkness, Alison Gwilt.Ìý

    Megan Hanson (PhD), ‘Woven-Textile-Garments: Synthesising cloth, garment, loom, and body using digital Jacquard technology’. Supervisors: Bic Tieu, Alison Gwilt.Ìý

    Changrui He (PhD), ‘Reimagining Design Approaches to Foster Textile Up-cycling in a Circular Economy’. Supervisors: Alison Gwilt, Zoe Veness.Ìý

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 4: More-Than-Human Relations

    Chair: Astrid Lorange

    Panel Member: Jaye Early

    Presentations

    Emma Pinsent (PhD), ‘Porous material afterlives of the intertidal zone’. Supervisors: David Eastwood, Bianca Hester.Ìý

    Tulla Carson (MFA), ‘Relationality, Indigenous Knowledge, and Cross-Cultural Collaboration with and within Barkindji Country’. Supervisors: Trent Jansen, Livia Rezende, Fabri Blacklock.Ìý

    Lara Merrett (MFA), ‘How can a collaborative and situated expanded painting practice with pest-kin generate better-balanced ecological futures?’. Supervisors: Izabela Pluta, Adriana Verges.Ìý

Wednesday 22 October

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 5: Music, Sound, Transition

    Chair: Caleb Kelly

    Panel Member: Katherine Moline

    Presentations

    Max Lyandvert (PhD), 'Presence - A Displaced Transmateriality. Towards a dual mode of Sound Installation making'. Supervisors: John Gillies, Ed Scheer.Ìý

    Tom Willma (PhD), 'Popular Music and the Work of Musicians in an Age of Technological Change'. Supervisors: Oliver Bown, Anna Munster.Ìý

    Giles Alexander (PhD), 'Reinterpreting handmade devotional paintings in the 14th century Sienese manner to investigate and illuminate contemporary musical communion'. Supervisors: Emma Robertson, Oliver Bown.Ìý

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 6: Languages, Code & Creativity

    Chair: Tim Gregory

    Panel Member: Rebecca Green

    Presentations

    Benjamin Chevalier (MFA), 'The Hand and the Machine: Expanding Possibilities in Contemporary Knitwear'. Supervisors: Bic Tieu, Alison Gwilt.

    Tia Madden (MFA), 'The Uncode: Meaning at the intersection of drawing and writing'. Supervisors: Peter Sharp, Rochelle Haley.Ìý

    Wei Wang (PhD), 'A practice-based study on co-designing a font to improve the reading experience of dyslexic readers'. Supervisors: Ian McArthur, Scott Brown.Ìý
  • Monika Cvitanovic, ‘Soft archive I’, 2024. Two folded textile-based artworks, two doilies and thread, 30 x 25 cm. Image courtesy of the artist. Monika Cvitanovic, ‘Soft archive I’, 2024. Two folded textile-based artworks, two doilies and thread, 30 x 25 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

    AD Space (EG01, Ground Floor, E Block)

    Join artist and PhD candidate Monika Cvitanovic for a floor talk about her current exhibition What she joined her hands around.Ìý

    Image credit: Monika Cvitanovic, ‘Soft archive I’, 2024. Two folded textile-based artworks, two doilies and thread, 30 x 25 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 7: Identity, Subjectivity & Place

    Chair: John McGhee

    Panel Member: Jennifer Biddle

    Presentations

    Alex Moulis (PhD), 'The beach as desert: the affective entanglement of patriarchal white sovereignty, the visual archive and land between settler-colonial projects’. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Nicholas Apoifis.Ìý

    Jeremy William Smith (PhD), ‘Drawing Intersubjective Counter-Cartographies of Queer Sydney in the Post-PrEP Age’. Supervisors: Michael Garbutt, Emma Robertson.Ìý

    Wei Wang (PhD), ‘Writing ‘Unconscious Space’ — A Place Between Architecture and Psychoanalysis’. Supervisors: Michael Garbutt, Jill Bennett.Ìý

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 8: Archives & Counter-Archives

    Chair: Kasia Jezowska

    Panel Member: Peter Sharp

    Presentations

    Lisa Myeong-Joo (MFA), ‘The red chair in your picture does not exist’. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Consuelo Cavaniglia.

    Fiona Macpherson (MFA), ‘Traumatic Trace and the Post-Digital Interface: Post-Photographic Painting as a Counter-Archival Practice in Response to Digital Image Mediation’. Supervisors: Tim Gregory, Clare Milledge.Ìý

    Abby Murray (MFA), ‘Temporal Traces: Embodying archives through material-driven installation practices’. Supervisors: Izabela Pluta, Fernando do Campo.

Thursday 23 October

  • AG01 (Ground Floor, A Block)

    Panel 9: Diasporic Cultures

    Chair: Oliver Bown

    Panel Member: Shuxia Chen

    Presentations

    June Acido Miskell (PhD), 'Archipelagic Imaginaries: Contemporary Filipina/o/x Australian Art'. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Mina Roces.Ìý

    Marcia Swaby (PhD), 'Reperforming Guanin: Crafting a practice of embodied and materially driven jewellery-making in dialogue with indigenous Caribbean craft legacies'. Supervisors: Bianca Hester, Fernando do Campo.Ìý

    Shireen Taweel (PhD), 'Pilgrimage of a Hajjanaut: A decolonial Futurism of Space Migration'. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Fernando do Campo.Ìý

    A101 (Level 1, A Block)

    Panel 10: Modelling Experiences & Places

    Chair: Rochelle Haley

    Panel Member: Andrew Yip

    Presentations

    Sarah Eddowes (PhD), 'Cross-wiring, Cross-noodling'. Supervisors: John McGhee, Peter Sharp.Ìý

    Joel Arthur (MFA), 'Counter-landscape: Interrupting the scene through remodelling'. Supervisors: David Eastwood, Peter Sharp.Ìý

    Lara Clemente (MFA), 'The Aesthetic Reformulation of Tree Modelling for 3D Australian Fire Environments'. Supervisors: Dennis Del Favero, Grant Stevens, Susanne Thurow.
  • Emma Fielden, Dialogue 2020. Performance with limestone. Video stills and excerpt from HD video with sound. Image courtesy of the artist. Emma Fielden, Dialogue 2020. Performance with limestone. Video stills and excerpt from HD video with sound. Image courtesy of the artist.

    ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç Galleries (Meet in upstairs foyer)

    Join artists and HDR candidates Emma Fielden and Mason Kimber for floor talks about their current exhibitions Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌý.Ìý

    Image credit: Emma Fielden, Dialogue 2020. Performance with limestone. Video stills and excerpt from HD video with sound. Image courtesy of the artist.
  • Abby Murray’s material-driven installation practice is anchored in the inherited and embodied maternal archives of her late grandmother, through expanded notions of painting, textiles and sculpture, her work aims to visualise the temporal traces that build one's identity. Image of current works, courtesy of the artist. Abby Murray’s material-driven installation practice is anchored in the inherited and embodied maternal archives of her late grandmother, through expanded notions of painting, textiles and sculpture, her work aims to visualise the temporal traces that build one's identity. Image of current works, courtesy of the artist.

    Sherman Postgraduate Studio (Level 4, Block F)

    Join candidates Abby Murray, Fiona Macpherson and Wei Wang for an engaging critique of their works-in-progress. For each artist, a five-minute audience cold-read of the work will be followed by 10 minutes of lively discussion. Please join in this conversation about practice to really benefit our presenters!   

    Image credit: Abby Murray’s material-driven installation practice is anchored in the inherited and embodied maternal archives of her late grandmother, through expanded notions of painting, textiles and sculpture, her work aims to visualise the temporal traces that build one's identity.ÌýImage of current works, courtesy of the artist.

  • Location: Sherman Postgraduate Studios | Level 4, Block F (enter via lift at Oxford Street end of Block F)

    David Eastwood (Director HDR) will introduce plans for Open Week 2026.

  • Location: Sherman Postgraduate Studios | Level 4, Block F (enter via lift at Oxford Street end of Block F)

    Exhibition participants: Giles Alexander, Joel Arthur, Sarah Eddowes, Fiona Macpherson, Jo Mellor, Abby Murray, Marcia Swaby, Wei Wang and Jingwen Yuan.

    For catering purposes, please .

Header image: Tia Madden, Some Sort of Notation, 2024-25. Oxidised mild steel and copper, 300 x 800cm, installation view, Firstdraft, 2024. Photography: Jessica Maurer.

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