Gallery 501
(Reception Area, 3rd Floor, Building 501 Curtin Bentley Campus
2025 Exhibition Schedule
October 2025 … Judith Robinson …PhD Milestone One Research Poster Exhibition
Praxis and Practice – Reconnecting the artist and teacher dimensions of identity.
Early-career Visual Arts teachers, who continue their creative practice, experience higher levels of self-efficacy and authenticity in their teaching and are more likely to remain in teaching. This cohort experience increased well-being levels, from producing as little as one artwork a year (Morris & Imms, 2019). Mid-career Visual Arts teachers may also benefit from reengaging in a small creative practice. In this study they will be invited to trial a six-month reconnection to their arts practice intervention. This Qualitative, Narrative, Arts-Based Education Research Inquiry (Greenwood, 2019) will support mid-career Visual Arts teachers to reengage in their creative arts practice. The teachers’ subjective well-being will be reported in interviews at the beginning, middle and end stages of the six-month trial and shifts analysed. Arts-based education research methodologies will visualise the data as artsworks via the creative thesis (exhibition and exegesis) pathway.
September 2025 … Naqin Xie … Something from my Garden … PhD Milestone Two exhibition of work in progress (Opens 8th September @ 10.30am in Gallery 501)
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July 2025 … Fran Sullivan-Rhodes and Siobhan Unwin … Resonance : A conversation between lyric/musical and visual arts inquiry (opens July 2 in Gallery 501)
Podcast … Resonance Exhibition: The Podcast
This is a multimodal exhibition with sound. We welcome headphones to engage
with the sound elements at your own pace.
Welcome to Resonance
This exhibition is a conversation between disciplines, between voices, between ways of knowing. It traces the journey from artist to arts-based researcher, not as a linear path, but as a weaving of practices, reflections, and relationships.
Here, resonance is more than sound or image. It is the echo of shared experience, the vibration between collaborators, the harmony that emerges when distinct voices meet in empathy and curiosity. Through visual, lyrical, and musical forms, we explore how art becomes research—not by stepping away from creativity, but by stepping deeper into it.
Resonance is about community. It is about noticing—how our practices, though different in form, pulse with similar rhythms. It is about dialogue—how we listen, respond, and grow through each other’s insights. And it is about multivocality—how research can be plural, poetic, and profoundly human.
As early career researchers, we invite you into this space of inquiry and imagination. A space where art is not only made, but understood as a way of knowing. A space where resonance is not just heard, but felt.
June 2025 … Jodie Sanders (Work in Progress Update)
“An Exploration of the effects of XR on Creativity in an Australian Secondary School Context”. This exhibition from M.(Phil) Candidate (Education) Jodie Sanders presents the current progress of a teacher-researcher investigating how Extended Reality (XR) technology impacts creativity in high school design education
No research studies currently exist regarding this phenomenon in a WA secondary school context. One of the key ideas of the mandated WA curriculum is that students be exposed to various technologies and techniques to facilitate creative problem-solving (SCSA, n.d.). Given recent advancements in XR, which have made this technology viable and widespread in the creative industries, this technology aligns directly with this idea, making this a timely and useful study.
Using the mixed-methods methodology (in an embedded multiple-case design) (Yin, 2009), the data collected will consist of semi-structured interviews, a questionnaire and scored artifacts produced by students and teachers to provide a rich and insightful overview of XR intervention in the classroom. This study will be important to educators interested in practical information about incorporating XR in the classroom and those seeking information on XR’s benefits in terms of creativity.
April 2025 … Tanya Carcione (M2 Survey)
Visit our HDR Arts-based Projects and Resources page for more information on Tanya’s M2 and work with CALD students in visual arts settings
March 2025 … Fran Sullivan
December 2024 – Book Launch:
Shaping the Space: Teaching the Arts in Lower Secondary Years.
Lisa Paris/Curtin, Christina Gray/ECU, Geoff Lowe/Curtin, Angela Perry/Curtin and Lara Warwick/Curtin
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November 2024 – Julie Pheasant.
M.Phil Work in Progress: Arts-based Education Research Poster Exhibition
Supervisors Dr Jia White (left) and AP Lisa Paris (right) with Arts-based HDR researcher Julie Pheasant (centre) at the milestone one research poster exhibition.
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September 2024 – Jodie Sanders.
M.Phil Work in Progress: Arts-based Education Research Poster Exhibition
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August 2024 – Naqin Xie.
HDR PhD Work in Progress: Arts-based Education Research Poster Exhibition. Opens 10.30am on 14 August (level 3 of B501) and continues until Fri 13 September 2024
Australian early career teachers (ECTs), including arts teachers (ECATS), are known to benefit from mentoring tailored to meet their needs, especially post COVID 19, at a time when 30-40% of teachers internationally are leaving because of stress. At the same time, collaborative non-hierarchical mentoring has been shown over recent years to reduce stress and attrition rates both here in Australia and further afield. This arts-based education research aims to highlight the transformative potential of tailored mentoring for West Australian ECATs (post covid) by establishing an online peer support group for mentees coupled with one-on-one expert mentoring partnerships. Arts based methods are being employed in the interpreting observations and interviews through art praxis (drawing, painting and photography) because arts works exhibited in the public gallery settings can amplify voices that are otherwise hard to hear (e.g ECATS). The outcome will be a major exhibition of visual artworks with an exegesis.
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June 2024 – Tanya Carcione.
HDR-PhD Work in Progress : Arts-based Education Research Exhibition
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MAY 2024 – Creative Beginnings
Pop Up opens 11am Wed 15/5 and continues til Fri 8th June 2024
The “Creative Beginnings” exhibition presents a survey of work produced by our Curtin University School of Education 2nd year B.Ed Generalist educators in the unit “Visual Media Arts for Primary” which follows on from previous studies in “Performing Arts for Educators”. Together the two units aim to provide a solid foundation for authentic arts education practice in primary years education settings (years 3-6).
The work on show illustrates a range of foundation skills and concepts from the disciplines of drawing, painting, graphic design, printmaking, and ceramics. Students learned how to teach the disciplines by themselves experiencing the challenges and affordances of materials, methods, techniques, and concepts. They were asked to select one work from their visual arts portfolio to contribute to the exhibition.
The exhibition experience serves not only to highlight their practical skills, knowledge and understanding of the artforms, but also to emphasize the importance of exhibitions as a source of kudos (acknowledgement and reward for effort) for their future students in primary schools.
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APRIL … Pop-Up Wed 17/4 til Fri 10/5
“Children on the edge of Things”
An exhibition by Frances Sullivan-Rhodes exploring memory and reflections on the experience of migration, motherhood, finding one’s home, belonging and identity.
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MARCH 2024 Pop Up: Tues 19/3 til Fri 12/4.
WONDERLAND: An exhibition by Julie Fearns-Pheasant: exploring themes of adolescence and identity formation
Chance or Choice: an exhibition of paintings by Julie Fearns-Pheasant. An M.Phil study exploring pubescent pressures and the metaphorical influencers behind a young person’s emotional journey through adolescence, understood through the vehicle/metaphor of ‘Alice’
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Milestone Events
HDR: Tanya Carcione. M.Phil-PhD Conversion Feb 7th 2024
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News and events
An exhibition of paintings by 4 artists including Curtin SoE HDR-PhD student Naqin Xie @ Ellis House 116 Milne St Bayswater opens 3rd March and continues til 17 March 2024