HDR Research Poster Exhibitions and Staff Creative Practice
(Reception Area, 3rd Floor, Building 501 Curtin Bentley Campus
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