As the result of a faculty reorganization at Queensland University of Technology, the School of Design will join the Creative Industries faculty. Visual Arts will revert once again to a stand-alone discipline. In other news from QUT, Mark Pennings has conducted a series of very successful seminars at GOMA to coincide with the exhibition, C21st.
A new research grouping, Urban Modernities, has commenced at QUT combining design, social theory and arts research. A former version of this research group will soon publish its first research project, “Sweat: The Subtropical Imaginary.”
At the University of Queensland Professor Anne Marsh, Director, Art Theory Program and Associate Dean Research, Monash University, will deliver the 2011 Daphne Mayo Lecture on Wednesday 24 August.
A number of new appointments have been made at Queensland College of Art Griffith University. Dr Maura Reilly has been appointed as the first Professor of Art Theory. Maura has held senior administrative museum positions in New York City, and from 2003 to 2008, as founding curator of the Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, she co- curated (with Linda Nochlin) the critically acclaimed ‘Global Feminisms’. Dr Anne Kirker has been appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at QCA. Anne has worked in leading public art galleries in New Zealand and Australia. She is a writer and exhibition curator and an expert on Australian and International prints, drawings and photographs. Professor Tony Fry has also been appointed to head QCA’s Master of Design Futures. Tony’s long-term engagement in Design history and theory is well known to the academic community. He is currently also engaged in international projects with communities in East Timor.
The QCA has opened a Postgraduate Gallery in the central suburb of Wooloongabba. The POP gallery is designed for exhibiting and examining Postgraduate students from QCA and also provides a space for collaborations between students and other artists associated with QCA.The IMA in association with QCA Gold Coast is alsoopening a Pop-Up Space at Circle on Cavill, Surfers Paradise. IMA Surfers will present four shows over four months, starting with Damiano Bertoli’s Continuous Moment: Anxiety Villa.
Rosemary Hawker