Thesis for the degree of Master of Arts

This project examines how the moving image can be used as a vehicle of memory, to express what is lost, what is gained and what changes occur in relation to personal family migratory history—a messy and ambiguous process. This practice-led research project investigates video work, using filmed materials and objects, to focus attention on the non-linear aspect of time as it is subjected to individual and collective memories. The outcomes highlight the sometimes disconnecting and unpredictable experiences of migration, storytelling, and memory.

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The purpose of the research project "Thesis for the degree of Master of Arts: Analysis of Professional Practice of Being an Indigenous Cultural Awareness Trainer" has been to gain a deeper awareness of the practice of Cultural Awareness Training and to develop resources that will support other practitioners in the field.

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The research for this project seeks a deeper understanding of transitional objects during any stage of life. This research contributes to the fields of fine art, memory and psychology. Further inquiries for personal and psychoanalytical research may assist in understanding the potential of this research and its application for adults. Developing areas such as art therapy and the psychological support that extrapolates on an infant’s recognised use of a transitional object.

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This research project investigates the influence of decoration and decorating on a fashion design practice, exploring the transformative effects of both in relation to surface and structure. Decoration is considered an after-effect, an element that can be differentiated from the object it adheres to, sometimes making it superfluous to the object’s function. In this project I consider decoration as having its own function – the ability, through its link to the ‘exterior’ world, to transform the shape, appearance and materials of forms by modifying their façade.

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This research project will investigate how combining systems of tessellation1 , modularity2 and seriality3 can be utilised with a specific method of paper staining to explore visual pathways within an artwork. A serial system4 of modular tessellation will be implemented, whereby different “sets” of oil-and-pigment soaked paper modules will be constructed and formed into various configurations.

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The thesis is a hermeneutic study: it wants to interpret ugliness in fashion. In exposing the mechanics of fashion, in revealing the seams as it were of those traditional drivers of fashion – beauty and glamour – we see the destruction of the illusion of fashion and an unknotting of many of the certainties around how and why we dress the way we do. Thus dressing poor represents a willful instability in its relationship to beauty and offers an alternative way to think through the history of fashion.

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This research is located spatially and conceptually within site-specific arts practice. There is a rich history here that began with the awakening of artists and institutions in the 1960s to the importance of the conditions of site (Kraus 1977). Here, the critical relationship between artist and their subject spaces set a challenge to how we engage with the environments in which we work and live.

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This thesis is intended to give a sustained insight into the creative output, aims and motivations of Karl Lagerfeld, the contemporary French fashion designer. This investigation and cultural and artistic analysis will, of necessity, traverse many areas of inquiry and will tend to freely cross traditional and academic boundaries of thought and ideas. This is considered not only desirable, but essential, to give fuller credence to the various phenomena of the Lagerfeld empire.

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Surface resonance is a sound and tactile sensation research project. Through compositions and an installation, author focused on felt and heard vibration, how they are perceived and how they contribute to the experience of sound. The author this paper explored vibration as a product of low frequency (bass) sound, drawing inspiration from musical contexts where sensation from sound is emphasised.

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The thesis "Signs of mid - life: Images from the contemporary Australian mid-life male psyche" investigates images from the contemporary Australian mid-life psyche, exploring the contribution to individual transformation made through the creation of, and reflective engagement with, personal imagery.

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The objective of the project was to portray memories of the Millennium Drought period through the development of artworks and this was initially undertaken with a photoshoot in January 2014. The project marries fine art methodologies with digital media and contributes to contemporary art practices that re-imagine the ways that weather can impact the environment and inhabitants living on the land. The artworks created are overall a documentation of my stories and memories from North East Victoria.

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