Postgraduate Research Conference
Term 3 | 20 - 23 October 2026
This conference showcases the work of candidates enrolled in our Higher Degree Research (HDR) programs.聽 聽
The HDR Conference showcases the work of candidates enrolled in Higher Degree Research (HDR) programs at 91色情片 School of Art & Design. 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 20 鈥� 23 October 2026, the three-day conference is complemented by a program of ancillary events.聽
View the conference program for full details, including presentation abstracts, location information and registration information.
Program
Tuesday 20 October
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Location: Face-to-face only: AG01 (Ground floor, Block A)
Chair: Diana Baker Smith
Panel Member: Scott East
Presentations
- Chenxi Zhang (PhD), 鈥楺ueering the Dragon Lady: Meaning-Making of the Encounter鈥�. Supervisors: Rebecca Green, Shuxia Chen, Kerryn Drysdale.
- June Acido Miskell (PhD), 鈥楢rchipelagic Imaginaries: Contemporary Filipino/x Australian Art鈥�. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Andrew Brooks, Shuxia Chen.
- Henry Wolff (MFA), 鈥楥utting both ways鈥�. Supervisors: Ed Scheer, Prue Gibson, Grant Stevens.
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Location: Face-to-face only: A101 (Level 1, Block A)
Chair: Rochelle Haley
Panel Member: Andrew Yip
Presentations
- Jacquie Meng (MFA), 鈥楽miling through a hundred teeth鈥�. Supervisors: Felicity Fenner, Ramesh Nithiyendran.
- Giles Alexander (PhD), 鈥楩rom devotional aesthetics to musical memory: Reimagining late medieval devotional paintings to investigate and illuminate contemporary forms of secular spiritual connection as experienced through music鈥�. Supervisors: Emma Robertson, Oliver Bown.
- Fiona Macpherson (MFA), 鈥楢 Latent Trace: Post-photographic Painting, Trauma and Haunting in Post-digital Culture鈥�. Supervisors: Tim Gregory, Clare Milledge.
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Location: Face-to-face only: AG01 (Ground floor, Block A)
Chair: Jennifer Biddle
Panel Member: Jaye Early
Presentations
- Shani Black (MPhil), 鈥楳emes as Print: Critical image-macro memes as a form of agitprop print鈥�. Supervisors: Rebecca Green, Scott East.
- Alex Moulis (PhD), 鈥楾he beach as desert: the affective entanglement of patriarchal white sovereignty, the visual archive and land between settler-colonial projects鈥�. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Nicholas Apoifis.
- Gabriel Curtin (PhD), 鈥楪reenwell鈥檚 Chip: commodity form and Marxist literature鈥�. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Tim Gregory.
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Location: Face-to-face only: A101 (Level 1, Block A)
Chair: Grant Stevens
Panel Member: Clare Milledge
Presentations
- Wei Wang (PhD), 鈥楾owards a Spatial Psychoanalysis: Finding the Entrance in the Unconscious Place鈥�. Supervisors: Michael Garbutt, Jill Bennett.
- Mel Deerson (PhD), 鈥榞arden dreams of a garden dreams of a garden dreams of a garden dreams of a鈥�. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Fernando do Campo.
- Xiaochu (Daisy) Dai (PhD), 鈥楤etween Land and Sea: Experiencing the Neo-Sublime through Sydney Mangroves in an Immersive VR Installation鈥�. Supervisors: Rebecca Green, Andrew Yip.
Wednesday 21 October
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Location: Face-to-face only: AG01 (Ground floor, Block A)
Chair: Livia Rezende
Panel Member: Michael Garbutt
Presentations
- Lin Zhou (PhD), 鈥楻e-thinking Contemporary Chinese Peasant Painting in Transcultural Contexts: A Discourse Analytical Approach鈥�. Supervisors: Ian McArthur, Paul Gladston.
- Jiawen Li (PhD), 鈥楢n Analytical Framework for Examining Contemporary Chinese Art in Australian Public Art Institutions鈥�. Supervisors: Shuxia Chen, Lizzie Muller, Olivier Krischer.
- Candice Ng (PhD), 鈥楥ritical and Experimental Design Education in Singapore鈥檚 Neoliberal Developmental State鈥�. Supervisors: Katherine Moline, Scott Brown.
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Location: Face-to-face only: A101 (Level 1, Block A)
Chair: Tim Gregory
Panel Member: Moon Lacroix
Presentations
- Emma Pinsent (PhD), 鈥楶orous material afterlives of an intertidal zone鈥�. Supervisors: David Eastwood, Bianca Hester.
- Lara Merrett (MFA), 鈥楬ow can a collaborative and situated expanded painting practice with pest-kin generate better-balanced ecological futures?鈥�. Supervisors: Izabela Pluta, Adriana Verges, Fernando do Campo.
- Maya Martin-Westheimer (PhD), 鈥楥urating as a Practice of Place: Toward a Site-Responsive Curatorial Practice鈥�. Supervisors: Prue Gibson, Scott East, Consuelo Cavaniglia.
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Location: Face-to-face only: AG01 (Ground floor, Block A)
Chair: Katherine Moline
Panel Member: Trent Jansen
Presentations
- Lu Forsberg (PhD), 鈥楶ower Play: Alternative Electricity Systems in Contemporary Media Art鈥�. Supervisors: Caleb Kelly, Bianca Hester.
- Benjamin Chevalier (MFA), 鈥楶laying with the Machine: Reverse Engineering Craft Knowledge Through Manual Knitting鈥�. Supervisors: Bic Tieu, Alana Clifton-Cunningham, Alison Gwilt.
- Leah Giblin (MFA), 鈥楧esign for Enduring Use: Translating Attributes of a Long-Loved Garment into a Design Method鈥�. Supervisors: Matthew Harkness, Alison Gwilt, Alana Clifton-Cunningham.
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Location: Face-to-face only: A101 (Level 1, Block A)
Chair: Emma Robertson
Panel Member: Peter Sharp
Presentations
- Linda Marie Bretherton (PhD), 鈥楢ctivating the archival collection: How contemporary artists and curators are driving museum practice change鈥�. Supervisors: Edward Scheer, Felicity Fenner.
- Keroshin Govender (MFA), 鈥楧is-orientation: Deconstructing presentation of 鈥淚ndian鈥� culture in contemporary Australia鈥�. Supervisors: Felicity Fenner, Ramesh Nithiyendran.
- Abby Murray (MFA), 鈥楢 site of negotiation: Feverish visualisations of archival re-encounters鈥�. Supervisors: Fernando do Campo, Izabela Pluta.
Thursday 22 October
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Location: Face-to-face only: AG01 (Ground floor, Block A)
Chair: Zoe Veness
Panel Member: Consuelo Cavaniglia
Presentations
- Suzanne Claridge (PhD), 鈥楢t the edges of the portal: archival incantations and re-envisioning minor history鈥�. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Andrew Brooks, Livia Rezende.
- Marcia Swaby (PhD), 鈥楻eperforming Guanin: Crafting a practice of embodied and materially driven jewellery-making in dialogue with indigenous Caribbean craft legacies鈥�. Supervisors: Bianca Hester, Fernando do Campo.
- Shireen Taweel (PhD), 鈥楿nearthing Repertoire, Heritage Practice and Memory in a body of Postcolonial Speculative Fiction鈥�. Supervisors: Diana Baker Smith, Fernando do Campo.
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Location: Face-to-face only: A101 (Level 1, Block A)
Chair: Caleb Kelly
Panel Member: Jill Bennett
Presentations
- Tom Willma (PhD), 鈥楨xamining Values: Generative AI and the Music Sector鈥�. Supervisors: Oliver Bown, Anna Munster.
- Shaozhi Pi (PhD), 鈥楪overning AI-Generated Game Music in Real Time: A Composer-Centred Music Manager鈥�. Supervisors: Oliver Bown, Adam Hulbert, Michael Bain.
- Zhongyu Jia (PhD), 鈥楧esign Toolkits: Bridging the Communication Gap Between Video Game Players and Non-Players in Family Settings鈥�. Supervisors: Deborah Tillman, Katherine Moline.
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Join artist and MFA candidate Remy Faint for a floor talk about his current exhibition. Meet in 91色情片 Galleries, upstairs foyer.
Request a calendar invitation via the .
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Location: Level 4 Block F, Sherman Postgraduate Studios.
Launch of the inaugural exhibition in the newly renovated installation space F408, with HDR candidates to lead a guided tour featuring spotlight talks.
Request a calendar invitation via the .
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Location: Level 4 Block F, Sherman Postgraduate Studios, 91色情片 Paddington campus (enter via lift at Oxford St end of Block F).
RSVP required by 4pm Monday 19 October for catering purposes via the .
Friday 23 October
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Location: Level 4 Block F, Sherman Postgraduate Studios.
Student-led studio critique session.
Presenters
- Giles Alexander (91色情片 PhD)
- Climbing Pixels (SCA PhD)
- Henry Wolff (91色情片 MFA)
- Liam Sinha (91色情片 Honours)
Header Image:
Abby Murray, Florals and Failures (Iteration 9), 2025-2026.
Oil, acrylic, watercolour, ink and oil stick on re-constituted canvas and found textiles, polyester bows, found silk, disregarded house dresses, found and handwoven rope, brick, thread, hand-built wooden armature from waste wood, June鈥檚 belt, and steel clamps. 160 脳 175 脳 60 cm. Installation view, Black Box, 91色情片 School of Art & Design, Paddington. Photo courtesy the artist.
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