Dr Jaye Early
- 2015-18 PhD - Victorian College of the Arts, The University of MelbourneÌý
- 2007-09 MA Studio Art - Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
- 2005-7 MA Art Admin - 91É«ÇéƬ Art & Design, The University of New South Wales
- 1998-2000 BA Art Hist/Theory - 91É«ÇéƬ Art & Design, The University of New South Wales
I am Darug man form the BoorooberongalÌýclan, an artist, and lecturer in the School of Art & Design at the University of New South Wales.ÌýWorking across a number of mediums including live and video-based performance and painting, my work is primarily autobiographical. An intention of my work is to consciously transform my personal dislocations into a visual strategy of self-disclosure. I become my own subject, often using my body as a site for art-making. I am stimulated by exploring the reality in and between what is often not permissible in public spaces and spheres. With a focused interest in the authenticity of suppressed emotions, I am wanting to navigate and respond to the consequences of placing the personal into the public. My practice-based research is informed byÌýFoucauldian philosophical notions of the self, self-design, contemporary confessional discourse, private and private space and spheres, subjectivity, and settler-colonial theory.Ìý
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I currenrly convene and teach:Ìý
Aborioginal and Torres Strat Islander Art (DART 2310- SAHT9210)
Global Contemporary Art (DART3310-SAHT9138)
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
2026 -ÌýWoollahra Council Grants Program 2025-26 ($1,000) ProjectÌýPrivate Experience in Public SpacesÌý
2024 – School of Art & Design Research Output Scheme.
2023 – School of Art & Design Research Output Scheme.
2015 – The Fay Merles Scholarship for IndigenousÌý Graduate Research,ÌýThe University of Melbourne.
Ìý2016 – The Scovell Gardener Family Fund for Indigenous Graduate Students, The University of Melbourne.Ìý
I have been a finalist in a number art awards, including, The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2013/21), The Archibald Prize (2021), The Lester Art Prize (2021), The Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award (2020), The Linden Art Prize (2019), The Sir John Sulman Prize (2018), The Redland Art Award (2016/18, Hornsby Art Prize ( 2016), Derebin Art Prize (2017), Korrie Art Prize (2016), Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize (2016), Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (2013).Ìý
My Research Supervision
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PhD (Current)
Paul Knight,ÌýIntimacy as Interconnectivity: In Pursuit of a Re-aestheticisation of Intimacy’
Past
HonsÌýÌý
Kaitlyn Davison, BA Art and Design (Hons),ÌýEmbodying the Abject: An Exploration of Subjective Body Horror as Autoethical Contemporary Art Practice,ÌýThe UniversityÌý of South AustraliaÌý
Frances Cohen, BA Art and Design (Hons),Clever Title I'll Think of Later: A Videographic Exploration into the miscellany of content on Instagram and how it alters interaction with art on the Platform,ÌýThe UniversityÌý of South AustraliaÌý
Amber Cronin, BA Art and Design (Hons),ÌýSculpture as Ecological ListeningÌý(Joint with Dr Michelle Nikou),ÌýThe UniversityÌý of South AustraliaÌý
Sarah Porter, BA Art and Design (Hons),ÌýChanges: From Military to Civilian through Ceramics, The UniversityÌý of South AustraliaÌý
Isaac Kairouz, Hons,ÌýNaughty boy gets what's comin', Victorian College of the Arts, The University of MelbourneÌý
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My Teaching
DART 2310 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
DART3310 –ÌýGlobal Cotemporary ArtÌý