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2016 | Writing poetry for the Miners of El Cobre |
Penny Harris is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong and teaches into the Visual Arts program. Her creative practice and research is grounded in metal casting and material mimicry. She casts found objects and petrifies them using a lost wax casting process and has adapted a bricolage construction technique to assemble the objects once cast. Her practice is underpinned by an interest in visual poetic narrative including archaeological histories and objects interpreted through cast textiles and found objects as project based wall installation. Penny uses the sculptural objects to construct a fragmented poetic wall story that re-interprets the narrative strategies developed by the postmodern novelists. She exhibits in Canada and Australia.
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2016 | Writing poetry for the Miners of El Cobre |
The major focus of my current research is an exhibition of sculpture. This work is installation-based and works with found and constructed objects and cast bronze found industrial objects. The work is titled "Doubt's Passion" and references a narrative by the German writer Gunter Grass titled "From the Diary of a Snail". The text poetically explores Doubt's search for a cure for melancholia he believes lies with snails. The installation poetically recreates Doubt's work space and plays with the notion of a laboratory which references early medical experiments in the late 19th and early 20th century. I have an interest in a poetic language that can be expressed with objects and defined within a space.
I have an interest in working across disciplines and developing collaborative links with sound artists and have worked on collaborative sound/installation projects, including one with Houston Dunleavy entitled titled "The Laboratory of Sound." The project explores the relationship between sound and objects and the space they hold. The title and project references work by artists working in the early 20th Century with the Russian Avant Garde. I constructed large sculptural objects from industrial refuse and also worked with industrial objects which were cast in bronze.
Degree | Research Title | Advisee | |
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Doctor of Philosophy | Bite Back the Neo Liberal Institution!: Tales of Subversive Monsters and the Institutions of Horror they Haunt | ||
Doctor of Creative Arts | THE BROKENNESS OF THINGS: Longing and Embodied gestures of repair in contemporary art | ||
Master of Philosophy | Contemporary Iranian Artists and Censorship | Ghasri Khouzani, Nasibeh | |
Master of Philosophy -LHA | Sick Planet Theory: A Crip Manifesto for an Imagined Future | Lang, Sam | |
Doctor of Creative Arts | Shout, Silence, Whisper and the Genuine Women's Voice: Mapping a Landscape of Latin American Women's Agency Through Language and Contemporary Arts Practice; an Ekphrasis Perspective. | Braithwaite, Flor |
Post office box 13
Jamberoo
NSW
2533
Australia
Post office box 13
Jamberoo
NSW
2533
Australia
Year | Title | |
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2016 | Writing poetry for the Miners of El Cobre |
The major focus of my current research is an exhibition of sculpture. This work is installation-based and works with found and constructed objects and cast bronze found industrial objects. The work is titled "Doubt's Passion" and references a narrative by the German writer Gunter Grass titled "From the Diary of a Snail". The text poetically explores Doubt's search for a cure for melancholia he believes lies with snails. The installation poetically recreates Doubt's work space and plays with the notion of a laboratory which references early medical experiments in the late 19th and early 20th century. I have an interest in a poetic language that can be expressed with objects and defined within a space.
I have an interest in working across disciplines and developing collaborative links with sound artists and have worked on collaborative sound/installation projects, including one with Houston Dunleavy entitled titled "The Laboratory of Sound." The project explores the relationship between sound and objects and the space they hold. The title and project references work by artists working in the early 20th Century with the Russian Avant Garde. I constructed large sculptural objects from industrial refuse and also worked with industrial objects which were cast in bronze.
Degree | Research Title | Advisee | |
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Doctor of Philosophy | Bite Back the Neo Liberal Institution!: Tales of Subversive Monsters and the Institutions of Horror they Haunt | ||
Doctor of Creative Arts | THE BROKENNESS OF THINGS: Longing and Embodied gestures of repair in contemporary art | ||
Master of Philosophy | Contemporary Iranian Artists and Censorship | Ghasri Khouzani, Nasibeh | |
Master of Philosophy -LHA | Sick Planet Theory: A Crip Manifesto for an Imagined Future | Lang, Sam | |
Doctor of Creative Arts | Shout, Silence, Whisper and the Genuine Women's Voice: Mapping a Landscape of Latin American Women's Agency Through Language and Contemporary Arts Practice; an Ekphrasis Perspective. | Braithwaite, Flor |
Post office box 13
Jamberoo
NSW
2533
Australia
Post office box 13
Jamberoo
NSW
2533
Australia