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DoctorPenny Harris

Senior Lecturer

School of the Arts, English and Media

BIO

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.

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG APPOINTMENTS

  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, School of the Arts, English and Media, Wollongong, Australia2021 - present

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Creative Arts
    University of Wollongong, Lw, Humanties and Arts2001 - 2001

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (FOR)