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| Name: |
Miss Catherine Gomersall |
| Position: |
PhD practice-led research |
| School(s): |
School of Communications and Arts |
| Res. Group: |
Space, Place, Body and Technology |
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| Email: |
c.gomersall@ecu.edu.au |
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| Research Interests: |
Visual Arts
Consumption
Waste
Fate and Fatalism |
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| Current Projects: |
PhD: 'On Fatalism'
Continuum: Media and Cultural Studies Journal (Photo-Editor) |
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| Previous Projects: |
RECENT PROJECTS
Body Bags: "I am a Trash Bag" (2010) Breathing Space, ECU Library Ground Floor.
WAMI: Kiss My Camera (2009) Museum of Western Australia.
Desire (2009) New Orleans Photography Alliance, USA.
Brooklyn Bags (2008) [solo] Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Windows On William/Artrage Festival (2008) WA.
Cameraless (2008) [co-facilitator] Spectrum Project Space, WA.
Home Is Where My Heart Is. (2008) [mentor] Youth Affairs Council/PropelArts, WA.
Top 40. (2008) Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art, USA.
My Captive. (2008) Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, WA.
Fake It Til U Make It. (2008) [Solo] Spectrum Project Space, WA.
Inhibition. (2007) Spectrum Project Space, WA.
Iris Award. (2007) [student winner] Perth Centre for Photography (PCP), WA.
Videodromo 1.5. (2007) 24Hr Art. Darwin, NT.
Death Lilly: Performing the ‘flower girl’ role in the age of consumption.[solo] (2006) ECU, WA.
What is your Nemesis? (2006) Perth Centre of Photography, WA.
Tryst. (2006) Fotofreo Festival, WA.
Videodromo. (2006) Spectrum Project Space, WA.
Inner Landscapes. (2006) [co-curator] PCP, WA.
Warning: May Contain Horror Themes. [curator] Online Exhibition (2005). Launch PCP, WA. |
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| Previous Experience: |
Visual Artist
Freelance Photographer
EDUCATION
Currently completing my Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University
Graduate Certificate of Research Commercialisation (2010) e-Grad School, Queensland University of Technology
Bachelor of Communications Honours (Photomedia), ECU
Diploma of Photography, Southbank Institute of TAFE, Brisbane |
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| Publications: |
"Body Bag: On Brooklyn Bags" in Art(e)fact 'Ordinary to Extraordinary' Iss.3. Summer 2010 '
The Painkillers "Love Cancer" Album Cover Art
COLLECTIONS
Edith Cowan University
Private Collections
CONFERENCE PAPERS
'Virtually Trash: Revenge Tragedy and the Tube', Digital Media Technologies Revisited Conference, Berlin (2009)
‘Plastic Bags: Desire and Excess’, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference (2008)
‘Femme Fatalism and the Fate of the Goddette’, The National Women and Gender Studies Association Conference (2008) |
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| Awards & Recognition: |
Commercialisation Training Scheme (2010)
ECU Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2007)
ANZCA Travel Bursary: Postgraduate Mentoring Workshops, ANZCA annual conference (2009)
ArtsWA Artflight (2008)
Top 40 LACDA Digital Art (2008)
The Iris Award (2007) Student Prize |
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| Creative Practice: |
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE ACTIVITIES
Spectrum Project Space – 14-30 March 2008 and 1-16 December 2007
Governor Stirling High School, WA – Exploring Cameraless Photography workshops 2008, 2010 |
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