Centre for Creative and Cultural Research
11 Kirinari Street
Bruce ACT 2617
cccr@canberra.edu.au
Higher Degree by Research enquiries:
artsanddesignhdr@canberra.edu.au
The DHCCF provides funding to recent graduates of the doctoral program who were members of the CCCR at the UC. The fellowship is project-based and aims to assist the fellow to produce a significant work or body of work related to their doctoral research in the period after the awarding of their degrees.
2025 Donald Horne Creative & Cultural Fellow
Building on my own experience as a member of the Defence Force, my fellowship research project will examine the findings of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide (2021–2024) through creative practice. I will do this by conducting art workshops with veterans, collaborating with veterans who have an art practice, and making art that responds to the Commission’s report.
This project supports further development of my previous research into creative responses to Commonwealth Royal Commissions, investigating questions that emerged from my findings. In 2022, I mounted my first solo exhibition in response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. My PhD (2020–2024) expanded this work, exploring how an artistic response to a truth-telling royal commission (the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse), using the logic of a reparative aesthetic, could act as a platform for continuing conversations around issues of social injustice – specifically, child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Australia.
Findings from my PhD led to the question: How do we conduct creative work in collaboration with those whose experiences form the subject of royal commissions? This fellowship project addresses that gap.
Investigation of the Indigenisation of the Tasmanian University
For the last twelve months I have been Indigenising teaching in the Faculty of Business Government and Law, the Faculty of Health and the Faculty of Science and Technology. My approach has been to teach my own Kamilaroi culture as my culture is similar to a majority of First Nations cultures. The Indigenisation has followed my own design and implementation. This involves implementing Indigenous epistemologies, cultural mores, kinship systems and the history of colonisation. In my research I found that the University of Tasmania has written on and implemented the process of Indigenisation: 'Indigenising the Curriculum: Context, Concepts and Case Studies'. My aim in the fellowship is to investigate how the Indigenisation was implemented and enquire how they overcame difficulties.
Centre for Creative and Cultural Research
11 Kirinari Street
Bruce ACT 2617
cccr@canberra.edu.au
Higher Degree by Research enquiries:
artsanddesignhdr@canberra.edu.au
UC acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce campus is situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We also acknowledge all other First Nations Peoples on whose lands we gather.