Dr Stephen Garrett - Researcher Profile

Biography

Stephen Garrett is the Studio and Program Coordinator for Drawing and the Deputy Associate Dean and Program Coordinator, Graduate Studies.

Stephen's PhD and subsequent research engages with material and spatial interventions, video projects and drawing which have been exhibited in internationally and nationally. Stephen's research and other texts on art have been published internationally and in national journals and galleries.  Recent exhibitions have included The Missing (with Cate Consandine) Conical 2011; Structure for Brooklyn, Columbia Place Brooklyn, 2011; After The Gold Rush, Melbourne International Arts Festival 2009 and Gold Rush (with Marie Jeanne Hoffner), Espace Art Contemporain, France 2009. He has published writings in “Creating Elsewhere” in Back to the City. Strategies for Informal Urban Interventions, edited by Steffen Lehmann, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009; [re]Making the World: Drawing Space and Time, CIHA 32nd International Art History Conference Crossing Cultures, Post Graduate Poster Session, ‘Migrating Voices’, The University of Melbourne 2008; The Sad, the Mad and the Blind, British Comparative Literature Association XI International Conference, Folly, Goldsmiths College London, July 2007.  He is currently working on an exhibition at Margaret Lawrence Gallery as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2012. 

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2009

Publications

Book Chapters

Garrett, S., 2009, Creating Elsewhere, in Back to the City: Strategies for Informal Urban Interventions Collaboration Between Artists and Architects, eds Steffen Lehmann, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, pp. 64-69.

Other

Garrett, S.F., 2012, "Waterline" and "Desert Island", Video, Neon, Sculpture, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, VIC, Australia.

Garrett, S.F., 2012, Caroline Durre: reforming the earth, Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly [P], vol journal, issue 1, Artlink Australia, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 54-55.

Garrett, S.F., 2012, Structure (The Poverty Gully Project), Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 11 October 2012 - 10 November 2012.

Consandine, C., Garrett, S., 2011, The Missing, Sculptural installation, Conical, Fitzroy, Victoria.

Garrett, S., 2011, What came before, Watercolour and pencil, Death Be Kind, Melbourne.

Hoffner, M., Garrett, S., 2009, Gold Rush, Espace Art Contemporain, Espace Art Contemporain, La Rochelle, France, 26 June to 22 August 2009.

Garrett, S., Hoffner, M., 2009, Invented archaeology: after the gold rush, Chapter for critical reader to accompany the visual arts and design program of Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts Limited, Melbourne, Vic, pp. 48-51.

Garrett, S., 2009, Measure for measure: fragments from other work.

Richardson, M., Garrett, S., Elliott, S.L., Disler, S.B., Martin, H., Marich, G., Rigby, T., 2008, Untitled, WEST SPACE inc., WEST SPACE, Melbourne, Vic, 7 November.

Garrett, S., 2006, Blueprint 1:1 (Gallery Floor), Alliance Francaise Gallery, Alliance Francaise de Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, 5 October 2006 to 31 October 2006.

Bell, C.E., Garrett, S., 2005, The Raw and the Cooked, Blindside, Monash Univeristy, Melbourne, Vic, Australia, 17 November 2005 - 03 December 2005.

Garrett, S., 2004, Experiment for better living No. 4, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia, 20/11/04 - 16/01/05.

Wise, C.J.E., Wollmering, D., Garrett, S., 2004, Practice in Progress, Counihan Gallery In Brunswick, 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick, VIC, 10 September 2004 to 3 October 2004.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Joint), Nicholson, T (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Absence is of the Essence of Presence.

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Adapting to disability in fine art.

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Contemporary flaneur discourse and an exploration of non-sites..

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Evocative installations: Durational relationships between sound sand photography.

Supervisors:

Dziekan, V (Joint-co), Garrett, S (Joint).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

How to articulate the inarticulatable?: Constructions of faith through failure and doubt.

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Curator's Desk: A studio project that explores the role of museums in art production through a series of installations that document the processes behind planning a fictional art museum.

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The aesthetics of olfaction in visual art.

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Temp).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Bird, T.

Program of Study:

Personal Best. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Main).

Student:

Cloke, O.

Program of Study:

The Dialogic Turn: how communication and collaborative modeling can enhance the educational turn.. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Main).

Student:

Makgill, P.

Program of Study:

Fabricated Environments: a studio investigation into sculptural material, space and encounter. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Main).

Student:

Manik, G.

Program of Study:

The mirror as actual and metaphorical tool to reflect and distort representation.. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Main).

Student:

Mcdonald, M.

Program of Study:

Widow's Weeds: Performing Absence Through Material Gestures. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Garrett, S (Main).