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Dr Ruth Johnstone
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Senior Lecturer |
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Art |
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Contact Details |
+(61 3) 9925 2794 |
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Building: 49 |
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Design & Social Context |
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Image Captions:
Ruth Johnstone, curatorial floor talk for ‘ReVisioning Australia’ for the Belfast Festival, Northern Ireland 2008
Ruth Johnstone ‘Garland’ collaged print
Ruth Johnstone ‘Garland’ collaged prints
Ruth Johnstone ‘Garland’ detail, collaged print
Key Activities
Ruth Johnstone lectures in Printmaking with the School of Art and has been a practicing artist for 26 years, exhibiting widely in Australia and internationally. Ruth has an MA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Research for this project examined the relationship of art to architecture through the implantation of printed historical layers into ephemerally constructed architectural fabric. Her PhD was based on eighteenth-century European print rooms, with a particular focus on the print room and its maker, Lady Louisa Conolly at Castletown, Ireland. The research project examined the cultural conditions that encouraged a nexus between art and architecture and how this might inform contemporary art practice, particularly installation practice. Ruth has been involved with the national print organisation, the Print Council of Australia as a committee member and peer review editorial advisor for Imprint over a period of three decades.
Qualifications
Dip.(Fine Art) 1979; Grad. Dip.(Fine Art) 1982; MA 1993; PhD 2004.
Research
Current research interests are in the area of the relationship of the second to the third dimension using printmedia to examine environmental issues.
School of Art Research Cluster
Art and Environmental Sustainability
Research Outputs
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Exhibitions |
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Refereed/Edited Book Chapters |
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Exhibition Essays |
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Research Supervision
Jazmina Cininas, Ph.D., Senior Supervisor, “The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame; historical and contemporary figurations of the female lycanthrope”
Joy Hirst, Ph.D., Senior Supervisor, “Toponymy: a visual exploration of names associated with place”
Kate James, MA, Second Supervisor, “The World is a Dangerous Place: The Anxious Experience”
Barbara Mau, M.A. Senior Supervisor, “Reclaiming Glover’s Garden”
Beatrice Schlabowsky, Ph.D. “Aqua and the Vessel, a Narrative on Water Phenomenon”
Joyce Spiller, D.F.A. Second supervisor, “ Body Sac: Questioning Stereotyps of Ageing and Beauty in Contemporary Western Culture”
Prue Venebles, Ph.D., Senior Supervisor, “An investigation of commonalities of expression between porcelain and metal when used in combination in the construction of domestic vessels”