Research Exhibitions

CUTBACK

CUTBACK explores the phenomenal rise of Australian street artists and the tensions between street credibility and gallery recognition.

Dr Rachel Bentley
Music HDR Projects

The poster, "Music HDR projects – creative aims, creative outcomes", showcases the work of five music projects all in the early stages of candidature.

Diana Blom
Luna Yoga - Cosmic Mood Music

Luna Yoga is one of a series of pieces of music exploring the cosmos through reflective mood music.

Diana Blom, Noel Burgess
Munro/Culdesac

Munro is the 13-part digital dramatic series written and directed by Michael Joy, that is a re-working of the material from the ABC series pilot Culdesac.

Noel Burgess
In The Fields

In the Fields is an introspective and solemn piece that began life as a musical accompaniment to an award-winning audio-visual display at the Woodford Academy, telling the story of the schoolboys who enlisted for WWI.

Noel Burgess, Diana Blom
New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal

This visual display draws together themes and insights from the Australian Research Council Discovery Program Grants (DP230101704) New Possibilities Young People and Democratic Renewal.

Michelle Catanzaro, Dinusha Soo, Luigi Di Martino, Pip Collin, Judith Bessant, Rob Watts, Stewart Jackson, Faith Gordon
The Spirits of Tasi Tolu

The Spirits of Tasi Tolu is a documentary investigating the impact of a controversial tourism development in Tasi Tolu, Timor-Leste.

Dr Wendy Chandler, Dr Andrew Sully
Breathing Materiality of Spirit and Being

Bruce Crossman’s music has been shaped by rich exchanges between South Korean and Australian creatives towards seeking the beauty of creativity within the improvised fluidity of designed moments of exchange, towards seeking new hybridities of being for contemporary living.

A/Prof Bruce Crossman, Dr Kate Fagan, Dr Hyelim Kim, Prof Yi Jiyoung, Pedro Velasco
The High Malar

Beauty and the Photograph: How Twentieth Century Photographic Aesthetic Skewed our Sense of Beauty

David Julian Cubby
Here's Looking at You Kid

The photographic installation work, explores the boundary between what is invisible to the human eye but visible to machinic and algorithmic processes in artwork based on image based neural network processing.

Dr Kalika Navin Doloswala
Ed Kuepper’s Honey Steel’s Gold

In September, Bloomsbury published John Encarnação’s book on Ed Kuepper’s 1991 album Honey Steel’s Gold in its 33 1/3 Oceania series. The book combines music criticism, musical analysis, popular music history and Australian cultural history.

John Encarnação
Visualising Empathy: An Alchemist in the Landscape

Visualising Empathy: An Alchemist in the Landscape embodies an intense curiosity as Fahey seeks to find emotional depth between abstracted landscapes, the materiality of cold wax and oil paintings, and evocative full-colour infrared photographs.

Dawne Fahey
Living Laboratories, Research Storytelling and Creative Practice

Partnership pedagogies, cross disciplinary learning, and research. How are these working in practice at WSU?

Maryella Hatfield, Vincent Tay, Dr Leo Robba
Spirit They've Vanished.

Over the last few months a strip of nature along a bike track next to the highway has been chainsawed, and bulldozed. The price of progress to widen the highway to enable cars and trucks to travel in greater numbers through the Blue Mountains. These paintings are a small helpless lament for the loss.

Josh Honeyman
The Ecotone: Visualising Cross-talk of ‘The Gully’ - Deep Listening on Gundungurra Country

The Ecotone: Visualising Cross-talk of 'The Gully' project intricately weaves together colour, form, sound, and motion observed during my visits to 'The Gully,' processing it alongside weather data from the location and time.

Dr Greg Hughes
Sound Skates

Sound Skates immerses participants within a soundscape of skate spaces where audio cues are the dominant sensory inputs which allow the audience appreciate the differences in type, structure, geographic location, and culture.

Dan Johnston
Writing the River: Stories for the Hawkesbury-Nepean

This interdisciplinary project seeks to reorient scales of value for the Hawkesbury-Nepean by developing narratives that speak to our individual experiences and various engagements with the river.

Hannan Lewsley, Jen Dollin, Brittany Vermeulen, Michelle Ryan
Coming Home to Me

This collaborative film brings together academia, advocacy and lived experience to champion young people in foster care.

Rachel Morley, Milissa Deitz, Vincent Tay
What the River Doesn't Say About Itself

Along a river on surrounded by branches and root systems of a mangrove forest, musicians drift on a boat performing music and engaging in eco-acoustical awareness, sensory activation, and perceptual openness as a form of forest therapy.

Dr Daniel Portelli
Insomnia

Insomnia is an auto-ethnographic case study that explores hybrid media's affordance in visualising sleep disorders.

Behrad Rezaei
HCA/HIE VR LiDAR model of The Driftway, Richmond and EucFace Experiments HIE

This interactive VR depicts and interprets 2 x key HIE sites being The Driftway, Richmond, and the EucFace experiments.

Kate Richards, Paul Rymer, Andrew Leahy, Jos Gatto, WSU PX Students 2022
Drawing for Creativity, Confidence & Connections

The Giant Doodle, initiated at Western Sydney University Open Day 2023, began as a fun activity to bring students together. For many of these young individuals the last 3 years was marked by societal upheaval and isolation as substantiated by post-Covid mental health research.

Dr Janet Saunders
Drawing to Heal

Janet’s ongoing drawing research and image-making practices explore the external with the internal using a pencil and stylus to travel across the underlying images, meticulously scanning and scrutinising every contour, seeking, and responding to hidden anomalies.

Dr Janet Saunders
Stop War

Stop war. No truth is proven through war. Peace is the only path to true victory. As Martin Luther King Jr. said: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Reza Taghipour
WeatherState

WeatherState is an ongoing project that critically investigates senses of place within the vast heterotopias of the world oceans.

Dr. Sarah Waterson