2009 Visiting Research Fellows
Associate Professor Kim Dickey
Kim Dickey is a US based artist. Her current work involves the reinterpretation of the ceramic tradition of Bocage. She combines the excessive delicacy of porcelaineous flora with the austere and monumentality of a modernist aesthetic. She has shown at Garth Clark gallery in New York as well as Mass. MOCA, the Everson Museum (Syracuse) and the American Craft Museum. She is currently Associate Professor of Ceramics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dickey was awarded a BFA in 1986 from Rhode Island School of Design, followed by an MFA from Alfred University in 1988. Her teaching and research interests include Ceramics, Sculpture, Painting, Performance art, mixed media and post-medium theory, Installation art, film and video, culinary and food history, wunderkammern, botany. For more go here.
During the Fellowship, that was hosted by the Ceramics studio, Kim presented the keynote address on Monday 20 July 2009 at the Australian Ceramics Triennale 09, titled ‘The Earth and the Earthly’.
From 17 July – 8 August 2009 Dickey exhibited at Tin Sheds gallery as part of the group show Earth to Form: sculpture in clay and mixed media.
Dr Damian Skinner
Dr Skinner’s current focus is completing, with Dr Kevin Murray, a significant publication concerned with contemporary jewellery in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The aim of the book is to both provide an archive of information about therecent history of contemporary jewellery in facts and images, and engage jewellery in a broader argument about sense of place.
The Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) Visiting Research Fellowship enabled Dr Skinner to undertake sustained research into the history and stories of Australian contemporary jewellery.
Dr Skinner undertook the Fellowship in the Jewellery & Object Design studio. Dr Skinner's curatorial work, Lisa Walker: Unwearable, a survey exhibition of New Zealander Lisa Walker’s work from the last 15 years, was on view at SCA Galleries in conjunction with Sydney Design 2009.
Walker is one of Aotearoa’s most respected and successful jewellers. Living in Munich, Germany, for the last nine years, she has established a critical reputation within the European contemporary jewellery world. Having graduated from the Munich Academy under the guidance of Otto Künzli, Walker represents one of the more interesting jewellers working today and this exhibition will be the first opportunity for Australian audiences to view her work in such a concentrated way.
In 2006 Dr Skinner was awarded a PhD in Art History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and in 2008 Dr Skinner completed a Masters of Indigenous Studies with distinction at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
A writer and curator, Dr Skinner’s recent curatorial projects include 1839 Exchanges: Jewellery by Jason Hall, Craft Victoria, Melbourne; Metaphysical Heart: Jewellery by Peter McKay, CoCA, Christchurch; and Given: Jewellery by Warwick Freeman, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam.
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