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Associate Professor Paul Uhlmann

Associate Professor

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6221
Email: p.uhlmann@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML5.122  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1715-6218

Paul is an Associate Professor within the School of Arts and Humanities.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, Canberra School of Art.
  • Master of Arts, The Australian National University.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2012.

Research Outputs

2023

Book Chapters

  • Uhlmann, P., Pryor, G. (2023). Love of Process: Intimacy and Attention Within Painting, Life, and Art. Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? (109-122). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26055-1_10.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P., Hamilton, A. (2023). Encounters: Things like this Happen at Sea. [Paintings, artists books, text and image and objects]. Nyisztor Studio.
  • Uhlmann, C., Uhlmann, P. (2023). Useless Tune. [Children's Picture Book]. Walker Books, Available: 4th April 2023. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/2628.

2022

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2022). Continent of Smoke (series). Sydney Contemporary 2022, Carriageworks. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/2837.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2022). Images of Impermanence: 1.Resistance! Paintings as Provisional Realities (group exhibition) 2. Of Ghosts and Angels (group exhibition) 3. Mandorla Art Award (finalist) 4. Impact 12 International Printmaking Conference Exhibitions (Edge of Infinity). 1. M-16, Canberra 2.Art Collective WA, Perth 3.Holmes à Court Gallery, St John of God Subiaco, New Norcia Museum and Gallery and St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth 4.Bristol University, U.K..

2021

Journal Articles

2020

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2020). Land of Smoke. [solo exhibition]. Art Collective WA, Perth Western Australia. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/10108.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2020). Sea: The world is large. And Air: Silently Birds fly through us. [artist's books]. KE Art Gallery Museum Shanghai, China.

2019

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2019). fragment I (Indian Ocean); fragment II (Indian Ocean); fragment III (Indian Ocean, ghosts). [printmaking]. Centro de Arte Faro Cabo Mayor, Santander, Spain. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/9268.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2019). the day I left this earth. [artist's book]. North Metropolitan TAFE, Perth, Western Australia.

2018

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2018). Torrentius: Enigmatic Painter of Darkness. Batavia Giving Voice to the Voiceless. University of Western Australia.
  • Uhlmann, P., Polain, M., Wallace, V. (2018). LORCA (fragments), LORCA (fragmentos). Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, Spain.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2018). “I fired a musket between the two…” 29th April 1770, Sting Ray Harbour (Botany Bay) Cook’s Journal. [Painting]. Albany Town Hall.

2017

Conference Publications

  • Adams, L., Barstow, C., Uhlmann, P. (2017). What is ERA really measuring?. ACUADS 2016: Adaptation (12p.). ACUADS.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2017). Reverberations: painting and impermanence. Art Collective WA.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2017). Batavia: Giving Voice to the Voiceless. Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

2016

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2016). Apparition series (I-VI) and Deluge series (I-IV). G3 Artspace Parkdale.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2016). Veronica’s veil. Wesley Uniting Church, Perth.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2016). Small room to observe the heavens (camera obscura). La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo.
  • Duxbury, L., Uhlmann, P. (2016). Breathing Hemispheres (Skies 66.1100°N, 18.5300°W + 32.0569°S, 115.7439°E). Blindside, Melbourne, Victoria.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2016). Siev Bremen – Letter to the sea. Western Australian Maritime Museum.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2016). Breathe: eternal life. Linton and Kay Galleries, Perth.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2016). Strata series (I-III). Yunus Emre Cultural Center – Çetin Emeç Art Gallery, Bakırköy, İstanbul, Turkey.

2015

Conference Publications

  • Uhlmann, P. (2015). Embodied Meaning and the Creative Process: New Meanings Arising Within Materiality and Artists’ Books in the Post Print Age of the 21st Century. IMPACT 9 Printmaking in the Post-Print Age: Critical and Creative Methods in the context of Contemporary Art and Society (375-381). China Academy of Art Press.
  • Uhlmann, P., Barstow, C. (2015). Embodied Learning: Towards new models for engaging with art within the University. Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Conference 2014: The Future of the Discipline (12p.). Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Polain, M., Uhlmann, P., Day, P. (2015). untitled (artist's book at Impact 9). fold.
  • Polain, M., Uhlmann, P. (2015). cloud stutter. fold.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2015). (a letter in fragments) by Arthur Rimbaud To Paul Demeny Charleville, 15th May 1871. Gallery East & Gallery Central (Central Institute of Technology) Perth..
  • Uhlmann, P. (2015). Gallipoli Sky. Fremantle Arts Centre.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2015). Letter to the sky: (open letter to Australia from Manus Island Detainees). M16 Artspace, Canberra.

2014

Conference Publications

  • Uhlmann, P. (2014). Spinoza, the philosopher craftsman: understanding the world through painting and process. Embodied Aesthetics: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind (129-148). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004281516_010.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2014). Skull. Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA.
  • Uhlmann, P., Polain, M., Pedersen, F. (2014). Conversations with ghosts. Spectrum Project Space.
  • Allerding, A., Uhlmann, P., Zhu, D. (2014). Translations of Space - Catalogue Design and production. Spectrum Project Space ECU.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2014). endless night (great knot). Spectrum Project Space.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2014). Writing the Landscape: Philosophy in Action in the Calligraphic Ink Paintings of Xu Shanxun. Imprint Volume 49, Issue 2. Print Council of Australia.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2014). I want to see things that are above. Mundaring Arts Centre.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2014). Giving Form to the Image: Translating Space Within Creative Practice. Translations of Space Catalogue. Edith Cowan University.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2014). 7 collages towards a painting. Spectrum Project Space.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2014). Air, Small cloud, Turbulence and Respire I and II. Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2014). Wing, Small Green World and Respire IV. Spectrum Project Space.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2014). afterimage I and afterimage II. Neo: gallery 22, Bolton UK.

2013

Conference Publications

  • Uhlmann, P. (2013). Becoming Imperceptible: Drawing as a Way of Understanding Interconnectedness with All Living Beings. Intersections and Counterpoints: Proceedings of Impact 7, an International Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Conference (476-480). Monash University.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2013). Nackt I, II, and III. Lyuben Karavelov Regional Library, Rousse, Bulgaria.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2013). Air. Art Gallery University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2013). Rückenfigur – images from Berlin, Shanghai and Margaret River (series 2013). Breathing Space, Library Gallery, ECU.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2013). View from the edge of Centre. Albany Art Prize 2013. Vancouver Arts Centre.
  • Uhlmann, P., Starcken, S. (2013). Becoming Pure Potential – the ECU Collection. Becoming Catalogue. Art Gallery University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2013). Becoming Platypus: Evolution and the Creative Process. Becoming Catalogue. University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2013). Spinoza: A Letter in Fragments – Letter XV (XXXII). Artspace Mackay.

2012

Conference Publications

  • Uhlmann, P. (2012). To see the world clearly: - painting, the camera obscura and the lens of Spinoza. Proceedings of ACUADS 2011 Annual Conference: creativity: brain, mind, body (9). Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2012). room for you (to trace). Lake Macquarie Art Gallery.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2012). The Jimmy Pike Trust: reflections on the imperceptible transference of knowledge. Imprint Volume 47 Number 1. Print Council of Australia.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2012). Pulse (2006). Art Gallery of Western Australia.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2012). To Trace known and unknown worlds: mapping the work of Heinrich Bunting, Susanna Castleden and Bevan Honey. Imprint Volume 47 Number 4. Print Council of Australia.

2011

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2011). Cupola (Global Echo). ECU Spectrum Project Space, Mt Lawley.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2011). Sky I ; Sky II ; Sky III. Helen Maxwell Gallery at M16 Artspace, Griffith, ACT.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2011). Cupola 25th April 2011 9.00:40 AM. Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2011). Cupola 2nd October, 2010, 8.00.47am. C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2011). Cupola (Fair & Square). Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2011). Membrane I, Membrane II and Membrane III. Meou Art, Shanghai, China.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2011). Dialogues with Landscape. Artlink Indigenous Volume 31 Number 2 p. 150. Artlink.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2011). Oculus Series. RMIT University, Melbourne.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2011). Camera obscura, 28th April 2011, 402:27PM. Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2011). Global Echo. ECU Spectrum Project Space, Mt Lawley.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2011). Thinking Print. Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle.

2010

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2010). Paul Uhlmann: Becoming Imperceptible - Art Exhibition. Goethe-Institut Australia, Sydney.

2009

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2009). to hear the language of birds. Kathleen O’Connor Gallery, Garden Studio & Adjoining Grounds.

2007

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2007). Paul Uhlmann: Without Words. Gallery East, North Fremantle.

2006

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2006). Without words. Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2006). Pulse. TwarraWarra Museum of Art.

2005

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2005). Print Matters, 30 years of the Shell Fremantle Print Award - one of 10 artists invited to exhibit. Fremantle Arts Centre.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2005). Voices from the land, sea and sky - solo show. Gallery East.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2005). (Breathless). PICA, Central Space.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2005). (exhale). PICA.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2005). Mirage 2005. Art Gallery of WA.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2005). Bookscapes - exploring contemporary Aust artists' books - invited. Port Jackson Press Print Room, Vic.

2004

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2004). Breathe VII, 2004. Royal Exhibition Building, Gallery East, Stand 45, Melbourne, VIC.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2004). Breathe I. PICA, Perth.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2004). Amnesia: Images of the invisible - solo exhibition. Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2004). A Thousand Absences, 2003. Laurence Wilson Gallery, UWA.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2004). Finsternis, 1991. Art Gallery of NSW.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2004). Breathe, 2004. Gallery East, PICA, Perth.

2003

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2003). Dark Planets (I). Gallery East.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2003). Landforms, oil on canvas. Lakeside Joondalup Shopping City.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2003). Islands of Sleep - solo exhibition. Gallery East, North Fremantle.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2003). here, in passing. Church Gallery.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2003). Landform I, Landform II, Landform III. Gallery East, North Fremantle.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2003). Presence - solo exhibition, prints and drawings. Byte Gallery, Perth.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2003). Blurr (Homage to Corot). Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Fremantle.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2003). Speak, Memory, 2003. PICA.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2003). Everything Beautiful is Indeterminate. Fremantle Arts Centre.

2001

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P. (2001). Translations.
  • Uhlmann, P. (2001). Infinite Turbulence.

Research Projects

  • Mobilising Dutch East India Company collections for new global stories , Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Projects), 2023 ‑ 2026, $26,252.
  • Art in the Field Film Pilot Project: Inspiring problem solving through art for deployed personnel in military environments, Military Art Program Australia, Grant, 2019 ‑ 2021, $4,918.
  • Batavia Wreck Project: Illuminating the Human Story of Historic Migration to Australia through the Creative Processes of Science and Art, Edith Cowan University, ECU Collaboration Enhancement Scheme - 2016 Round 1, 2016 ‑ 2017, $8,500.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, 'Dreams, illusion, bubbles and shadows': The temporality of objects within Buddhist perception

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Master of Arts by Research, I walk to see, I walk to know: Walking to Wongawol
  • Doctor of Philosophy, New Australian plants and animals. An exhibition. - and - physiology, phenomenology and photography: Picturing the indeterminate within an Australian art practice. an exegesis.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Repositioning the Denkbild: A painting investigation into deaths in custody in 21st century Australia.

Associate Supervisor

  • Master of Arts by Research, Defence D'afficher. An exhibition. -and- from snap-shot photography to digital printmaking via the concept of the flâneur. An exegesis.
  • Master of Arts by Research, The material forms of memory: A creative arts praxis examining family archive materiality and the performance of memory through installation art
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Retrotopia. An exhibition -and- Mashup and expanded painting: A lens on liquid consumerism. An exegesis.
  • Master of Arts by Research, Towards an Embodied Photographic Practice. An Exegesis -and- Disruptive Immersion. An Exhibition
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Imperceptible realities (an exhibition) -and- digitalisation: Re-imaging the real beyond notions of the original and the copy in contemporary printmaking (an exegesis)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, "Wonderfully ordinary" words from a romantic archive of Elizabeth Jolley's writing for students: Creative process as a garland of fragments
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