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Dr Nicola Kaye

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6628
Email: n.kaye@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML5.119  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2432-2584

Nicola is a Lecturer within the School of Arts and Humanities.

Current teaching

  • SAH1250 - Storytelling and Meaning
  • VIS2130 - Spatial Studio

Background

Dr Nicola Kaye is a visual artist, and Deputy Lead of the Research Centre Arts, Communications, Design and Culture, and Deputy Director of ECU Galleries in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia.

Nicola collaborates with Stephen Terry in interactive digital video and were awarded the inaugural J.S. Battye Creative Research Fellowship at the State Library of WA where the work was exhibited, it was showcased at the Australian Heritage Festival, and exhibited in Shanghai. They were the inaugural Parliament of WA and ECU residency artists, where their work is on permanent display. They were awarded Research Associates at the Maritime History Museum, WA where they forged a collaboration with the McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland.

Nicola has a number of publications and her research has been presented at conferences in Singapore, the UK and Australia.

Professional associations

  • Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) - I am on the organising committee for the ACUADS 2022 conference
  • National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
  • ArtsHub

Qualifications

  • MA (Visual Arts), Edith Cowan University.
  • Doctor of Philosophy in fine Art, The University of New South Wales, 2009.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

2023

Conference Publications

  • Kaye, N., Adams, L. (2023). Future programming: Gallery learnings through pandemic times. Future programming: Gallery learnings through pandemic times (13). Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools.

2021

Creative Arts Research Outputs

2019

Conference Publications

2017

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Kaye, N., Terry, S. (2017). Tableau Vivant and the Unobserved. State Library of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

2016

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Kaye, N., Terry, S. (2016). Interlace: amendment. WA Parliament House atrium and Gallery 25 (2017).

2013

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Kaye, N., Terry, S. (2013). From a doll’s house. Art Gallery of University of Shangai for Science and Technology.

2011

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Kaye, N., Terry, S. (2011). Interactive exhibition....from a passenger list.

2010

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Kaye, N., Terry, S. (2010). Fixtures and Fittings of Distinction 2.

2009

Books

  • Kaye, N. (2009). Physical/Virtual Sites: Using Creative Practice to Develop Alternative Communicative Spaces. VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.

Book Chapters

  • Kaye, N. (2009). Online/offline public spheres: the influence of newest social movements on creative praxis and the institution. Subjectivity, Creativity, and the Institution (73-86). Brown Walker Press.

Journal Articles

  • Medley, S., Kaye, N. (2009). Figures: a social application of infographics. visual:design:scholarship, 4(1), 78-90.

Conference Publications

  • Kaye, N. (2009). Online/offline public spheres: the influence of newest social movements and creative praxis and the institution. Subjectivity, Creativity and the Institution (73-86). Brown Walker Press.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Kaye, N. (2009). You are here: spill, the insistent body - Caitlin Yardley. Artlink Volume 29 #2.

2008

Conference Publications

  • Medley, S., Kaye, N. (2008). Figures: The Social In The Visual - A Context Centred Graphical News Magazine. ACUADS 2008 Conference: Sites of activity /On the edge (online). UniSA Press.

2007

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Kaye, N. (2007). Representations of the Real.
  • Allerding, A., Barstow, C., Blank, J., Crouch, C., Kaye, N. (2007). Identities/Hybridities. Spectrum Project Space.
  • Kaye, N. (2007). Physical/Virtual. Sun Yat Sen University Guangzhou China.
  • Kaye, N., Terry, S. (2007). Bypass: what is an opera without an audience?.
  • Kaye, N. (2007). The visceral and the fluid: a reconfiguration Catalogue essay. Caitlin Yardley: I am nature. ECU.

2006

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Kaye, N., Terry, S. (2006). Bypass (2006).

2005

Conference Publications

  • Crouch, C., Kaye, N. (2005). Creativity and social capital through digital technologies in the Kwinana senior community. Publication of the Conference Papers ACUADS 2005 (0). The Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools.

2004

Book Chapters

  • Crouch, C., Chan, D., Kaye, N. (2004). Transforming the study of visual culture: Postcolonial theory and the ethically reflexive student. Disrupting preconceptions: Postcolonialism and education (77-89). Post Pressed.

2002

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Kaye, N. (2002). Façade and Histories.

2001

Journal Articles

  • Crouch, C., Chan, D., Kaye, N. (2001). The ethically reflexive student and the study of visual culture. Australian Art Education, 24, 4-9.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Chinese gardens: A locus of ideas, a study of slippage and discrepancy
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The junksaw puzzle: A documentary film examining anthropocosmic and anthropocentric responses towards the illegal dumping of waste and the environment

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Generous curatorial practices and artist literacies in art galleries: multigenerational participatory exhibitions as sites of emergence, connection and social change.

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Contemporary kitsch: An examination through creative practice
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Examining tacit exchange, embedded within socially shared hand-stitching practices, with the Shipibo artists of Peru
  • Master of Arts by Research, Towards an Embodied Photographic Practice. An Exegesis -and- Disruptive Immersion. An Exhibition
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The transience of the interior self: Exploring the lost real within a creative visual praxis.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Meaningful encounters: Creating a multi-method site for interacting with nonhuman life through bioarts praxis
  • Master of Arts by Research, Down the Rabbit Hole. An exhibition -and- Alice in Wonderland engaging with the reflexive project of the self. An exegesis.
  • Master of Arts by Research, Finding comfort in an unmade bed. An exhibition -and- A phenomenological investigation into the elevation of the everyday: An embodied engagement through cloth and the quotidian. An exegesis

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Master of Arts (Creative Arts), Signing off on the state.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Print to pixel: How can the cultural implications of mediated images and text be examined using creative practice?
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Aggregate. An Exhibition -and- Event, Sensation and Figurative Painting. An exegesis
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The ontology of the closet

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, A study of walking and walkability through a spatial justice/spatial practice framework, in Maylands, Western Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The dialectics of textile hand production: In search of poetic content: an enquiry into the position of the traditional textile crafts
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Late capitalism and the American doctrine: Photographing American tragedy
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Re-presenting gender fluid identity in a contemporary arts practice.

Co-ordinating Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Meeting place. An exhibition - and - locating the country: An Australian bricoleur's inquiry. an exegesis
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