Mr Greg Donovan 

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I am a practising artist and lecturer. The works below incorporate digital printing and painting exploring concepts involving sites of fundamental change through critical analysis determining how particular historical and economic conditions for example, produce a culture of homelessness, a dislocation from traditional cultural sites and the evolution of a "homeless state of being."

"The job....is....not to accept the politics of identity as given, but to show how all representations are constructed, for what purpose, by whom, and with what components."

boatpeople (Unknown silence)

Restricted Area

Utopian global map (heavens above)

These following works are part of a developing series exploring notions of whiteness, erasure, transparency, transience and the inherent nature of the cultural gaze linked to the generalized and descriptively meaningless “information age”. Exposing the underlying business of surveillance, a tool in creating distance rather than social intimacy, television monitor as a method of information transmission, collapsing time and space, dislocating and destabilizing reality. In essence: I wish to subvert the media image and in doing so, “break its silence, making it speak and resonate, and transforming its hollowness into an echo chamber for human thought.” (p 27., What do pictures want? The Lives and Loves of Images. Mitchell, W.J.T. The University Chicago Press, USA., 2007.)

White Gaze

White Room

Graduate Diploma and Master of Visual Art and Design Programs

Coordinator: International students

Digital Art Research Experiment (DARE)

• I have been lecturing in the Visual Arts since 1986, including the South Australian School of Art since 1995. I have been employed as Program Director of the SASA postgraduate coursework programs commencing in late 2005, Coordinator of all SASA Drawing Courses including the BVS and BVC programs for 2005, Coordinator of SASA International Students (ISO), 2003-7, Head of Foundation Studies’ 2001- 2 and actively associated with the University of South Australia as a lecturer for the past 15 years. I also lectured in the Bachelor of Education, Secondary Art and Design degree at the University of South Australia from 1995 to 1999.
• At the core of my teaching and art practice is a continual endeavour to develop and provide stimulating learning experiences thus my consistent exploration of innovative and experimental approaches tied to both studio and learning environments.
• As program director, artist and teacher, I actively engage with students and staff both within the context of the UniSA learning and teaching environment as well as beyond the studio by offering advice, support and a model of participatory action. Further, I view teaching as a profession that necessarily involves notions of mentor and is characterised by a methodology marked by cooperation, understanding, compassion, good humour, trust and respect.
• At present I am most interested in further developing the extensive opportunities in research, teaching and applied methodologies with reference to digital and information technologies, experiential learning, industry links and career management.

Member of Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia

Member of Experimental Art Foundation

Master of Visual Arts Degree. 1998.

Bachelor of Education (In-service) Secondary Art and Design. 1999.

Advanced Diploma of Teaching in the field of Art. 1977.

Diploma of Teaching. 1976.

• Studio investigation into archival materials and digital printing procedures, particularly reproduction onto canvas tied to multi-media image development, incorporating painting and photo transfer processes and the relationship between digital image production, photography and painting. The above studio work is underpinned by ongoing research in contemporary notions of "landscape", defined and located within a 'western ' context; in essence 'landscape as a verb rather than a noun', (W.J.T. Mitchell), "an act upon" rather than a "description". Further; to provide an exposition on the sublime and utopian myths encased within such social constructs and to dislocate regional place from the imperial mechanism acting upon the western perspective of space by, in part, undermining the action of landscape through utilization of visual metaphor.

Transfigured Night 2, (2010), DARE group exhibition, Colorado State University Art (Hatton) Museum, Colorado, United States of America.

Spaces of Otherness, (2009), (two) one person exhibition, Guangzhou Academy Fine Arts Museum, Guangzhou, Peoples Republic of China.

Transfigured Night, (2009), group exhibition, 139 gallery, Adelaide, SA

Identity Highway, (2009), group exhibition, APTOS CRUZ gallery, Adelaide, SA

Doubletake, (2009), (two) one person exhibition, BSG, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Vic

Painting 08 B, (2008) group exhibition, BSG, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

30x30 small show, (2008),group exhibition, BSG, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Vic.

As if---distant image, (2008), one person exhibition, Prospect Gallery, SA.

Distant Image, (2007) one person exhibition, College of Fine Arts Gallery Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, Peoples Republic of China

Transmission, (2007) group exhibition, SASA Gallery, UniSA.

Works on Paper, (2006) group exhibition, School of Fine Arts Jing Yue Campus Northeast Normal University NO.5268 Chang Chun Ji Lin, P. R. China

Survey, (2006) group exhibition, SASA Gallery, UniSA.

Riccordo, (2005) two person exhibition, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide SA.

Dialecticaline (2005) group exhibition, Prospect Gallery, as part of the Drawing is Everything International conference.

Dichroma Dichotomy (2003), one person exhibition, Adelaide Central Gallery 2, Norwood, SA.

Queue Here (2002), national group exhibition, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, ACT.

CACSA Members Show (2002),group exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Parkside, SA.

Discontinuum (2002), group exhibition, Flightpath Architects Gallery, Hindley St., Adelaide, SA, as part of South Australian Living Artists Festival.

‘House’ (2000), group Exhibition, University of South Australia, South Australian School of Art, N-Gallery, UniSA.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Visual Arts,painting and drawing

• Drawing
• Painting
• Printmaking and Experimental Digital Reproduction Technologies in Visual arts