Dr Pamela Zeplin

Welcome to Pamela Zeplin's homepage at the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia.

I currently lecture in Art and Design History and Theory at the South Australian School of Art (Art Architecture & Design). As well as teaching in undergraduate and Honours programs, I supervise in the School’s Postgraduate Research Program. In 2001-2002 I was appointed as Portfolio Leader: Student Support and Equity, with responsibility for and direction on International students, equity and student support. In 2006-2007 I was Academic Integrity Officer for the School.

My CV (Word Document - 1.2MB)

South Australian School of Art

Visual Arts Design and Research Group, UniSA

The Unaipon School, UniSA

Learning and Teaching Unit- information about educational and support resources for staff and students

Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre

South Australian Living Artists Inc

Australian Assocation for the Advancement of Pacific Studies

• Teaching is an essential part of my art practice and includes a strong interest in inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural pedagogy at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I have designed courses in Asia-Pacific Arts, Race, Place and Culture in Art History, Australian Art and Aboriginal Arts and Visual Culture (in collaboration with The Unaipon School, UniSA). The last was developed into the core course, Indigenous Art, Cultures and Design in 2006.
• In addition, I contribute to core subjects from Level 1 to Honours in Art History and Design History and Theory in the South Australian School of Art. With a commitment to collaborative practice, I have also developed inter-disciplinary courses on Arts Writing and Performance, which integrate studio practice and theory. These courses challenge students and staff to work together and explore domains beyond the comfort zone.
• Supervision of Research Degree completions include : • un/gather:the body in the work of art: an investigation into the expressive capacities of risk in performance art • In the beginning was the word: Bernard Leach and Australian Studio Pottery from 1940-1964 • A critical analysis of visual art exchange between Malaysia and Australia 1983-2002. • The danced space: Ancient and Modern: The role of transformation in Indian and modern dance. • Tragicomedy in the socio-political art of Yogyakarta 1980-2000 • Behind closed doors: images of domestic space in the paintings of three early modernist expatriate women artists in Paris and London • The critical corpse: re(inter)preting the abject dead animal in visual art
• Current topics include: • The artist as self-censor in representations of hegemonic masculinity and homosociality •Examining contemporary painting as a process of personal and social transformation
• In 2008 I received an Australian Award for University Teaching: Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (formerly Carrick Award).

Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies

Art Association of Australia and New Zealand

BA(Hons)(Visual Arts, Monash)(1979)

MA(Visual Arts, Monash)(1991)

PhD (College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales) (2005)

• From 1996 with colleagues, Dr. Catherine Speck, Prof. Ian North and Steven Carson, I developed strong links between the University and Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre. These associations created a series of significant and regular forum programs: Public Lectures in the Visual Arts, as well as postgraduate masterclasses. These have dealt with a range of multi-cultural and inter-cultural issues, and many speakers have been brought to Adelaide from around Australia and the Asia-Pacific region as participants in these fora.
• I have been active on a number of University, School and community committees and was editorial adviser for South Australia on Object magazine board, as well as a board member of Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre (2002 -2005 and elastic (Artists Week, Adelaide Festival of Arts 2002). Currently I am Public Officer for SALA (South Australian Living Artists Assn).
• In addition to teaching, I write, research, perform, tell stories and make art. My research focuses upon contemporary visual culture in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, developing active links with artists, writers and institutions across the region. I regularly participate in major conferences and arts events. In 1989 I completed a research residency with the Australian Flying Arts School (Queensland); in 1995 I was the invited Visiting Research Scholar at Otago School of Art, (New Zealand); in 1999 and 2000, I was a Visiting Scholar at Centre for Cross-Cultural research at Australian National University. My various writings have been published in the form of catalogue essays and critical articles in contemporary art journals such as Object, Art and Asia-Pacific, Pacific Arts, Art & Text, Art Monthly, Australian Art Education and Broadsheet, as well as various scholarly Australian and New Zealand books and art journals. In 2008 I received an ACUADS (Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools) Distinguished Research Awards.
• As a lapsed pilot, I continue to travel extensively (mostly throughout the Pacific, New Zealand, South America, South Africa and Asia) and maintain research in the field of Women, Sexuality and Flight. I am also a hands-on Nanna of two.

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

Discipline: Visual Art

• Visual Art
• Performance Art
• Lecturer
• Writer
• Commentator
• Artist
• Contemporary Visual Culture
• Asia Pacific Art