Beyond VCA and MCM: Research and Collaboration (Southbank)
The Researcher@Library Week forum at the Southbank campus, University of Melbourne showcases some of the talent and unique research of academic staff and students at the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. This year, the forum will host VCA and MCM researchers who collaborate or work with researchers and practitioners from other disciplines, revealing the kinds of creative works that can be accomplished when ideas collide.
The forum's speakers are:
Emilie Walsh, who will talk about working with University of Melbourne's Research Bazaar.
Emilie Walsh is a PhD Candidate at VCA, supervised by Dr Toby Juliff and Lou Hubbard and in cotutelle with Rennes University in France. Walsh has a Master in Fine Art and a Master in Contemporary Art History from Marseille University. Her research and art practice focus on narrative in contemporary art, and especially the use of the image and narrative of adventure in contemporary art practices.
Dr Stephen Haley and Dr Renee Beale who will explain their recent curatorial project, Synthesis, where VCA research students were paired with chemists pursuing sympathetic research interests in a residency hosted by the School of Chemistry.
Dr Stephen Haley is a painter and digital media artist with an extensive exhibition history, both nationally and internationally. He is also a writer and has published in a wide range of forums. Haley has won a number of art prizes, awards and research grants, including the R&M McGivern Prize for Painting and the Deacons Graham and James/Arts 21 Research Residency Tokyo. In 2016 he was awarded the Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship. Stephen Haley is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of the VCA and MCM.
Dr Renee Beale is a science communicator and curator with a particular interest in art and science and how the two disciplines may inform each other. She is currently the manager and curator of LAB-14 Gallery at the Carlton Connect Initiative. Following a brief scientific research career, Beale began working with a wide range of artists, musicians, composers, performers, and scientists. She has built and supervised residency programs, facilitated artist/scientist collaborations, managed touring exhibitions, and delivered public programs across Australia and internationally. Renee Beale holds degrees in Genetics and Neuropsychology, a PhD in Genetics, and is currently studying Philosophy.
Dr Erin Helyard graduated in harpsichord performance from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with first-class honours and the University Medal. He completed his Masters in fortepiano performance and a PhD in musicology with Tom Beghin at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal. He was named the Westfield Concert Scholar on fortepiano for 2009-2010, an initiative of the John Ernest Foundation. Helyard is highly active in reviving eighteenth-century operas in performance and score as artistic director of the acclaimed Pinchgut Opera. Erin Helyard is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.