Arts research projects
Wedding Cakes: A slice of history
Research Project
This research on the history of wedding cakes in Australia complements the Bendigo Art Gallery exhibition, "The White Wedding Dress" and will contribute to an edited collection on the popular culture of romantic love in Australia, led by Dr Hsu-Ming Teo at Macquarie University. The aim of the research is to understand how Australian's beliefs and ideals around romantic love have changes over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Wedding cakes are examined as a popular cultural practice that reflects ideas about romantic love to Australians.
Contact
Dr Adele Wessell
e: adele.wessell@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Land Histories
Research Project
This project is in collaboration with farm families to develop a series of case studies of land histories in the Northern Rivers. Each case study will be an intensive examination of the development of farming practices and attendant transformations of local ecologies of defined blocks of land. Through these biographies of particular plots of land we will develop localized analyses of the wider historical trends in the political economy/ecology of the area.
Contact
Dr Adele Wessell
e: adele.wessell@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Prof. Mike Evans
e: sasshos@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Hazel Ferguson
e: hazel.ferguson@scu.edu.au
Women's leadership in culinary culture
Research Project
This research contributes to an ARC linkage grant led by Patricia Grimshaw documenting the extent and nature of women's leadership within democratic change. Adele's contribution will be to discuss the patterns, themes and achievements around women's leadership in culinary culture. A forthcoming article in Write4Children co-authored with Donna Brien includes research on individual women, such as Flora Pell and Lucy Drake, which is ongoing.
Contact
Dr Adele Wessell
e: adele.wessell@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Stories from New Italy and the Region
Research Project
These projects will identify and celebrate influences of Italy in Richmond River food, narratives and landscape, beginning in the 1880s with the first arrival of Italians at New Italy and continuing through to the 1950s with the continuing migration of people from Italy across the Richmond Valley region. The project will culminate in a cookbook and interpretive displays for the New Italy Museum Complex.
Contact
Dr Adele Wessell
e: adele.wessell@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Leonie Lane
e: leonie.lane@scu.edu.au
Wood for the trees
Research Project
This project, inspired by the exhibition Wood for the Trees curated by Brett Addlington from Lismore Regional Gallery, explores the role of trees and wood in the historical and cultural context of the far north coast of New South Wales.
The project team comprises Dr. Moya Costello and Dr. Rob Garbutt.
Contact
Dr Dr Rob Garbutt
e: rob.garbutt@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Moya Costello
e: moya.costello@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Fabric and Affect
Research Project
A research project of making an art work and a paper delivered at the 2011 POPCAANZ NZ annual conference now seeking publication.
Contact
Dr Moya Costello and Dr Denise Rall
e: moya.costello@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Dr Denise Rall
e: denise.rall@scu.edu.au
Wilson River Experience Walk
Research Project
An ongoing oral history project supports the development of the Wilson River Experience Walk. Interviews with people in the dairy industry can be heard at the Norco Butter Churn. Other material will be part of the growing collection of local histories, which inform the development of historic interpretation sites along the river.
Contact
Dr Adele Wessell
e: adele.wessell@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
To Drink Wine from One's Own Region
Research Project
A paper on local wine drinking comparing Adelaide with the Northern Rivers.
Contact
Dr Moya Costello
e: moya.costello@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Updated: 27 May 2013