Meet our Arts team

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With decades of professional experience between them, our team spans a wide spectrum of creative arts.

 

Discipline Lead and Course Coordinators Academic Staff Adjunct Staff Contact the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts

Discipline Lead and Course Coordinators

Head and shoulders of Associate Professor Annie Mitchell

Associate Professor Annie Mitchell

Chair of Discipline (Creative Arts)

Annie teaches contemporary music theory, musicianship, classical music and musicology, composition and arranging, music education, ensemble and piano. She plays the piano and double bass.

Head and shoulders - Barry Hill

Dr Barry Hill

Bachelor of Contemporary Music Course Coordinator, and Senior Lecturer

Barry is a music educator, composer and performer. He teaches into contemporary music program and has expertise in jazz, classical, popular; audio engineering; ensemble direction and arranging.

Head and shoulders - Jeanti St Clair

Jeanti St Clair

Bachelor of Digital Media Course Coordinator, and Lecturer

Jeanti is a media lecturer teaching journalism and digital storytelling. She has extensive professional journalism experience including audio-based journalism and documentary. She leads the student reporting team at the Byron Writers Festival.

Head and shoulders - Dr Marian Tubbs

Dr Marian Tubbs

Bachelor of Art and Design Course Coordinator, and Senior Lecturer

Marian is an artist living and working between Bundjalung, and Gubbi Gubbi Land. Her broad research interests include vision technologies, the agency of poor materials and text in art.

Academic Staff

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Darren Bryant

Lecturer

Darren is a lecturer in art and design, and a nationally and internationally recognised printmaker. His research interest is merging old and new print technologies to interrogate ideas surrounding an ‘aura of original’.

Head and shoulders - Dr Leigh Carriage

Dr Leigh Carriage

Senior Lecturer

Leigh teaches into the contemporary music program. She is a consummate vocalist and performer, and an award-winning songwriter and composer. Leigh coordinates the APRA AMCOS Songwriting Series.

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Associate Professor Wes Hill

Associate Professor

Wes specialises in contemporary, post-1960s art and visual culture. His research interests include image-based art, art as pedagogy, and the art-historical underpinnings of the hipster. He was appointed by the Australia Council for the Arts as a peer-assessor in 2019.

Associate Lecturer Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones

Associate Lecturer

Andrew's background is in photography and film. He teaches media studies. Andrew's research interests are cinema, post-colonialism, and the politics of everyday life. Andrew works primarily with first year students transiting to uni life.

Adjunct Staff

Dr Colin Black

Adjunct Lecturer

Colin's creative work spans installation, sound art, film, radiophonic works and beyond. His current creative research project is entitled "Resonant Landscapes: The Soundscapes of Urban Nature". It explores the intersection of urban environments and natural soundscapes, leading to the creation of an immersive audio experience through the development of a sound installation. Engagement with this installation aims to enhance awareness of the impact of urbanization on natural soundscapes.

Associate Professor David Cashman

Adjunct Associate Professor

David is an educator, researcher, musician, and advocate for the music industry. As an educator, he is passionate about preparing students for the unconventional rigours and challenges of the creative industries. As a researcher, his area of research interest is live music performance and industry particularly in regional areas, in tourism, and the performance practice thereof. He has worked with and consulted for universities, peak industry bodies and local and state governments.

Dr Uwe Terton

Adjunct Fellow

Uwe has held academic roles in undergraduate and postgraduate design and serious games programs at several Australian universities. Uwe’s most recent projects have involved interdisciplinary research in collaboration with education, allied health, and mental health professionals from various fields of expertise. Uwe is a protagonist of digital fabrication and creative technologies.

Contact the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts

Executive Dean of Faculty Associate Dean (Education) Associate Dean
(International & Engagement)		 Associate Dean
(Research)		 Professional Experience Coordinator
Professor Mike Ewing Ms Helen Walsh Professor Darshana Sedera Associate Professor Pascal Scherrer Mrs Joanne Cooper
T: +61 7 5589 3054
E: michael.ewing@scu.edu.au		 T:  +61 2 6620 3848
E: helen.walsh@scu.edu.au		 T:  +61 7 5589 3036
E: darshana.sedera@scu.edu.au		 T:  +61 2 6620 3024
E: pascal.scherrer@scu.edu.au

T:  +61 2 6620 3154
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