Speakers for this event

• Dr Lorraine Marshalsey

  Dr Lorraine Marshalsey

  Dr Lorraine Marshalsey is the Honours Program Director (Design, Fine Art, Photography and Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art) at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Australia. Lorraine’s teaching philosophy keenly embraces practice-led studio learning; encouraging students to create their own self-directed strategies as they ‘learn-how-to-learn’ in art and design education today. A key aim of Lorraine’s approach to creative teaching and research is to continually attempt to bridge the gap between student engagement and the changing shape of specialist art and design learning spaces. Lorraine’s pedagogical approach focuses on empowering students and tutors alike, to improve the quality of their educative processes and learning environments in a mutual ‘bottom up’ and ‘top down’ approach. She has taught in the United Kingdom, India, China and Australia. Lorraine is also an active educational researcher, who produces international research on learning spaces and the studio as a site for learning. Lorraine regularly delivers papers on this topic including at Tate Liverpool in the UK and the Singapore Institute of Technology. Lorraine graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1998 with a BA (Hons) degree in Design and Applied Arts (Ceramics) and from Edinburgh Napier University in 2013 with an MA in Design (Graphics). Lorraine was awarded the Global Excellence Initiative Fund PhD studentship under the theme of Education in Art, Design and Architecture in 2014 and in 2017, she completed her doctorate at Glasgow School of Art in the UK. She is also a member of NSEAD (The National Society for Education in Art and Design).

• Karen Weiss

  Karen Weiss

  Karen Weiss is a practicing ceramist, community artist and ceramics journalist with an Associate Diploma in Vis. Arts (Ceramics) and an M.A. in Creative Writing. Currently she is working on a Research PhD with the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University. Her love of travelling and ceramics, coupled with an insatiable curiosity about her own Australian and other cultures, has led to her visiting 32 countries, as well as travelling extensively in Australia. She has taught ceramics to teachers, people with a disability, children and adults. She was part of the committee of the Australian Ceramics Triennale Sydney 2009, organising panels and exhibitions for the Aboriginal and Disability speakers, demonstrators and exhibitors, and co-organising initial stages of the Renegade Clay ephemeral events in the Sydney CBD. Until recently, she was an active committee member of the Australian Ceramics Association as Vice President and Education Officer. Her recent fieldwork for her doctorate has taken her to Japan, Central Australia and New Mexico, USA to interview Japanese potters, Aboriginal potters in Hermannsburg and Pueblo and Hopi potters in southwestern USA. She has also conducted interviews in farflung Sydney, Australia.

• Sophi Suttor

  Sophi Suttor