Associate Professor Carole Wilson is the HDR Co-ordinator for the HASS and Education disciplines. Contact her to discuss your research ideas and potential supervisors.

Carole holds a dual role as Associate Professor in Visual Arts in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community and Higher Degrees by Research Co-ordinator in the Graduate Research School. She has previously held leadership positions in the university including Deputy Dean, School of Arts from 2018-2022.

Her original training was in printmaking and she was a co-founder of Jillposters, the feminist poster group (1983). She has held regular solo exhibitions and participated in curated exhibitions nationally and internationally. Carole’s recent artworks use discarded and salvaged materials such as floral carpets, maps and atlases to create works which engage with aspects of botany, garden history, travel and historical ornament. She is represented in many public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Powerhouse Museum, State Library of Victoria and regional and university galleries. Her posters are in museum collections in Finland, the Czech Republic, Russia and Poland.

Carole was a member of the investigatory team led by Professor Barb Bolt (University of Melbourne) on the iDARE project: Developing New Approaches to Ethics and Research Integrity Training Through Challenges Posed by Creative Practice Research. This was awarded by the Office for Learning and Teaching (Innovation & Development) 2015-17.

Research areas and supervision

Practice-led research in the visual arts, particularly printmaking, painting, works on paper, textiles.

Carole supervises across a wide area of research at Honours, Masters and PhD levels. She is an experienced examiner of Higher Degrees by Research and is a past member and Chair of  the Art Gallery of Ballarat Board of Directors, and a current member of the Gallery Acquisitions Committee.