Wilson, Carole Assoc Prof
Position: Associate Professor
Study area: Creative Arts
Location: Arts Academy, Camp Street Campus, Room C305
Phone: 5327 8610
Email: c.wilson@federation.edu.au
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy – University of Ballarat 2001
Graduate Diploma in Education – University of Ballarat (Ballarat College of Advanced Education) 1987
Diploma in Art – RMIT (Philip Institute of Technology) 1984
Teaching
Course(s)
- Bachelor of Arts Honours (Creative Arts)
- Supervision of PhD and Master of Arts candidates in Creative Arts
Unit(s)
- AABCA4023 Studio Project A
- AABCA 4024 Studio Project B
- AABCA 4012 Exegesis
Biography
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 and has been a past board member and former Chair of the Art Gallery of Ballarat where she is a current Acquisitions Committee member. As a visual artist living and working in Ballarat, Carole’s original training was in printmaking and she was a founding member of Jillposters, feminist poster group, in 1983 and worked at Another Planet Posters, Melbourne.
Carole has held regular solo exhibitions and participated in curated exhibitions nationally and internationally. For many years she has utilised 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. In recent years she has undertaken residencies in Italy, the US, Malaysia and The Netherlands which have all had a significant impact on her work. She is represented in many public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Powerhouse Museum, State Library of Victoria and a number of regional and university galleries. Her posters are in museum collections in Finland, the Czech Republic, Russia and Poland.
Areas of expertise
Practice led research in the visual arts, particularly in the fields of textiles, works on paper, printmaking, painting and installation.
Research interests
Carole is a member of the Artful Engagements with Place: Space, History, Society research group which activates social, political, environmental and historical themes, from the personal to the global, to interrogate the human and more than human forces that shape our past, define our present and influence our future. She supervises broadly across the creative and visual arts at Honours, Masters and PhD levels.
Supervision
- Lauren Matthews, Survival memories: communicating incest survival and generating social change through the history and tenacity of materials (PhD) Principal Supervisor
- Julie McLaren, Ruby Lindsay: a life in black and white (Master of Arts- Research) Principal Supervisor
- Stella Clarke, Landscape to Earthscape: Practice and Aesthetics in a Time of Environmental Crisis (Master of Arts- Research) Principal Supervisor
- Vienna Drysdale Bischard, Artistic Autistic: An exploration into female autistic artists through portraiture (Master of Arts- Research) Associate Supervisor
- Susan Nethercote, Blooms beyond borders: the changing face of women’s artistic engagement with flowers and botanicals from the 18th to 20th centuries, (Master of Arts-research) Principal Supervisor
Recent completions
- Ken Kronberger, Artifice and Illusions within the Diorama: a comparison to animated screen art (PhD) Principal Supervisor, 2023
- Melissa Proposch, Cupping the Light – reconciling the shadow Self through printmaking process and practice (Master of Arts- Research) Principal Supervisor, 2023
- Elise Whetter, Applied Aspirations: Design and Applied Art at the Ballarat Technical Art School during the early twentieth century (PhD) Principal Supervisor, 2022
- Tony Griffin, Shelter from the Storm: Webs of Connectedness and Entanglement in Contemporary Paintings of The Everyday, (PhD) Principal Supervisor, 2021
- Fiona Crawford, When you go looking for me, I am not there: Description through absence (Master of Arts- Research) Principal Supervisor, 2021
- Georgia Janetzki, Traces of the female self: Exploring self-portraiture and the documentation of women's art through traces, impressions and residues via contemporary print practice (Master of Arts-Research) Principal Supervisor, 2020
- Lauren Murray, To Wandiligong: a visual journey through memory, time, space, light, landscape and fourteen layers of glass (Master of Arts- Research) Principal Supervisor, 2020
- Anna Farago, The making and placing of a personal view: questions of place (Master of Arts- Research) Principal Supervisor, 2019
Publications
Major exhibitions
| 2022 | Pages From a Lockdown Diary (with Tim Craker), Ararat Gallery TAMA |
| 2018 | Patterns of Collecting: From the Bower at The Johnston Collection, (With Loris Button, Deborah Klein & Louis Saxton). The Johnston Collection Museum, Melbourne. |
| 2017 | From the Bower: patterns of collecting, (with Loris Button, Deborah Klein & Louis Saxton) Warrnambool Art Gallery & Art Gallery of Ballarat |
| 2016-17 | Don’t Be Too Polite: Posters and Activism, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne |
| 2016 | Field Notes Penang, Langford 120, Melbourne |
| 2014 | Upon Return, (with Loris Button), Post Office Gallery, Federation University, Ballarat |
| 2013 | Scala, Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Gallery FAB, University of Missouri-St Louis, St Louis, Missouri |
| 2013 | Got the Message? – 50 Years of Political Posters, Art Gallery of Ballarat |
| 2011 | The Nature of Things, Charles Darwin University Gallery, Darwin |
| 2010-11 | Mrs Darwin's Garden, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria |
| 2010 | Mrs Darwin's Garden, 24HR Art Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Northern Territory |
| 2008 | Contained Worlds, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2007 | Amphora, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2005 | Gardenesque, (with Louise Saxton) Maroondah Gallery, Craft ACT, Ararat Gallery |
| 2004 | Gardenesque, (with Louise Saxton) Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Benalla Art Gallery |
| 2000 | Stitch, Ararat Gallery, Victoria |
| 1998 | Text textile 2, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra |
| 1998 | Text textile, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1996 | Shal, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1995 | Mantra, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra |
| 1994 | Prayers and Mantras, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne |
Awards and grants
| 2015-17 | Chief Investigator on: Developing New Approaches to Ethics and Research Integrity Training Through Challenges Posed by Creative Practice Research (Innovation and Development) awarded by Office for Learning and Teaching |
| 2016-17 | Finalist, Tidal 16, Devonport Art Gallery, Tasmania |
| 2016 | Finalist, Banyule Works on Paper Award, Hatched Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne |
| 2014 | Finalist, 2014 National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery |
| 2013 | Finalist, Togart Contemporary Art Award, Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin |
| 2012 | Finalist, 37th Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs |
| 2010 | Finalist, 36th Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs |
| Finalist, Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery | |
| 2009 | Winner of the Flanagan Prize, St Patrick's College, Ballarat |
| Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart | |
| 2008 |
Finalist, Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Award, Swan Hill Regional Gallery Acquired, Tallis Foundation 2008 National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery |
| 2007 | Finalist, City of Banyule Works on Paper Award |
| Finalist, City of Darebin – La Trobe University Acquisitive Art Prize | |
| 2004 | Public grant for exhibition catalogue - University of Ballarat |
| 2002 |
Regional Arts Victoria and City of Ballarat Community Grant Artist in Residence at Uniting Care Ballarat |
| 2001 |
Arts Victoria and Ballarat Specialist School Artists in Schools Residency Program |
| 1996-99 | University of Ballarat Post Graduate Research Scholarship |
| 1999 | Finalist, Geelong Print Prize |
| 1992 |
Special Jury Prize Chaumont 3rd International Poster Festival, France |
| 1990 |
Australia Council for the Arts Grant for study and lecture tour to New Zealand |
| 1988-89 |
Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria Artist in Residence, Red Planet, Melbourne |
| 1988-90 |
Australia Council for the Arts & Arts Victoria Artist in the Community, Red Planet, Melbourne |
Work held in public collections
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
- Lahti Poster Museum, Finland
- Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
- Artists' Central House, Moscow
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
- Moravska Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
- Warsaw Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
- Art Gallery of Ballarat,Victoria
- City of Maribyrnong, Melbourne
- City of Banyule, Melbourne
- Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
- Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria
- Charles Darwin University, Darwin
- Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne
Cited in publications
Traudi Allen, Homesickness: Nationalism in Australian Visual Culture, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2008
Traudi Allen, Cross-currents in Contemporary Australian Art, Fine Art Publishing, St Leonards 2001
Powerful Posters – 20 Years of Red Planet, Red Planet and NETS Victoria, 1999
Liz McQuiston, Suffragettes to Shedevils, Phaidon Press, London 1997
Roger Butler, Poster Art in Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1993
Sandy Kirby, Sightlines: Women's Art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney 1992
Associations
- Art Gallery of Ballarat (Board of Directors – Chair)
- Art Gallery of Ballarat Acquisitions Committee
- National Gallery of Australia
- Print Council of Australia