Staff Profile
Career Summary
Qualifications
- Master of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
- Diploma of Painting & Drawing, National Art School
Research
Research keywords
- printmaking landscape memory silence poetic artist's books installation
Research expertise
Printmaking, Sculpture and Drawing are the key areas of research expertise within the discipline of Fine Art. This work is sited within a contemporary art context and explores aspects of landscape and memory with particular reference to areas of Northwest New South Wales and the New England.
The work is underpinned by a poetic sensibility, often with references to literature, and there is a profound interest in expressing notions of silence and solitude which are so readily encountered in one's experiences of such landscapes. It is as much about confronting internal territories as focusing on the vast spaces of the landscapes, fence lines, the bleached colours, the mountains and the weathered eucalypts - the smells, the dry shimmer of summer, the cold winters and the horizon lines. The work also mourns the loss of the people and their way of life and expresses an intense need to conserve these memories by "making them again" or recreating them. The work embraces not only the poetic but the metaphysical or what Les Murray calls an "immanence" when describing our relationship to the Australian landscape.
Intaglio, lithography, new non-toxic media and historically redundant technologies such as engraving and letterpress with the outcomes being realised as prints, drawings, installations and artist's books represent more specifically the area of research expertise.
Fields of Research
| Code | Description | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 190500 | Visual Arts And Crafts | 100 |
Teaching
Teaching keywords
- sculpture
- visual art printmaking
Teaching expertise
As a conjoint academic the teaching expertise is in working with and the supervision of Research Higher Degree students. I supervise students whose work ranges from that founded in Printmaking, soft sculpture/fibre and painting. I have particular expertise in the supervision of the written exegesis as it relates to the studio component of the degree.
Grants and Funding
Summary
| Number of grants | 4 |
|---|---|
| Total funding | $41,190 |
For project grants received where the lead institution is other than the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics.
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
2007 (1 grants)
Tracing site visual arts research project$25,000
Funding Body: Newcastle Regional Museum
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mr Brett Alexander, Ms Patricia Adams, Conjoint Associate Professor Allan Chawner, Ms Miranda Lawry, Associate Professor Pam Sinnott, Mr Kris Smith, Doctor Trevor Weekes | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Project Grant | Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $25,000 | 2007 | 2007 |
| GNo:G0187997 | ||
2006 (1 grants)
Tracing site: the nature of regionalism in relation to culture, identity, place and site within a visual art context$7,000
Funding Body: Faculty of Education and Arts
| Scheme | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 Seeding Project Research Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $7,000 | 2006 | 2007 |
| GNo:2133372 | ||
2004 (1 grants)
Visit of Prof Susan Grose 3 March to 28 April 2004$3,690
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ms Patricia Adams | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Visitor Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $3,690 | 2004 | 2004 |
| GNo:G0183791 | ||
1997 (1 grants)
Exhibition: The Irreplaceable Test or the NexusBetween Image and Metaphor.$5,500
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ms Patricia Adams | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Project Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $5,500 | 1997 | 1997 |
| GNo:G0176674 | ||
Research Supervision
| Number of current supervisions | 8 |
|---|---|
| Total current UoN PhD EFTSL | 0.2 |
For supervisions undertaken at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics, and the institution name is listed below the program name.
Current Supervision
| Commenced | Proposed Completion | Program | Supervisor Type | Research Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2014 | PhD (Fine Art) | Co-Supervisor | Riparian Life: A Visual Navigation of the Changing Nature of the Hunter River Estuary |
| 2007 | 2010 | PHD Fine Arts University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor | Power, passion and pardon |
| 2007 | 2010 | PHD Fine Arts University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor | The conjunction of minimilism and contemporary theories of beauty - spatial and experiential implications |
| 2006 | 2008 | Masters Fine Arts University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor | Long to belong: an examination of non-indigenous responses to landscape |
| 2004 | 2009 | PHD Fine Arts University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor | Eirene Mort: women's work and early 20th century Australian decorative arts |
| 2002 | 2009 | Masters Fine Arts University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor | The relationship of traditional printmaking to digital technology |
| 2001 | 2008 | Masters Fine Arts University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor | Haeccity - family, object and memory |
| 2001 | 2008 | PHD Fine Arts University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor | The aesthetic domestic interior - the interior space and the inner mind |
Past Supervision
| Year | Program | Supervisor Type | Research Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | M Philosophy (Fine Art) | Co-Supervisor | Dig a Bit Deeper - Connection and Contemporary Landscape Art |
| 2012 | M Fine Art [R] | Sole Supervisor | The Hybrid Craft Designer: An Examination of Traditional Printmaking Techniques and the use of Digital Technologies Relative to Current Studio Production |
| 2012 | PhD (Fine Art) | Sole Supervisor | The Minimal and the Beautiful: a Convergent Theoretical Proposition of Experiential Implication for Contemporary Painting |
| 2011 | PhD (Fine Art) | Co-Supervisor | Power, Passion and Pardon: The Importance of Graffiti and the Written Word in the Context of Those Who Have Suffered Through Injustice, Imprisonment and Discrimination in Poland During the World War II Period |
| 2010 | M Fine Art [R] | Principal Supervisor | Haecceity - Family, Object and Memory |
| 2009 | PhD (Fine Art) | Co-Supervisor | Long to Belong: Contemporary Narratives of Place Stories in Landscape Painting From a Non-Indigenous Perspective |
| 2008 | PhD (Fine Art) | Co-Supervisor | A Charting of Memory, Interior Space and the Ship |
| 2007 | PHD Fine Arts University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor | The eclectic bibliotheque |
| 2007 | PhD (Fine Art) | Principal Supervisor | Constructing the Eclectic Biblioth¿que |
| 2006 | M Fine Art [R] | Co-Supervisor | The Dark Side of the White Crystal |
| 2005 | Masters Fine Arts University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor | The privilidged journey |
| 2004 | M Fine Art [R] | Principal Supervisor | A Privileged Journey |
Patricia Adams
| Work Phone | (02) 4921 6263 |
|---|---|
| Fax | (02) 4921 6909 |
| Patricia.Wilson-Adams@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Position | Conjoint Senior Lecturer School of Creative Arts Faculty of Education and Arts |
| Office | AT29, Art, Callaghan University Drive Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia |
| URL: | www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/patricia-wilson-adams |
