Dr  Caelli Brooker

Dr Caelli Brooker

Lecturer - Indigenous Education

Indigenous Education and Research

Career Summary

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle
  • Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Newcastle
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle
  • Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, TAFE (NSW)

Keywords

  • Aboriginal Studies
  • Art
  • Creative Practice
  • Design
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
  • Indigenous Research
  • Materiality
  • Museology
  • Practice-based Research
  • Print Cultures and Technologies
  • Sustainable Design
  • Visual Communication Design
  • Visual Methodologies

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
450117 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing 30
430202 Critical heritage, museum and archive studies 20
330316 Visual communication design (incl. graphic design) 50

Professional Experience

Academic appointment

Dates Title Organisation / Department
18/10/2021 -  Research Capability Development Coordinator, and Lecturer – Indigenous Education The Wollotuka Institute, University of Newcastle
Australia
1/1/2014 - 31/8/2021 Lecturer (Visual Communication Design) Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Australia

Awards

Award

Year Award
2023 Academic Division Award for Collaboration Excellence (The Wollotuka Institute X The Institute for Regional Futures)
The University of Newcastle - Academic Division
2022 Lighthouse Artists in Residency Program (Wollotuka Research Team)
Hunter Writers Centre
2020 We The Makers: Design for the Future Showcase (Joint Team Winner)
National Wool Museum
2019 Academic Division Awards (Highly Commended for Collaboration Excellence)
University of Newcastle, Academic Division - Newcastle
2013 Hunter TAFE Staff Awards (Excellence in Customer Service Award for The Design Centre)
TAFE NSW
2012 Residency - Gunyah Artist in Residence Program
Gunyah AIR
2012 FEDUA Student Research (People’s Choice & Best Mid-candidature Research Poster Awards)
UoN FEDUA Student Research Festival
2010 Hunter TAFE Staff Awards (Team Award for The Design Centre)
TAFE NSW
2009 Faculty Medal (Faculty of Education and Arts)
University of Newcastle

Scholarship

Year Award
2013 Margaret Olley Friends of the University Postgraduate Scholarship in Fine Art
Friends of The University
2009 Australian Postgraduate Award
Commonwealth Government
2008 Deputy Vice Chancellor Honours Scholarship
University of Newcastle
2008 Provisional Honours Postgraduate Scholarship
University of Newcastle

Invitations

Speaker

Year Title / Rationale
2015 Speaker - The Outstanding Field: Artistic Research Emerging from the Academy
The symposium showcases the most outstanding PhD projects to have emerged from the Creative Arts in Australia and New Zealand over the last decade. All presenters are PhD graduates whose thesis projects have been recognized for their quality and excellence. This recognition includes Chancellors Awards for excellence, national and international prizes and other external recognition of the innovation and impact of their artistic research. Presenters for this symposium have been sponsored by Creative Arts institutions from across Australia and New Zealand. It will be an invaluable experience for academics in Creative Arts programs, PhD supervisors in practice-led creative arts disciplines and students enrolled in creative arts PhD and MFA programs.

Teaching

Code Course Role Duration
DESN1011 Design Projects 1
The University of Newcastle
Lecturer 1/1/0001 - 1/1/0001
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.


Book (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2022 Brooker C, Price L, Hope-Hodgetts J, Kelly R, Harkins J, Kala-Mani (Making Colour), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia (2022)

Chapter (3 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2023 Brooker C, Catanzaro M, Shakespeare M, 'A Creative Workshop Model for Understanding Climate Activism as Custodianship of Country', Indigenizing Education for Climate Action Strategies, Case Studies and Testimonies, space4innovation, https://pressbooks.pub/indigenizingclimateaction/ (2023)
2021 Brooker C, Sage M, 'Showing, Telling and Selling Out', Independent DIY Publications and Underground Urban Cultures, The University of Porto, Faculdade de Letras 39-58 (2021)
2018 Sage M, Brooker CJ, 'Manifold Intensities: Musical Identities in Contemporary Antipodean Metalcore and Post-Hardcore', Sounds of Origin in Heavy Metal Music, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK 141-168 (2018) [B1]

Journal article (2 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2022 Chand A, Brooker C, 'Building Cultural Capital in Design Education: Framing Undergraduate Visual Communication Design students' approaches to visuospatial inquiry', The International Journal of Design Education, (2022) [C1]
Co-authors Ari Chand
2016 McAuley M, Brooker C, 'Novice visual communication design students' awareness of design process', International Journal of Design Education, 11 1-10 (2016) [C1]

This article reports the outcomes of an inquiry which set out to assist novice, first year visual communication design students to develop awareness of their design process. To fa... [more]

This article reports the outcomes of an inquiry which set out to assist novice, first year visual communication design students to develop awareness of their design process. To facilitate this, a learning intervention was incorporated into the teaching structure. This took the form of a design process diary/journal which enabled students to track their design activities during a six-week assignment. The key component of the diary was the inclusion of a six-stage design process model devised by Swann in 2002. Findings suggest that many of the students found the model allowed them to develop a more explicit understanding of the stages they went through while designing and that their previous understanding of design process had been advanced through the use of the process model.

DOI 10.18848/2325-1581/CGP/v11i01/1-10

Conference (9 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2023 Catanzaro M, Sadokierski Z, Brooker C, 'Visual Communication for Climate Action', https://2023.acuadsconference.com.au/ (2023)
2023 Gibson M, Brooker C, Shaw G, Taylor J, 'International Student Advisers Network of Australia (ISANA) Conference: Community, Connection: Advancing International Education Services', https://isana.org.au/isana-2023-conference-proceedings/?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com, Sydney, Australia (2023)
2022 Brooker C, 'Indigenous Governance Futures: transforming educational leadership, challenging neo-liberalism', Sydney, Australia (2022)
2019 Brooker C, Catanzaro M, Hodgson B, Kenke R, Morgan C, Sandbach K, 'Not just for show: identity, engagement, and work integrated learning through design graduation exhibitions', https://acuads.com.au/conference/conference-2019/, School of Art and School of Design, RMIT University, and the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (2019) [E1]
Co-authors Ralph Kenke, Bettina Hodgson
2017 Sage M, Brooker CJ, 'Vulnerable Intensities: an Exploration of the Contemporary Antipodean Metalcore Phenomenon', Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland (2017)
2017 Sullivan Y, Brooker CJ, 'Art and Design as Agent for Change - iJADE Conference 2017', National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2017)
2015 Brooker CJ, 'Pinteresting Times: the use and abuse of images in creative research', Newcastle University, UK (2015) [E3]
2015 Brooker CJ, 'Lost in Translation: the materialisation of the mark in the digital age', University of Melbourne (2015) [E3]
2014 Sullivan Y, Brooker CJ, 'Collaboration: you're doing it wrong', TATE Liverpool, UK (2014)
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Creative Work (79 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2021 Brooker C, Smith A, Wells A, Trilogy: Territory, Marks, Remains, Gallery East in partnership with Gallery Central, Perth WA, Between the Sheets: Artists Books 2021 (2021)
2021 Brooker C, Wells A, Smith A, Trilogy: Territory, Marks, Remains, Between the Sheets: Artists Books Exhibition 2021, Gallery East in conjunction with Gallery Central, 12 Aberdeen Street, Perth (2021)
2020 Neilson F, Drabsch B, Brooker C, Penn G, McMahon B, Foong R, et al., Six Seasons (Low Waste, Slow Fashion Future), WE THE MAKERS Design Festival, National Wool Museum, Geelong, VIC, Australia, Designer Showcase, WE THE MAKERS Design Festival, Geelong, VIC Australia (2020)
2020 Golledge L, O'Donnell L, Chand A, Brooker C, DiTA Website. (2020)
Co-authors Ari Chand
2020 Brooker C, Sullivan Y, Seven Eyes to Weave, Puente Siete Ojos Eucalyptus Forest, Orgiva, Spain (2020)
2020 Brooker C, Sage M, Sentiment (Happy F***ing Birthday), Watt Space Gallery (2020)
2020 Golledge L, Kenke R, Brooker C, Hodgson B, Thompson W, Morgan C, et al., Design Pool website, Newcastle, NSW (2020)
Co-authors Bettina Hodgson, Ralph Kenke, Ari Chand
2020 Brooker C, Zulumovski V, Wilson-Adams P, Smith K, Dreaming in Black and White, Gallery 139 (2020)
2019 Brooker C, Sullivan Y, Reorient (horizontal) and Reorient (vertical), Gallery East and Gallery Central (North Metropolitan TAFE), Perth, WA, Between the Sheets: Artists Books Exhibition 2019 (2019)
2019 Brooker C, Sage M, Metal Refrain (repeat pattern), Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, Australia (as part of the Newcastle Music Festival) (2019)
2019 Brooker C, Sage M, Bodman S, Butler A, Florance C, Read With Me, Study Room Gallery, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK (2019)
2019 Brooker C, Smith A, Wells A, Fugitive (revisited), Newcastle Art Space Gallery Tighes Hill, NSW, On Her Shoulders, an exhibition in support of the National Gallery of Australia's #KnowMyName initiative (2019)
2019 Brooker C, Smith A, Wells A, Fugitive, The Bender @ The Lock-Up (2019)
2019 Brooker C, Smith A, Wells A, Interstice, Factory 49 (2019)
2018 Cunningham T, Brooker CJ, Collison A, Gordon E, Baroque Backstage, Newcastle Theatre Company (2018)
2018 Brooker CJ, Wells A, Smith A, Embedded, Gallery 139 (2018)
2017 Brooker CJ, Smith A, Wells A, Conditional, Acrux Art Gallery (2017)
2017 Hatton M, Brollo D, Brooker CJ, Hunter A, Bull M, Tompkins S, et al., Beyond the Book, Acrux Art Gallery (2017)
2017 Catanzaro M, IN/SITE, The University Gallery, The University of Newcastle (2017)
2016 Piva B, Thompson W, Brooker CJ, Falla D, Vergotis M, Harvey C, et al., First Impressions (2016)
2016 Hopcroft H, Brooker CJ, Chorlton A, Anderberg A, Cannibalism, crossdressing and consumption: a feminist retelling of Ulysses, NewMac conference (2016)
2016 Minett D, Starrett E, Brooker C, Brollo D, Hunter A, The Expanded Print, Watt Space Gallery (2016)
2016 Brooker CJ, Penn G, Nashe B, Strutt C, Strutt J, Hall M, et al., Not Just Collage, Gallery 139, Hamilton NSW (2016)
2016 Brooker CJ, O'Callaghan SP, Shadbolt J, Brollo D, Catanzaro M, Sandbach K, et al., Techne: Crafting Technology Exhibition, University of Newcastle Gallery (2016)
Co-authors Jane Shadbolt, Simone Ocallaghan
2016 Brooker CJ, Shaw G, Hopcroft H, Brollo D, Hunter A, Weekes T, et al., Pagination: the book as object, The University Gallery, The University Gallery (2016)
2016 Brooker CJ, Wells A, Smith A, Turning Over, Art Systems Wickham (2016)
2016 Brooker CJ, O'Callaghan SP, Shadbolt J, Brollo D, Catanzaro M, Sandbach K, et al., Techne: Crafting Technology Exhibition, University of Newcastle Gallery (2016)
Co-authors Jane Shadbolt, Simone Ocallaghan
2016 Brooker CJ, Shaw G, Hopcroft H, Brollo D, Hunter A, Weekes T, et al., Pagination: the book as object, The University Gallery, The University Gallery (2016)
2015 Brooker CJ, Cross K, Minichiello M, Roxburgh M, Howells A, Atkins D, et al., Making it Known, Curve Gallery, http://www.making-it-known.com/catalogue/ (2015) [J2]
Co-authors Michael Dickinson, Ari Chand, Andrew Howells, Ralph Kenke, Mark Roxburgh, Jane Shadbolt, Bettina Hodgson
2015 Brooker CJ, Stones (series), Cstudios (2015) [J2]
2015 Brooker CJ, Sullivan YC, Thought Structures, Curious Projects, Eastbourne, UK (2015) [J2]
2015 Brooker CJ, Sullivan YC, Mapping Collaboration: a participatory art project exploring working together, 310 NXrd Gallery, New Cross, London, UK (2015) [J1]
2015 Brooker CJ, Sullivan YC, Scaled Downs, Gallery East and Gallery Central (Central Institute of Technology), Perth, WA, Between the Sheets: Artists Books Exhibition, 2015 (2015) [J2]
2015 Brooker C, Cross K, Making It Known (2015) [J2]
Co-authors Mark Roxburgh, Michael Dickinson, Andrew Howells, Bettina Hodgson, Ari Chand, Jane Shadbolt
2015 Brooker CJ, Words and Origami, Gallery 139, Hamilton, NSW, Australia (2015) [J2]
2015 Brooker CJ, Six Wrapped Vessels, Gallery 139, Hamilton, NSW, Australia (2015) [J2]
2015 Brooker CJ, Cross K, Minichiello M, Roxburgh M, Howells A, Atkins D, et al., Making it Known, Curve Gallery, http://www.making-it-known.com/catalogue/ (2015) [J2]
Co-authors Ari Chand, Ralph Kenke, Mark Roxburgh, Jane Shadbolt, Bettina Hodgson, Andrew Howells, Michael Dickinson
2015 Brooker CJ, Sullivan YC, Mapping Collaboration: a participatory art project exploring working together, 310 NXrd Gallery, New Cross, London, UK (2015) [J1]
2015 Brooker CJ, Sullivan YC, Scaled Downs, Gallery East and Gallery Central (Central Institute of Technology), Perth, WA, Between the Sheets: Artists Books Exhibition, 2015 (2015) [J2]
2015 Brooker C, Cross K, Making It Known (2015) [J2]
Co-authors Jane Shadbolt, Michael Dickinson, Andrew Howells, Bettina Hodgson, Ari Chand, Mark Roxburgh
2014 Brooker CJ, Jenolan Caves (exhibited as part of a Group Exhibition - Cooks Hill Galleries' 40th Birthday), Cooks Hill Galleries (2014) [J2]
2014 Brooker CJ, Tilley L, Smith A, Wells A, Roxburgh B, Joy P, McLaughlin A, Abstraction Now, Newcastle Art Space (NAS) (2014) [J3]
2014 Brooker CJ, Lost in Translation: the materialisation of the mark in the digital age, The University Gallery (2014) [J1]
2014 Brooker CJ, Typographic Origami Newcastle (exhibited as part of a group exhibition - Art City - Watt Space Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition), Watt Space Gallery (2014) [J2]
2013 Brooker CJ, Graphicality: new work, Greenway Gallery, Morpeth (2013) [J1]
2013 Brooker CJ, Shaw G, Tilley P, Murland A, Rey U, Chaffey N, et al., Popped, The Lock-Up, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2013) [J2]
2013 Brooker CJ, Murland A, Elliot-Ranken M, Osmotherly M, Smith B, Out of Hand: abstraction in monochrome and colour, The Depot Galleryt, Waterloo, NSW, Australia (2013) [J2]
2013 Brooker CJ, Hopcroft H, Year of the Bird: a celebration of hybridity, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2013) [J3]
2012 Brooker CJ, Weeks C, Murphy J, Kenning B, Feltham C, Maher P, et al., Open House, Podspace (2012)
2012 Wilson G, Brooker CJ, Thompson W, Snape B, Smith A, Tome M, et al., 2020 Vision: twenty people, twenty visions of Newcastle in the year 2020, Art Systems Wickham (2012)
2012 Brooker CJ, Marked Difference, Shopfront Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2012) [J2]
2012 Brooker CJ, The Cave: A Dialogue, Gallery East and Midland Junction Arts Centre, North Fremantle, WA, Australia (2012) [J2]
2012 Brooker CJ, Hopcroft HF, The Year of the Bird: A Celebration of Hybridity, Maitland Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW< Australia (2012) [J2]
2011 Brooker CJ, Sage M, Thompson W, Smith A, Thompson R, PRINT, Shopfront Gallery (2011)
2011 Brooker CJ, Coast Lines, Cooks Hill (2011) [J1]
2011 Brooker CJ, Hopcroft HF, Happily Ever After: Alternative Destinies in Contemporary Feminine Narrative, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2011) [J3]
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Co-authors Caroline Webb
2011 Brooker CJ, Suspended Void, Bacchus, Newcastle (2011)
2011 Sullivan Y, Brooker CJ, Peazine, Goldsmiths College, University of London UK (2011)
2011 Brooker CJ, Douglas L, Matchbox Zine Project, online exhibition http://www.australianbookartsjournal.com, http://www.australianbookartsjournal.com/ (2011)
2010 Brooker CJ, Re@D, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle (2010)
2010 Brooker CJ, To The Cave: A Pilgrimage, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle (2010)
2010 Delforce B, Brooker CJ, Plate-Up, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle (2010)
2010 Sullivan Y, Brooker CJ, PractisePractice: artist/educators respond to notions of place, Blank Gallery, Brighton UK (2010)
2010 Brooker CJ, Roberts E, Audrins L, Sheridan S, Randall M, Degan A, PixelPerfect, Podspace (2010)
2009 Brooker CJ, Unedition: Hello Blackbird, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle (2009)
2009 Vasiliunas K, Brooker CJ, Text: 5th International Artist s Book Triennial, Leipzig, Germany & Vilnius, Lithuania (2009)
2009 Brooker CJ, Booth N, Light and Earth, Cooks Hill Galleries (2009)
2009 Horsnell T, Brooker CJ, Liou R, In Search of Spirit, Newcastle Art Space (2009)
2009 Brooker CJ, Testing (Sub)Stance, Shopfront Gallery,Newcastle (2009)
2008 Brooker CJ, Booth N, Abstraction 08, Cooks Hill Galleries (2008)
2008 Brooker CJ, Mote(if), University Gallery | Newcastle (2008)
2008 Brooker CJ, Reading Leaves, Newcastle Art Space, Newcastle (2008)
2008 Brooker CJ, Line A, Roberts E, Soft, Podspace Gallery (2008)
2008 Delforce B, Brooker CJ, Devine B, Raffan T, Press-It, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle (2008)
2007 Brooker CJ, Domestic Mythology, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle (2007)
2007 Brooker CJ, Chinese Whispers, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle (2007)
2007 Brooker CJ, Retroscope, The Front Room Gallery (2007)
2007 Brooker CJ, Booth N, Five Can t Draw, Watt Space Gallery (2007)
2006 Sullivan Y, Brooker CJ, Projections of Guilt (2006)
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Report (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2023 Butler K, Kember H, McGrath S, Biurra-Hoy I, Brooker C, Kelly R, 'Partnering with First Nations communities in City and Regional Planning', Greater Cities Commission (2023) [N1]
DOI 10.25817/HV0T-V961
Co-authors Kathleen Butler

Thesis / Dissertation (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2014 Brooker CJ, Lost In Translation: the materialisation of the mark in the digital age, The University of Newcastle (2014)
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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants 12
Total funding $225,739

Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.


20221 grants / $20,000

Climate Justice – Visual Expressions of Reconciliation and Climate Custodianship for Change$20,000

Funding body: Western Sydney Creative Collaborate Fund

Funding body Western Sydney Creative Collaborate Fund
Project Team

Dr Rachel Morley, Dr Michelle Catanzaro, Ms Madison Shakespeare, Dr Caelli Brooke, Dr Katrina Sandbach, Dr Jess Olivieri, Dr Philippa Collin

Scheme Western Sydney Creative Collaborate Fund
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2022
Funding Finish 2022
GNo
Type Of Funding External
Category EXTE
UON N

20211 grants / $14,770

Does creativity enhance wellbeing and brain health?$14,770

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr Helen English (Lead); Dr Caelli Brooker; A/Prof Keri Glastonbury; Dr Alexandra Lewis; Prof Frini Karayanidis (Psychology); Dr Michelle Kelly (Psychology); Dr Helena Bezzina (Conjoint); Prof Jane Davidson ( UoM); Prof Felicity Baker (UoM)

Scheme Strategic Network and Pilot Project Grants Scheme
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2021
Funding Finish 2021
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20202 grants / $10,085

Drawing Education Network$7,085

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr Ari Chand (Lead), Dr Caelli Brooker, Dr Jan Shadbolt, Mr Carl Morgan, Dr Andrew Howells, Mr Alex Barnes-Keoghan, Dr Lisa Thurlow

Scheme Strategic Network and Pilot Project Grants Scheme
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2020
Funding Finish 2020
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Summer Research internship$3,000

Funding body: The University of Newcastle - Research and Innovation Division

Funding body The University of Newcastle - Research and Innovation Division
Project Team

Dr Ralph Kenke, Dr Caelli Jo Brooker, Benjamin Crocker, Luke Kellet

Scheme Summer Research Internships
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2020
Funding Finish 2021
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20192 grants / $19,000

Low Waste, Slow Fashion Future$10,000

The Low Waste, Slow Fashion Future – Six Seasons Collection is supported by the University of Newcastle, School of Creative Industries RAPID program. RAPID is a series of research sprints that sees industry partners and research collaborators work together fast on problems that matter. The Six Seasons range is a collaboration between High Tea With Mrs Woo (a small-run clothing label by Rowena, Juliana & Angela Foong) and team of creative researchers from The University of Newcastle (Faye Neilson, Bernadette Drabsch, Giselle Penn, Brett McMahon, and Caelli Jo Brooker).

The Six Seasons collection is grounded in the desire to create environmentally sustainable garments that inclusively fit a range of body shapes, are gender neutral, and flexibly adapt to changing climate conditions. The Low Waste, Slow Fashion Future team's fashion collection is inspired by a love of the environment and a desire to protect it – helping to solve fast fashion with low waste slow and sustainable alternatives. The team seeks to contribute to a local fashion industry that is sustainable and eco-friendly, using low and zero-waste pattern layout and customised, purposeful digital printing. We want to create designs that are free from gender, durable and timeless, and inspired by the seasonal colours and patterns of the Australian bush. We want to show respect to the Indigenous knowledge of these seasonal changes and create a collection that reflects their frugality and connection with the land. Our designs will be made specifically for the Australian environment, being cool, loose and protective in summer and cosy in winter. Our tags and labels will be made out of fabric scraps, with the labels embedded with local, endemic seeds, so they can be planted after purchase to help restore our local biodiversity. We want to design for the future, using smart, sustainable design choices to challenge the fast, disposable fashion ethos that currently exists.

The Six Seasons Collection was the Joint National Winner – We The Makers: Design for the Future – Sustainable and Ethical Textiles and Fashion at the National Wool Museum – 27 June to 22 November 2020

Funding body: The University of Newcastle, NSW

Funding body The University of Newcastle, NSW
Project Team

Dr Faye Nielson, Dr Bernadette Drabsch, Dr Caelli Jo Brooker, Brett McMahon, Giselle Penn, High Tea With Mrs Woo (Rowena Foong, Juliana Foong, Angela Foong)

Scheme RAPID Funding Scheme
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2019
Funding Finish 2020
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Work Integrated Learning in the Creative Industries$9,000

Visible Praxis: investigating teaching and learning outcomes for emergent creative professionals through design exhibition research and practice 

Funding body: University of Newcastle Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education

Funding body University of Newcastle Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education
Project Team

Dr Caelli Brooker; Dr Janet Fulton; Mrs Andrea Cassin; Ms Bettina Hodgson; Mr Ralphe Kenne; Mr Carl Morgan; Mr Paul Scott; Dr Christina Koutsoukos, Ms Felicity Biggins

Scheme tEN Research Investment Scheme
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2019
Funding Finish 2019
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20172 grants / $82,884

Early Career Researcher (ECR) Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Scholarships$80,884

This programme supports the University’s commitment to fostering and developing Early Career Researchers’ research and research leadership through the provision of fully funded Higher Degree by Research scholarships to applicants, attached to UON ECRs.

Funding body: The University of Newcastle

Funding body The University of Newcastle
Scheme Early Career Researcher (ECR) Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Scholarships
Role Lead
Funding Start 2017
Funding Finish 2020
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Faculty of Education and Arts - Conference Travel Grant$2,000

This funding supported the presentation of a research paper at the Modern Heavy Metal Conference 2017, Helsinki, Finland, 28 June - 2 July 2017

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Scheme FEDUA Conference Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2017
Funding Finish 2017
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20152 grants / $9,000

Faculty of Science & Information Technology - New Staff Grant$7,500

This grant was used to support a proposal for Analogue/Digilogue, a design, print and book studio project.

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Scheme FACULTY OF SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY New Staff Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2015
Funding Finish 2015
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Copyright Agency of Australia Career Fund$1,500

With Career Funding Dr Caelli Jo Brooker has undertaken a specific program of intensive practical workshops and mentored studio access to develop skills and knowledge in the discipline of letterpress.

Funding body: Manning Clark House/Copyright Agency of Australia

Funding body Manning Clark House/Copyright Agency of Australia
Project Team

Dr Caelli Jo Brooker

Scheme Career Fund
Role Lead
Funding Start 2015
Funding Finish 2015
GNo
Type Of Funding Aust Competitive - Non Commonwealth
Category 1NS
UON N

20111 grants / $2,500

National Association of Visual Arts Australia - Marketing Grant$2,500

This grant supported the promotion of Happily Ever After: alternative destinies in contemporary feminine narrative, an exhibition of artists’ books curated by Caelli Jo Booker and Helen Hopcroft. The exhibition is conceived as an interdisciplinary collaboration between local, national and international, artists, writers and craftspeople invited to work together to create handmade books which explore female narratives within the fairytale genre. While the classic fairytale ending ‘happily ever after’ envisages a single, finite destiny, the contemporary feminine experience encompasses a multiplicity of roles, expectations, endings, beginnings and relationships. Thus the exhibition theme is probably best conceptualised as a celebration of diversity within destiny, with the fairytale genre used as the narrative vehicle to explore this idea. John Paynter Gallery, 10 – 26 June 2011 Cox Rayner Gallery, Artspace Mackay, 29 July – 28 October 2011 Manly Library, 3 December 2011 – 29 January 2012

Funding body: National Association of Visual Artists (NAVA)

Funding body National Association of Visual Artists (NAVA)
Project Team

Caelli Jo Brooker and Helen Hopcroft

Scheme NAVA Marketing Grant
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2011
Funding Finish 2012
GNo
Type Of Funding Not Known
Category UNKN
UON N

20091 grants / $67,500

Australian Postgraduate Award$67,500

Funding body: Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Funding body Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
Project Team

Caelli Jo Brooker

Scheme Australian Postgraduate Award
Role Lead
Funding Start 2009
Funding Finish 2013
GNo
Type Of Funding Aust Competitive - Commonwealth
Category 1CS
UON N
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Research Supervision

Number of supervisions

Completed11
Current1

Current Supervision

Commenced Level of Study Research Title Program Supervisor Type
2017 PhD Story Design in Contemporary Children's Picture Books: How Narrative and Meaning are Constructed PhD (Design), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor

Past Supervision

Year Level of Study Research Title Program Supervisor Type
2021 PhD A Study in Cognitive Ecology for a Print-mediated Artistic Practice PhD (Fine Art), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2021 Masters Losing Control of Comics: New Narrative Function in Comic Book Design M Philosophy (Design), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2020 Honours Room For Error: Provoking Typographic Design Through Deconstruction Graphic Arts & Design Studies, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2019 PhD Biloela: Afore and Beyond PhD (Fine Art), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2017 Honours Speculative Memories / Speculative Futures: creative technological advancements in augmented realities Graphic and Design Studies, The University of Newcastle Sole Supervisor
2017 Honours Mottainai: New cycles of textile practice Graphic and Design Studies, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2017 Honours Narrative, Aesthetics and Mechanics: A Study of Interconnected Game Elements Graphic and Design Studies, The University of Newcastle Sole Supervisor
2016 Honours The Status and Future of Print Design Graphic and Design Studies, The University of Newcastle Sole Supervisor
2016 Honours Shifting Tides - Cinemagraphic book cover designs for New Adult audiences Graphic and Design Studies, The University of Newcastle Sole Supervisor
2014 Honours Coal Magazine - Visual Strategies that can Sustain Readership and Attract Audience Graphic and Design Studies, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2014 Honours Hybrid Novels: The New Novel? Graphic Devices Contributing to New Ways of Reading Graphic and Design Studies, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
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Research Projects

Six Seasons – Low Waste Slow Fashion Future 2019 - 2020

The Low Waste, Slow Fashion Future – Six Seasons Collection is supported by the University of Newcastle, School of Creative Industries RAPID program. RAPID is a series of research sprints that sees industry partners and research collaborators work together fast on problems that matter. The Six Seasons range is a collaboration between High Tea With Mrs Woo (a small-run clothing label by Rowena, Juliana & Angela Foong) and team of creative researchers from The University of Newcastle (Faye Neilson, Bernadette Drabsch, Giselle Penn, Brett McMahon, and Caelli Jo Brooker).


Six Seasons
The Six Seasons collection is grounded in the desire to create environmentally sustainable garments that inclusively fit a range of body shapes, are gender neutral, and flexibly adapt to changing climate conditions. 

The Low Waste, Slow Fashion Future team's fashion collection is inspired by a love of the environment and a desire to protect it – helping to solve fast fashion with low waste slow and sustainable alternatives. The team seeks to contribute to a local fashion industry that is sustainable and eco-friendly, using low and zero-waste pattern layout and customised, purposeful digital printing. We want to create designs that are free from gender, durable and timeless, and inspired by the seasonal colours and patterns of the Australian bush. We want to show respect to the Indigenous knowledge of these seasonal changes and create a collection that reflects their frugality and connection with the land. Our designs will be made specifically for the Australian environment, being cool, loose and protective in summer and cosy in winter. Our tags and labels will be made out of fabric scraps, with the labels embedded with local, endemic seeds, so they can be planted after purchase to help restore our local biodiversity. We want to design for the future, using smart, sustainable design choices to challenge the fast, disposable fashion ethos that currently exists.

We The Makers
Joint Winner – We The Makers: Design for the Future – Sustainable and Ethical Textiles and Fashion
National Wool Museum – 27 June to 22 November 2020


Happily Ever After 2011 - 2013

Caelli Jo Booker and Helen Hopcroft

The Happily Ever After Project was conceived as an interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, writers and craftspeople invited to work together to create handmade books which explore female narratives within the fairytale genre.

While the classic fairytale ending ‘happily ever after’ envisages a single, finite destiny, the contemporary feminine experience encompasses a multiplicity of roles, expectations, endings, beginnings and relationships. Thus the project and exhibition theme is probably best conceptualised as a celebration of diversity within destiny, with the fairytale genre used as the narrative vehicle to explore this idea.

John Painter Gallery 10 – 26 June, 2011
Cox Rayner Gallery, Artspace Mackay 29 July – 28 October, 2011
Manly Library 03 December, 2011 – 29 January, 2012
The Auchmuty Library  21 November, 2012 – 07 April, 2013


This project was supported by a grant from the New South Wales Government - Arts NSW and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. The program is administered by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).


DesignPool.org 2019 -

The Design Pool is an ongoing project that embodies practice-based multidisciplinary research aiming to facilitate real-life design outcomes that enable students, emerging designers, professional practitioners and educators to participate in individuals' creative development and evolving projects online. At its core, the project characterises how speculative research methods can drive ideation and present beta products for students, practitioners and educators that capture visual content online and build rapport – decreasing the division between Education and Practice in Visual Communication Design. The website is a recording of creative content, facilitating Inter-relationships today's design students, aluminium, industry professionals and design educators. Its research significance is evident in its recognition as winner of a Digital Design at the Australian Graphic Design Association Student Awards in 2020, which is reviewed and judged by acclaimed industry professionals. 


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Members from the Greater Cities Commission, University of Newcastle's Wollotuka Institute and the Institute for Regional Futures group together for a photo at the launch

News • 30 May 2023

Australia-first research into First Nations and city planning

The Greater Cities Commission (the Commission), in partnership with University of Newcastle’s Wollotuka Institute and the Institute for Regional Futures, has today launched the Partnering with First Nations Communities in City and Regional Planning research report.

News • 18 Jul 2017

Humanities workshop kicks off design start-up

A Humanities Startup Workshop run by the University of Newcastle’s Centre for 21st Century Humanities in conjunction with Slingshot has assisted in the creation of a design service and research studio within the School of Creative Industries.

Dr Caelli Brooker

Position

Lecturer - Indigenous Education
Research Support Team
Indigenous Education and Research
Academic Division

Contact Details

Email caelli.brooker@newcastle.edu.au
Phone +61 2 4921 6368

Office

Room SAS208
Building Birabahn Building
Location Callaghan Campus
University Drive
Callaghan, NSW 2308
Australia
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