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Artist in Residence Program

The Faculty of Creative Arts has had an Artist in Residence program in place since 1984. The opportunity for students and staff to interact with noted national and international artists is extremely important for stimulating new ways of observing, working and thinking. Artists with expertise complementary to the teaching program and beneficial to staff and students, are invited to give a series of master classes and workshops over a period of 1-4 weeks and also to give a Colloquia seminar if appropriate during their residency.
For enquiries, please contact Jenny Robertson .

Artists selected for 2008:

School of Journalism and Creative Writing...

Katherine Thomson (Creative Writing)
14 - 24 April

GUEST LECTURE: Scouting for talent: European perspectives on international festivals, venues, networks and new performance platforms
When: Thursday, 6 March 2008 @ 4.30pm
Where: The Performance Space, Faculty of Creative Arts, Building 25, University of Wollongong
Cost: Free; RSVPs appreciated. Please call 02 4221 3996 Read More

Katherine began her career in the theatre as an actor working with Sidetrack, Theatre South and Sydney Theatre Company. Her first play, A Change in the Weather, was presented at the 1982 Women and Arts Festival. Later, under commission from Des Davis at Theatre South she wrote Tonight We Anchor in Twofold Bay, which premiered in Eden played a season at STC's Wharf Studio and toured the South Coast. In 1987 she wrote A Sporting Chance for State Theatre Company of South Australia and then Darlinghurst Nights for the STC – a musical play based on the light verse of Kenneth Slessor, written with composer Max Lambert which opened Sydney Theatre Company’s season in 1988 and was broadcast on ABC's Radio National.

Katherine’s other theatre credits include: Diving for Pearls (premiered at Melbourne Theatre Company 1991), Barmaids (premiered at Deckchair Theatre 1991), Fragments of Hong Kong (1995), Navigating (premiered at Queensland Theatre Company and MTC 1997 and played at STC 1998), This Hospital is My Country and Mavis Goes to Timor (for Deckchair Theatre in 1999 and 2002 respectively - the latter toured through regional Australia in 2003). In 2001, as part of their Borderline project, Griffin Theatre Company commissioned and produced Kayak, and more recent commissions have included Wonderlands for Hot House Theatre and Griffin Theatre (also produced by Deckchair in 2007) and Harbour for Sydney Theatre Company which opened the Sydney Theatre in January 2004. Most recently King Tide, a play originally commissioned by Hori Pro, Inc. Theatre in Japan, premiered at Griffin Theatre in 2007, which was also nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Australian Play.

Katherine's extensive television screenwriting credits include Satisfaction, Blackjack, Wildside, Grass Roots, Halifax fp, Fallen Angels, Snowy and GP. She is the Australian co-writer of Answered By Fire, a two part series produced by Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier, the ABC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She is the writer of the Becker Entertainment/ Film Australia feature documentary Unfolding Florence – The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst based on the life of Florence Broadhurst, directed by Gillian Armstrong which screened at Sundance Film Festival in January 2006. Katherine won an Australian Writer’s Guild Awards (AWGIE) 2007 for Blackjack and won three in 2006: the Major Award for the best overall script and Best Television Mini Series (original) for Answered By Fire and Best Documentary (Public Broadcast) for Unfolding Florence, with the latter also winning the Queensland Premier’s Award 2006 for Best Television Script.

Katherine’s many industry awards include the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Diving for Pearls and five nominations in the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Wonderlands, Diving for Pearls, Barmaids, This Hospital is My Country and GP (Close to Her Chest); a nomination for the 2002 WA Premier’s Book Award for Best Script for Mavis Goes to Timor; Australian Writer’s Guild Awards (AWGIE) for Barmaids and Mavis Goes to Timor; an AWGIE for Best Single Script in a Series for GP (Shaking Hands with Time); and a 2002 AFI nomination for Halifax fp (Cradle and All). Katherine received the 2003 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights’ Award for Wonderlands. For her play Harbour, she received the 2005 NSW Premier’s Literary Award and was named a finalist for the internationally prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. In 2006 Katherine was awarded The Australian National Playwrights Centre Award for her substantial contribution to the Australian theatre industry. Katherine has undertaken writer-in-residencies in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, has participated as an invited delegate to the International Women’s Playwright Conference in Jakarta and Bali and more recently as guest speaker at the Shanghai and Hong Kong Writers’ Festival.

David Marr (Journalism)
Dates to be confirmed

More information available soon.

School of Music and Drama...

Jeff Stein & Paul Gassola (Performance)
25 August - 19 September

More information available soon.

Bugallo-Williams (Sound)
11 - 22 August

More information available soon.

School of Art and Design...

Maria Cruz (Visual Arts)
7 - 20 March 

Louise Curhan (Graphic Design)
17 March - 8 April

Eric & Linda Natuoivi (Visual Arts)
7 - 20 October

More information available soon.

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