Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Ballarat 
• Graduate Diploma in Education, University of Ballarat  
• Diploma in Art, RMIT (Philip Institute of Technology)  

Areas of interest

• Practice led research 
• Creative practice research 
• Expanded textiles practice led research 
• Expanded printmaking practice led research 

Areas of expertise

Carole has extensive expertise in supervising and examining creative practice degrees at doctoral and master's levels.  

Grants

• 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, 2015–2017 

Current

• PhD student, Federation University, ‘Reclaiming Narratives of Feminism and Resistance through Textile-Based Art in the Goldfields’, principal supervisor. 
• PhD student, Federation University, ‘Female Isolation: Exploring feminist self-portraiture, hardship and humour in painting, textiles and performance’, associate supervisor. 
• Master’s student, Federation University, ‘Urban Morphology and the Adaptable Menagerie’, principal supervisor. 
• Master’s student, Federation University, ‘Layers of Lineage: Exploring Spiritual Connection to Nature through Artistic Responses to Louisa Anne Meredith’, principal supervisor. 

Past

• PhD student, Federation University, ‘Survival memories: communicating incest survival and generating social change through the history and tenacity of materials’, principal supervisor. 
• PhD student, Federation University, ‘Artifice and Illusions within the Diorama: a comparison to animated screen art’, principal supervisor.  
• PhD student, Federation University, ‘Applied Aspirations: Design and Applied Art at the Ballarat Technical Art School during the early twentieth century’, principal supervisor. 
• PhD student, Federation University, ‘Shelter from the Storm: Webs of Connectedness and Entanglement in Contemporary Paintings of The Everyday’, principal supervisor. 
• Master’s student, Federation University, ’Landscape to Earthscape: Practice and Aesthetics in a Time of Environmental Crisis’, principal supervisor. 
• Master’s student, Federation University, ‘Artistic Autistic: An exploration into female autistic artists through portraiture’, associate supervisor. 
• Master’s student, Federation University, ‘Cupping the Light – reconciling the shadow Self through printmaking process and practice’, principal supervisor. 
• Master’s student, Federation University, ‘When you go looking for me, I am not there: Description through absence’, principal supervisor.  
• Master’s student, Federation University, ‘Traces of the female self: Exploring self-portraiture and the documentation of women's art through traces, impressions and residues via contemporary print practice’, principal supervisor. 
• Master’s student, Federation University, ‘To Wandiligong: a visual journey through memory, time, space, light, landscape and fourteen layers of glass’, principal supervisor.  
• Master’s student, Federation University, ‘The making and placing of a personal view: questions of place’, principal supervisor. 

• Creative Arts, Honours   

Specialist roles

• Higher Degrees by Research co-ordinator 
• Associate professor of visual arts 

Professional association memberships

• National Association for the Visual Arts 
• Regional Arts Victoria 

Exhibitions

• 2024, Material Implications (with Tim Craker), Wangaratta Art Gallery 
• 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 
• 2016–2017, 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 
• 2010–2011, 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 

Artwork 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 
• Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne 
• RMIT Design Archive