Staff Profiles

Education

MFA , Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada , .
GradDip (Film/TV) , Middlesex University, London , .
DipArtEd , Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Sydney , .

Areas of Expertise

Studio Arts, Media Arts.

Teaching Areas

Studio Practices - Painting, Sculpture, Installation, Media Arts.

Current Research Activity

Ian Howard’s research masters degree, from Concordia University, Montreal, was in multi media and although he was working with film and video at the time, mid 1970s, it really implied working in a cross disciplinary way across a range of studio media. More important than materials and techniques, since the 1960s (Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War) the content of Ian’s work has explored the relationship between civilian and military cultures.

This has meant working at numerous and varied sites around the world; the Berlin Wall, Northern Ireland, the Pentagon, the Great Wall of China and more recently working directly with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Through a range of materials- rubbings, castings, photography, sculpture etc., power relationships inherent in objects, actions, images and locations, coming together at particular times, are explored.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2007, Untitled. Watters Gallery, East Sydney.

Group Exhibitions

2005, Beijing Biennale. Millennium Dome, Beijing, China.

2005, Just in Case. Watters Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

2003, Khyber Passing. Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia.

Works Exhibitioned in a Competition

2005, National Sculpture Prize. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.

Grants

Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant, Conversations. (2004), .