Staff Profiles

Areas of Expertise

Object design, Ceramics, Design materials, methods & technologies, Design business practice.

Teaching Areas

Interactive Systems, Ceramic Design, Design Process.

Research Supervision

Degree:	Project:	Status:
MDesHons	Material Narratives in Design	Current
MFA		Current

Current Research Activity

Rod Bamford is intrigued by innovative synergies that occur in the process of bringing designed objects to a global market, especially the impact of new technologies and materials on design and product development and how these impact on the values attributed to traditional design / hand work attitudes. The various cultures and economies of scale across which this operates raises complex ethical and environmental questions.

Current research is focused on investigating and applying convergent data driven processes to object design, linking traditional visual arts and crafts methods with digital modelling, photographic and material printing technologies. One aim is to develop design methods which maximise flexibility of expression at an appropriate sustainable scale. The present state of that investigation is being explored through a series of limited edition ceramic objects produced as part of an OZCO (Australia Council) strategic partnership grant.

Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

2004, WOCEK International Exhibition. WOCEK, South Korea.

2003, Future Function. Manly Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

2000, Colonial to Contemporary. Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

Grants

OZCO (Australia Council), Strategic Partnership Grant, Maker-Manufacturer-Market.

Professional Associations

International Academy of ceramics
Elected member

Cone Nine Studios
Object design projects and commissions

Manfedi Enterprises
Tableware design & manufacturing development

National Trust of Australia
Norman Lindsay ceramic reproductions