Dr Simon Grennan

STAFF PROFILE

Position

Lecturer In Art and Performance

Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department

SCCA Arts & Education

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Deakin University, 2019
Master of Education, Griffith University, 2006
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons), Griffith University, 1995

Contact

s.grennan@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 925 17636

Biography summary

Simon Grennan is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at Deakin University where he teaches contemporary art practice. Along with specialisations in painting, drawing, and printmaking, his creative interests have more recently extended to video installation and cross institutional collaborations.  Grennan holds a Bachelor degree in Visual Arts and a Masters degree in Education. His current PhD research  focuses on the relationship between landscape and consciousness, particularly consciousness in the context of our emerging scientific understanding of the mind/brain.

Research interests

Landscape

Landcsape and consciousness

Creativity and creative expertise in the visual arts



 

Teaching interests

Painting, drawing, contemporary art

Knowledge areas

Contemporary art

Studio practice (painting, drawing, printmaking, video installation)

Landscape (landscape and consciousness)

Curriculum design

Expertise

Painting Printmaking Drawing Landscape theory and practice Art theory
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Conferences

6th International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2013

5th International Conference on  Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2015

Projects

 PhD project: landscape and  consciousness studies.

Bridge Project

    Publications

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    2018

    The Landscape and its subjects

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    (2018), Counihan Gallery, J1

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    2017

    Mutual contamination

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    (2017), Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    2016

    Antisubjectivism and the (spectral) return of consciousness in landscape research

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    (2016), Consciousness, Theatre Literature and the Arts 2015, Brooklyn, N.Y., E1

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    2015

    The demise and spectral return of consciousness in landscape research

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    (2015), pp. 211-226, Consciousness, theatre, literature and the arts 2015, Newcastle, Eng., B1

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    Formica

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    (2015), Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    2014

    The swimmer (The Bridge Project)

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    (2014), Melbourne, Vic., J1-1

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    I-Face

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    (2014), Melbourne, Vic., J2-1

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    2013

    RGB Wattle Park chalet

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    (2013), Geelong, Vic., J2

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    YGR Fontainebleau

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    (2013), Geelong, Vic., J2

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    YGR Warrandyte

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    (2013), Geelong, Vic., J2

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    PORTFOLIO (2011): Solo Exhibition at Manningham Gallery

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    (2013), Melbourne, Vic., J1-1

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    2012

    The last of his kind

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    (2012), Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    The return

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    (2012), Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    Expedition

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    (2012), Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    Self portrait as time traveller

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    (2012), Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    Self portrait as time traveler version 2

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    (2012), Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    The search : version 1

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    (2012), Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    Being appropriated : the observer and the observed

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    (2012), Geelong, Vic., J2

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    Excavation

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    (2012), Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    2011

    Sontaran stimmung

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    (2011), Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    Essay: landscape on the brink

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    (2011), Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    Dalek in landscape

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J1

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    Brain tree

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Forensic man (study)

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Suspect 5 (after Stubbs)

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Back dog

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Landscape in green (Wattle Park)

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Black Walk Park, scene 1

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Nocturnal landscape

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Gardiners Creek, scene 2

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Gardiners Creek, scene 3

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Black Walk Park, scene 3

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Girl in white dress

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Dalek stimmung

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Nocturnal landscape (night vision version)

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    The search

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Four trees (Wattle Park in yellow)

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Coda, Gardiners Creek

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Gardiners Creek (during the floods)

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Evidence (torch man)

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Outside corner painting (Walk Bridge)

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Inside corner painting (artist by waters edge)

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Green space (with self portrait)

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Source

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Black Wall Park (scene 2)

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Forensic man

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Riverside Road, Wattle Park

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    (2011), Doncaster, Vic., J2

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    Funded Projects at Deakin

    No Funded Projects at Deakin found

    Supervisions

    No completed student supervisions to report