Biography summary
Simon Grennan is a Lecturer in Art and Performance, Visual Arts, at Deakin University where he teaches contemporary art practice. Along with specialisations in painting, drawing, and printmaking, his creative interests extend to video art, interdisciplinary practices and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Grennan holds a PhD in Visual Arts and a Masters degree in Adult Education specialising in the tertiary sector. His primary area of research focuses on landscape as an enquiry parallel to, or cognate with, consciousness research. Grennan is an active practioner particularly in the disciplines of painting and drawing in the expanded field.
Research interests
Studio based research
Landcsape theory, landscape representation, landscape and consciousness.
Painting, drawing, interdisciplinary practice
Teaching interests
Studio arts: painting, drawing, printmaking, video, interdisciplinary practice.
First year teaching
Curriculum design, Unit design, Course design
Post graduate supervision
Knowledge areas
Contemporary art and Western art history
Studio practice teaching (painting, drawing, printmaking, video installation)
Landscape Theory (and consciousness research)
Curriculum design
Expertise
- Arts
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Conferences
2nd international Body of Knowledge: Art and Embodied Cognition Conference, from 27-29 June 2019
6th International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2015
5th International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2013
Professional activities
Undergraduate and post graduate education
Practice led research
Discipline co-ordination
Gallery and exhibition management
Publications
Lienors Torre, Simon Grennan, Rosemary Woodcock
(2020), pp. 1-1, ANZAHPE 2020 : Proceedings of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators Conference : Ways of Seeing in Healthcare, Monash University, Melbourne, E1
Venetian Blind: Optical Allusions
Simon Grennan, Sarah Neville, Lienors Torre, Anne Wilson
(2019), Palazzo Bembo, J2
Antisubjectivism and the (spectral) return of consciousness in landscape research
S Grennan
(2016), Consciousness, Theatre Literature and the Arts 2015, Brooklyn, N.Y., E1
The demise and spectral return of consciousness in landscape research
S Grennan
(2015), pp. 211-226, Consciousness, theatre, literature and the arts 2015, Newcastle, Eng., B1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report