Emeritus Professor Denise Ferris

Position: Head of School
School and/or Centres: School of Art & Design

Email: denise.ferris@anu.edu.au

Researcher profile: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/ferris-dm

  • Lens Based Practice
  • Culture, Gender, Sexuality
  • Art Criticism
  • The absent narratives of the 1860’s Chinese miners of Kiandra, a visual and textual interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary project with history, archaeology, visual arts and museum practice 
  • Photographic representation of the non-heroic sublime focused on affect, environmental change, aesthetics and place in a site-specific landscape of human intervention
  • The visual articulation of ideas realised through ‘alternative‘, non-silver, photographic techniques e.g. milk/casein printing with sunlight
  • Examining maternal representations and photographic representation of childhood. Loss, erasure and social responses to climate change and their representation in photography

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