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Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology), Bachelor of Fine Arts (Victorian College of the Arts)
Courtney Pedersen is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at QUT. She was previously the Academic Program Director for the School of Creative Practice and the Head of Discipline for Visual Arts. She has supervised postgraduate research, coordinated Honours research and taught undergraduate units in the Visual Arts at QUT since 2006. Her research interests include gender, creative practice-led research, and visual arts pedagogy. She completed her PhD, an exploration of feminism, genealogy and social history through public installation art, in 2005. Prior to that, she was a practising artist for over 10 years, having studied photography at the Victorian College of the Arts in the early 1990s. She has been a member of the reviews editorial team for the peer-reviewed Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, was a co-director of the feminist artist collective LEVEL, and a board member Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space in Brisbane. She continues to serve on the board of Eyeline Publishing. Courtney is currently affiliated with the Creative Industries Faculty Research Group for More-Than-Human Futures.
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2012
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- Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award
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- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2009
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- Member of the editorial panel for reviews, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art.
- Haynes, R. & Pedersen, C. (2018). To care for self and others: a collaborative conversation. In A. Black & S. Garvis (Eds.), Women activating agency in academia: Metaphors, manifestos and memoir (pp. 174–184). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/119123
- Haynes, R., Pedersen, C., Coombs, C. & Franzmann, C. (2018). RIGHT NOW! Presented at: RIGHT NOW! [Visual Art Work]. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116865
- Haynes, R. & Pedersen, C. (2016). Acting out: performing feminisms in the contemporary art museum. Journal of Australian Studies, 40(2), 203–214. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95945
- Coombs, C., Franzmann, C., Haynes, R., Holtsclaw, A. & Pedersen, C. (2016). Recipes and revolutions: consciousness-raising and feminist picnics. Feminist Review, 114(1), 130–138. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103526
- Pedersen, C., (2015). Art and the anxious city: Public art, public interest and the public good. Axon: Creative Explorations, 5(1), 1–9. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/82704
- Pedersen, C. & Haynes, R. (2015). Double Blind: Supervising women as creative practice-led researchers. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47(12), 1265–1276. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84986
- Pedersen, C., (2015). Quaternary [Guest Curator]. Presented at: Quaternary [Guest Curator]. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/94489
- Pedersen, C., (2014). Representing places never visited: landscape and the diasporic imagination. Photography and fiction: Locating dynamics of practice (Queensland Festival of Photography 5 Conference), 71–74. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/82898
- Pedersen, C., Coombs, C. & Holtsclaw, A. (2014). She's done alright for a girl: Strategies for teaching women artists. Proceedings of the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) Conference 2014, 1–7. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/81954
- Pedersen, C., (2012). Running dry : Brisbane's public fountains. In A. McNamara (Ed.), Sweat : The Subtropical Imaginary (pp. 65–77). Institute of Modern Art. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/49826
- Art As Change: A Study Of Childhood Social Justice-based Arts Pedagogy Inspired by Socially Engaged Art in New York City
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Lyndal O'Gorman - Anna Piaggi, the embodiment of fashion performance and identity
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Tiziana Ferrero-Regis - Empathic gestures: exploring affect and gesture as emergent phenomena within the presence of potential
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Kiley Gaffney, Dr Clare Dyson, Professor Robert Schweitzer - Living Kantha: A Creative Interpretation of Bengali Women's Traditional Practices
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Leah King-Smith - Artists as Living A(na)rchivists: An Examination of Living Archives as Participatory Media for the Artist- Run Sector
Professional Doctorate, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Rachael Haynes - The Influence of Digital Geographies on Public Art: The Evolution of Online Creative Practice
MPhil, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Sophie McIntyre
- Playing with Me: Feminine Perspectives in Fetishism and Contemporary Art (2017)
- It's Complicated: Romancing the [Male] Modernist Canon (2015)
- To See and Be Seen: Cinematic Constructions of Gender and Spectatorship in Contemporary Screen-Based Art (2014)
- ARTSCIENCE IN PRACTICE: Exploring the Critical and Creative Potentials of Transdisciplinary Art and Science Practice Using a Methodological and Conceptual Framework of Creative Becoming (2013)
- Framing Fashion Curation: A theoretical, historical, and practical perspective (2013)
- Melancholy and the Memorial: Representing Loss, Grief and Affect in Contemporary Visual Art (2018)
- Mapping a Liminal: Nurturing of Kantha into Contemporary Art (2017)
- Stone Baby: an Exploration of Trembling and its Potential for Viisual Art (2015)
- Revolving kaleidoscope:site-specificity and the part object in contemporary installation art (2014)
- Fashion, the Body and Technology: tracing early 20th century techno-utopian ideas, aesthetics and impulses in 21st century wearable technology (2012)