Roy Ananda
Head of Drawing and Lecturer, Sculpture
Roy Ananda is a South Australian artist, writer and lecturer. He was included in the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and has exhibited widely across Australia. Roy's practice exlpores the intersection of popular culture, contemporary fandom and visual art. More…
Daryl Austin
Lecturer, Painting
Daryl Austin is an artist and lecturer, who has taught painting at Adelaide Central School of Art since 2001. His work hovers between realism and abstraction, exploring states of visual flux. Daryl was our Head of Painting from 2006 - 2014, contributing significantly to the development of our painting curriculum. More...
Melanie Brown
Lecturer, Painting and Drawing
Melanie Brown received her Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) in 2008 from Adelaide Central School of Art. She was awarded several scholarships including the Alumni Award during her studies and has subsequently featured in a range of exhibitions and prizes. More...
Dr Daniel Connell
Lecturer, Painting and Drawing
Dr Daniel Connell studied part-time at Adelaide Central School of Art from 1997 to 2009 and has taught short courses in portraiture with us since 2014. His post-graduate research and studio practice investigates portraiture as a socially engaged practice. More...
Jack Cross
Lecturer, Art History & Theory
Jack Cross grew up in the lower Flinders Ranges amid the influences of the German Lutheran community. He holds qualifications from Adelaide Teachers College, the University of Adelaide, the University of Melbourne and Stanford University in California, and has worked as a teacher, free-range poultry farmer and associate professor. More...
Johnnie Dady
Lecturer, Drawing and Sculpture
Johnnie Dady is an artist and lecturer who trained in both the UK and Australia. His practice is interdiciplinary, combining sculpture, drawing, set design and architecture. He has lectured with us for several decades and has helped shape our rigourous approach to studio-based teaching. More...
Dr. Andrew Dearman
Lecturer, Art History & Theory
Dr. Andrew Dearman joined us at Adelaide Central School of Art in 2012. His practice-led PhD dealt with the notion that contemporary art practice is a posed form of subjectivity - one which is determined less by the individual, and more by a plethora of social institutions and practices. More...
James Dodd
Lecturer, Drawing and Contemporary Studio Practice
James Dodd has exhibited widely across Australia in artist run, publicly funded and commercial spaces. His work traverses the boundaries between visual street culture, alternative use of urban space and existing gallery conventions. More...
Dr Nerina Dunt
Lecturer, Art History & Theory
Dr Nerina Dunt is a researcher, writer, and teacher of Art History and Theory. She is a recent PhD graduate of the University of Adelaide, completing an Art History thesis entitled ‘Investigating the Aesthetic Character of Australian Urban Indigenous Art: A Socio-Political Fusion’. More...
Nicholas Folland
Head of Contemporary Studies and Sculpture
Nicholas Folland is an installation artist who currently lives and works in Adelaide. His practice reconfigures everyday objects and environments to produce uncanny, poetic and unsettling affects. Nicholas is recognised nationally as an artist and has been featured in major exhibitions, collections and publications. More...
Zoe Freney
Head of Art History & Theory
Zoe Freney is a writer, artist and educator based in the Adelaide Hills. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally and has presented research papers at numerous academic conferences. Zoe has been the recipient of a number of awards, residencies and scholarships for both her academic research and her studio practice. More...
Geoff Gibbons
Lecturer, Art History & Theory
Geoff Gibbons is an artist, writer and academic. He has degrees from the University of Adelaide, Flinders University, and the University of South Australia. Geoff is a key member of South Australia’s active printmaking community and a co-founder of Bittondi Printmakers Association Inc, a not-for-profit organisation supporting contemporary printmakers. More...
Sasha Grbich
BVA and BVA (Hons) Coordinator and Lecturer, Sculpture
Sasha Grbich is a practicing artist and educator who coordinates our Bachelor of Visual Art and Bachelor of Visual Art (Hons) programs. She recently spent time living and studying in Portugal having received the 2018 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship. More...
Dr. Sue Kneebone
Lecturer, Contemporary Studio Practice, and Art History & Theory
Sue Kneebone’s interdisciplinary practice includes the transformative process of mixed media and montage to draw the viewer in to consider insidious subtexts such as disturbed ecologies and dispossession from colonial incursions. More...
Michael Kutschbach
Michael Kutschbach is a South Australian based artist and educator whose work encompasses drawing, sculpture, installation, painting and video. His practice is material and process-based, resulting in aesthetic/haptic outcomes that play at the borders of abstraction. More...
Monte Masi
BVA Level One Coordinator, and Lecturer, Contemporary Studio Practice
Monte Masi is an artist and writer. Through a range of performances and screen-based works, he explores both the politics of (as well as the means for) mutual support between artists, audiences and wider publics: the “carrying on of carrying on”. More...
Jess Mara
Lecturer, Painting and Drawing
Jess Mara received her Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) in 2006 from Adelaide Central School of Art. In 2007 she was the recipient of the Hill Smith Gallery/Malaysia Airlines Travel Award and has been actively exhibiting since. More...
John Neylon
Lecturer, Art History & Theory
John Neylon is an Adelaide-based independent author, curator and formerly Head of Education, Art Gallery of South Australia (1988 – 2005). More...
Christopher Orchard
Lecturer, Drawing
Christopher Orchard is internationally recognised as one of the leading exponents of the drawn image. His works are immediately recognisable; distinguished not just by the signature avatar he has negotiated with for the last twenty years but also for the quality of their draftspersonship. More...
Andrew Purvis
Final Year Supervisor and Curator - Exhibitions
Andrew Purvis has a Bachelor of Arts (Art, Honours) (2010) and a Masters of Arts (Art) (2012) from Curtin University, Perth. He has previously worked as the Project Officer for Visual Arts, Craft and Writing at the Department of Culture and the Arts in Western Australia. More...
Mary-Jean Richardson
Head of Painting
Mary-Jean Richardson is a South Australian based artist whose practice is specifically motivated by the interplay of traditions and transgression via painting’s mobility, mutability and capacity for reinvention. More...
Julia Robinson
Lecturer, Sculpture and Contemporary Studio Practice
Julia Robinson is a South Australian visual artist working in the fields of sculpture and installation. Her work reflects an interest in rituals and calendric customs that pertain to fertility and the cycle of the seasons and by extension, cycles of growth and decay. More...
Luke Thurgate
Lecturer, Drawing
Luke Thurgate is currently completing a Master of Fine Art at the National Art School in Sydney. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, residencies and public programs throughout Australia. In 2019 he was a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize and has recently been the inaugural artist in residence at Burra Regional Art Gallery. More...
Dr Ash Tower
Lecturer, Art History & Theory
Ash Tower is an artist and cultural studies scholar working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. He completed his Bachelor of Visual Art [Honours] at the Adelaide Central School of Art in 2014, More...
Lucy Turnbull
Lecturer, Drawing
Lucy Turnbull is a painter and arts educator based in Adelaide. She has recently returned from New York after spending several years completing a Master of Fine Arts at the New York Studio School. Lucy has exhibited across Australia and internationally. More...
Dr. Sera Waters
Lecturer, Art History & Theory
Dr. Sera Waters is an Adelaide based artist, arts writer and academic. She has been a lecturer at Adelaide Central School of Art since 2009. Waters is a graduate (with honours) from the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia (1997-2000), More...
