This research paper places the three Research Projects 2 DIVINE, CARNIVAL, and HER STORIES: THE WENTWORTH WOMEN against the background of memory, remaking history, play, as well as hermeneutics. It is argued that the understanding of a work of art involves participation in its meaning by the audience which is not so much a mere receiver of information as a catalyst of the work's content. This Research Paper also attempts to place the three Research Projects, which when combined are entitled REMEMORIES/IMAGETEXTS, into a feminist remaking of history (in Barbara Kruger's sense), realigning the male-oriented histories with a female presence. Questioning the 'historical document' as the authority on history, and giving alternative versions of the life of Jeanne d'Arc and the life of Sarah Cox Wentworth are some of the concerns in the Research Projects. How these three Research Projects came to be linked is that each was originally exhibited during 1995 for the Twentieth Anniversary of International Women's Year, in venues from Penrith to Paddington. Their making spans many years, and in essence comes down to a fascination with the portrayal of women throughout history.That our images of women originally derived from how women were portrayed in carnival is one of the emerging themes, and that there are a number of different memories of specific events, depending on who is remembering them, and what their (hidden) agenda entails. In moving between time zones, questioning the portrayal of 'woman as sign', and subverting the traditional sign of woman, the artist puts forward the argument that women are the producers of signs and thus not merely objects as represented by signs / Master of Arts (Hons)(Visual Arts)

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 40).

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1993. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [27-28]).

Réfléchir les images pour réfléchir le monde. Entre unité, éclats et nuances, Kumonekotabi est un travail de recherche fonctionnant à la fois sur des images et des écritures qui sont comme autant d’espaces où une figure photographique entretient une relation à la fois simple et pourtant liée avec le Japon. Construites sur des modalités comme le plié, l’encadré, le sériel, les images construisent une logique bricolée mais également performative qui expose le corps capté dans sa relation avec le Japon, ses rêves et ses ancrages. Le travail d’écriture est une analyse de ces mêmes images, mettant en évidence les histoires mais aussi les forces et les intertextes qui habitent leurs territoires.Ainsi, à la fois théoricienne, poète et plasticienne, Kumonekotabi est une thèse éventail, entremêlant expériences visuelles et écrites avec la culture japonaise. C’est une ouverture et une fermeture, une interface de créativité, un espace entre lenteur et vitesse, la maturation et la fulgurance. Un phénomène qui avec ces emmêlements nous donne finalement les outils pour comprendre la pertinence de cet archipel éphémère créé par les images et leur simultanéité.En cela, Kumonekotabi est un travail qui envisage avec des images et leurs interprétations une certaine idée de la limite et de l’écart, du contact et de la distance. Un travail d’ambiance pris dans ce dialogue entre l’art de la relation, la relation comme œuvre d’art pour aboutir à cette idée que réfléchir les images permet de comprendre une certaine partie de notre monde et vice-versa. / Think about the pictures to think about the world. Between unity, slivers and nuances, Kumonekotabi is a research work balanced between visual shapes and articulated theory, both working like spaces where the idea of a photographic figure is having a simple and yet established relationship with Japan.Based on visual specificities like folds, frames, series, the pictures are building an homemade logic but also a performative one that display the captured body in its relationship with Japan, its dreams and anchors. The writing part then is an analysis of those very pictures, putting together the stories but also the strenghts and the interexts living in their territories.Thus, at the same time theoritical, poetic and artistic, Kumonekotabi is a dissertation to be considered like a fan, intertwining visual and literary experiences with the Japanese culture. It’s an opening, a creative interface, a space between slowness and speed, maturation and outbreaks. A phenomenon that, with its intricacy, gives us tools to understand the relevance of this archipelago created by the pictures and their simultaneity.In short, Kumonekotabi is a dissertation to contemplate with pictures and their interpretations a certain idea of limits and contrasts, contacts and distances. An atmospheric work placed in this dialog between the art of relation, relationship as a work of art in order to get to this idea that thinking about pictures allows to understand a certain part of our world, and vice-versa.

Thesis (M.A. (Hons.)) -- University of Western Sydney, 2003. / "Submitted in part fulfillment of the degree of Master of Arts (Honours) by Research, School of Contemporary Arts, University of Western Sydney" Bibliography : leaves 104-110.

This thesis culminates in an exhibition resulting from the artist’s investigation of the relationship between space and time, and on perception and experience of space with connections to ‘everyday’ ideas of space. A recurring link in this paper is the process of ‘being present’ in relation to spatial viewing. The artist’s studio practice focuses on the visual changes she sees within a particular space or spaces, and how these visual changes are perceived and experienced when presented to the viewer in a photographic image. The intention is to present a photographic image to the viewer that not only changes the space from which it originally came, but also highlights the beauty of the space that may be missed or overlooked. The research questions the way people see, the visual representation of the ‘void’ or ‘empty space’, and spatial representation. The paper also discusses how the artist visually perceives and experiences space. The work of other artists and writers who research space, time and perceptual consciousness are also considered. / Master of Arts (Hons)

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2007. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-39).

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-207). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008. / Typescript. Accompanying CD-ROM includes JPG versions of the thesis photographs. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 28-29).

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 25-26).