Artist in Residence
Dr Margaret Brooks.
Dr Margaret Brooks is an Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education. She has been researching drawing and art for almost thirty years. Her research focuses on young children's drawing processes and the relationships between drawing and meaning making from socio-cultural perspectives. She uses arts-based and visual ethnographic methods to examine the drawing processes of both children and adults.
She is also a practicing artist. Her most recent artwork involves collaborations with artists, young children, and art museums around environmental, cultural and social issues. Her studio work focuses on drawing and installation. She believes in the power of art to facilitate "trans-actions" between people, issues and places.
Margaret has a strong global audience and is owner and editor of the International Art and Early Childhood website and the International Journal for Art in Early Childhood Research. The Association supports a biennial conference and, more recently, a virtual symposium from which emerged a beautiful set of eBooks.
Exhibition
Thistle.
The Nodding Thistle is an emblem of pride in Scotland, yet it is classified as a noxious weed to be eradicated in Australia.
Notions of identity and migration are explored through a series of objects and paper made from different parts of the thistle. Charcoal drawings support the investigation of thistles.
Objects
Vessels of thistle paper.
Drawings
Charcoal investigations.
