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    Associate Professor Lyndall Adams

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Associate Professor Lyndall Adams

Background

Honorary Associate Professor Lyndall Adams (Edith Cowan University) is a contemporary artist and arts practice-led researcher drawing influences from the interface between post-structuralist and new materialist feminist thinking. Lyndall has participated in solo, collaborative and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and has published scholarly work on the role of ethical arts practice, public art, collaboration and interdisciplinarity, and creative research. Lyndall has supervised to completion over 30 research candidates.

Lyndall served on the executive (2019–2020) of the Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools (ACUADS), as the Treasurer (2021–2023) and Deputy Chair (2024), the peak body representing Australian universities in the visual arts, craft, and design sector.

Professional associations

  • National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), Member
  • ArtsHub, Member

Awards and recognition

Other

  • 2024 – Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools (ACUADS) Lifelong Fellowship Award 2024
  • 2022 – Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Awards, Research Supervision, ECU
  • 2019 – Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Awards, Research Supervision, ECU
  • 2013 – Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Awards, Service to Students, ECU

Research areas and interests

  • Practice-led research
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  • Contemporary Visual Arts
  • Visual Literacy
  • Public Pedagogy

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Southern Cross University, 2008.
  • Master of Arts, Southern Cross University, 2000.
  • Bachelor of Arts with Honours (First Class Honours), Southern Cross University, 1998.
  • Bachelor of Arts, Southern Cross University, 1997.

Research Outputs

2025

Journal Articles

  • Adams, L., Kaye, N., See, H., Jayakumar, E., Barstow, C. (2025). Art in public: Potential public pedagogy post-pandemic. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 12(1), 45-69. https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00094_1.

2024

Journal Articles

2023

Conference Publications

  • Kaye, N., Adams, L. (2023). Future programming: Gallery learnings through pandemic times. Future programming: Gallery learnings through pandemic times (13). Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools.

2021

Creative Arts Research Outputs

2020

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Adams, L. (2020). what led you here?. [powder coated aluminium]. Wanneroo Road/Joondalup Drive Interchange.

2019

Book Chapters

  • Newman, R., Adams, L. (2019). The question(s), the material(s) and the ethics of creative practice research methodologies. The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy: Challenges for Creative Practice Researchers in Higher Education (110-120). Routledge. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/7562.

Conference Publications

  • Smith, A., Adams, L. (2019). Empowering the next generation of actors through the creation of student-centred self-devised dramatic work. 015 – AusAct: The Australian Actor Training Conference 2018 (119–131). Fusion Journal. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/6404.
  • Adams, L., See, H., Bell, F. (2019). Public Arts: The academy engaging with Main Roads WA, industry and community. 2019 ACUADS CONFERENCE: Engagement (1–20). Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/8323.

2018

Creative Arts Research Outputs

2017

Conference Publications

  • Adams, L., Barstow, C., Uhlmann, P. (2017). What is ERA really measuring?. ACUADS 2016: Adaptation (12p.). ACUADS.
  • Adams, L., Newman, R. (2017). Capturing creative research in the academy. Research and Development in Higher Education: Curriculum Transformation (1 - 11). Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Adams, L., Girak, S. (2017). Public Art–Mitchell Freeway Extension: Burns Beach Rd to Hester Ave. Mitchell Freeway Extension: Burns Beach Rd to Hester Ave.

2016

Conference Publications

  • Adams, L., Newman, R. (2016). Collisions, Co-opting and Collaboration: Reflections on the workings of an interdisciplinary collaborative project—in Conversation. ACUADS conference 2015: art and design education in the global 24/7 (13p.). Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools.

2015

Journal Articles

  • Adams, L., Kueh, C., Newman, R., Ryan, J. (2015). This is Not an Article: a reflection on Creative Research Dialogues (This is Not a Seminar). Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47(12), 1330-1347. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2015.1035630.

Conference Publications

  • Adams, L., Newman, R., Ferguson, N., Kueh, C. (2015). Messy never-endings: Curating inConversation as interdisciplinary collaborative dialogue. ACUADS Conference 2014: The Future of the Discipline (9p). ACUADS.
  • Adams, L., Kueh, C., Newman, R., Ferguson, N. (2015). Capturing Creative Practice. Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Conference 2014: The Future of the Discipline (9p). ACUADS.

2014

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Adams, L. (2014). argonis flexuosa. Spectrum Project Space.
  • Adams, L., Newman, R., Kueh, C. (2014). inConversation catalogue. Spectrum Project Space.
  • Adams, L., Newman, R., Kueh, C. (2014). inbetween. Spectrum Project Space.
  • Adams, L., Newman, R., Kueh, C. (2014). Curating the conversation: messy never endings. inConversation. Edith Cowan University.
  • Adams, L. (2014). archiving the family. Spectrum Project Space.
  • Adams, L., Newman, R., Kueh, C., Ferguson, N. (2014). inConversation. Spectrum Project Space.

2013

Conference Publications

  • Adams, L. (2013). Traces of Departure and Arrival. Australian Council of University Art and Design School: Annual conference papers (1-13). Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Adams, L. (2013). marginalia. University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, China.
  • Adams, L. (2013). The games we play: summer heights. Holmes a Court Gallery at Vasse Felix.
  • Adams, L., Smith, B., Tassicker, S. (2013). The Art of Sound curation. The Holmes a Court Gallery, Vasse Felix.

2012

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Adams, L., Zeligman, B. (2012). the M word. Elements Art Gallery, Dalkeith, WA.

2011

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Adams, L., Fell, F. (2011). reload: one night stack. Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW: Manly Museum Gallery, NSW.

2009

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Adams, L. (2009). the games we play. Barratt Galleries, Alstonville, NSW.

Research Projects

  • Wanneroo Road/Joondalup Drive Interchange Project, Department of Finance, Building Management and Works Grant, 2019 ‑ 2020, $42,283.
  • Havana Cuban node—inConversation2: Investigating the creative benefits and challenges of collaboration across disciplines and art-forms , Edith Cowan University, ECU Collaboration Enhancement Scheme - 2016 Round 1, 2016 ‑ 2017, $5,400.
  • Public Art-Mitchell Freeway Extension: Burns Beach Road to Hester Avenue, CPB Contractors Ltd, Grant, 2016, $32,364.
  • In Conversation: Investigating the creative benefits and challenges of collaboration across disciplines and art-forms, Edith Cowan University, ECU Early Career Researcher Grant - 2014, 2014 ‑ 2015, $23,224.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

No data available

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Cries from within: The struggles & triumphs of creating a Singaporean voice in musical theatre.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Imperceptible realities (an exhibition) -and- digitalisation: Re-imaging the real beyond notions of the original and the copy in contemporary printmaking (an exegesis)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Technique reframed body reimagined
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Encounters across dialogic cross-cultural collaborative painting
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Retrotopia. An exhibition -and- Mashup and expanded painting: A lens on liquid consumerism. An exegesis.
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), The composer as bricoleur: Notions of contemporary opera in the genesis of a short film
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Directing through dialogue: A theatre director's exploration of leadership
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Creatively pursuing persona: Finding identity through directing
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Beyond the wall. An opera for children in 2 acts. -and- toward a more engaging operatic genre for children. an exegesis.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Aggregate. An Exhibition -and- Event, Sensation and Figurative Painting. An exegesis
  • Master of Arts by Research, Defence D'afficher. An exhibition. -and- from snap-shot photography to digital printmaking via the concept of the flâneur. An exegesis.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Playing to the Beat, A play -and- Devising -and- Devising and Collective Creation in Actor Training, an exegesis
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Phantoms, an original jazz trio studio recording -and- dispelling phantoms: An Australian bassist exploring assumptions of jazz practice, an exegesis
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Meeting place. An exhibition - and - locating the country: An Australian bricoleur's inquiry. an exegesis
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Late capitalism and the American doctrine: Photographing American tragedy
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Fleshing out the fictive soul: A screen actor’s personalisation of characterisation through collaborative subtextual improvisation
  • Master of Arts by Research, The material forms of memory: A creative arts praxis examining family archive materiality and the performance of memory through installation art
  • Master of Communications by Research, The Australian football league and the closet
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), The shifting voice: Investigating accent and dialect training for West Australian actors.

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Actor training and emotions - finding a balance.
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Investigations in learning and teaching through metacognition and critical and creative thinking practices in secondary drama education
  • Master of Arts by Research, Down the Rabbit Hole. An exhibition -and- Alice in Wonderland engaging with the reflexive project of the self. An exegesis.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Night music (compositions, performance and improvisations) -and- developing a chromatic-intervallic approach to jazz improvisation through reflexive practice. An exegesis
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Tracing the ancestral roots and the flow of pedagogical practices in the development of ballet teaching from 1950 to 2016 in Perth, Western Australia.

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, New Australian plants and animals. An exhibition. - and - physiology, phenomenology and photography: Picturing the indeterminate within an Australian art practice. an exegesis.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, 'Dreams, illusion, bubbles and shadows': The temporality of objects within Buddhist perception
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Queering photography: An ethnographic exploration of RuPaul's Drag Race, the social media landscape, and queer time in the Perth drag scene
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Material murmurings.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Creative river journeys: Using reflective practice to investigate creative practice-led research
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Aliwa! A Reimagined Journey. A stage play -and- Exploring a Nyoongar Theatre Text with Pre-Service Drama Teachers. An exegesis.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Creative reuse: How rescued materials transformed my a/r/tographic practice
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