Research Supervisor Connect
Vanessa Berry is a writer and artist who works with history, memory and archives. She is the author of Gentle and Fierce (Giramondo 2021) an essay collection about human and animal interrelationships, and Mirror Sydney: an atlas of reflections (Giramondo 2017), a collection of essays and hand-drawn maps that investigate the city’s marginal places and undercurrents, based on the popular blog Mirror Sydney. She is one of Australia's best known zine-makers and has been publishing the autobiographical zine I am a Camera since 2000. Her zine and illustration works have been exhibited in galleries such as the National Gallery of Australia and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Vanessa's creative practice research combines autobiography with physical methodologies such as walking and drawing, and posthuman and psychogeographic approaches.
English, School of Art, Communication and English (SACE)
Research interests
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3044