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Meg Keating
Meg Keating
Head of School, Creative Arts and Media
Centre for the Arts , Hobart CBD Campuses
Associate Professor Meg Keating is interested in paintings, drawings and installations, and within that context, the history of painting and its effects.
"There is something deep within us, that the whole of idea of making and creating is fundamental to who we are."
Meg Keating -
From a backpack full of paints travelling to her next residency, to overseeing students creating virtual exhibitions as part of online festivals, Associate Professor Meg Keating is a champion of creative outcomes in all aspects of life.
“Creative arts and media are at the confluence of making and learning. There must be skill and craft, but there also needs to be conceptual rigour around it. The School of Creative Arts and Media is at the centre of reshaping perspectives on creative outcomes within the University and engaging with our communities,” Associate Professor Keating said.
Head of the School of Creative Arts and Media, Associate Professor Keating is an international artist and renowned creative scholar.
From her initial training in painting, print making and visual communications in Sydney in the late 1990s, Associate Professor Keating came to Tasmania to study Honours and later a PhD. She was awarded her first international residency in 1998-99, travelling to Beijing as part of the AsiaLink scholarship program.
“That was where I had my first solo exhibition. It was about taking opportunities. I went from being a Tasmanian student to international artist in one step.”
Associate Professor Keating continued to study and teach, travelling over the years to Taiwan, Japan and Malaysia to study, teach and exhibit.
“In the early years it was about sustainability. I was moving between grants and residencies, always working towards the next project. When the teaching year in Australia was over I would be off, making sure I was exhibiting in commercial galleries at least once a year as well as teaching.”
A combination of university-based creative practice and teaching, as well as her significant creative output, means that Associate Professor Keating has become an expert-practitioner.
“I’ve had a dual career,” she says referring to her work within the University and in the arts more broadly.
“One of my proudest achievements was the negotiation of recognition for non-traditional research outcomes in the University context. Reporting for research outcomes in the creative arts — fine arts, music, performance and media, areas that are practice lead — are very different to the those in other areas of scholarship — but just as important.
“At the University of Tasmania, we now have an established framework of practice-led research and creative research outcomes as well as traditional research.”
Reflecting on being an artist in Tasmania, Associate Professor Keating couldn’t be prouder of her base. She says this is where she studied, and where she made a career in the world.
“I think it is part of island cultures to look outside of ourselves.
“Tasmania is also a great place to be creative. It has space, and that is not a given in other parts of the world. Tasmanian artists have an affinity with materiality and a craft that is really, really strong.”
Associate Professor Keating is now working with students from across the creative arts and media school, exploring new avenues for creativity, sound production, music and storytelling and exhibiting in physical and virtual spaces.
“It’s important to equip students with a good foundation in their practice. But as well as having the skills to make and create that means knowing how to innovate: you have an exhibition scheduled for the day after tomorrow, but the location has changed to a venue that is a completely different size, or you have a festival planned for midwinter but COVID-19 hits. What do you do? Go.”
Associate Professor Meg Keating is the Head of School at the School of Creative Arts and Media at the University of Tasmania. Meg is also an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, whose practice explores new ways of experiencing and viewing our immediate environment through screen- based technologies.
Meg has extensive experience in leadership within creative arts programs, as a tertiary level educator for 12 years and as a high-profile international practising artist with 20 years exhibition history. She has had multiple international residencies, where she worked on large commissioned projects, in Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore and China.
As an academic her expertise lies in higher degree research (HDR), research performance and publication administration and the pedagogy of creative practice research methodologies with a particular focus in visual arts and interdisciplinary creative arts practice. She has extensive leadership in undergraduate creative arts pedagogy and innovative curriculum development and design within Fine Arts, Music, Theatre and Performance and Media and Communication.
Biography
Meg has exhibited extensively since 1999 nationally and internationally, as well as being the recipient of numerous awards. In 2012 she was awarded an Australia Council New Work Grant in the mid career category to develop new ways of re-contextualising paper cutting. In 2011 Meg won the Hobart Art Prize: Paper category as well as taking out the People's Choice Award. In 2008 she was the recipient of a year-long residency at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia; an Asialink residency at the Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan in 2006 followed by a residency at The European School, Taipei in 2007; Australia Council Grant in the category of New Work Established in 2005. Her work is in numerous collections including Artbank, BHP Billiton, Australian Embassy, Beijing, Hobart City Council, National Gallery of Australia, Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan and the University of Sydney.
Meg was born in Sydney where she worked in a design studio before attending the National Art School in Sydney. Meg graduated with a PhD from the University of Tasmania in 2003.
Career summary
Qualifications
| Degree | Title of Thesis | University | Country | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | The Space of the Screen and Contemporary Ambivalence; an innovative analysis of contemporary painterly pictorial construction. | University of Tasmania | Australia | 2003 |
| BFA (HONS | University of Tasmania | Australia | 1998 | |
| Dip FA | National Art School, Institute of Technology Sydney | Australia | 1994 | |
| Dip Graphic Design | School of Visual Art Sydney | Australia | 1990 |
Memberships
Professional practice
- National Association of Visual Artists
- Contemporary Art Tasmania
Committee associations
- 2013-15 Asialink Arts Residencies Advisory Committee, University of Melbourne
Administrative expertise
- Managing a studio and studio pedagogy
- Coordinating HDR programs
- Managing large scale public art commissions
- Managing visual arts projects Curating art exhibitions
Teaching
Painting, Installation, Paper cutting, Pictorial space, Pictorialism
Teaching expertise
Megs teaching expertise is in visual arts pedagogy with a special interest in painting. She teaches and coordinates all university levels from associate diploma units to PhD.
Teaching responsibility
- Graduate Research Coordinator
- HDR supervision
- Honours supervision
- Painting Studio Coordination
View more on AssocProf Meg Keating in WARP
Expertise
- Contemporary painting practices
- Visual arts practice
- Paper cutting and stencil making
- Laser cutting and viny cutting
Research Themes
Megs research aligns to the University's research theme of Creativity, Culture and Society and the national research theme area Living in a changing environment. She does this by identifying alternative ways to represent and understand our changing environment through visual arts practices.
Keating is interested in the way screen and screen based culture and technologies have shifted our perceptions of pictorial space and pictorial construction. She is interested in the way that these shifts in pictorialism have affected our relationship with the natural world. She often uses traditional stencil methods such as South East Asian paper cutting techniques to investigate these concepts. Within this is she particularly interested in the way different representational mediums shift the duration of viewing and how embodied vision is constructed through these shifts.
Her creative works explore the intersections between the natural environment, technology and culture. Within these works she draws odd and often absurd connections between human interaction and the natural world which she explores through the mediums of painting, stencil making, cut outs and animation.
Collaboration
Meg currently works in collaboration with Samuel Johnstone on time based visual arts project, specifically animation. They have been working together since early 2013 and have completed four animation and installation projects, which have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Awards
- 2012 Australia Council New Work Grant; Mid-career
- 2011 Hobart Art Prize; Paper and People's Choice Award
- 2008 Artist in residence, Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia
- 2007 Artist in residence, Taipei European School, Taiwan & Xue Xue Institute, Taiwan
- 2007 Arts Tasmania Artsbridge travel grant to Taiwan
- 2006 Asialink Residency, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan;
- 2005 Australia Council Grant, New Work Established
Current projects
Meg is currently working on a visual arts project that explores alternative representations through two dimensional and time based media of heavy industry emissions in order to evoke speculative emotive responses.
Fields of Research
- Fine arts (360602)
- Other creative arts and writing (369999)
- Visual cultures (360104)
- Performance art (360603)
- Cultural and creative industries (470204)
- Culture, representation and identity (470208)
- Art history, theory and criticism (360199)
- Art criticism (360101)
- Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature) (470502)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music and performing arts (450111)
- Art theory (360103)
- Photography, video and lens-based practice (360604)
- Education systems (390399)
- Visual arts (360699)
- Music therapy (420103)
- Learning sciences (390409)
- Sociology of education (390203)
- Aged health care (420301)
Research Objectives
- The creative arts (130103)
- Arts (130199)
- Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies (280122)
- Music (130102)
- Visual communication (130205)
- Other education and training (169999)
- Expanding knowledge in human society (280123)
- The performing arts (130104)
- Recreation and leisure activities (excl. sport and exercise) (130603)
- Animation, video games and computer generated imagery services (220501)
- Health related to ageing (200502)
- Other environmental management (189999)
- Teacher and instructor development (160303)
Publications
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 The Paper Canary [MARS] Gallery Melbourne, VIC
2013 Mobile Living, [MARS] Gallery Melbourne, VIC
2012 Nature Strip, [MARS] Gallery Melbourne, VIC
2010 Myth-understanding, Criterion Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Lenticular Cream, [MARS] Gallery Melbourne, VIC
2009 Plantation Nation, Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia
2008 Hard Love, commissioned project, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, TAS
2007 The Year of the Rat, commissioned project Xue Xue Institute, Taipei, Taiwan
I need to hear you say it, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
Deep Water, Dark Water, Criterion Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Her name is Tan Hua, performance collaboration with Mei Li Kuang, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2006 In Dream Begin Responsibilities, 2-28 Memorial Museum, Taiwan
The Sky has Fallen, site-specific installation, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
SELECTED CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2014
Giving Voice curated by Yvonne Rees-Pagh, Salamanca Arts Center, TAS & Contemporary Art Tasmania touring exhibition: Gosford Regional Gallery, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW & Swan Hill Regional Gallery, VIC
2013
Cut, curated by Simon Mee, University of Southern Queensland Gallery, Toowoomba, QLD
Domain: a contested landscape, curated by Noel Frankham, Kim Lehman and Libby Lester, Ten Days on the Island Festival, Hobart, TAS
2012
Breathe, curated by Imogen Yang as part of the 35th City of Sydney Chinese New Year festival, Art Atrium, Sydney, NSW
2011
Black and White, curated by Simon Mee, MADE Gallery and University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD
Art + Humour Me, curated by Gordon Elliot, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Total publications
91
Journal Article
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Taylor N, Keating M, 'Contemporary food imagery: food porn and other visual trends', Communication Research and Practice, 4, (3) pp. 307-323. ISSN 2204-1451 (2018) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2018.1482190 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 12Web of Science - 12 Co-authors: Taylor N |
Book
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Keating MJ, 'A Cut Across', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 24. ISBN 1862952000 (2004) [Authored Research Book] |
Chapter in Book
(2 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Rubenis N, Keating M, Carson S, Terhell A, 'A Model of Creative and Cultural Enterprise for Connecting Communities', Engaging with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of Sustainable, Inclusive and Ethical Education and Training, Springer, K Beasy, C Smith & J Watson (ed), United States (In Press) [Research Book Chapter] Co-authors: Rubenis N; Carson S; Terhell A | |
| 2007 | Keating MJ, 'A Floating World', Tokyo: Floating World, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Jonathan Holmes (ed), Hobart, pp. 30-36. ISBN 9781862954151 (2007) [Other Book Chapter] |
Conference Publication
(3 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Juliff T, Keating MJ, Norrie H, Veness Z, Kratz SJ, 'Praxis now: Frayling's 'Research in Art and Design' 24 years on', ACUADS Conference Program, 28-29 September 2017, Canberra, ACT, pp. 1-14. (2017) [Refereed Conference Paper] Co-authors: Juliff T; Norrie H; Veness Z; Kratz SJ | |
| 2016 | Kratz SJ, Keating M, Wise K, 'Strategic directions in practice-led research: rethinking research models in the creative arts', ACUADS 2016 Conference proceedings, 29-30 September 2016, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 1-14. (2016) [Refereed Conference Paper] Co-authors: Kratz SJ; Wise K | |
| 2012 | Keating MJ, 'Imaging Weeds and weedy representation; an exploration of the context that informs the body of work Nature Strip 2012', Imaging Nature II Conference, 21- ‐23, Tarraleah Lodge Tasmania, pp. 1-10. (2012) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] |
Major Creative Work
(52 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Terhell A, Rubenis N, Keating M, Carson S, Boden M, et al., 'Covid Companions', The Pet Project (2021) [Broadcast] Co-authors: Terhell A; Rubenis N; Carson S; Boden M; Long S | |
| 2019 | Keating M, Boden M, 'We will watch over you', Chinese Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania and Sydney, NSW (2019) [Published Creative Work] Co-authors: Boden M | |
| 2018 | Keating M, 'The Big Picture: portrait of an art's centre', Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania (2018) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2018 | Keating M, Johnstone SD, Boden M, 'The Agent', Australian National Capital Artists, ANCA Gallery (2018) [Published Creative Work] Co-authors: Johnstone SD; Boden M | |
| 2018 | Keating MJ, Boden M, 'The Outsider', Moonah Arts Centre, Tasmania (2018) [Published Creative Work] Co-authors: Boden M | |
| 2017 | Keating M, Johnstone S, 'The Onlooker', M16 Artspace, M16 Artspace (2017) [Published Creative Work] Co-authors: Johnstone S | |
| 2016 | Keating M, 'Transformed labour', 'Collaboration' 35th Anniversary of the Tasmania-Fujian Sister State, Fujian Museum, Fujian China, 1 (2016) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2016 | Keating M, Johnstone S, 'Witness', MARS Gallery, Melbourne, 1 (2016) [Published Creative Work] Co-authors: Johnstone S | |
| 2016 | Keating M, Johnstone S, 'Deluge Rouge', Melbourne Central Art Loop, Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, Melbourne, 1 (2016) [Published Creative Work] Co-authors: Johnstone S | |
| 2015 | Keating M, 'The Andalusian Art Wall', Spec Property and Boroondara Council Balwyn, The Andalusian 182-186 Whitehorse Rd, Balwyn, Melbourne, 1 (2015) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2015 | Keating M, Johnstone S, 'The Paper Canary', Climarte Festival, MARS Galley, Melbourne Australia, 1 (2015) [Published Creative Work] Co-authors: Johnstone S | |
| 2014 | Keating M, Johnstone S, 'The Ministry of Pulp and Smoke', Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS: Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW; Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW and Swan Hill Regional Gallery, VIC, Australia, 1 (2014) [Published Creative Work] Co-authors: Johnstone S | |
| 2013 | Keating MJ, 'Elysium Fields 2013 & Common Garden Variety 2013', Ten Days on the Island, Domain House, Queens Domain, Hobart (2013) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2013 | Keating MJ, '3 creative works + catalogue essay- Paper cutting- the do- it-yourself tradition Modular Living; Hard rubbish & blackberry #1, 2013, Modular Living; Hard rubbish & blackberry #2, 2013, Modular Living; Hard rubbish & blackberry #3, 2013', University of Southern Queensland, USQ Arts Gallery University of Southern Queensland,Toowoomb (2013) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2013 | Keating MJ, 'Mobile Living', MARS Gallery Melbourne, MARS Gallery, Bay St Melbourne (2013) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2012 | Keating M, 'Nature Strip', Mars Gallery, Melbourne, Mars Gallery, Melbourne (2012) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2012 | Keating MJ, 'exhibition title; Breathe', Art Atrium 35th Chinese New Year Festival, Sydney, 1, pp. 1-11 (2012) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2011 | Keating M, 'Unnatural', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, pp. 28 (2011) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2011 | Keating MJ, 'Pulp and Smoke - winner, City of Hobart Art Prize (paper)', Hobart City Council/Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, 1, pp. 1 work (2011) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2010 | Keating MJ, 'Seeing Double', Plimsoll Gallery & UPSI, Malaysia, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, 350, pp. 48 (2010) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2010 | Keating MJ, 'Myth-understanding', Criterion Gallery, Criterion Gallery, Hobart, pp. 35 works (2010) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2010 | Keating MJ, 'Seeing Double: an international collaborative project [in Seeing Double: an international collaborative project, ed. Megan Keating and Zakaria Ali]', Tasmanian School of Art & Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Malaysia, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, pp. 10-13 (2010) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2009 | Keating MJ, 'Plantation Nation', Rimbun Dahan, Rimbun Dahan Arts Centre Gallery, Malaysia (2009) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2009 | Keating MJ, 'The Wallpaper Project - design title: Warpaper', University of Southern Queensland, Touring exhibition commencing at USQ Art Gallery, 1, pp. 1 work (2009) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2009 | Keating MJ, 'You Are Home', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart (2009) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2008 | Keating MJ, 'Hard Love', Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania (2008) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2008 | Keating MJ, 'Waiting for Raptors', Asialink, Malaysia, pp. 1 (2008) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2008 | Keating MJ, 'Night Operations & White Horses, 2005; The Song Remains the Same, 2005; A Beating Heart, 2005', 24 Hr Art, Darwin, pp. 3 (2008) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2008 | Keating MJ, 'Deep Water, Dark Water from the exhibition Under My Skin', Asialink, Manila, Philippines; Singapore; Seoul and Geumcheon, South Korea (2008) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2007 | Keating MJ, 'Deep Water, Dark Water', Criterion Gallery, Hobart (2007) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2007 | Keating MJ, 'The darkest path, The outsiders, Tan Hua', Barry Room Gallery, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, pp. 3 (2007) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2007 | Keating MJ, 'What the World Needs Now', Linded Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, pp. 1 (2007) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2006 | Keating MJ, 'Night operations and white horses', Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 1 (2006) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2006 | Keating MJ, 'The ballet of nothing more, Air pressure, War paper, The Great March, Follow the leader, Wheel of fortune', 22-8 Memorial Museum, Taipei, pp. 6 (2006) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2006 | Keating MJ, 'Smoke on the water', Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania, Devonport, pp. 1 (2006) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2005 | Keating MJ, 'I wanna dance with somebody, Up where we belong, The sky is the limit,, Too much heaven', Gallery 4a, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, pp. 4 (2005) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2004 | Keating MJ, 'Ground Control', Criterion Gallery, Hobart (2004) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2003 | Keating MJ, 'And then there were none', Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, 1, pp. 1 (2003) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2003 | Keating MJ, 'All quiet on the western front', Monash University of Modern Art, Melbourne, pp. 1 (2003) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2003 | Keating MJ, 'The ballet of nothing more; Something in the air', Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, pp. 2 (2003) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2003 | Keating MJ, 'Wheel of Fortune', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, pp. 1 (2003) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2001 | Keating MJ, 'Different Reds', Gallery 4a Asia-Australia Arts Centre Sydney (2001) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 2001 | Keating MJ, 'Paper Play', Smyrnios Gallery Melbourne (2001) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 2001 | Keating MJ, 'Zhong Guo Jewel', Casula Powerhouse (2001) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 2001 | Keating MJ, 'Chinese Thoughts', Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania (2001) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 2001 | Keating MJ, 'Paper Play no. 2', arts@work, Hobart (2001) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 2000 | Keating MJ, 'Xiaojie Looka Looka', Contemporary gallery: Beijing, Beijing (2000) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 2000 | Keating MJ, 'The Purgatorial Perspective: from utopia to dystopia', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 4 (2000) [Recorded Creative Work] | |
| 1999 | Keating MJ, 'Sequence', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 36pp,11 b/w ill 12 colour illustrations (1999) [Recorded Creative Work] | |
| 1998 | Keating MJ, 'A Silent View: Scenes from a Passing Epoch', Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, pp. 4 (1998) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 1998 | Keating MJ, 'Past Tense/Future Perfect', Craftwest Centre for Contemporary Craft, Perth, W.A., pp. 52 (1998) [Recorded Creative Work] | |
| 1998 | Keating MJ, 'Recent work by Sarah Ryan & Megan Keating', smith + stoneley on stratton, Newstead, Queensland, pp. 6 (1998) [Recorded Creative Work] |
Other Creative Work
(26 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Boden M, Kingston D, Dobson A, Keating M, 'The Insider Out', Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart (2018) [Performance Practice] Co-authors: Boden M; Kingston D; Dobson A | |
| 2011 | Keating MJ, 'The Money Shot 2 ', made. Creative Space, Toowoomba, pp. 1 (2011) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2011 | Keating MJ, 'Tickle Me Senseless', Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, pp. 9 (2011) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2010 | Keating MJ, 'Early Morning', Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, pp. 1 work (2010) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2010 | Keating MJ, ''Tis the Season to be Jolly, What the World Needs Now, untitled from 'Postcard' series', [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms, Melbourne, pp. 6 (2010) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2010 | Keating MJ, 'The Money Shot: from cash to lust in four easy steps', Stable Gallery, Moonah, Hobart, pp. 1 work (2010) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2010 | Keating MJ, 'Warpaper, 2009, cover image on Art Monthly Australiaissue 234', Art Monthly Australia, ANU, Canberra, pp. 1 work (2010) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2010 | Keating MJ, 'Lenticular Cream', [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms, Melbourne, pp. 42 works (2010) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2009 | Keating MJ, 'Meg Keating on Cath Robinson's Thought Noise/Wave from Preludes (If Played Simultaneously), 2009 in Some Text Missing catalogue', Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 1 (2009) [Minor Creative Work] | |
| 2009 | Keating MJ, 'Song Cycle 1, 2 and 3', Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, Malaysia, pp. 3 (2009) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2009 | Keating MJ, 'Deep Water, Dark Water (2007) in Platform Seoul', Platform Seoul, Seoul, Korea, pp. 1 (2009) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2009 | Keating MJ, 'What the worlds needs now (2007-2008)', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 1 (2009) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2008 | Keating MJ, 'Night Operations and White Horses, 2005', National Gallery of Autralia, Canberra, pp. one (2008) [Acquisition] | |
| 2006 | Keating MJ, 'Acid reign, A beating heart, The song remains the same', Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, pp. 3 (2006) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2005 | Keating MJ, 'Back the attack ', Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Hobart, pp. 1 (2005) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2005 | Keating MJ, 'Tropicana, Tropical fever', Perth Institute of Contemporary arts, Perth, pp. 2 (2005) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2005 | Keating MJ, 'Across enemy lines, Fall from Grace, Tropical fever, Tropicana, Pop, The last hurrah, Through the treetops', Criterion Gallery, Hobart, pp. 7 (2005) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2005 | Keating MJ, 'Ride of the Vulkaries, Something in the air', Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania, Devonport, pp. 2 (2005) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2004 | Keating MJ, 'Untitled 1, 2, 3', Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, pp. 3 (2004) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2004 | Keating MJ, 'A Cut Across: Matt Calvert, Bill Henson, Natalya Hughes, Sarah Hughes, Lan Lu, Fiona MacDonald, Mel O'Callaghan, Sangeeta Sandasegar and Regan Tamanui', Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, pp. 26 (2004) [Catalogue] | |
| 2003 | Keating MJ, 'I wanna dance with somebody, Up where we belong', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 2 (2003) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2002 | Keating MJ, 'What the world needs now, Too much heaven', Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, pp. 2 (2002) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2001 | Keating MJ, 'Wheel of Fortune', Gold Coast Regional Gallery, Gold Coast , pp. one (2001) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2001 | Keating MJ, 'Raid', Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, pp. one (2001) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2001 | Keating MJ, 'Wheel of fortune', Long Gallery, Hobart, pp. one (2001) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2000 | Keating MJ, 'Xiaojie Looka Looka', Australian Embassy Beijing, Beijing, pp. one (2000) [Acquisition] |
Thesis
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Keating MJ, 'The Space of the Screen and Contemporary Ambivalence: an innovative analysis of contemporary pictorial construction' (2002) [PhD] |
Other Public Output
(5 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Keating MJ, 'Rimbun Dahan Residency' (2008) [Award] | |
| 2005 | Keating MJ, 'Australia Council Grant - New Work Established' (2005) [Award] | |
| 2004 | Keating MJ, 'Hutchins Works on Paper Art Prize Winner', Hutchins Works on Paper Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart (2004) [Award] | |
| 2000 | Keating MJ, 'Asialink Beijing Residency', Asialink/Australia Council, Sydney (2000) [Award] | |
| 2000 | Keating MJ, 'Asialink Residency, Beijing, China' (2000) [Award] |
Grants & Funding
Meg has received two Australia Council Grants for the development of new work in 2012 and 2005. She has also been the recipient of an Australian Council skills development residency in Tokyo 2003 and two Asialink residencies to Beijing and Taiwan. In 2003 Meg received funding from Arts Tasmania Research and Development Funds and the Gordon Darling Foundation.
Funding Summary
Number of grants
8
Total funding
Projects
- Description
- The project's aim is to understand how Tasmanians are experiencing and adjusting to the social, political and economic responses to COVID-19, in particular the project aims to explore the potential benefits, connections and impacts of human-companion animal relationships during and after home isolation and COVID 19 disruptions, and document the connections formed between humans and animals in home isolation situations through an arts based workshop methodology.
- Funding
- Regional Arts Australia ($9,997)
- Scheme
- Grant-Project
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Rubenis N; Keating MJ; Carson S; Watt YM; Terhell A
- Year
- 2021
- Description
- Using researched history of the Salamanca Arts Centre building, design a permanent installation/art work in SAC as part of SAC40. For installation in November 2018.
- Funding
- Salamanca Arts Centre Incorporated ($13,636)
- Scheme
- Contract Research
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Keating MJ
- Year
- 2018
- Description
- This project will create an iterative multi-media installation and performance work using projected animations, sound scape, mirrored cut outs and live improvised music performance at 3 separate venues that explores the role of the self, the observer and the participant in current image and screen culture. The first stage of the project develops and creates and exhibits the framework, animations and installation strategies which will be used as catalysts for two further sound based performance base iterations. As the work evolves the performance and audience reaction will be captured and then folded back into the animations and installation through mutli-media interventions. This evolution is based on cause and effect, action and re-action where the observer and participants become integral to, and then integrated in, the visual elements of the work.
- Funding
- Salamanca Arts Centre Incorporated ($10,000)
- Scheme
- Contract Research
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Keating MJ; Boden M
- Year
- 2018
- Description
- The built environments within which the 12,500 female convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in the nineteenth century were incarcerated have largely been destroyed, often leaving nothing more than barely discernible traces of foundations. The purpose of the app will be to reinscribe the stories of the 832 Ross Female Factory women back into this barren locale. Our app will link richly-detailed archival records with place, acting as a prototype for a new digital approach to the interpretation of Tasmanian convict sites and convict history more generally. This project will situate Tasmania at the cutting edge of historical interpretation while simultaneously creating the necessary pedagogical tools to enable the wider public to engage with our local and regional aspects of the global story of forced penal migration, punishment, reproduction and settlement.
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($13,118)
- Scheme
- Grant - CALE Hothouse Alignment Scheme
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Thomas AA; Zarmati LFC; Harman KE; Clarke RGH; Hall KP; Keating MJ
- Year
- 2018
- Description
- This project seeks to investigate and document the relationship between art, artists and activism in Tasmania from J.W. Beattie (1859-1930) to the present day.
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($5,622)
- Scheme
- Grant-CAL Hothouse Research Enhancement Program
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Watt YM; Keating MJ
- Year
- 2017
- Description
- Commissioned new media work to be presented in Melbourne Central shopping centre from Sept 2016-Feb 2017
- Funding
- Mars Gallery ($1,364)
- Scheme
- Contract Research
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Keating MJ
- Year
- 2016
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($5,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Research Enhancement (REGS)
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Keating MJ
- Year
- 2012
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($3,037)
- Scheme
- Grant-New Appointees Research Grant Scheme (NARGS)
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Keating MJ
- Year
- 2010
Research Supervision
Meg currently supervises 10 HDR candidates including PhD and Masters of Fine Arts. Her area of speciality is contemporary painting practice. She is particularly interested in candidates whose practice engages with pictorial construction, contemporary pictorialism and painterly processes.
Within this she supervises a range of subjects from the use of technology and photography in painting construction, painting and the expanded gaze and gesture and painterly material processes.
She is an experienced HDR examiner who has examined 14 PhD theses within visual arts practice.
Current
6
Completed
19
Current
| Degree | Title | Commenced |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Choreography as an Embodied Spatial Inscription: Discovering of architectures site-specificity in search for an atmospheric approach to designing and perceiving environments | 2018 |
| PhD | Geodramatic Territories: Devising Jacques Lecoq's Psychic Space/Time through Critical Spatial Practice | 2018 |
| PhD | Meta Graphic Novel: Questioning and exploring the graphic novel in an expanded form as storytelling technic and visual art exhibition project | 2019 |
| PhD | Weird Formalism in Practice: A studio-based inquiry into autonomy, excess, process and the art-object | 2019 |
| PhD | Furnishing Lesbian Identity - An Exploration of Lesbian Identity Expressed Through the Medium of Furniture | 2019 |
| PhD | Rhythmelodic: Commitment to Pulse Rhythmic systems and structures as a primary source of musical manipulation in improvisation | 2023 |
Completed
| Degree | Title | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| Masters | Pop Tasmanian Gothic: A studio-based exploration of place characterised by the Tasmanian Gothic and the tourist experience Candidate: Joshua Carbeth Simpson | 2022 |
| PhD | Fugitive Identity: An abstraction of persona through the mask, camouflage and material assemblage Candidate: Benjamin David Kluss | 2021 |
| Masters | Climatic Embodiment: A visual exploration of climate change as expressed by the human body Candidate: Eva Louise Nilssen | 2021 |
| PhD | Migratory Aesthetics, Pastiche and Painting: An exploration of migratory experience Candidate: Neil Jefford Haddon | 2021 |
| PhD | Performing Spatial Labour: Rendering sensible (in)visibilities around architectures of internment Candidate: Beth Miriam Weinstein | 2020 |
| PhD | No Longer Anonymous: Surviving Trauma in the Media Spotlight Candidate: Fiona Elizabeth Reynolds | 2020 |
| PhD | A Painterly Exploration of the Pain Altered Mind Body Connection Candidate: Stephen John Woodbury | 2020 |
| Masters | Between Spaces: A painterly investigation of uncertainty and belonging through the house museum Candidate: Bronwen Annie Jones | 2019 |
| Masters | An Exploration of the Boat form and the Element of Water through Craft based Sculptural Works Candidate: Nicholas James Randall | 2019 |
| PhD | Unstable Territories: Imaging and imagining the contemporary ruin Candidate: Helen Ruth Wright | 2019 |
| Masters | Internalised Landscapes: The vessel form in sculptural response to place Candidate: Timothy Charles Sidebottom | 2019 |
| PhD | Re-Contextualising the Spectacle of Online Gastronomy: A studio investigation into contemporary food imaging Candidate: Nathan John Taylor | 2018 |
| PhD | The Ontological Framing of Expanded Abstract Painting within Henri Bergson's Principles of Movement, Duration, Intuition and Becoming Candidate: David Ronald Hawley | 2018 |
| PhD | Wrinkles in Time: Folding song dynasty into contemporary art Candidate: Xingming Wu | 2018 |
| PhD | Agency in Garden Imagery: A painterly investigation into thresholds of otherness Candidate: Penelope Louise Burnett | 2018 |
| Masters | The Uncanny Threshold as a Device in Painting Candidate: Benjamin Thomas Reid Taylor | 2016 |
| PhD | The Ordinary Everyday: Exploring sensations of uncertainty and instability in abstract sculpture and installation artworks Candidate: Steven Jon Carson | 2016 |
| Masters | Memorist Evocation: Painting as a mnemonic device Candidate: Michael William Nay | 2016 |
| Masters | Continuing the Ellipse: A re-contextualisation of the calligraphic tradition through compression, subtraction and erasure Candidate: Stephen John Woodbury | 2016 |