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Paul Zika
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Paul Zika
University Associate
School of Creative Arts
Room 1, Centre for the Arts, Atrium, Level 2
From 1990-2009 Paul Zika had responsibility for the conceptual direction and management of the Painting studio and his teaching interests represented a very broad catholic interpretation of the discipline of Painting. Paul was also Honours Program Coordinator 1999 – 2008, Graduate Research Coordinator 2009 – 2012, and Deputy Head of School 2010 – 12. He currently supervises a number of Research Higher Degree candidates.
Biography
Paul Zika studied at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology completing an Associate Diploma of Fine Art (majoring in Painting with a minor in Printmaking) in 1970 and subsequently undertook a Fellowship Diploma in 1971. In 1973 he left for Europe and over the next year and a half travelled extensively and received a Certificate of Advanced Studies at St Martins School of Art in London. Since 1973 he has had twenty solo exhibitions in Hobart, Melbourne and Brisbane. He has under-taken four extended Overseas Residencies to expand and develop his studio practice (Tuscany 1989 / Prague 1994 / Barcelona 1998 / Sicily 2003). Paul joined the Tasmanian School of Art, now the School of Creative Arts in 1979.
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Expertise
Paul Zika's research since joining the University in 1981 has concentrated on two specific areas - Studio Practice and Exhibition Curatorship - both with differing 'publication' outcomes. The studio-based research is concerned with a radical fusion of surface and form, in stark contrast to Modernist notions of decoration as embellishment. Over the past fifteen years he has established a pattern of working in direct response to particular ornamentation schemes or decorative objects, through a process of investigation, image development and realisation. Since 1981 Paul has curated twenty five exhibitions of contemporary art, craft and design for the Plimsoll Gallery at the University of Tasmania. These exhibitions have normally focused on conceptual aspects of current practice in the field, drawing from all over Australia and overseas in the selection of participants. Paul also guest curated the survey exhibition Dale Hickey: Life in a Box for the Ian Potter Museum / University of Melbourne (2008).
Fields of Research
- Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting) (190502)
- Urban and Regional Planning (120599)
- Art Theory and Criticism (190199)
- Computer Gaming and Animation (190202)
- Visual Cultures (190104)
- Design History and Theory (120301)
- Lens-based Practice (190503)
- Performance and Installation Art (190504)
- Cinema Studies (190201)
- Language, Communication and Culture (209999)
- Human Geography (160499)
- European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) (210307)
- Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing (199999)
Research Objectives
- The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) (950104)
- Arts and Leisure (950199)
- Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (970117)
- Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis (940204)
- Construction (879999)
- Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing (970119)
- Cultural Understanding (959999)
- Environment (969999)
Publications
Total publications
39
Highlighted publications
(4 outputs)| Year | Type | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Major Creative Work | Zika P, 'Sicilian Arabesques', Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Flinders Lane, Melbourne (2004) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2004 | Book | Zika P, 'Disorientate - colour, geometry and the body', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 1-20. ISBN 1862952051 (2004) [Edited Book] | |
| 2002 | Major Creative Work | Zika P, 'Fantasia', Paul Zika, Melbourne (2002) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2001 | Conference Publication | Zika P, 'The Topography of Decoration', Changing geographies: Essays on Australia, 2000, University of Barcelona, pp. 97-99. ISBN 84-477-0749-0 (2001) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] |
Book
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Zika P, 'Disorientate - colour, geometry and the body', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 1-20. ISBN 1862952051 (2004) [Edited Book] |
Conference Publication
(3 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Zika P, 'Working Together ( to the Tune Of ...)', ACUADS 2010 Annual Conference, 1-3 September 2010, Launceston, Tasmania (2010) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2005 | Zika P, 'Plimsoll Gallery: a working model', Rhapsody 21C: A Conference on the Future of University Museums and Art Galleries in the New Century, May 2005, Launceston, pp. 23. ISBN 1 86295 246 9 (2005) [Refereed Conference Paper] | |
| 2001 | Zika P, 'The Topography of Decoration', Changing geographies: Essays on Australia, 2000, University of Barcelona, pp. 97-99. ISBN 84-477-0749-0 (2001) [Non Refereed Conference Paper] |
Design
(2 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Zika P, 'Elizabeth Mall Redevelopment', Hobart City Council, Hobart (1996) [Other Designs] | |
| 1995 | Zika P, 'Elizabeth Mall Paving Design', Hobart City Council, Hobart (1995) [Other Designs] |
Major Creative Work
(27 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Zika P, 'The Brassington Affair', Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2014) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2013 | Zika P, 'Domain arabesque', Domain: a contested landscape, Exhibition, Ten Days on the Island, Domain House, Queens Domain, Hobart, Tasmania (2013) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 2012 | Zika P, 'Terme' series (#4 - 14) Exhibitions', Plimsoll Gallery, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne; Penny Contemporary, Hobart; Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart; Penerbit Universiti, Pendidikan Sultan Idris (2012) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2012 | Kunda M, Zika P, 'A World Between: A Survey of Prints by Milan Milojevic', Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart (2012) [Curated Exhibition] Co-authors: Kunda M | |
| 2011 | Zika P, 'Journeys: through history, theory and practice', Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (2011) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2010 | Zika P, 'Paul Zika: Roman Weave', Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, pp. 5 works (2010) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2009 | Zika P, 'Paul Zika: Home and Away - reconstructing artifice', Carnegie Gallery/Hobart City Council, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, 1 (2009) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2009 | Kelly SM, Zika P, 'Repetitions', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, pp. 24 (2009) [Curated Exhibition] Co-authors: Kelly SM | |
| 2008 | Zika P, 'Dale Hickey: Life in a Box', Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne (2008) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2008 | Zika P, 'Paul Zika: Bolivian Weave', Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne (2008) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2007 | Holmes JH, Zika P, 'Tokyo: Floating World', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania (2007) [Curated Exhibition] Co-authors: Holmes JH | |
| 2007 | Zika P, Holmes JH, 'Full Frontal: Images from within the studio', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, pp. 32 (2007) [Curated Exhibition] Co-authors: Holmes JH | |
| 2006 | Zika P, 'Sicilian Arabesques II', Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, pp. 6 (2006) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2005 | Zika P, 'Looking South', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery (2005) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2004 | Zika P, 'Sicilian Arabesques', Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Flinders Lane, Melbourne (2004) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2004 | Zika P, 'Disorientate - colour, geometry and the body', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, pp. 20 (2004) [Curated Exhibition] | |
| 2003 | Zika P, Holmes JH, Lendis CJ, 'Painting Tasmanian Landscape', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, 1, pp. 32 (2003) [Curated Exhibition] Co-authors: Holmes JH; Lendis CJ | |
| 2002 | Zika P, 'Fantasia', Paul Zika, Melbourne (2002) [Published Creative Work] | |
| 2000 | Zika P, 'Death and Decoration', University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1, pp. 24 (2000) [Recorded Creative Work] | |
| 2000 | Zika P, 'Cornucopia', Stephen McLauglin Gallery, Melbourne (2000) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 1999 | Zika P, 'Jamboree:Works by Mandy McIntosh', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. pp 10/full colour (1999) [Recorded Creative Work] | |
| 1998 | Zika P, 'Paul Zika', Stephen McLaughlin Gallery, Melbourne, pp. 2 (1998) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 1997 | Zika P, Holmes JH, Marshall J, Tabacco W, Gates M, 'Re:Search. Tony Bishop, Wilma Tabacco and Philip Watkins', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 36 (1997) [Recorded Creative Work] Co-authors: Holmes JH | |
| 1996 | Holmes JH, Zika P, 'Tangibility? Three Installations', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1, pp. 32 (1996) [Recorded Creative Work] Co-authors: Holmes JH | |
| 1996 | Zika P, 'Monstrances', Stephen McLaughlin Gallery, Melbourne, pp. 2 (1996) [Other Exhibition] | |
| 1996 | Zika P, 'Monstrances', University of Tasmania Fine Art Collection, Hobart (1996) [Recorded Creative Work] | |
| 1995 | Zika P, Hill PW, 'Liquid Voices - Anne Morrison', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 24 (1995) [Recorded Creative Work] Co-authors: Hill PW |
Other Creative Work
(6 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Zika P, 'Cornucopia 1 (1998); Cornucopia 5 (2000); Cornucopia 6 (2000) ', Glen Eira City Council, Melbourne, pp. 3 (2008) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2006 | Zika P, 'Documentation of place and contemplation, Black Australia/White Australia 1983-4', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 2 (2006) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2003 | Zika P, 'The Barcelona Studio: Fragments of a Brief History', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 4 (2003) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2003 | Zika P, Holmes JH, Lendis CJ, 'Painting Tasmanian Landscape', Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 32 (2003) [Catalogue] Co-authors: Holmes JH; Lendis CJ | |
| 2002 | Zika P, 'Pattern as Subject', CAST, Hobart, pp. 3 (2002) [Representation of Original Art] | |
| 2001 | Zika P, 'So many things can happen in one minute', Plimsoll gallery, Hobart, pp. 16 (2001) [Catalogue] |
Grants & Funding
Funding Summary
Number of grants
5
Total funding
$138,220
Projects
International Artist Exchange Residency Tasmania-Ireland (Pilot Stage 2) (2008)$10,000
- Funding
- Arts Tasmania ($10,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Cultural Exchange
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Zika P; Kelly SM
- Year
- 2008
The Shifting Locus of Artistic Practice: A Survey and Critical Analysis of Solo Exhibitions in Australian Public Galleries, 1970-2000 (2003 - 2005)$88,720
- Funding
- Australian Research Council ($88,720)
- Scheme
- Grant-Linkage Projects Round 1
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Holmes JH; Malpas J; Zika P; Judd C; Kunda M
- Period
- 2003 - 2005
- Grant Reference
- LP0347324
A Survey and Critical Analysis of Solo Exhibitions in Australian Public Galleries 1975-2000 (2002)$12,500
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($12,500)
- Scheme
- Grant-Institutional Research Scheme
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Holmes JH; Malpas J; Zika P; Kunda M
- Year
- 2002
Supplementary funding (1997)$7,000
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($7,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Supplementary
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Colless EC; Zika P
- Year
- 1997
Art Exhibitions Programme (1992)$20,000
- Funding
- Arts Tasmania ($20,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Exhibitions/Installations
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Zika P
- Year
- 1992
Research Supervision
Current
4
Completed
41
Current
| Degree | Title | Commenced |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Fugitive Identity: An abstraction of persona through the mask, camouflage and material assemblage | 2013 |
| PhD | A Painterly Exploration of the Pain Altered Mind Body Connection | 2017 |
| PhD | The Identity of Objects: A visual ontology of things | 2018 |
| PhD | Redefining the Regions: the case for a new public art in regional Australia | 2019 |
Completed
| Degree | Title | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | The Ontological Framing of Expanded Abstract Painting within Henri Bergsons Principles of Movement, Duration, Intuition and Becoming Candidate: David Ronald Hawley | 2018 |
| PhD | The Suspension of Pictorial Equilibrium: Materialising mutability in the medium of paint Candidate: Megan Walch | 2017 |
| PhD | The Ordinary Everyday: Exploring sensations of uncertainty and instability in abstract sculpture and installation artworks Candidate: Steven Jon Carson | 2016 |
| PhD | Constructed Situations: Socialising a Sculptural Practice Candidate: Jack Timothy Robins | 2015 |
| PhD | The Ever Present Eye; a studio exploration of the moment and the everyday lived experience Candidate: Greer Honeywill | 2015 |
| PhD | Visions of Enchantment: Fictions of Intimacy within Contemporary Art Candidate: Joy Elizabeth Barber | 2013 |
| PhD | Collaborating with Nature: Reinterpreting Human Ecology Candidate: Dean Anthony Chatwin | 2013 |
| Masters | Mapping Technological Causality: A Visual Exploration into Processes of Technological and Informational Overload Candidate: Jacob Thomas Leary | 2012 |
| PhD | Of Things Dark and Distant: Mythic Unknowing through Installation Practice Candidate: Peter Hugh Waller | 2012 |
| Masters | The Urge to Appropriate: Internalising Appropriation Through Hybrid Studio Practice Candidate: Scott Denis Cotterell | 2012 |
| PhD | Inside Reductive Abstraction (still): Sensation, Visual Perception, Memory and the Aesthetic Experience of the Object Candidate: Dorothy Anne Mestitz | 2011 |
| Masters | Love and Longing, Death and Desire, and Feminine Place: A Contemporary Practice Informed by Victorianism and Colonial Tasmania Candidate: Jan Jefferys | 2011 |
| Masters | In The Frame: A visual exploration of the Low Art framework and High/Low dialectics of contemporary literary crime fiction through painting and multi-media assemblage. Candidate: Carol Joan Rodwell | 2010 |
| Masters | Potency of the Invisible: An Exploration into Urban Symbiotics Through Installation Practice Candidate: Denise Ava Robinson | 2010 |
| PhD | Heaven's Above-Celestial Ceilings: A Contemporary Paragon of Apotheosis Candidate: Wayne Anthony Brookes | 2009 |
| Masters | The Production and Consumption of the Sexually Explicit; A Painterly Exploration into the Pornification of Culture Candidate: Mathew Craig Ward | 2009 |
| Masters | Developing a Visual Language That Engages With Contemporary Dissent and Critical Opinion Candidate: Benjamin David Kluss | 2008 |
| PhD | Reinventing Rapport: An Investigation of the Mother-Daughter Dyad within Contemporary Figure Painting Candidate: Mary Elizabeth Pridmore | 2007 |
| Masters | A Shifting Facade: An Exploration of the Zone Between Actual and Illusionary Form Candidate: Rebecca Dorothy Coote | 2007 |
| Masters | Spatial Hysteresis: Glimpses of Our Yielding Place Candidate: Lucy Bleach | 2007 |
| Masters | Saint Sebastian and the Wounded Forest - Painting a Personal Relationship with the Tasmanian Landscape Candidate: Andrew John Lendis | 2006 |
| PhD | Problems with Nature - Sculptural Installation and the Culture/Nature Paradox Candidate: Ian Francis Bonde | 2006 |
| PhD | Suspension of Presence - An Exploration of the Interconnectedness of the Body, Space and Time Candidate: Lucienne Emma Rickard | 2006 |
| Masters | Homegroan girls: a visual investigation into the bad girl stereotype within popular soft porn website culture Candidate: Tiffany Winterbottom | 2006 |
| PhD | Fabricating the Aesthetics of Mass through the Machine Made Multiple Candidate: Lucia Leonora Usmiani | 2006 |
| Masters | Design Emergence: Beyond Modernist Orthodoxies in Colour/Form Painting Candidate: Ona Kaukenas | 2006 |
| Masters | Painting a Visual Language that Interprets my Personal World Candidate: Alan Henry Young | 2005 |
| PhD | Language, Knowledge and Subjectivity: a new visual interpretation Candidate: Brigita Tija Ozolins | 2004 |
| Masters | Systematizing Randomness: A new decorative order Candidate: Johnnie Arthur Arnold | 2004 |
| Masters | Render me naked: the painted self and the spectator Candidate: Celeste Helene Chandler | 2003 |
| Masters | Interiors from the Mind: Pictorial Illusionism within Painting Candidate: Andrew John Dewhurst | 2003 |
| Masters | Reinterpreting Pattern and Decoration in Contemporary Painting Candidate: David Ronald Hawley | 2003 |
| Masters | Food for Thought: a visual investigation of the nature-culture dichotomy as manifested in "farm" animals Candidate: Yvette Marie Watt | 2003 |
| Masters | Visual Virtuosity - Contemporary Quadratura Painting: An Allegory of a Portrait Candidate: Wayne Anthony Brookes | 2003 |
| Masters | Enchanted World: a visual investigation into the space of seduction Candidate: Kylie Louise Johnson | 2002 |
| PhD | The space of the screen and contemporary ambivalence: an innovative analysis of contemporary painterly pictorial construction Candidate: Megan Keating | 2002 |
| Masters | More Minimal Conditions for Painting Candidate: Neil Jefford Haddon | 2002 |
| PhD | Transforming histories: The visual disclosure of contentious pasts Candidate: Julie Anne Gough | 2001 |
| Masters | A re-presentation of object phenomena Candidate: John Michael Vella | 2000 |
| Masters | Beyond flesh: an investigation of the representations of the human body which exist beyond the boundaries of the 'normal' Candidate: Shelley Marree Chick | 1998 |
| Masters | Visual perceptual codes within contemporary photography, painting and digital imagery Candidate: Martin Brian Walch | 1998 |