Associate Professor Bianca Hester

My Research Supervision

Current PhD Supervisions

Caitlin Dubler. Research Area: Glass as a multivalent site of geological and social inheritances. Supervised jointly with Dr Zoe Veness.

Monika Citanovic. Research Area: Crafting time to care: sloppy stitching as a method of reclamation of the embodied history of women's craft-based knowledge wihtin a regenerative textile practice. Supervised jointly with Dr Rochelle Hayley and Associate Professor Alison Gwilt.

Mason Kimber. Research area: Surface Archeology: memory and matter in expanded painting. Supervised jointly with Professor Stephen Loo.

Emma Pinset. Research Area: Porous matter: re-worlding fouled materials of the intertidal zone through sculptural practice. Supervised jointly with Dr David Eastwood 

Marcia Swaby. Research Area: Exploring the haptic and tactile-sensory nature of Guanín: Researching Indigenous Caribbean Jewellery Practices. A practice-led research in decolonialism and jewellery craft, examining embodied ways of thinking through the re-performance of gestures.

Previous Candidates (completed):

Miska Mandic. Research area: Pleating Time: Reframing relationships to ecological crisis by cinematically exposing the temporally distributed relations between everyday materials. UNSW, 2024. PhD Supervised jointly with Dr Astrid Lorange.

Nick Breedon. Research area: Towards a neuroqueer aesthetic: queering heritage art forms. UNSW, 2023. MFA Primary supervisor with Astrid Lorange as Secondary supervisor.

Patrick McDavitt. Research area: Sculptural artistic practice drawing from archaeological methodologies to explore queerness as a process of excavation. UNSW, 2023. MFA Primary supervisor with Astrid Lorange as Secondary supervisor.

Jo Mellor Stuart. Research area: Care and comfort in the era of solastalgia: Utilising a socially-engaged art practice to craft collaborative eco-feminist activism in The Darling River and Menindee Lakes System. UNSW, 2023. MFA jointly supervised with Dr Fabri Blacklock.

Melody Newell. Research area: 'Kitsch Sights' investigates the aesthetic category of kitsch through poetry and a collaborative audio-visual performance. UNSW, 2020. MFA Secondary Supervisor with Astrid Lorange as Primary Supervisor.

Aneshka Mora. Worlding Otherwise: The use of Institutions as Medium and Method for Decolonisation in Contemporary Art Practices in and from 'Australia'. UNSW, 2023. PhD Secondary supervisor with Veronica Tello as primary supervisor.

Cindy Chen,  The Convergence of Aural and Optical Perception in the Experience of Place: How attentive listening through an experimental drawing practice can extend and challenge place representation, UNSW, 2020. PhD Jointly supervised with Dr Uros Cvoro.

Kate Crawford, Instrument V: Using electro-acoustic feedback to think about interconnection, UNSW, MFA, 2022. Secondary Supervisor with Caleb Kelly as Primary Supervisor.

Kenzee Patterson, A tree branches, so does a river, SCA, University of Sydney, MFA, 2018. (Primary supervisor)

Therese Keogh, Re-building histories (and some things that happened down a well), SCA, University of Sydney, MFA, 2018. (Primary supervisor)

Chris Fox, Performative drawing apparatus: Relations of constraint and abandon, SCA, University of Sydney, MFA, 2017. (Primary supervisor)

Sarah Crow-Est, An unaccountable mass: bothersome matter and the humorous life of forms, VCA, University of Melbourne, PhD, 2012. Jointly supervised with Dr Barbara Bolt.

Akira Tamura, Embodied Practice, experience and intuition, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Primary supervisor)

Charlie Sofo, Pebbles, shattered glass, plastic, metal and dried grass: a research project on ritual action, experience and the everyday, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Primary supervisor)

Beth Arnold, Approaching Site, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Winner of the Sutton Gallery Prize). (Primary supervisor)

Dorothea Rechner, Detours along the spectrum of visibility: embodying views through three apparatuses: imaging, experimenting, re-presenting, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Primary supervisor)

Utako Shindo, Immanent landscape, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Primary supervisor)

Bree Dalton, MFA, The semper eadem: salting flesh shoreline project, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Primary supervisor)

My Teaching

I currently convene and teach DART3100 Studio Art Practice 5 and tutor in DART4101 Fine Art Honours.