Naomi Merritt
Dr Naomi Merritt joined the School of Art, Architecture, and Design at the University of South Australia as a lecturer in contemporary art and visual culture in 2015.
Naomi is currently working on a monograph titled Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture (to be published by Bloomsbury in 2021). This is Naomi's first book and it is based on her PhD research on the photography of Canadian artist Jeff Wall (completed at the University of Melbourne in 2014, where it was nominated for the Chancellor's Prize). From a contemporary vantage point, this book evaluates the conditions that established Wall’s legacy, and his shaping of the medium of photography since the late 1970s, against the backdrop of the demise of modernism and the transition from analog to digital photography.
Naomi's research investigates the ideologies and socio-technological dynamics that inform cultural production, with a particular focus on visual culture, art, and systems of representation. She is interested in the ways in which our sense of identity and our ways of interpreting and representing the world are culturally constructed, and the ways that artists critique these processes. Naomi is interested in how digital technologies impact on and influence analog art practices. Naomi's research has an interdisciplinary outlook and is at the intersection of visual arts, visual culture, cinema studies, and cultural studies.
Naomi has expertise in critical theory, cultural studies, intersectional feminism, gender / sexuality / queer theory, postcolonial theory, visual arts, cinema, photography, and creative arts research methods. She is a PhD supervisor in these and related fields.
Naomi's pedagogical approach emphasises the importance of critical thinking for creative practitioners, artists, educators, and producers and consumers of culture. She believes in the need for artists and creative practitioners to have excellent visual analysis skills and the ability to critically contextualise their work and communicate it to others. Naomi is closely involved in the Art and Design Honours program, where she teaches creative practitioners research skills and research methods. She is a summative peer reviewer of teaching at UniSA and has received two UniSA teaching awards.
Naomi is an executive member of the UNISA research concentration 'Digital Transformations' and a full member of 'CP3: Creative People, Products, and Places'.
Naomi's qualifications include:
PhD (University of Melbourne)
Bachelor of Creative Arts - Honours First Class (University of Melbourne)
Bachelor of Visual and Performing Arts (Victorian College of the Arts / University of Melbourne)
Graduate Diploma of Education (University of Melbourne)
Diploma of Applied Arts - Photography (NMIT)
Contact: naomi.merritt@unisa.edu.au
Address: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Naomi.Merritt
Naomi is currently working on a monograph titled Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture (to be published by Bloomsbury in 2021). This is Naomi's first book and it is based on her PhD research on the photography of Canadian artist Jeff Wall (completed at the University of Melbourne in 2014, where it was nominated for the Chancellor's Prize). From a contemporary vantage point, this book evaluates the conditions that established Wall’s legacy, and his shaping of the medium of photography since the late 1970s, against the backdrop of the demise of modernism and the transition from analog to digital photography.
Naomi's research investigates the ideologies and socio-technological dynamics that inform cultural production, with a particular focus on visual culture, art, and systems of representation. She is interested in the ways in which our sense of identity and our ways of interpreting and representing the world are culturally constructed, and the ways that artists critique these processes. Naomi is interested in how digital technologies impact on and influence analog art practices. Naomi's research has an interdisciplinary outlook and is at the intersection of visual arts, visual culture, cinema studies, and cultural studies.
Naomi has expertise in critical theory, cultural studies, intersectional feminism, gender / sexuality / queer theory, postcolonial theory, visual arts, cinema, photography, and creative arts research methods. She is a PhD supervisor in these and related fields.
Naomi's pedagogical approach emphasises the importance of critical thinking for creative practitioners, artists, educators, and producers and consumers of culture. She believes in the need for artists and creative practitioners to have excellent visual analysis skills and the ability to critically contextualise their work and communicate it to others. Naomi is closely involved in the Art and Design Honours program, where she teaches creative practitioners research skills and research methods. She is a summative peer reviewer of teaching at UniSA and has received two UniSA teaching awards.
Naomi is an executive member of the UNISA research concentration 'Digital Transformations' and a full member of 'CP3: Creative People, Products, and Places'.
Naomi's qualifications include:
PhD (University of Melbourne)
Bachelor of Creative Arts - Honours First Class (University of Melbourne)
Bachelor of Visual and Performing Arts (Victorian College of the Arts / University of Melbourne)
Graduate Diploma of Education (University of Melbourne)
Diploma of Applied Arts - Photography (NMIT)
Contact: naomi.merritt@unisa.edu.au
Address: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Naomi.Merritt
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