Conference paper
Creative River Journeys: Using Reflective Practice Within a Creative River Journeys: Using Reflective Practice Within a Practice-Led Research Context Practice-Led Research Context
Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Conference (ACUADS 2012) (Central Institute of Technology, Curtin University and Edith Cowan University, 03/10/2012–05/10/2012)
04/10/2012
Abstract
2010 to 2012 saw Dr Kylie Stevenson deeply immersed in designing and enacting a doctoral research project, Creative River Journeys. The project involved her working with a group of nine artist-researchers who, like Kylie, are also completing their PhDs (or research Masters) at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, and for whom creative practice was a key component of their projects, some identifying as practice led researchers and others not. The co-author of this paper, Dr Sue Girak, was one of those artist-researcher participants. Prior to engaging in the Creative River Journey project, Sue had elected to use the methodology a/r/tography that Kylie also used. Sue was completing an Education doctorate with a studio practice component. Other artist-researcher participants came from the disciplines of visual arts, performing arts and creative writing. This paper demonstrated how, through conversation and reflection, Kylie and Sue worked together to document the critical moments – that is, moments of significance or change – in Sue’s creative and research practice using a reflective practice tool called the Creative River Journey. Kylie was particularly driven by her deep interest in identifying meaningful methodologies for practice-led researchers. In this paper, Kylie provides a brief overview of the PhD project including Sue and Kylie’s chosen methodology, a/r/tography. Kylie outlines the theoretical foundations of the project that, like a/r/tography, involve the conceptual terrains of art practice, research and teaching. Using Sue’s practice as a case study, Kylie and Sue illustrate how the Creative River Journey acted as reflective practice to document the creative process, thus facilitating connections for the artist-researcher between practice and research. Kylie and Sue proposed, with reference to this artist-researcher’s Creative River Journey, that the reflective practice is a method of facilitating and documenting practice-led research.
Details
- Title
- Creative River Journeys: Using Reflective Practice Within a Creative River Journeys: Using Reflective Practice Within a Practice-Led Research Context Practice-Led Research Context
- Authors/Creators
- Kylie J Stevenson (Author)Sue Girak (Author) - Edith Cowan University
- Conference
- Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Conference (ACUADS 2012) (Central Institute of Technology, Curtin University and Edith Cowan University, 03/10/2012–05/10/2012)
- Identifiers
- 991005575665407891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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