Meet our Arts team

Executive team

Head and shoulders of Associate Professor Annie Mitchell

Associate Professor Annie Mitchell

Chair of Discipline (Creative Arts)

Teaches contemporary music theory, musicianship, classical music and musicology, composition and arranging, music education, ensemble and piano. Plays piano and double bass.

Course coordinators

Head and shoulders - Barry Hill

Dr Barry Hill

Course Coordinator Bachelor of Contemporary Music

Music educator, composer, performer. Teaches into Contemporary Music program with expertise in jazz, classical, popular; audio engineering; ensemble direction and arranging.

Head and shoulders - Dr Marian Tubbs

Dr Marian Tubbs

Course coordinator Bachelor of Art and Design

Marian Tubbs is an artist living and working between Bundjalung, and Gubbi Gubbi Land. Her broad research interests include vision technologies, the agency of poor materials and text in art.

Academics

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Darren Bryant

Lecturer

Lecturer in Art and Design program. Nationally and internationally recognised printmaker. Research interest: merging old and new print technologies to interrogate ideas surrounding ‘aura of original’.

Head and shoulders - Dr Leigh Carriage

Dr Leigh Carriage

Senior Lecturer

Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Music program. Consummate vocalist and performer. Award-winning songwriter and composer. Coordinates APRA AMCOS Songwriting Series.

Head and shoulders - Dr Matt Hill

Dr Matt Hill

Senior Lecturer

Composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist. Teaches musicianship, ensembles, music technology, screen sound and industry/career development.

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Associate Professor Wes Hill

Associate Professor

Wes specialises in contemporary, post-1960s art and visual culture. His research interests include image-based art, art as pedagogy, and the art-historical underpinnings of the hipster. He was appointed by the Australia Council for the Arts as a peer-assessor in 2019.

Associate Lecturer Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones

Associate Lecturer

Background in photography and film. Teaches Media Studies. Research interests are cinema, post-colonialism, politics of everyday life. Works primarily with first year students transiting to uni life.

David Sanders

David Sanders

Associate Lecturer

One of the top drum educators whose students are some of the most in-demand drummers in Australian music industry. An exemplar of translating real industry skills into an academic environment.

Head and shoulders - Jeanti St Clair

Jeanti St Clair

Lecturer

Media lecturer teaching journalism and digital storytelling. Extensive professional journalism including audio-based journalism and documentary. Leads student reporting team at Byron Writers Festival.

Technical staff

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Executive Dean of Faculty Associate Dean (Education) Associate Dean
(International & Engagement)		 Associate Dean
(Research)		 Professional Experience Coordinator
Professor Mike Ewing Ms Helen Walsh Professor Darshana Sedera Associate Professor Pascal Scherrer Mrs Joanne Cooper
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