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Dr Mary Scott

Senior Lecturer-Drawing

Contact Details
Telephone: +61 3 6226 4344
Fax: +61 3 6226 4308
Location: Hobart City, Centre for the Arts, Drawing, Level 2, Rm: 2.12
Email: Mary.Scott@utas.edu.au

Career Summary

Scott studied at the Canberra School of Art and then at Tasmanian School of Art, completing a MFA in 1987. She taught at the Canberra School of Art and the University of Northern Territory, before returning to take up a teaching position in painting at the Tasmanian School of Art in 1991 where is she completed a PhD in 2001. She is a founding member of the Digital Art Research Facility (DARF) established at the University of Tasmania in1995 and, in partnership with other members, is recipient of Australian Research Grants. Scott’s work has been exhibited regularly since 1990, is included in many public and private collections and she has been awarded both teaching and practice-based grants. Scott’s work is referenced through numerous texts and catalogues.
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Research Interests

Scott’s chief research interests include: painting and its interpretation within contemporary practice; gender, artifice and society; transgression and protocols; pictorialism and its interpretation through technology.

Teaching

Scott’s teaching interests include contemporary painting practice, historical developments in pictorialism, gender issues, image and technology. She teaches in Painting and in Digital Media and is primary supervisor to Honours, MFA and PhD candidates.

Mary Scott