Jan Hogan

Biography

Jan Hogan was appointed as coordinator of Printmaking at the School of Creative Arts, Hunter St in 2013.  Before joining the University of Tasmania Jan was teaching Art Theory to undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students at the ANU School of Arts, Canberra. She graduated with a PhD from the ANU School of the Arts, Canberra in 2009 previously gaining a Masters degree there in 1996.  Her undergraduate training was at the National Art School, Sydney and the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Jan has extensive teaching experience having had an appointment at the Charles Darwin University as printmaking lecturer and taught a range of courses from drawing to Art Theory at the ANU School of Arts, the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, and the National Art School.

Research Interest

Jan's research area crosses over several of the University's research themes.  As a practicing artist her research is aligned with Creativity, Culture and Society. Her research focus is on developing a visual language that allows a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary dialogue about the land on terms of equality and acceptance of difference. Her research analyses how attitudes to the environment can be shifted to become aware of the vibrancy of matter and sensitive to non-human and multivalent understandings of Place. Since arriving in Tasmania her research has broadened to include Antarctica and how this significant site can be understood through a multi-disciplinary approach. She is currently involved in cross-disciplinary research between Science and the Arts into how the unknown can be visualised.