Sarah Jone
Lecturer and Head of Studio, Visual Communication
School of Creative Arts
University of Tasmania
Australia
Biography
Prior to joining The University of Tasmania in 2012, Sarah from 1995-2011 was the Co-ordinator, of Honours, Bachelor of Design, Visual Communication program, Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design Monash University. Currently Sarah is the coordinator of the Bachelor of Visual Communication.
Research Interest
My research is focussed in two distinct areas the first being on how graphic design systems and structures influence and shape our emotive and social relationship with society. I examine how graphic design within ephemeral artefacts of the everyday, such as the newspaper, gives visual expression to social myths, shaping narratives of ordinary people's lives into soap operas, which we consume voraciously and somewhat unconsciously. The central aim of my research is to challenge the anonymous, if not unseen, nature of graphic design and its central role within the media in shaping popular and consumable images of community and citizenship.The second stream of research is the study of the materiality and sensory experience of place and how this can be interpreted, re framed and contextualised poetically through the jewellery/design object.