Dr Leah King-Smith
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Personal details
Keywords
Decolonising methodologies, Practice-led research, Transdisciplinary collaboration, Visual media, 3-D animation, Time-based media, Visual art, Photo media
Research field
Visual arts, Screen and digital media
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Phd (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy NAVA, National Association for the Visual Arts; AAANZ, Art Association of Australia & New Zealand; ISRN, Indigenous Studies Research Network
Teaching
Since 2020 I have been Academic Lead, Teaching & Learning (Indigenous) in Creative Industries, which is a role that oversees the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in Creative Industries curricula. I teach and lecture in the Visual Arts BFA program, specifically Open Studio for first-years. I coordinate, lecture and teach in the 2D Art Unit. I have extensive experience teaching, lecturing and coordinating the Photo Media Unit. I take a specific interest in contemporary Indigenous art practices and deliver lectures in this field when invited.
Publications
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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/l.king-smith
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The activism of Queensland Blaks: From Rations to Wages to Treaty
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Deb Duthie, Dr Yanto Browning
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Making White History in Australia (2025)
- A Critical Understanding of 'Natural Place' as a Cultural Construct Through a Collaborative Moving Image Practice (2024)
- Living kantha: A creative interpretation of Bengali women's traditional practices (2024)
- One Tattoo, Two Worlds: Unexplored stories of non-Indigenous Samoan women and Indigenous Samoan Fa'afafine with the malu (2024)
- Representation of identity in Sinhala theater: The impact of the religious/charity model (2022)
- Enhancing Ecologies of Care for CALD Women through Care-full Creative Engagement (2021)
- Listening with Images: Photographs and Their Relationship to Identity in the Lives of Older People in Aged Care (2021)
- Cloud methodology: objects, topology and practice (2020)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- waganha winhanga-gigu Dancing for the Purpose of Remembering (2024)
- NAIDOC and me: A personal narrative journey exploring NAIDOC and lived experience (2022)
- Lines in The Sand: North Stradbroke Island Festivals 2011-2014: Chronicling a Curatorial Philosophy in Response to Ecology of Change (2020)
- Digging Deep: Material Investigations into the Intangible Aspects of Landscape Sites Towards a Holistic Representation of Place within Creative Practice (2018)
- Decentering the Subjective: The Transcendent Experience of Formlessness in an Abstract Expressionist Painting Practice (2017)
- Mapping a Liminal: Nurturing of Kantha into Contemporary Art (2017)
- The Enchanted Drive: Landscape in Motion (2017)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.