POSTGRADUATE SPECIALIST ADVICE

Art Programme (AP) understands that the service offered by many postgraduate supervisors falls short of expectations. Collectively, AP brings a diverse reservoir of theoretical and methodological knowledge, alongside a strong and successful record of graduate completions. Postgraduate study should be an exciting experience of growth and awareness, and the candidate-advisor relationship is central to this.

Our ethos is to be adaptable to individual students’ personalities and ways of working. And rather than overlaying rigid rules onto the thesis design, we advise on how the conceptual elements of the practice and/or the theoretical concerns of the project can be brought together successfully for examination. This means balancing rigour, inquiry and experimentation with different university requirements and expectations, with the examiners and examination process always in sight.

An hourly fee is negotiated between the advisor and candidate.

Dr Jan Bryant

To date, I have successfully supervised to completion 41 PhDs, MAs and MFAs and advised on many more. This includes full thesis and practice-based projects across a diverse range of media and methodologies.

Attentive supervision and graduate advice is a craft that I am proud to have honed over the past 20 years of working in universities. I specialise in art theory, literature, philosophy, and politics, with an affinity for studio-based practices. To ensure that my thinking is current, I research, write and publish regularly in this field.

CV

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2019ff)

2025

Fu on Chung: Midnight Dashboard, essay to accompany exhibition, Two Rooms, Auckland, January to March.

Contemporary Sculpture, A marble threshold (forthcoming).

2024

“Violence, the Body…”(ed) Pip Wallace, Et Al Epochal, book Chapter, Monash Museum of Modern Art (MUMA

Nadine Christenson: Around Rezza, essay to accompany Art Programme event, Interviewing Nadine Christensen.

Nadine Treister, Ornamental Alchemy: Accessorising the Decoration essay to accompany exhibition at Radiant Pavilion, September.

Kristina Tsoulis Reay: Dwellings, essay to accompany exhibition held at Stockton Gallery, Kyneton, July to August

Jacquie Stockdale Angel at my table, essay to accompany exhibition Olsen Gallery, Sydney. February.

2023

Lisa Radford & Fu On Chung Adele’s Lounge Room Paintings [or] Oh Lisa, I swoon!!! catalogue essay, TCB Melbourne.

Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Joyfield, catalogue essay, Laree Payne Gallery, Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa NZ

Billy Bob Hawkins Zero Point, catalogue essay to accompany exhibition

“Susan Jacobs: The Ants are in the Idiom” Review, Buxton Contemporary, Art in Australia

2022

Eleanor Butt, But Never Have I loved Life So Much, Nicholas Thompson Gallery,

“Barbara Tuck’s Picture World”, for the exhibition, Delirium Crossing.

Profile of Berlin-based artist, Sam Rountree Williams, Commissioned by Goethe <www.goethe.de/ins/nz/en/kul/sup/kuk/22555608.html>

“Wifstandan (Afterword)”, Kin: Jahnne Pascoe-White, Art Link and Unlikely Publishing, Melbourne, 2020. ISBN 978-0-645-01660-4. Edited Book section.

2021

“With Being Nothing 2021”, essay to accompany Laresa Kosloff, New Futures TM Sutton Gallery, May to June

“Encounters”, Fiona Conner +1 310 951 9459, published by July 20th, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, 2020. Edited/Peer Reviewed Book section.

2020

2 texts to accompany Shirley Cass’s exhibition at the Kew Synagogue in 2020, titled, “It is both unruly (immense) but also contained, ordered” + “Marking the Stranger”, Strangers and Love Poems, ISBN 978-0-646-815411.

2019

Bryant, J., Art Making in the Age of Global Capitalism: Visual Practices, Politics, Philosophy,

University of Edinburgh Press, UK, 2019. 263-page, major monograph, authored book.

“Bir Tawil طویل† بئ†ر††: The politics of the Image”, Angela Brennan, 3-Ply —Melbourne, Edited/Peer Reviewed Book section.

“Art and failure: of things perfecting and corrupting metallick bodies”, The Shape of Things to Come, Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne, 2019, Edited/Peer Reviewed Book section.

2022

“Review, Susan Jacobs: The Ants are in the Idiom”, Buxton Contemporary, Art in Australia

Essay to accompny Eleanor Butt’s exhibition, But Never Have I loved Life So Much, Nicholas Thompson Gallery.

Barbara Tuck’s Picture World”, for the 2022 exhibition, Delirium Crossing

Profile of Berlin-based artist, Sam Rountree Williams, Commissioned by Goethe,https://www.goethe.de/ins/nz/en/kul/sup/kuk/22555608.html.

2021

“With Being Nothing 2021”, essay to accompany Laresa Kosloff, New Futures TM, Sutton Gallery

2020

“Wiþstandan (Afterword)”, Kin: Jahnne Pascoe-White, Art Link and Unlikely Publishing, Melbourne,

“Encounters”, Fiona Conner +1 310 951 9459, published by July 20th, Glendale, Los Angeles, California

2019

Art Making in the Age of Global Capitalism: Visual Practices, Politics, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh Press, UK, monograph, authored book.

“Bir Tawil طويل†بئر†: The politics of the Image”, Angela Brennan, 3-Ply Melbourne
 
“Art and failure: of things perfecting and corrupting metallick bodies”, The Shape of Things to Come, Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne 

POSTGRAD COMPLETIONS

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

• Allison Gibbs PhD (2024), film and installation
  Julia McInerney (2023), film and installation
• Kristina Tsoulis-Reay (2023),  painter
• Augusta Vinell Richardson (2022), sculptural practice
• Jahnne Pasco-White (2022), painter
• Dell Stewart, MFA (2022), artist/installation/curator
• Emily Cormack, PhD (2021), curator
• Clare Longely MFA (2021), painter
• Julia Lomas, PhD (2021), art theory/history
• Gwynneth Porter, PhD (2021), theory/fiction/museums
• Ursula de Leeuw, MA (2020), art theory & philosophy
• Arlo Mountford PhD (2020), installation/video artist
• Victoria Lynn, PhD (2020), curator
• Angela Brennan, PhD, (2019), painter
• Jacquie Shelton, PhD (2019), creative writing & performance artist 
• Briony Galligan, MFA (2019), performance/installation artist
• Dylan Rainforth, MA (2018), art & video theory 
• Fiona Williams, MFA (2018), painter
• Erin Crouch, MFA (2018), film & video artist
• Kate Beynon, PhD (2017), painting/installation artist 
• Sophia Cole, MFA (2017), activist & performance artist
• Siew Poh Phung, PhD (2016), computer graphics designer
• Nicholas Mangan, PhD (2015), installation & video artist
• Andrew Denton, PhD (2015), Filmmaker & Installation artist
• Deborah Ostrow, PhD (2015), Conceptual and Video Artist
• Ry Haskings, PhD (2015), Installation/Sculptural practice 
• Steven Rendell, PhD (2015), Painter
• Helen Johnson, PhD (2014), Painter
• Steven Sinn, MA (2013), Philosophy & art
• Jill Orr, PhD (2013), Performance Artist
• Megan Kelly, PhD (2012), Designer 
• Rob Hely, PhD (2012), Designer
• Rob Mcleish, MFA (2011), Installation Artist

The University of Auckland, NZ

• Nuala Gregory, PhD (2015), Painter & Printmaker 
• Jaenine Parkinson, MA (2009), Digital Art
• Katrina Ward, MA (2008), Philosophy & Art

AUT University, Auckland, NZ

• Jennifer Nikolai, PhD (2015), Dancer/Dance and Digital Theory
  
• Mark Hanlen, PhD (2012), Foucault, Governmentality & urban space
  
• Andreas Mikellis MFA (2009), Fashion Designer