Dr. Adam Newcombe BDS Hons. UNSW, GCHE Lon, PhD UWAust.Current position
Senior Lecturer
Coordinator Graphic Design
School of Education & Arts
Edith Cowan University
I have a range of interlinking interests. My first degree is in Design Studies and my doctorate is a visual colonial history. I’ve studied fine art, art history, law, stage-craft, performance and animation. I’ve played semi-professional soccer, worked on the professional stage and continue to travel the world. At the age of 22 I found myself in the Kabul market. Actually I’d found myself a year earlier in Kathmandu. I’ve written and delivered three undergraduate design degree programs at three different institutions, a range of post-graduate design and visual communication degree programs and I am a practicing artist and am just finishing my first graphic novel.
My research interests reflect my visual, historical training and my passion for cultural production and travel. My art and teaching practices are heavily influenced by my visual/textural research and travel.
My obsession with place stems from becoming a Tasmanian at the age of 10. From a comfortable ex-military home in post-war London, I had my tenth birthday on the Derwent River and drank deeply of her spirit. Within a couple of months I had crashed head long into exploring and playing along Ulverstone’s often wet and windy beaches, alone. I can still, to this day find the magic one metre square of those long beaches where cowry shells can be found.
I learnt to play Aussie Rules football at Wesley Vale Primary, situated in the middle of an imaginary twenty-five square kilometre garden. My love of this place has been the centre stone of my life, it is now the corner stone of my research into the phenomenology of a history and the craft of living.
