Core Studies is led by a range of full and part-time professional staff with a wide range of expertise.

Gilbert Riedelbauch (Head of Workshop)
Gilbert Riedelbauch is a practising artist exhibiting nationally and internationally. Gilbert was part of the team that introduced digital technologies to students at the ANU School of Art, and since 1994, has been lecturer in charge of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and 3-Dimensional Computer applications. He is also co-researcher for the FieldScreen Research Project, a digital camera/computer link-up which allows research students based in remote locations to interact with supervisors.

His current work focuses on creating 3-dimensional objects using CAD and rapid prototyping technologies. The shapes of these objects derive from mathematical equations extending the ideas of traditional art and craft making processes.

After completing his degree in silversmithing with a Meisterschueler at the Academy of Fine Art in Nuernberg, Germany, he completed a Graduate Diploma (Silversmithing) at the ANU School of Art. In 1998 he was jointly nominated for an ANU Vice Chancellors Teaching Award and the Australian Awards for University Teaching. In 2002 he was invited to participate at the prestigious 'Meister der Moderne' exhibition at the international Munich Craft Fair and was awarded the coveted 'Bavarian Staats Prize'.

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Amy Kerr (Associate Lecturer)
Amy Kerr is a textile designer and part-time associate lecturer at the ANU School of Art in the Core Studies workshop and the Design Arts Studio. She has taught in the Core Studies workshop and the Textiles workshop since 2008.

As a practising designer/maker Amy established her small textile design business, Moyou, in 2008. Moyou encompasses the unique and ever-expanding fabric, homeware, accessory, toy and jewellery range that Amy creates. Moyou is a wonderful Australian/Asian hybrid: a unique blend of Australian design and Japanese aesthetic. Amy's background in graphic design and textile design, in combination with her love for Japan, influences and informs her design practice – resulting in Moyou’s meticulously designed exclusive range of fabrics and products.

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Elisa Crossing
Elisa has been a part-time lecturer at the ANU School of Art since 1990, in the Visual Arts Access program and, since 1997, in Core Studies. She has just completed eighteen months as coordinator for Spiral Arm and Artspace 71 galleries, during which time she curated several group exhibitions and secured an Australia Council grant to assist emerging artists and curators.

David Jensz
David Jensz has taught drawing and sculpture part-time at the School of Art since 1988. As a sculptor, he has had numerous solo exhibitions in Australia and internationally, including most recently at Helen Maxwell Gallery (2008) Canberra, Dubbo (2007) and Benalla (2006) Regional galleries and at O.K.Harris Gallery (2004) in New York. His work has been selected for major survey exhibitions including the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Melbourne (2005, 2006), National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, NGA (2001,2003,2005) the Australian Perspecta, AGNSW (1991) and the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, AGSA (1990). He has done a number of residencies in Thailand (1990, 1995, 2002, 2008) New York, USA (1995), Delhi, India (1996) and Tokyo, Japan (2000).  He was commissioned by the ACT Government to make a major piece of public sculpture for the front of the Canberra Theatre in 2006 and is currently working on two new commissions for Civic and Woden, also commissioned by the ACT Government.

Steven Holland
Artist Steven Holland lives and works on a sheep farm near Michelago NSW.  His sculptures, installations, performances and drawings are a passionate response to our fragile land especially during times of drought. The sensibilities of these works are often ephemeral and frequently include living animals. One ongoing project is a series of edible artworks designed to be consumed by animals.

Steven completed a Master of Arts at the Australian National University, School of Art and was awarded a Samstag Scholarship to study Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art in London.

He is currently working on a commission by the RSPCA  to design a Memorial for Animals in War to be located at the Australian War Memorial.  In 2007 his sculpture came 3rd in the Waterhouse Prize for Natural History Art.

Simon Scheuerle
I am an artist. I create objects, installations, photographs, drawings, paintings and videos. I use a wide variety of everyday materials, and various construction and casting techniques to produce my objects and installations. I take photographs on the street of interesting detritus, and in my studio of toys and props. I draw pictures in pencil and ink, and paint with acrylics. I make short, sharp films.

Practising a form of aesthetic strongarming, I engage the viewer through spectacle and intense materiality. My art is hilarious, disastrous and indulgent. My intention is to deliver a sharp blast of the unexpected. I graduated from the Australian National University School of Art in 2005, majoring in sculpture. I was a resident at The Canberra Contemporary Art Space in 2006 resulting in a solo show at CCAS Manuka in 2007. I have participated in Domain Temporary Public Art project in 2006 and 2008 and currently have a work touring in ‘Bloodlines: Art and the Horse’ curated by Peter Fay. I dabble in prop, costume and set design for theatre.

Tony Steel

Tess Horwitz

Roy Marchant

Ivo Lovric

Richard Blackwell

Megan Jackson