Amy is a practiscing visual artist and senior lecturer in Visual Art and Arts Education in the School of Education at Flinders University. She has extensive experience developing curriculum and teaching visual art from primary school to the tertiary level. She coordinates the arts education program for early childhood, primary and secondary years. Amy's research is predominantly arts practice-based research, usually in the form of painting or printmaking. Amy's doctoral thesis entitled 'Through the Looking Glass; curriculum as autoethnography as self portrait' was a study about art curriculum for primary school teachers. Recent art education publications have also explored the preparation of pre-service teachers to teach art effectively. Amy is currently on the writing team for the arts in the new Australian Curriculum.
