Jack Farrell

Hello, my name is Jack, and I am a multi-disciplinary designer and image maker based within the Mornington Peninsula area.

I love all types of photography but thrive within a creative space where I can create stories with my photographs.

After completing high school, focusing my studies on Art, Media, and I.T, I decided to follow along in my university studies and study a Bachelor of Design, majoring in Photo media.

Through gaining specific photographic experience within my major and learning programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator, I hope that leaving university, I can find myself in a space where I can use all the skills I have attained throughout my studies at Swinburne, and work both by myself and with others to create projects that are both moving and inspiring to all who see them.

I believe that there is a true art to creating stories within the photographs that we take, and I love the idea of following a certain direction but also allowing the space for viewers to see your work and create their own interpretations and meanings.

I like to consider my work, both bold and empowering but also gentle and moving.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.