Dr John Willsteed
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Arts
Biography
Background John Willsteed remembers most of a long and varied career as a musician, travelling the world and leaving a legacy of hummable bass-lines. He has performed with many iconic Australian acts including The Go-Betweens, The Apartments, The Riptides and Ed Kuepper. He has been a guitarist in award winning Brisbane band Halfway since 2010. He is a graduate of the AFTRS, Griffith University and QUT, and has an abiding interest in the musical history of his hometown (Brisbane) and the ways in which it might be told. As a sound editor and composer he has received national and international awards including three AFI Awards for sound. Willsteed also embodies a deep commitment to the wider concept and reality of the creative industries. He has acted on the board of QPIX and was state representative of the Australian Screen Sound Guild. He has been president of Feral Arts management committee since 2005, and currently serves on the board of the Queensland Music Festival. Career History He has been a teacher at private film schools, TAFE and universities since 2000 and his current role at QUT is Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Practice.Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Arts
Keywords
punk, Brisbane, subculture, music
Research field
Performing arts, Cultural studies, Heritage, archive and museum studies
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (Griffith University)
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by John, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Inaugural recipient of the Letty Katts Award, one of the 2016 Queensland Memory Awards.
- Type
- Recipient of an Australia Council Grant or Australia Council Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Recipient of a $20,000 Australia Council Grant (Music - New Work - Writing and Recording).A collaboration between Halfway and Kamileroi elder Bob Weatherall to create a major new work.
- Type
- Other
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- One of the co-writers of Dulcify. From the Halfway album and ERA output Any Old Love, Dulcify is a finalist in the Americana section of the 2015 International Songwriting Competition.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Keynote speech for Auricle Sound Symposium.
- Type
- Curatorial/Juried selection of work for Exhibition Recording/Screening etc.
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- One of the curators in Seen + Heard, an exhibition of 12" cover art.