Dr Nicole McCuaig

Biography

Dr Nicole McCuaig is a creative producer and director who has delivered programs for national broadcast on free to air networks across Australia and internationally. From 1996 - 2007 Nicole worked as an independent director making programs for ABC and SBS. From 2007 - 2015 she worked in a documentary unit for Network Ten producing predominantly one-hour documentaries for national broadcast. Nicole won the IF award for best independent documentary, was nominated for the NSW Premier's history award, and was nominated for an ATOM award in the science category for The Hunt for Hendra that screened nationally on Network Ten.

In 2021 Nicole graduated with a Doctor of Visual Arts from Griffith University, re-versioning the poetry of the modernist Ronald McCuaig who is also her grandfather. The creative practice resulted in a collection of video poetry, vast archival discovery then catalogued into the Library of NSW, and new creative works on contemporary platforms that incorporate styles such as hip hop and experimental film. The research explored theoretical framework of  archiveology and creative practice of videopoetry. Nicole has presented papers around the extensive practice at conferences such as Visible Evidence at the University of Gdank (2022), University of Queensland’s Adaptation Symposium (2021), Bodies in Flux at Edith Cowan University (2022), and RMIT’s Sightlines (2019).

Alongside her creative practice Nicole has taught film and interdisciplinary courses at various universities in Queensland.