Rate My Professor Jaye Early

Dr. Jaye Early is a researcher in the School of Communication, Media and Journalism, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities, at Adelaide University. A Dharug man living and working on Kaurna land, he is eligible to co-supervise Masters and PhD students and is available for media comment. Early's multidisciplinary practice encompasses live and video-based performance, painting, and other mediums. His work intentionally transforms personal dislocations into visual strategies of self-disclosure, often using his own body as the central site for art-making. Oscillating between self-mockery and sincerity, Early constructs forums for examining artistic and non-artistic failures, successes, self-delusions, and disappointments. Stimulated by realities typically impermissible in public spaces, his practice explores the authenticity of suppressed emotions and the consequences of rendering the personal public.

Early's scholarly output complements his artistic endeavors, focusing on confessional forms in contemporary art. His major publication is the 2025 monograph Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc), which traces the development of the confessional subject in video art. Additional works include a forthcoming monograph, Private Experiences in Public Spaces: 'Technologies of the Self' within Video-Based Confessional Art and its Relationship to Subjectivity (Palgrave Macmillan); 'Contemporary confessional forms and confessional art' in Third Text (2022, 36(4), 369-382); 'The self-design of contemporary confessional art,' co-authored with T. Juliff, in Journal of Visual Art Practice (2019, 18(4), 342-358); and the chapter 'Private realms made public: "technologies of the self" as agency and resistance within performance and video-based video art' in The Cosmic and the Corporeal: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Time, Space and Body (2016, pp. 1-4). These contributions highlight his influence in theorizing subjectivity and confessional practices in visual arts.