Ms Fleur Summers

Key Activities

Fleur Summers is a lecturer in Sculpture with a focus on teaching developmental working processes with reference to spatial practice. Fleur began her academic life studying science and worked professionally as a Microbiologist for several years. This experience and ongoing interest in natural science informs and enriches her work.

Fleur is a practicing visual artist and has been exhibiting her work for the last decade in artist run galleries and other spaces in Melbourne. Fleur was a studio artist at 200 Gertrude Street in 1999 and has produced installation, video and object based works. She has also been involved in a series of experimental, collaborative projects with other artists and with a theatre director and writer in 2000. A new body of work is currently in development as part of Fleur’s masters candidature.

Qualifications

MA; BA Hons (Fine Art); Assoc. Dip. Arts (Visual Arts); BSc.

Research

Fleur’s current project is titled Missing Links – Evolutionary theory as a model and scientific intervention as a strategy for artistic process and production. This project questions the production of knowledge through the synthesis and analysis of a collection of sculptural objects. It explores and constructs taxonomies and genealogies of objects from a series of disciplines including botany, evolutionary biology, microbiology, archaeology and museum practice. This research is informed by the works of theorists such as Darwin, Foucault and Deleuze.

Research Interests include:

• Process and duration
• Developmental working sequences
• Discursive formations including museum collections and archives
• Intersections of science and art and the studio as laboratory
• Collaboration and authorial identities
• Conceptual art, minimalism and installation practice

School of Art Research Cluster

Art and Environmental Sustainability

Research Outputs