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Dr Kristen Sharp

Key Activities

Kristen Sharp is Coordinator of Art History and Theory in the School of Art, and is currently coordinating and teaching the following courses in the Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) program: HUSO2186 Art History and Theory 1; HUSO2309 Art and the City: Transforming Urban Spaces and Globalisation; HUSO2244 The Social Role of the Artist.

Kristen researches in the areas of cultural studies and art history, with a specific focus on globalisation, urbanisation and cultural identity. Her PhD, Superflat Worlds: a topography of Takashi Murakami and the cultures of Superflat art, examined the contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami as an example of a contemporary art practice that is strategically located within the processes of contemporary globalisation. She is currently conducting research on art and the urban experience, and is a member of the RMIT Global Cities Research Institute (Globalization and Culture program).

Qualifications

PhD 2007; Dip. Teaching 1997; BFA (Printmaking) 1996.

Current doctorate supervision

• Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, PhD. Reflecting on Pictorial Spaces: An investigation into ambiguous spatial effects created through the use of fragmented abstract form, reflective materials and oblique linear structures (Second Supervisor)
• Peter Burke, PhD. POP UP ART: the creative disruption of everyday life (Senior Supervisor)
• Rhett D’Costa, PhD. Shimmering Spaces: installation art informed by an Anglo-Indian experience (Second Supervisor)
• Mark Edgoose, PhD. Triggers: Craft objects in space and time (Senior Supervisor)
• Robert Mangion, PhD. (Second Supervisor)
• Clyde McGill, PhD. Inside/Outside: Performing the effects of social cultural and political change on contemporary borderlands (Second Supervisor)
• Simon Perry, PhD. Deferred Readings in Public Art (Second Supervisor)
• Fleur Summers, PhD. Title TBC (Senior Supervisor)
• Elizabeth Wallace, PhD. Absence and the City: A study of absence as a structural principle in city aesthetics and creative practice (Second Supervisor)
• Yu Lun Wu, DFA. (Second Supervisor)
• Tintin Wulia, PhD. Iconic Geopolitics: critical border-watching through art (Senior Supervisor)