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Dr Phil Edwards

Position

Lecturer

School /
Work Unit

Art

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 3918

phil.edwards@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 24
Level: 2
Room: 8

City Campus

College/Portfolio

Design & Social Context

"Phil Edwards staff profile image 2"

"music to act dumb by"

Qualifications

Ph.D; MA (Fine Art); BA Hons (Fine Arts); M Ed St; B Ed (Env.Sci.); Dip.TEFL.

Research

Phil Edwards explains that his research interests are only partly circumscribed by his formal studies. During his Masters he researched the possibility of an innate aesthetic that manifested itself in the casual assemblage of everyday objects. His PhD studies concerned themselves with an examination of the positioning of audio CDs in a Fine Art culture. Both these formal studies overlapped in the sense that within each was an examination of hybridity as it is expressed in the overlap between art informale and Fine Art.

Phil’s research focus and interests are in six themes: Children’s art/ outsider art and its relationship to formal painting; Fake poetry and Fine Art; Alchemy as a sleight of hand; Music brut; Temporality and Compression in Hybrid art forms; and Painting – Abstraction – Landscape

Research Outputs

Exhibitions / Performances

  • 2005 - Eulogy for a Blowfly. Clubs Project,15 April
  • 2005 - Cairo - Bus Gallery Residency, April-May
  • 2005 - Lost Time is not Found Again - Conical Gallery, 4-24 October
  • 2005 - Almost Saturn – RMIT Project Space - collaboration with John Mckinnon. 1-16 September
  • 2005 - Bert Alphett – Bus Gallery. 10 September

Conferences

  • 2005 - Edwards, P. (2005). On being Peripetatic in a Scholarly World. Paper presented Speculation and Innovation - Applying Practice-Led Research in the Creative Industries Conference, at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 30 March - 1 April.
  • 2005 - Almost Saturn. Ancillary exhibition for VITAL SIGNS Conference, RMIT.

Publications

  • 2005 - Edwards, P. (2005, in process). Ballad of A Magpie Artist. In Thinking through Practice, (working titles). Melbourne: RMIT University Press.
  • 2005 - Edwards, P. (2005). Geelong Arts Alliance. UNMagazine, Issue 3, Autumn 2005.

Research Supervision

Maria Penne, DFA, “Visual examination of the mythologies and the corporeal identity of borderers occupying the border between Mexico and the United States of America”