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Professor Lesley Duxbury
My role is to build and support excellent research in the School of Art, particularly in creative practice-led research and to supervise postgraduate research candidates in my areas of expertise.
Lesley Duxbury was born in the UK, and has lived and worked in Australia since 1983. She uses both traditional and contemporary Print media—Photography and Printmaking—to make works that question our perceptions of the natural environment. She has been exhibiting for the past twenty-five years in Australia and the United Kingdom with solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, and more than 50 selected group exhibitions in Australia, Korea, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Her most recent exhibitions include: 2013: Narrating Place in Convergence at RMIT Design Hub; Bogong ELECTRIC at Bogong Village, Victoria; Sky Lab at LaTrobe Regional Gallery; Local Weather at Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. 2012: Luminous World, Art Gallery of Western Australia. 2011: 2112 Imagining the Future at RMIT Gallery; Out of the West at National Gallery of Australia. 2010: The Stony Rises Project at RMIT Gallery and touring Victoria. 2009: Melt at Sydney University Gallery and RMIT Project Space Gallery. 2008: Cold Front at Lake Macquarie Art Gallery, NSW. 2007: Proof at Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria. 2006: Constable and Australla at National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Her work is held in all major public collections in Australia.
Lesley’s research interests include sustainability and the natural environment, in particular the atmosphere and its phenomena, which she explores through work that emulates and recreates our experiences and perception of it. The phenomenological experiences of extended walks in remote landscapes, during which Lesley takes photographs and makes extensive notes, are the impetus for her investigations. She is also interested in the use of text in art and the role it can play in focusing attention and altering the readings of images allowing for a personal intervention and interpretation.
As an educator she publishes widely on Practice-led research and research supervision.
BA Maidstone, MA Curtin, DipEd London, PhD RMIT
- Editorial board member, Studio Research Journal, Griffith University, Queensland
- Member TEQSA Register of Experts
- Academic Advisor f UiTM Bachelor of Art & Design (Hons.) (Fine Art), Malaysia
Awards
- 2016 The Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) – Distinguished Research Award
- 2014 RMIT University Research Excellence - Leadership Award
- 2012 Artist-in-Residency, Olafsfjordur, Iceland
- 2011 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant (Established Artist)
Selected exhibitions
Lesley Duxbury: In a Different Light - Galerie Düsseldorf
Lesley Duxbury: Seeing Double - Galerie Düsseldorf
2013
- Narrating Place in Convergence at RMIT Design Hub
- Bogong ELECTRIC at Bogong Village, Victoria
- Sky Lab at LaTrobe Regional Gallery
- Local Weather at Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2012
- Luminous World, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2011
- Out of the West, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Beyond Big Land, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
- Unravelled: Typographical Prints and Artists’ Books, Banyule Arts Space
- 2112 Imagining the Future, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2010
- Sensational, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
- The Stony Rises Project, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2009
- Melt, Sydney University Gallery, Sydney, NSW
- Double Life, Project Space Gallery and Spare Room, RMIT
- Conversations, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth
- Sky Lab, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
- Drawing of the World, World of Drawing, Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2008
- Look: New Perspectives on the Contemporary Collection, Ian Potter Centre, NGV
- Cold Front, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
2007
- Artists’ Ink, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
2006
- Constable and Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Duxbury, L. (2017). I Just Had to Do It In: Doctoral Research in Art, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, Australia
- Duxbury, L. (2016). Breathing Hemispheres (skies 66.1100� N, 18.5300� W + 32.0569� S, 115.7439� E) In: Breathing Hemispheres (skies 66.1100� N, 18.5300� W + 32.0569� S, 115.7439� E) Melbourne, Australia
- Duxbury, L. (2016). Slitting Light#5 In: Out of the Matrix Melbourne, Australia
- Duxbury, L. (2016). Night Vision(s) In: Sky Lab: Kepler's Dream Bendigo, Victoria
- Duxbury, L. (2015). Across the Aether In: Sky Lab: lines of sight and forces of attraction Melbourne Australia
- Duxbury, L. (2015). A Certain Light In: Geelong Acquisitive print Awards Geelong Australia
- Duxbury, L. (2015). When Night Meets Day In: Gippsland Print Award Sale Victoria Australia
- Duxbury, L. (2014). An Opening in a Cloudy Sky In: City of Hobart Art Prize Hobert, Australia
- Duxbury, L. (2014). Into the black In: Kyoto Hanga International Print Exhibition Kyoto and Fukuyama, Japan
- Duxbury, L. (2013). Local Weather In: Local Weather Sale, Victoria
19 PhD Completions and 6 Masters by Research Completions3 PhD Current Supervisions