Dr. Tarryn Handcock
Details
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Department: Fashion & Textiles
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Campus: Brunswick Australia
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tarryn.handcock@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-2429-1039
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Mentoring (short-term)
- Membership of an advisory committee
- Collaborative projects
About
Dr. Tarryn Handcock is a cross-disciplinary designer, artist and fashion academic whose creative practice research explores how artefacts and materials, knowledges and experiences are produced through relationships within particular sites, spaces and places.
Tarryn's site-specific practice brings together embodied and situated approaches to address qualities of ‘wear and where’. Current work investigates making, walking, gardening and curating as methods to reveal relational networks, enable urban citizenry and knowledge sharing, for the benefit of human and more-than-human communities and cultures in place. Projects include 'Growing Waa Weelum', which proposes the value of plant dye gardens for growing biodiversity, cultural awareness, and environmenal responsibility in tertiary fashion and textiles education.
Tarryn holds a practice-based PhD from RMIT University’s School of Fashion and Textiles, and is a Senior Lecturer in the Bachelor of Fashion (Design). She brings experience with program management, Human Research Ethics frameworks, and supports diversity and inclusion in higher education. Tarryn supervises Masters and PhD candidates across creative disciplines.
Research fields
- 330315 Textile and fashion design
- 330306 Design practice and methods
- 360204 Site-based writing
- 5001 Applied ethics
- 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
- 500310 Phenomenology
UN sustainable development goals
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
- 15 Life on Land
- 4 Quality Education
Academic positions
- Senior Lecturer
- RMIT University
- Australia
- 2024 – Present
- Program Manager, Bachelor of Fashion (Design)
- RMIT University
- Australia
- 2023 – Present
- Assistant Program Manager, Bachelor of Fashion (Design)
- RMIT University
- Australia
- 2022 – 2023
- Lecturer
- RMIT University
- Australia
- 2016 – 2023
Supervisor projects
- Practise/Practice: walking the path of repetition in a surface pattern design practice
- 5 Jul 2023
- Is ‘Waste’ Waste? Making Kin With ‘Waste’: Toward a Relational Post-Material Design Practice
- 24 Oct 2022
- Celebrating culture and critically understanding Whiteness through creative practice
- 17 Oct 2022
- Felt – Stitching. A Model for Expanded Sensory Embroidery-Making Practice
- 20 Jun 2022
- Citizens Prostheses Landscape Towards an Embodied Practice of Landscape Architecture
- 22 Jul 2019
- Nail Art: Beyond Adornment; Understanding the Creative Practice of Nail Art and its Place in the Wider Artistic Landscape
- 1 Mar 2018
- EMBEDDING SURFACE IMAGERY: Exploring a hybrid textile design practice - the Desktop Atelier
- 13 Sep 2017
- interior-painting: composing resonant interior conditions with/in the flow of worldly forces
- 4 Oct 2016
Teaching interests
Fashion and Textiles, Studio Creative Practice, Objects and artefacts, Exhibition and Presentation practices, Research strategies, History and Theory, Cross-disciplinary design, Place-based learning
Research interests
Fields: Fashion and Textiles, Creative Practice
Areas of Specialisation:
Fashion and Place, Site-Specificity
Embodiment and Dress, Phenomenology of Fashion
Design and Materiality,
Walking methodologies
Gardens for education, fashion and plants
Supporting Design Practice Research:
Cross-disciplinary Design (Art, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture)
Speculative and Critical Design
Creative Design Methodologies
Human Research Ethics
