Dominic Redfern creates video works at the intersection of site, screen and identity, which give critical expression to the complexity of screen-mediated experience. Over recent years, his practice has become increasingly focused on the history of natural history and contemporary understandings of place. These interests are expressed with a self-conscious approach to the technology and culture of video, making it both subject and medium for his work.
Over the last couple of years, Dominic has had exhibitions at home as well as in Tokyo, Stockholm and Shanghai, and he has undertaken research in Orkney and Mull as well in La Rochelle for future projects.
Over the last decade his work has also been seen at venues including:
• Tate Modern, Norwich Gallery and Bristol’s FACT, UK
• Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, New Zealand
• Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane; Perth International Arts Festival; Perth Institute for Contemporary Art
• Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of New Art, Detroit, and Art in General in New York, US
• Sparwasser HQ, the Interface Festival and Hamburger Bahnof, Berlin
• Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
• Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
• As a finalist in the 2011 ReelDance awards
• Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul
• Gallery Minami, Tokyo Wonder Site, and Remo Gallery in Japan.
Personal website: www.dominicredfern.net
Supervisor projects
Revisiting Lifeworld: Gaining Affective and Environmental Engagement through Socially Engaged Art between China and Australia
21 Feb 2024
Examining Chinese-Australian bi-cultural identity in relation to cultural bereavement through video essays informed by autoethnography and critical realism
10 Jan 2024
Walking with Buckwheat : Site-Specific Performance and Social Change
26 Oct 2022
Plant Autonomy: entangled presence, perception, and intelligent behaviour
23 Aug 2022
Funny weird or funny haha? Subversive tactics for approaching anxiety in contemporary art
3 Aug 2022
Being Weird: Collaboration, Contamination, and Worlding with Nonhumans
25 Jul 2022
The ElectroPoetics : performing co-created being-hoods in the electronic world
13 Dec 2021
Voices to Sing and Hands to Create: Expressions of Authentic Difference
10 Dec 2021
Porosity of the Frame: material experiments on the boundary between art and everyday life
6 Aug 2021
A new curatorial; method, care and the feminine
23 Nov 2020
Toward Equitable Entanglements:A Methodology for a Posthuman Approach in Socially Engaged Artistic Practice
7 Jan 2019
Fluid to Arid: Exploring the Notions of Life and Loss Through the Lens of the Lut Desert Geography
21 Aug 2018
Ocean Observatory: A Proposition for a Marine Dwelling
1 Mar 2017
Trauma, Dissociation and the Boarding School Experience
1 Mar 2017
Adjacencies and distances: Sculptural site intervention
27 Oct 2016
Self Surveillance: Performing the plurality of my feminine experience of self.
2 Mar 2015
Narratives of Emergence: Revealing an Image of Female Iranian Rebellion
3 Feb 2014
Among My Souvenirs: The Role of Site, Artefact and Embodiment as Tools of Remembrance in Material and Visual Culture
4 Mar 2013
Halfway to Paradise: documenting people and place, fictional constructs and considerations for post-documentary
27 Feb 2012
Teaching interests
Dominic is currently senior supervisor to five doctoral students.
Research interests
video art, video installation, performance & video, site-based art, place-based art, art and environment
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.