Ms. Fleur Summers
Senior Lecturer
Details
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College: School of Art
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Department: School of Art
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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fleur.summers@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-6250-2087
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Fleur Summers is a lecturer in sculpture at the School of Art, RMIT. She focuses on teaching developmental working processes with reference to spatial practice.
Fleur began her academic life studying science and worked professionally as a microbiologist for several years. This experience and ongoing interest in natural science informs and enriches her work.
Fleur is a practicing visual artist and has been exhibiting her work for the last decade in artist run galleries and other spaces in Melbourne. Fleur was a studio artist at 200 Gertrude Street in 1999 and produced installation-, video- and object-based works. She has also been involved in a series of experimental, collaborative projects with other artists and with a theatre director and writer in 2000. A new body of work is currently in development as part of Fleur’s masters candidature.
Fleur began her academic life studying science and worked professionally as a microbiologist for several years. This experience and ongoing interest in natural science informs and enriches her work.
Fleur is a practicing visual artist and has been exhibiting her work for the last decade in artist run galleries and other spaces in Melbourne. Fleur was a studio artist at 200 Gertrude Street in 1999 and produced installation-, video- and object-based works. She has also been involved in a series of experimental, collaborative projects with other artists and with a theatre director and writer in 2000. A new body of work is currently in development as part of Fleur’s masters candidature.
Supervisor projects
- The phenomenology of a Forest ; Conscious making through Observation, Knowledge and Memory
- 4 Dec 2023
- Inside Aphantasic Practice: exploring the impact of aphantasia on creative practice in image-making & animation
- 29 Jun 2023
- An Exploration of the Influence of Zen-inspired Poetic Nature Painting on Contemporary Abstraction
- 4 Jul 2022
- Trauma, Dissociation and the Boarding School Experience
- 3 Jun 2021
- Atmoscapes: Finding Place in a Spatial Practice
- 24 Nov 2020
- Materialising Deep Time: Spatial Investigations into Light and Fibre
- 15 Oct 2020
- Compressing Atmosphere: Ceramic Encounters With Clay, Body and Site
- 7 Sep 2020
- Adjacencies and distances: Sculptural site intervention
- 2 Feb 2018
- Inhabiting Thresholds: Encounters in Liminality Through Material Sculptural Practice
- 22 Feb 2016
- Unseen Equations: Sculptural Assemblage and Intersecting Topologies
- 22 Feb 2016
- In Flux: Explorations of material indeterminacy through sculptural practice
- 17 Sep 2015
Teaching interests
Art and neuroscience, embodied cognition and neuro-cognitive experience of art, interactive and kinetic works, sculpture and spatial practice, materiality, conceptual art, systems art and process based practice
Research interests
Fleur’s current project is titled Missing Links – Evolutionary theory as a model and scientific intervention as a strategy for artistic process and production. This project questions the production of knowledge through the synthesis and analysis of a collection of sculptural objects. It explores and constructs taxonomies and genealogies of objects from a series of disciplines including botany, evolutionary biology, microbiology, archaeology and museum practice. This research is informed by the works of theorists such as Darwin, Foucault and Deleuze.
Research interests include:
- Process and duration
- Developmental working sequences
- Discursive formations including museum collections and archives
- Intersections of science and art and the studio as laboratory
- Collaboration and authorial identities
- Conceptual art, minimalism and installation practice
Research interests include:
- Process and duration
- Developmental working sequences
- Discursive formations including museum collections and archives
- Intersections of science and art and the studio as laboratory
- Collaboration and authorial identities
- Conceptual art, minimalism and installation practice
