David Thomas

Professor David Thomas

Emeritus Professor
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Details

  • College: Design and Social Context
  • Department: Design and Social Context
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • david.thomas@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

Supervisor projects

  • Painting as a Marker of Change
  • 28 May 2018
  • HOLDING SPACE - COURTING POTENTIAL Aesthetics and The Non-Objective (Open) Artwork
  • 3 Jul 2017
  • Making Connections: The Sculptural Encounter as an Embodied Cognitive Experience
  • 29 Mar 2017
  • Manifesting Becoming: Encountering Relational Entanglement Through Composite Art Installation
  • 11 Aug 2014
  • Quantifying the Everyday: Generative Numerical Methodologies in the Creation of the Artwork
  • 3 Mar 2014
  • Sculpture and the Contested Ground of Public and Private Space
  • 1 Mar 2010
  • Surface Encounter
  • 2 Mar 2009

Teaching interests

Supervisor interests
Painting, installation, photopainting; time, timing, duration, perception, concrete art, composites, social sculpture, monochrome, Eastern Western Art, transcultural practice

Research interests

Visual Arts and Crafts, Art Theory and Criticism, Education Systems, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Design Practice and Management, Other Studies in Creative Arts and Writing
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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.

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