Ms. Fleur Summers
Details
College: School of Art
Department: School of Art
Campus: City Campus Australia
fleur.summers@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0002-6250-2087
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Fleur Summers is a Senior Lecturer in sculpture at the School of Art, RMIT. She teaches a range of courses including studio practice at all levels and parctical workshops from bronze foundry to soft sculpture. She is also interested in spatial practices in general, socially engaged activities and public art alongside the pedagogy of art education.
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 two decades in artist run galleries and other spaces. Her work ranges from object based sculpture to installation work, moving image and public work. In 2019, she was commissioned to produce a public artwork for Jewell Station in Brunswick by VicTrack. This work Making Sense constructed of bronze and steel is designed to be touched and to create community connections.
Fleur has been a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary and Artery Studios in Melbourne and is currently at Schoolhouse Studios.
Research fields
- 360602 Fine arts
Academic positions
- Sculpture Studio Leader
- RMIT University
- Fine Art
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2020 – Present
Supervisor projects
- CRAFT AS MATERIAL AND COMMUNITY REMEDIATION: an examination of gender, labour and activism
- 4 Jun 2026
- The Aphantastic Mind an autoethnographic case study on the impact of aphantasia on Creative Practice in image-making & animation
- 4 Mar 2026
- DEVISING DEATH
- 20 Feb 2026
- The phenomenology of a Forest; Conscious making through Observation, Knowledge and Memory
- 11 Dec 2025
- 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
Soft sculpture, bronze foundry and sculpture specialisation at all levels. Art history and theory. Postgraduate studies - honours, MFA, Research Masters and PhD.
Research interests
Research interests include:
- Socially engaged practices
- Touch and communication in Sculpture
- Bronze Foundry as an expanded practice
- Sustainable practices including foraging and recycling
- Collections in musuems and archives
- Intersections of science and art and the studio as laboratory
- Spatial prctices, installation art and public art
- Feminist and political art
- Materiality, process and transformative practices
- Embodiment in art
- Pedagogy of art education
- Colonialisation and the monument
