Dr Phil Edwards

Research

Phil Edwards explains that his research interests are only partly circumscribed by his formal studies. During his Masters he researched the possibility of an innate aesthetic that manifested itself in the casual assemblage of everyday objects. His PhD studies concerned themselves with an examination of the positioning of audio CDs in a Fine Art culture. Both these formal studies overlapped in the sense that within each was an examination of hybridity as it is expressed in the overlap between art informale and Fine Art.

Phil’s research focus and interests are in six themes: Children’s art/ outsider art and its relationship to formal painting; Fake poetry and Fine Art; Alchemy as a sleight of hand; Music brut; Temporality and Compression in Hybrid art forms; and Painting – Abstraction – Landscape

Research Supervision

Maria Penne, DFA, “Visual examination of the mythologies and the corporeal identity of borderers occupying the border between Mexico and the United States of America” 

PhD; MA (Fine Art);BA Hons (Fine Arts); M Ed St; B Ed (Env.Sci.); Dip.TEFL.

Exhibitions / Performances

2005   Eulogy for a Blowfly. Clubs Project,15 April
2005   Cairo - Bus Gallery Residency, April–May
2005   Lost Time is not Found Again - Conical Gallery, 4–24 October
2005   Almost Saturn – RMIT Project Space - collaboration with John Mckinnon. 1–16 September
2005   Bert Alphett – Bus Gallery. 10 September

Conferences

2005   Edwards, P. (2005). On being Peripetatic in a Scholarly World. Paper presented Speculation and Innovation - Applying Practice-Led Research in the Creative Industries Conference, at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 30 March–1 April.
2005   Almost Saturn. Ancillary exhibition for VITAL SIGNS Conference, RMIT.

Publications

2005   Edwards, P. (2005, in process). Ballad of A Magpie Artist. In Thinking through Practice, (working titles). Melbourne: RMIT University Press.
2005   Edwards, P. (2005). Geelong Arts Alliance. UNMagazine, Issue 3, Autumn 2005.