Nicholas Bastin

Dr. Nicholas Bastin

Lecturer

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

Supervisor projects

  • The phenomenology of a Forest ; Conscious making through Observation, Knowledge and Memory
  • 4 Dec 2023
  • Making Tools: Exploring Process in Jewellery and Objects
  • 27 Jul 2023
  • Propositional Compositions: Affect and Performativity in Multi-Sensory Spaces.
  • 1 Feb 2023
  • Variation, Movement and Flux: catching rhythm in installation space
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • The metaphoric potential of Kintsugi within contemporary objects.
  • 3 Mar 2022
  • Nail Art: Beyond Adornment; Understanding the Creative Practice of Nail Art and its Place in the Wider Artistic Landscape
  • 18 Oct 2019
  • Machine Aesthetics: Revaluing and Reinterpreting the Manufacturing Process of the Assembly Line
  • 3 Apr 2018
  • A suite of tales: Contemporary jewellery as markers of boundaries, preferences and social status
  • 2 Jan 2018
  • Southern Shan Shui: Interpreting Reimagined Australian Landscapes through Contemporary Jewellery
  • 1 Mar 2017

Teaching interests

The time traveller, the hero, contemporary mythology and associated merchandise, miniature object, jewellery and location, the habitat of the action figure

Research interests

Visual Arts and Crafts
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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.