Mr. Mark Edgoose
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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mark.edgoose@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Mark Edgoose is the co-ordinator of undergraduate studies, Gold and Silversmithing, at the School of Art, RMIT.
Mark Edgoose has been contributing to research and education in Australian Jewellery and Object making since 1989, firstly at Monash University and then at Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University. Mark has now returned to RMIT to where his academic life began, initially as an undergraduate student and later on, as a post-graduate student. He completed a Masters by Research, RMIT, Melbourne in 1997; titled - Explore the aesthetic and technological potential offered by refractory materials associated with the aerospace industry and integrate this into the discipline of holloware production.
His extensive experience in academic leadership has been as coordinator of Jewellery and Silversmithing at Monash University, coordinator of Object Art and Design at Sydney University and as Foundation project director and coordinator also at Sydney University. In this role he was instrumental in realising of the Foundation Year as an independent program within a discipline based studio program that provided an inclusive and nurturing experience for first year study at the Sydney College of the Arts.
Mark Edgoose has made a significant contribution to Australian object making through the wide exhibition and documentation of his work both nationally and internationally. He is regularly approached to exhibit, and sees this as evidence that his work is well respected and the broader community is aware of the scope of his research. Achievements include a large commission for the Historic Houses Trust of N.S.W. The commission was for a dining table centerpiece and candelabras to commemorate the Federation of Australia for Government House, NSW.
Awards and Prizes:
- 1996 The Deacons Graham & James / Arts 21 Award, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne
- 1995 National Craft award, National Gallery of Victoria
Mark Edgoose has been contributing to research and education in Australian Jewellery and Object making since 1989, firstly at Monash University and then at Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University. Mark has now returned to RMIT to where his academic life began, initially as an undergraduate student and later on, as a post-graduate student. He completed a Masters by Research, RMIT, Melbourne in 1997; titled - Explore the aesthetic and technological potential offered by refractory materials associated with the aerospace industry and integrate this into the discipline of holloware production.
His extensive experience in academic leadership has been as coordinator of Jewellery and Silversmithing at Monash University, coordinator of Object Art and Design at Sydney University and as Foundation project director and coordinator also at Sydney University. In this role he was instrumental in realising of the Foundation Year as an independent program within a discipline based studio program that provided an inclusive and nurturing experience for first year study at the Sydney College of the Arts.
Mark Edgoose has made a significant contribution to Australian object making through the wide exhibition and documentation of his work both nationally and internationally. He is regularly approached to exhibit, and sees this as evidence that his work is well respected and the broader community is aware of the scope of his research. Achievements include a large commission for the Historic Houses Trust of N.S.W. The commission was for a dining table centerpiece and candelabras to commemorate the Federation of Australia for Government House, NSW.
Awards and Prizes:
- 1996 The Deacons Graham & James / Arts 21 Award, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne
- 1995 National Craft award, National Gallery of Victoria
Supervisor projects
- Hybridised Metal Formation
- 17 Jul 2023
- Crafting connections: How emergent material practices in jewellery build community.
- 26 Apr 2023
- Urban Jewels (working title) - material disobedience expressed through the making and wearing of jewellery forms
- 17 May 2022
- Silent Conversation: Prompting the Share Material Experience through the Digital Narrative Objects
- 16 Jan 2020
- Artificial Novelties
- 27 Jun 2019
- Machine Aesthetics: Revaluing and Reinterpreting the Manufacturing Process of the Assembly Line
- 3 Apr 2018
- Material Sites: Observations of the Australian Steel Industry Through the Vessel
- 1 Feb 2018
- A suite of tales: Contemporary jewellery as markers of boundaries, preferences and social status
- 2 Jan 2018
- Subtle Bodies: Transcorporeal Becoming in Threshold Realms
- 1 Mar 2017
- Southern Shan Shui: Interpreting Reimagined Australian Landscapes through Contemporary Jewellery
- 1 Mar 2017
- Ready(un)made: absence and presence in the intra-relational object.
- 29 Feb 2016
Teaching interests
Object, Architecture, Space, Time, Experience, Craft, Gold and silversmithing, Function, Domestic, Object - making, Vessel, Presentation, Useful, Exhibition, Site, Form, Location, Material production
Research interests
Underlying the research explored consistently in his work are the ideas of containment and stacking, the enclosure/disclosure of space, repetition, connection and functional ambiguity. His current PHD research has extended and consolidated these previously worked concepts. The space, habitation and scale aspects of the work represent a evolving shift in direction and are qualities he is keen to explore in future installational work… how objects connect and perform in space, and how they affect surrounding spaces. By using objects as a vehicle to tap into people’s memory and experience, the objects will reference the areas of design, architecture and craft (read as hand and tool).
