Tassia Joannides

DR TASSIA JOANNIDES is an interdisciplinary artist and academic, working across the fields of art and fashion. Tassia holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Art from RMIT and is currently the Associate Dean Design in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT. Their research explores representations and experiences of gendered and sexualised bodies that sit within social and cultural contexts. Tassia's work aims to contribute to wider discourse on diversity, inclusion and equity through practices of sculpture, performance, and wearable objects, and to provide opportunities for sharing, connection, empathy and understanding. They have exhibited broadly both locally and internationally, and are a founding member of Triple F+ Collective, a group of culturally diverse artists working across countries and disciplines exploring female(+) identity through expressions of feminism, femininity and female sexuality. She lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.