Fleur Summers
Lecturer
Art
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
"Fleur Summers is a lecturer in sculpture at the School of Art, RMIT. She focuses on teaching developmental working processes with reference to spatial practice.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 decade in artist run galleries and other spaces in Melbourne. Fleur was a studio artist at 200 Gertrude Street in 1999 and produced installation-, video- and object-based works. She has also been involved in a series of experimental, collaborative projects with other artists and with a theatre director and writer in 2000. A new body of work is currently in development as part of Fleur’s masters candidature."
Research Interest
Art and neuroscience
Publications
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Infinitely malleable: Contemporary sculpture and neural plasticity
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 The space of memory: promoting transformative learning in undergraduate art education
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 Infinitely malleable - approaching contemporary sculptural practice through the notion of neural plasticity
