Robert Baines
Adjunct Professor
Art
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
Dr. Robert Baines is emeritus professor of RMIT University in the School of Art. His multi-disciplinary research is comprised of three areas: first as an artist goldsmith; second in archaeometallurgy; and third in publishing text and commentary. In 1979 he received a Winston Churchill Study Grant and this has been followed by Senior Fulbright and two Senior Andrew Mellon Conservation Fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and in 2008 a research scholarship in The Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Research Interest
Natural Fiction
Publications
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Creating Parallels Between the Building of Mental Concept and the Building of Material Object
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Antarctic Landscapes in Souvenir and Jewellery
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Mutual Conversations
