Research Supervisor Connect
Andrew Lavery is the Co-Director and Co-Chair of Sydney College of the Arts, having previously held roles as, Director and Chair, Deputy Dean and Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching.
Trained as a master glass artist, Lavery has since evolved as a conceptual and multi-disciplinary practitioner. He maintains a long-standing interest in the social and spatial politics of urban space, often challenging Australian ideals or highlighting the negative effects of capitalism, cultural indifference, and population growth.
In recent installations, Lavery explores the historical materialism of gentrifying Australian suburbs through the allegory of urban ruin. These works examine themes of social disjunction and displacement, revealing the true nature of progress through temporal challenges to the linear history, and fictional reality of modernity.
Research interests
Andrew was the founder of SCA's New Materialism in Contemporary Art research cluster, which focuses on the anthropocene, materials and matter, non-human agencies, multispecies aesthetics, geo-politics and the socio-political agencies of things.
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3312