Barbara Bolt

Barbara Bolt is an Australian academic and artist. She is the current director of the Victorian College of the Arts which is part of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne. She is a research theorist her research investigates art theory and criticism (performativity, research ethics, new materialism), art as research (practice-led research). Her art practice investigates the material possibilities of painting in a digital age and the relationship between painting and light (urban landscapes, colourfield, digital, neon). She was on the executive board of the international Society for Artistic Research (SAR), which produces the Journal of Artistic Research (JAR) and is a member of the editorial board of Australian Art Education. thumb

Publications Bolt, Barbara, 'Couch Grass: Ethics of the Rhizome', in: Cecilia Åsberg and Rosi Braidotti (eds.), A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities. Springer. 2018, pp. 67-80 Bolt, Barbara, 'Socially Engaged Art as a Boundary Rider', in: James Oliver (ed.), Associations : creative practice and research. Melbourne University Press. 2018 Barrett, Estelle, and Barbara Bolt, eds. Material inventions: applying creative arts research. IB Tauris, 2014 Barrett, Estelle, and Barbara Bolt, eds. Carnal knowledge: towards a'new materialism'through the arts. IB Tauris, 2013 Barrett, Estelle, and Barbara Bolt, eds. Practice as research: Approaches to creative arts enquiry. IB Tauris, 2014 Bolt, Barbara, Heidegger reframed: Interpreting key thinkers for the arts. IB Tauris, 2010 Bolt, Barbara, 'The Techno-Sublime: Towards a Post-aesthetic', in: Barbara Bolt (ed.), "Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life". Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, pp. 43-51 Bolt, Barbara, "." Studies in material thinking 1, no. 1 (2007): 1-4 Bolt, Barbara, Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image. London: IB Tauris, 2004