Biography

Barbara Bolt is a Professorial Fellow at, and former Director of, The Victorian College of the Arts at The University of Melbourne. She is a practising artist and art theorist. Her research addresses the dialogue between theory and practice and between digital and analogue painting seen through the lens of New Materialisms. Her publications include two monographs Art Beyond Representation (2004) and Heidegger Reframed (2011) and five co-edited books. Barbara has been a finalist in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Award, The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Prize and the Alice Prize. Her works are held in collections including Artbank, the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University and Murdoch University.