Thea Costantino
School of Creative Arts, 7/10/18→ 31/08/18
Postal address:University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, HertfordshireUnited KingdomSchool of Creative Arts, 5/06/17→ 31/08/18
Postal address:University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, HertfordshireUnited Kingdom
Overview
Dr Thea Costantino is an Australian artist and academic based in the UK, working as Head of Visual Arts in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. She holds a PhD from Curtin University, where she worked from 2005–2017.
She has received a 2015 Visual Arts and Craft Mid-Career Creative Fellowship from the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts, the 2013 Hutchins Art Prize and a 2011 Qantas Foundation Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award, and her art work has been exhibited in Australia, Germany and the USA. Her work is held in collections including the Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Murdoch University, John Curtin Gallery, City of Perth, and City of Joondalup.
Her chapter ‘Ruination and Recollection: Plumbing the Colonial Archive’ appears in Visual Arts Practice and Affect: Place, Materiality and Embodied Knowing edited by Ann Schilo and published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2016.
Her creative practice includes drawing, sculpture, video, photography, performance and written works. Her research interests include memory, settler colonialism, the gothic and the grotesque.