Lisa Roberts

Current work is combining scientific and sensory knowledge of climate change through the Living Data program. Current position is Visiting Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, in Transforming Cultures, Environmental Science and Design. I am an Australian artist and scholar of Indigenous Australian and European ancestry. Formal studies include dance, visual arts, animation, Indigenous perspectives and Antarctic perceptions. My PhD research was practice-based and led to the development of a lexicon of primal gestural forms. The forms are circling, spiralling and crossing and are used in animation and other media to combine scientific and sensory understandings. Presentations are made online, in public spaces and at conferences and exhibitions. Animations are commissioned and published under a Creative Commons license at Antarctic Animation,Australian Antarctic Division,Polar Time Virtual Institute,Creature Cast and Living Data. Other Art works are commissioned, leased and purchased. Workshops in drawing movement are available by application. Papers are written for mainstream and academic press. Practice-based Masters and PhD theses are examined.
Supervisors: Dr Daniel Ramp, Professor Anne Cranny-Francis, and Professor Lawrence Wallen