Eleen Deprez is a philosopher of art and curator. She moved to Australia in 2020 and is currently based in Tarntanya/Adelaide. She is a co-director of FELTspace, an artist-run organisation supporting, developing and presenting emerging, experimental, and diverse exhibitions and public programs. Eleen is a senior tutor at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford (UK) where she teaches History and Theory of Visual Culture. She is also a visiting lecturer at the University of South Australia on the Contemporary Art programme. Eleen has an MA in Philosophy from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and an MA in Fine Arts focusing on installation art from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium). She completed a PhD in... Read more
About me
Eleen Deprez is a philosopher of art and curator. She moved to Australia in 2020 and is currently based in Tarntanya/Adelaide. She is a co-director of FELTspace, an artist-run organisation supporting, developing and presenting emerging, experimental, and diverse exhibitions and public programs. Eleen is a senior tutor at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford (UK) where she teaches History and Theory of Visual Culture. She is also a visiting lecturer at the University of South Australia on the Contemporary Art programme. Eleen has an MA in Philosophy from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and an MA in Fine Arts focusing on installation art from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium). She completed a PhD in History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent, examining the nature and origins of curated exhibitions. Eleen is currently working on the uses of Augmented Reality (AR) in museums and gallery spaces, researching the interaction between painting and photography, and curating an exhibition on the contemporary grotesque.
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