Fleur Summers
Dr Fleur Summers is a researcher, academic and artist in the School of Art at RMIT University. She is interested in socially engaged works and how humans can connect and communicate through sculptural objects. Working at a range of scales, she is concerned with how touch has the potential to break down boundaries and create extended fields of interactions through material engagement between bodies. She explores the act of cognitively and haptically projecting oneself into another body or environment through a range of materials from soft sculpture to metal casting. She is particularly interested in the bronze casting process which is both sensitive enough to record touch but durable enough to allow extended material engagement.
Recent works include My Hand in Yours (Radiant Pavilion 2024), Getting in Touch (Big Anxiety Festival, Design Hub, 2022) and Making Sense (public sculpture commissioned by VicTrack for Jewell Station 2019).