Martine Corompt

Martine Corompt is an Associate Dean and Lecturer in the School of Art at RMIT University, specializing in Drawing, Painting, and Media Arts with a focus on moving image, animation, and mixed media installation. She holds a PhD from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne, where her research explored links between cartoon reduction and modernist abstraction.

Research Interests:

• Animation and reductive representation
• Caricature and interdisciplinary collaboration
• Op art, minimalism, and their cultural motifs
• Landscape and environmental themes
• Public art and urban interventions

Key Projects:

• Western Wilderness (2013): A public art commission for Sunshine Railway Station featuring indigenous flora.
• Founder of Roundabout Projections, a public projection space in Melbourne's Preston.
• Member of the DARTS research group (Digital Art and Technology).

Teaching:

• Covers Animation, Projection, Caricature, Minimalism, and Reduction in first/second-year courses.
• Supervises projects in Fine Art, Moving Image, and New Media, including recent completions like Liminal Gymasia by Kasia Lynch.