Lived Experience, Practice, and the Academy

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Brian Martin

Abstract

This paper explores my personal journey of where, when, and how I have “landed” to now. It is a sketch of my intellectual development and the impact of cross-cultural sources on my work, my thinking, and my visual practice. I follow a chronological way of looking at how I became informed about philosophy, art history, practice, and Indigenous ways of knowing for the sake of clarity. Although one’s life is not linear and operates in a more cyclic way, I reveal how I was influenced by the diverse lived experiences from childhood up until now.

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Martin, B. (2019). Lived Experience, Practice, and the Academy. Journal of World Philosophies, 4(2), 119–123. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/3118
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Intellectual Journeys
Author Biography

Brian Martin

Brian Martin is a leading Indigenous artist and academic. Born in Redfern Sydney, he is from Bundjalung, Kamilaroi, and Murrawarri ancestry. He holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours from the University of Sydney, a Graduate Diploma of Vocational Education and Training from Charles Stuart University, and a PhD by research from Deakin University. A practicing artist for 27 years, Brian has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. His artwork is held in various private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria. His publication history has investigated the relationship of materialism in the arts to an Indigenous worldview and Aboriginal knowledge framework and epistemology. He has further reconfigured understandings of culture and visual practice from an Aboriginal perspective. He is Associate Dean Indigenous and Director of Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab at Monash University Art, Design and Architecture and Honorary Professor of Eminence at Centurion University of Technology and Management in Orissa India. Some of Martin’s artwork can be found under his name at: http://www.moragalleries.com.au
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