Dr Kathryn Coleman is an artist, researcher and teacher based in Melbourne, where Kate lectures in Visual Arts and Design Teacher Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.
Kate's praxis includes taking aspects of her theoretical and practical work as a/r/tographer to consider how practitioners, teachers and students use site to create place in the digital and physical. As an a/r/tographer, her practice is as artist, as researcher, and as teacher, developed out of an embodied and performed praxis. A/r/tographers have intertwined and woven identities, never separated or untangled from the rhizome that they are within. Their practice is relational and requires activation within material encounters and events as assemblages. This research was explored in her PhD at the University of Melbourne, submitted as a fully online thesis in a digital portfolio called 'An a/r/tist in wonderland: exploring identity, creativity and digital portfolios as a/r/tographer'.
Kate is the Australasian representative on the Board of Directors of Association of Authentic, Experiential and Evidence Based Learning (AAEEBL) and recently was the executive editor on the Field Guide to ePortfolio for AAEEBL and AAC&U. As an artist and art educator, Kate is a World Council Representative for the South-East Asia Pacific Region for the International Society for Education though Art (InSEA) and co-editor of the open access Journal of Artistic and Creative Education.