Multidisciplinary Artist
Marla Read
About
I am a settler Australian artist and practice-led PhD candidate at RMIT University, Melbourne. My film and sound-based doctoral research is on women's affective ecological knowledge, the seal-woman hybrid in mythology and mediation through emergent technology. This encompasses ocean histories, human-animal relationships, emotions, ethics of care, mythology, and labour practices.
My wider practice uses site-specific installation, textiles, photography, sound, and film to explore place making, labour, rituals, and the ocean. Broadly, I situate myself in a community of practice that looks at empathy in human-animal relationships, feminist methodologies, strange ecologies, hydrofeminism and the blue humanities.