Rate My Professor Marian Tubbs

Dr Marian Tubbs is a Senior Lecturer in Art and Design and Bachelor of Art and Design Course Coordinator at Southern Cross University in the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts. She holds a PhD from UNSW Art & Design, an MFA from UNSW, and a BFA (Hons) from RMIT. Previously, she served as Lecturer in Photomedia at the National Art School. Her research interests include contemporary art, continental philosophy, ecologies, digital practice, assemblages, virtual and augmented reality, painting, sculpture, and installation art, with particular focus on vision technologies, poor materialities, and language or text in art. Tubbs lives and works across Bundjalung/Northern Rivers and Kabi Kabi/Sunshine Coast lands. She supervises Masters and PhD candidates and maintains active community engagement, including public speaking engagements in 2024 at Lismore Regional Gallery, Radio National, Elevator ARI, and Northern Rivers Community Gallery.

Tubbs has garnered significant recognition through major awards such as the Sunshine Coast Art Prize in 2021, the Marten Bequest for sculpture in 2017, and the Museum of Contemporary Art's Online Commission in 2015. Her scholarly contributions include the monograph we need privacy guys here too published by ArtInk in 2020, a contribution to the anthology Australiana to Zeitgeist by Thames and Hudson in 2017, and authorship in Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts: Intensities & Lines of Flight by Rowman & Littlefield International in 2014. As a practicing artist, she has presented numerous solo exhibitions, including new images at STATION, Sydney (2024), reversible destiny at Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina (2023), resort work at STATION, Melbourne (2022), a complicated good time at STATION, Sydney (2021), and we need privacy guys here too at Sunshine Coast University Gallery (2020). Group exhibitions feature prominently in her career, such as Know my Name: Australian Female Artists 1900-now at the National Gallery of Australia and Another Dimension at McClelland Gallery (2018). Her works reside in esteemed collections including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sunshine Coast Regional Gallery, and Australian National University, underscoring her impact on contemporary art.