Dr Eleanor Gates-Stuart is a visual media artist who focus is primarily on scientific exploration and technology, both in the advancement of innovation and in communicating her artistic practice in new and innovative ways, questioning and engaging audience in art, science and technology. Working with major research organisations, museums, business and government her scope of artistic creativity and research interests are extensive and includes interactive exhibits and the application of innovative materials such as the ‘Bugs’, titanium insects and ‘Hot Seeds’ holographic works.
She was awarded Scitech’s Innovation in Art Residency for her project, ‘Under the Surface’ based on mining and mineral exploration in Western Australia, in association with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Mineral Resources Flagship. Gates-Stuart’s active research involves site visits, such as travelling deep underground at the Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) Super Pit and visiting Data & Core Repositories at GeoScience Australia and the Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) in WA.
Her multimedia project, StellrScope, was awarded to Gates-Stuart’s by the Centenary of Canberra’s major Science Art Commission supported by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government and the Australian Government. Celebrating 100 years of wheat, from the days of experimentalist William Farrer through to current science innovation of today, CSIRO was the host for this research, engaging Gates-Stuart as the Science Art Fellow. She received a Canberra Critic’s Circle Award for StellrScope, the major commission installation which was held at Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre. Artworks from the project are now part of the ACT Legislative Assembly Art Collection.
Her international research in Science and Art is diverse and collaborative; Selected as a participant for the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI), a program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, ‘The Deep Blue Sea 2016’, she continues the momentum of the ‘think tank’ synergy of NAKFI with scientists and artists in the USA. Other international projects include her collaboration with the Orchid Research and Development Center at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; Research of plant root systems, agriculture at Charles Sturt University.
New appointment as Honorary Professor within the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, 2023. Professor in Creative Industries / Arts (switched to Adjunct Professor 2021) following her links as an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong and prior Professorship in Technology and Art (Techno Art) at National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan).
She holds a PhD in Science Communication, Communicating Science: Exploring Science though Art, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University, supported by the CSIRO – having been a Visiting Research Scholar.
Selected Awards and Positions
- Honorary Professor within the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, 2023
- Professor of Arts, Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Arts and Education – Adjunct Professor
- Co-Founder / Research Lead: eXtended Reality Collaboration (aka Centre), CSU 2021 -2019
- Professor of Creative Industries, Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Arts and Education 2018-2021
- Honorary Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong 2017- 2020
- Seed Grant: IMPeL: The Immersive Mesopelagic Performance Lab, National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2017 (USA)
- National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI), Deep Blue Ocean, Alumnus 2016 (USA)
- Innovation Art: Artist in Residence working on the edges of technology and science, Scitech 2016
- Professorship: National Cheng Kung University (Techno Arts) 2015 – 17 (Taiwan)
- CSIRO PhD Research Studentship, CSIRO Digital Productivity and Services Flagship (2014)
- Canberra Critics’ Circle Award, 2013
- Centenary Science Art Commission, ACT Chief Minister’s Office & federal Government 2012 – 2013
- Taiwan Research Visiting Scholar Grant, 2008
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