Adam Edward Douglass (Attended King’s High School from 1993 to 1997)
Adam gained an honourable mention for Painting and Art History in his Seventh Form year. He was also the Deputy House Captain of Stuart House.
Upon leaving school, Adam earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Arts.
Adam now lives and works in Victoria, Australia. He is an artist and researcher. He works as a solo artist and collaboratively with diverse communities. Adams’ interests relate to representations of space, including cosmology and social space, through painting and the psychosocial effects of participatory painting.
Adam has exhibited broadly in galleries and site-specifically throughout Australia, New Zealand and Tonga. His work has been included in a variety of publications, including Eye Contact, Project Freerange, Un Magazine, Art New Zealand, Art News New Zealand, Scope: Contemporary Research Topics and The Artists: A Snapshot of Contemporary New Zealand Art Practice.
In 2017, Adam presented an MFA Thesis at the Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. He gained a High Distinction for his efforts.
Alongside lectures and teaching at the University of Melbourne, Fremantle Art and Design Campus, Otago Polytechnic School of Art and VicServ, a membership-based organisation and the peak body representing community-managed mental health services in Victoria. Adam has worked for numerous community mental health and social arts programs in various capacities, including leadership roles.
Recently, Adam completed an MFA research project. During 2018, Adam was shortlisted as an Obama Foundation fellow for social change and a finalist in the 2018 Incinerator Art Award for social change.
Alongside my interdisciplinary arts practice, I have facilitated and led arts, wellbeing, and gendered programs for sixteen years. I am currently writing an illustrated novel and completing a participatory project with the Broome Community Recovery Centre in Western Australia.