Heather Bourke-Bashar Email & Phone Number

Heather Bourke-Bashar is a Brisbane based artist and teacher of Visual Arts. She graduated with honours from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland in 1998, having specialised in ceramic sculpture. She later completed her post graduate studies in secondary education for art and design at Crawford College of Art and Design, University College Cork, Ireland, 2002. She has amassed a 25 year international career in arts education in locations such as Uzbekistan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Ireland, UK and Australia. She has held positions as Head of Faculty and department in several prestigious educational institutes. She currently balances her teaching commitments at Queensland Academies Creative Industries with her practice-led research at QUT. As a life long learner, Heather completed a Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts at Queensland College of Art, Brisbane in 2021. She began PhD journey at QUT the following semester in the faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice. Heather's practice is currently centred around painting and sculptural processes, with expanded practice in ceramics. Her studio based practice is informed by Postcolonial theory, Neo-colonial theory, and in-depth exploration of the Third Culture Kids phenomenon in an Australian context.