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Amelia Van Der Laan De Vries

Amelia Van Der Laan De Vries

MRes Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Art & Design

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýa.vanderlaandevries@student.unsw.edu.au

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I am a cross-disciplinary artist with experience in fine arts and science research. Drawing is a central part of my practice, which I often integrate into sculptural, installation, and interactive works, and I like to explore ways of connecting to and engaging with place and community through the process of making art. I have been involved in numerous group exhibitions, and was awarded the 2022 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize. In 2020 I completed an internship at the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience, involving research into the pathology of Parkinson's disease. I have a bachelors degree in Fine arts and Science, and am currently completing my masters degree in Fine Arts. My research project is practice based and looks at decolonial approaches to knowledge production, through the creation of site-specific, community-engaging installation art at Imperial Lakes, Broken Hill.

Site-specific, socially engaged art
  • 2021 Sitefirst project with the Environmental Research Initiative for Art (ERIA) – grant-funded interdisciplinary group project to produce site-specific and site-responsive art for the UNSW Health Translation Hub in Randwick.
  • 2022 Desert Equinox 10th Anniversary Exhibition and artist residency with Broken Hill Art Exchange – a three night, solar-powered outdoor exhibition in the Broken Hill Regeneration Area.
  • 2020 Research project at the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience (DANDRITE) – research into the pathology of Parkinson’s disease
  • Ferreira N *, van der Laan A et al. Acta Neuropathologica Communications: Citation 2021;9(31)- Trans-synaptic spreading of alpha-synuclein pathology through sensory afferents leads to sensory nerve degeneration and neuropathic pain.
  • Jan A*, van der Laan A et al. Brain Communications: Citation 2021;3(2)- .Ìý
  • Jan A*, van der Laan A et al. Acta Neuropathologica Communications: Citation 2021;9(105)- α-synuclein pathology in Parkinson disease activates homeostatic NRF2 anti-oxidant response.