This scientific focus, he believes, is a potentially effective way to combat some of the problems Australian universities have had historically, such as inadequate financing and difficulty recruiting quality science students, which have
weakened Australia's university system
during the
last decade.
And, while painting has certainly been subject to a reappraisal
during the
last few
decades as postmodern theory, conceptual and time - based art practices have challenged the primacy of painting and increasingly advocated for the dematerialization of the traditional art object, the tenets and practice of painting far from disappearing or being
weakened by this realignment, have indeed emerged revitalized and re-imagined in the hand of many a creative practioner.