Phoebe's creative research practice unfolds through interventions, installations and teaching. Engaging with sites and situations through observation, intervention, and re-presentation, her practice considers surfaces as dynamic sites where human and more-than-human forces converge. Her work explores how surfaces are sites where entanglements between bodies, ecologies, and matter transpire through open-ended, emergent processes shaped by the agencies of both organic and non-organic conditions. Through research, site responsiveness, material-led exploration, and arrangement, her work aims to incite encounters that provoke and embrace materiality to bring attention to temporalities and a world of forces. 

Dr Phoebe Whitman is a senior lecturer and spatial practitioner. She is the Program Manager of the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at the School of Architecture and Urban Design.

Phoebe completed a BA in Fine Art Painting (Honours) (1999) and a BD in Interior Design (Honours) (2005) at RMIT University. She completed her Doctorate by Research PhD 'Surface Encounter' at RMIT University (2021).