60 seconds with … Nick Mourtzakis

18 November 2009

Name: Nick Mourtzakis
Org. Unit: Faculty of Art and Design
Title: Lecturer in drawing
Dept: Fine Art

How long have you been with Monash University?
Two and a half years.

Prior to working at Monash, where were you located and what was your role?
Lecturer in painting and drawing in the School of Art at RMIT.

What challenges are ahead in your current role?
The teaching and studio research of creative thought and its processes.

What is it about your job that holds your interest or is particularly satisfying?
The dialogue with students and colleagues and further, the subtlety of the problems inherent to a creative studio practice in the arts.

What is your favourite place in the world and why?
The Acropolis in Athens, Greece because of the Parthenon and its sculptures.

What is the best piece of advice you have received?
In the first two lines of a poem titled As Much As You Can the poet Konstantin Kavafy writes: "even if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it."

What is something about yourself that most of your colleagues wouldn't know?
How private a person I am.

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