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Russell Kerr
Honours Coordinator
Company: The Works | Transfer Press
Address: Communication Design, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3001
Telephone: 03 9925 1243
Email: Send an email
Website: www.transferpress.com.au
Member profile
Introduction
Russell Kerr is an Artworker, Activist and Educator based in Melbourne, Australia. He creates hand-made, screen-printed posters for grassroots political organisations and social causes. Since 2006 he has been the honours coordinator at ‘The Works’, RMIT Universities Design Consultancy. Russell has a Masters in Public Advocacy and Action from Victoria University and a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design with Honours from the University of Ballarat, His masters thesis is entitled ‘A quest for ‘something nicer’: Grassroots visual communication, participatory culture and youth’. The focal point of this research is an exploration of how restricted access to mainstream communication resources and commercial media affects the ability of grassroots groups to advocate.


Expertise
Russell’s work is in the permanent collections of the State Library of Victoria and the Centre for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles. Russell is a founding member of Australian Disruptive, a collective of graphic activists established to cultivate social change through graphic agitation. In 2006 Russell formed the Whale Conservation Front a not for-profit organization advocating the conservation of whales through visual communication.
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