Phoebe Whitman is a spatial practitioner and educator. Her practice involves experimental open-ended and material-led processes with surfaces and sites.

Through research, site-responsive techniques, studio production and assemblages, she works across and between painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, assemblage, intervention, installation and teaching. 

Her PhD claims how surface is entangled in various durations, materialities, occurrences and becomings. Through attentiveness to how surfaces are situated – as material, spatial, temporal situations – her practice is a provocation for experiencing and perceiving materiality and temporality in the world.

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). 

Phoebe is currently the Program Director of the Interior Design (Honours) program in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University.