Jon Riethmuller Artist

Practice-Led Doctoral Research

Landscapes of the Interior

A practice-led investigation into the domestic interior as a site of material attention, memory and relational form

From Still-Life to Living Force

Erotic Fecundity and Non-Conformist Affinities in Margaret Olley and Joseph Cornell

This research explores the domestic interior as an active field in which objects gather meaning and quietly shape the emotional and symbolic life of space.

This project explores the still-life interior as a place where everyday objects take on new meaning. Through a series of staged photographs developed over several years, the work examines how the domestic interior becomes more than a simple backdrop. Instead, objects begin to gather and relate to one another, creating subtle relationships that extend beyond their ordinary use.

Situated within a practice-led doctoral framework, the inquiry unfolds through sustained studio work alongside theoretical reflection. Psychoanalytic and post-structural perspectives inform the research while remaining secondary to the discipline of looking and the slow negotiation between form, space and duration.

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