
Hi to all Bloggers Mireille (Eid) Astore Female Australian Artist - Beirut, 1961 Mirelle is an artist and a writer. She left Beirut during the Lebanese civil war in 1975 to live in Melbourne, Australia. Influenced by Continental Philosophy, her art draws on autobiographical notions of representation and the unheimlich; where the conscious intersects with the unconscious. http://www.oneart.org/biographies/artist/mireille-astore Through her art and her writing she "explores human emotions" and "asks what it is to be human" Mireille Astore attained a PhD in Contemporary Arts from the University of Western Sydney (2008). She was Research Affiliate (2009–2013) at Sydney College of the Arts , the Visual Arts Faculty of the University of Sydney and Research Fellow (2011–2012) at the American University of Beirut . A short film directed by Astore that was based on the "Tampa" work, "Tampa: a Walk on the Beach", was screened in ...