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Elizabeth Presa is an Australian artist and academic who currently heads the Centre for Ideas at the Victorian College of the Arts and Music. Elizabeth Presa is a visual artist and academic.

Presa studied sculpture at the VCA (1977) and the Phillip Institute (1981), then completed an honours degree in Art History and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne (1989). She also completed an MA (1993) and PhD at Monash University in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (2003). From 1993, Presa taught in the School of Art at the VCA. She was then appointed Head of the interdisciplinary Centre for Ideas in 2003. Here she has focused on interdisciplinary curriculum and research design.

She has undertaken a Research Fellowship for a project on St Teresa of Avila at the Five College's Women's Research Centre, Mt Holyoke, Massachusetts. In 2012, she was artist in residence at Youkobo Art Space Tokyo to research the Ginza beehives.

Elizabeth is interested in the thematics of translation between philosophy and art. She has written on the interconnections between Rodin, Rilke and Blanchot in After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism and Philosophy (University of Delaware, 2006). She has lectured on the connections between Rilke and Rodin. Presa also contributed to the 'Do It' Compendium publication. http://daskunstbuch.at/2013/11/10/hans-ulrich-obrist-do-it-the-compendium-independent-curators-international-new-york-d-a-p-2013/. Most recently she has written on art and object relations theory in The Winnicott Tradition: Lines of Development, Eds. Margaret Boyle Sepleman and Frances Thomson-Salo, Karnac Books, London. Presa's work is featured in Verwisch Die Spuren (Diaphanes) by the philosopher Alexander Garcia Duttmann.

Presa's daughter is artist Anastasia Klose.