PEARLS And IRRITATIONS

Stephen Alomes

Adjunct Professor Stephen Alomes (RMIT University) is a social researcher investigating power and powerlessness and contemporary populism. A member of medical advisory committees, in 2020 he presented on patient empowerment at the University of Tasmania clinical reform conference. His poetry collection recording everyday experience during the pandemic, Our Pandemic Zeitgeist (Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide) appeared in late 2020. He is also an expressionist painter of contemporary populist politicians and now of the anxieties, and the escapes from, the coronavirus. (Instagram/stephenalomes)