EDUCATION:
2017 Bachelor of Fine Art Honours (First Class), MADA, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Bachelor of Fine Art (Expanded Studio Practise), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Paris Study Tour (through RMIT), Paris, France
2011 Diploma of Visual Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / WORKSHOPS:
2020 ZK/U Residency, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Moabit, Berlin, Germany
2019 Winner: Australian Centre for Photography Most Critically Engaged Work Prize, 2019 ILFORD CCP Salon, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Collingwood
2019 Córtex Frontal Residency, Arraiolos, Portugal
2019 Tasarim Bakkali TAB Residency, Istanbul, Turkey
2019 Australian Council for the Arts Career Development Grant
2019 The Two-Headed Bird: A Surrealist Writing Workshop, facilitated by Manisha Anjali through Free Association
2018 The Macfarlane Fund Residency, Kyneton, Victoria
2018 KINGS Emerging Writers Program (through Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne)
2018 Cultural Research Residency, Arquetopia Foundation, Puebla, Mexico
2018 Shortlisted, John Fries Award
2013 RMIT Link Arts Individual Visual Artist Grant
2012 2011 RMIT Visual Art Painting Award
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2021 (forthcoming) Ode to Menophila, c3 contemporary art space, The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2020 (forthcoming) Moving out of the Period of Heat & Rut., Project Space, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton
2019 Open Studio Exhibition, Córtex Frontal, Arraiolos, Portugal
2019 The Translation. / Çeviri., Tasarim Bakkali Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2019 The Marking., c3 contemporary art space, The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2018 "to utter aloud or render in speech", Project Space, Stockroom, Kyneton
2018 The Conversation., Bus Projects, Collingwood
2017 Re-Inhabiting the Vessel and working out ways to language things, Intermission Gallery, Melbourne
2014 To Fold, First Site Display Case, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Warp, Weft and Flesh, First Site Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ PROGRAMS:
2020 (forthcoming) The Image, curated by Olivia Poloni, Blindside, Melbourne
2020 (forthcoming) Every Artist Ever, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, Victoria
2020 (Non) Sleep as Social Practice, curated by Anabelle Lacroix with Byungseo Yoo, produced between Berlin and Paris and presented by Threads*sub_ʇxǝʇ online radio
2020 Kindled Sprits, Bushfire Relief Fundraiser, Clifton Hill, Melbourne
2020 Art from the Heart, Bushfire Relief Fundraiser, Block Projects, Richmond, Melbourne
2020 Rain Dance (Bushfire Relief Fundraiser Exhibition), Grey Gardens, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2020 Bushfire Art Fundraiser Show, Sister Studios, Fitzroy North, Melbourne
2019 CCP ILFORD Salon Exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Collingwood
2019 Exchange, curated by Zachary Harold, Stacks Projects, Potts Point, Sydney, NSW
2019 Life is Art, curated by Jesse Hogan, Perspectives of Distance: Sky Arts Festival 2019, Nagano Prefecture, Tomi City, Japan
2019 Disseminating Information that was Hard to Comprehend, flash night curated by Katie Paine, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne
2019 m_othering the perceptual ars poetica, curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk & Antonia Sellbach, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2019 Relics of Survival, curated by Zoë Bastin and Kari Lee McInneny-McRae, Bus Projects, Collingwood
2019 The Utopian Object , c3 contemporary art space, The Abbotsford Convent
2019 Acts of Reversal, curated by Craig Easton, Five Walls, Footscray
2019 The Distance., duo exhibition with Mig Dann, St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford Convent
2019 Seventh Annual Bus Projects Edition Exhibition, Bus Projects, Collingwood
2019 Herland: In search of a female utopia, The Women's Library, Newtown, NSW
2019 Love Letters to Feminism, curated by Dr Margaret Mayhew and Dr Nilmini Fernando, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray
2018 2018 CCP ILFORD Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2018 The Macfarlane Fund Exhibition, Stockroom, Kyneton
2018 B-Side, Blindside Annual Fundraiser, Blindside, Melbourne
2018 Kings Artist-Run Fundraiser, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne
2018 Debut XIV: like mist I am neither the sea, nor the sky, curated by Lucie McIntosh, Blindside, Melbourne
2018 Fresh!, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2017 CCP Salon 2017, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2017 MADA NOW (Honours Graduate Exhibition), Monash University, Caulfield
2017 Feminographies, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne (as part of 2017 Gertrude Projection Festival)
2017 Slice of Life, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2016 CCP Salon 2016, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2016 Paradise Lost, Paradise Hills, Melbourne
2015 Exit, Brunswick Arts Space
2015 Give me ur attention II, Audio Foundation, Auckland
2015 Infinite delay (or spending time in the present), Curated by Julia Powles, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne
2015 2k16, Curated by Hana Aoake, Blue Oyster Space, Dunedin
2015 Peripheral Visions (part of VAMFF 2015), First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Love/City Festival: of TIME and COUNTRY, Testing Grounds, Melbourne
2014 RMIT Bachelor of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, RMIT, Melbourne
2014 Material Interruptions, Melbourne Central light boxes, Melbourne
2014 Artist's Books (reprised), George Patton Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Superfictions, Curated by Peter Hill, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne
2014 Crème: the affects of materiality, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Feminine Space, Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne
2013 An Evening of Projection, Sound and Sculpture Explorations, The Milkbar, Preston
2013 Body and Cloth (as installed photographs), RMIT display cases, Melbourne
2013 Drawing Out 2013 Symposium, Lightwell, Lightscapes Project Light Boxes, Melbourne
2013 Bunting Bowen, RMIT, Melbourne
2012 Reformation, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Footsteps of the Impressionists, Gallery 36, RMIT, Melbourne
2011 New Collectables, First Site Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne
2011 Six Six Nine Four, Graduate Exhibition, RMIT, Melbourne
2011 Artland, Brunswick Campus, RMIT, Melbourne
WRITING (BY THE ARTIST):
2020 recorded poem 'moving towards the sound of the body' with accompanying sound score by Canadian artist David Clark, included in '(Non)Sleep as Social practice' - 9 hr radio program curated by Anabelle Lacroix with Byungseo Yoo and presented by Threads* sub_text radio:. Produced across Germany and France. https://www.subtextradio.net/non-sleep-as-social-practice
2020 Poetic text for Laura Carthew's exhibition 'The clouds have died' at Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, Victoria
https://www.josephinemead.com/uploads/9/1/8/8/9188753/final_text_for_laura_carthew_exhibition_at_stockroom_2020.jpg
2020 'Fresh! 2020' catalogue essay for 'Fresh! 2020' Exhibition at Craft Victoria, Melbourne
https://www.josephinemead.com/uploads/9/1/8/8/9188753/craft_victoria_fresh_2020_catalogue_essay_josephine_mead.jpg
2019 'Ode to Menophila' poetic essay to accompany 'The Translation / Çeviri' at TAB Gallery, Tasarim Bakkali, Istanbul, Turkey
https://www.josephinemead.com/uploads/9/1/8/8/9188753/ode_to_menophila_2019_josephine_mead.pdf
2019 'Women as Columns or Pillars AKA Holding Up AKA Societal Scaffolding AKA Support Structures', poetic essay to accompany 'm_othering the perceptual ars poetica', curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk & Antonia Sellbach, at Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
https://www.josephinemead.com/uploads/9/1/8/8/9188753/a3_final_m_othering_women_as_columns_or_pillars_2019_josephine_mead.jpg
2019 'The Marking.', poetic essay to accompany ‘The Marking.’ at c3 contemporary art space, The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
https://www.josephinemead.com/uploads/9/1/8/8/9188753/1_the_marking_essay_a3_proof_josephine_mead_2019_image_option_1.jpg
2018 'She was ready.', collection of poems produced through the Macfarlane Fund Residency in Kyneton, Victoria
https://www.josephinemead.com/uploads/9/1/8/8/9188753/she_was_ready.pdf
2018 'I am ready for next round', exhibition text to accompany Katy B Plummer and Heidi Lefebvre's exhibition 'La Petite Veste Militaire' at Tributary Projects, Canberra.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/589299b9d482e99cbef75876/t/5bc6bb990d9297f4c4ad7706/1539750810088/Text+for+La+Petite+Veste+Militaire_Tributary+Projects_2018_Josephine+Mead.pdf
2018 'The eyes that saw her were closed', review of exhibition by Tracey Lamb at Incinerator Gallery for Un (online) (Kings Partnership)
http://unprojects.org.au/un-extended/reviews/the-eyes-that-saw-her-were-closed/
2018 'The Specifics of a Poem', selection of poems published in Art + Australia online journal
http://www.artandaustralia.com/online/disruptions/specifics-poem
2018 'I am the Conversation.' essay to accompany 'The Conversation.' at Bus Projects, Melbourne (August 1 - 25) www.josephinemead.com/uploads/9/1/8/8/9188753/the_conversation_essay_for_exhibition_at_bus_projects_josephine_mead_2018.pdf
2018 'They were at-once exfoliate and moisture', exhibition text for 'Deep, Dark, Desperate / Eat Your Saints' by Deborah Prior and Jess Taylor at Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne, for the Kings Emerging Writers Program
http://www.kingsartistrun.org.au/text/a-response-to-deep-dark-desperate-eat-your-saints/
2018 'The Specifics of a Poem', series of poems produced through research at the Juan C. Mendez Fototeca during residency undertaken through the Arquetopia Foundation, Puebla (Mexico)
2018 'it’s more of a mere gesture than a grasp', exhibition text for Olga Bennett’s exhibition ‘Untitled_ccp_archive.jpg’ at the Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
https://www.josephinemead.com/uploads/9/1/8/8/9188753/its_more_of_a_mere_gesture_than_a_grasp_essay_for_olga_bennetts_show_at_ccp_josephine_mead_2018.pdf
2017 'mothering my mother’s mother: An Investigation in being in and out of time', Honours exegesis, Monash University
https://www.josephinemead.com/uploads/9/1/8/8/9188753/josephine_mead_exegesis_mothering_my_mothers_mother_2017_final.pdf
2013 'Feminine Space', catalogue essay for Feminine Space exhibition at Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne
CURATORIAL PRACTICE:
2014 Launch, Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Feminine Space, Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Reformation, First Site Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne
GALLERY POSITIONS:
2016 - 2019 Volunteer, c3 contemporary art space, The Convent, Abbotsford
2013 Committee Member, Brunswick Arts Space, Brunswick, Victoria
RESEARCH TRIPS / VOLUNTARY EXPERIENCE:
2018 3-day Natural Dye Workshop with master dyer Juana Gutíerrez Contreras, Teotitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico
2015 Assisted during setup of ArtHills, Bodrum, Turkey
2013 Basket Weaving Workshop, Mapuru, North East Arnhem Land, Australia
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2016- 2019 Front of House Coordinator, Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne
2019 Artist Talk, 'Judges and Winners Speak Event' for the CCP ILFORD 2019 Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Collingwood
2019 Artist Talk, Latrobe College of Art and Design, Collingwood
WRITING/ REVIEWS (ABOUT THE ARTIST):
2019 m_othering the perceptual ars poetics, catalogue essay by Abbra Kotlarczyk for exhibition of the same title at Counihan Gallery, Brunswick https://files.cargocollective.com/c31230/final_m_othering_A3_cat_essay_digital.pdf
2019 Relics of Survival, review of 'Relics of Survival' (curated by Zoe Bastin and Kari Lee McInneny-McRae) at Bus Projects by Anador Walsh for Memo Review https://www.memoreview.net/mass-memo-review/relics-of-survival-at-bus-projects-by-anador-walsh
2019 'Acts of Reversal', catalogue essay for 'Acts of Reversal' curated by Craig Easton at Five Walls Gallery, Footscray
http://fivewalls.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1.0-reversals-book-a5-corrected-low-rez-copy.pdf
2018 Discussion by Tai Snaith regarding Fresh! exhibition at Craft Victoria (Feb- March 2018) on SmartArts program, Triple R radio,
1st March 2018 from 32 minutes onward. http://ondemand.rrr.org.au/player/32/201803010900
2018 Fresh! 2018 Catalogue, to accompany Fresh! 2018 Exhibition at Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2017 Philament Journal: New Waves: Twenty-First-Century Feminisms, edited by Blythe Worthy and Chris Rudge (pg 109-111)
2017 Slice of Life catalogue essay to accompany 'Slice of Life' exhibition at Craft Victoria by Sophia Cai
2016 FEMS Zine: Edition 5: 'Handmade'
2015 You will see: Time is the new black Review by Robert Nelson in The Age
2015 Infinite delay (or spending time in the present) Catalogue essay by Julia Powles
2015 2k16, Catalogue Essay by Hana Aoake for 2k16 at Blue Oyster Space, Dunedin
2014 Support me and I’ll try to support you too Catalyst (Issue 6)
2010 Nan's doilies, Frankie Magazine (Edition 41)
COLLECTIONS:
RMIT Printmaking Collection
Various private collections
