Currently working and living in Melbourne, Australia.
B. 1991.
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EDUCATION:
2017 Bachelor of Fine Art Honours, First Class, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Bachelor of Fine Art, Expanded Studio Practise, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Basket Weaving Workshop, Mapuru, North East Arnhem Land, Australia
2012 Footsteps of the Impressionists, Paris Study Tour, Paris, France
2011 Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2019 (forthcoming) a veritable (un) mooring c3 Art Space, The Convent, Melbourne (Jan-Feb)
2018 (forthcoming) The Conversation. Bus Projects, Collingwood (August)
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:
2018 (forthcoming) The Macfarlane Fund Exhibition, Stockroom, Kyneton (November)
2018 Debut XV: 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 Ari, 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 Ari, 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 Auction/Sales First Site Gallery
2011 Six six Nine Four Graduate Exhibition, RMIT
2011 Artland Brunswick Campus, RMIT
Grants/ Awards/ Commissions and Residencies:
2018 (forthcoming) The Macfarlane Fund Residency, Kyneton (August - November)
2018 (forthcoming) KINGS Emerging Writers Program
2018 (forthcoming) Cultural Research Residency, Arquetopia Foundation, Puebla, Mexico (May - June)
2018 Shortlisted, John Fries Award
2013 recipient of RMIT Link Arts Individual Visual Artist grant
2012 commissioned series of doily paintings for Carla Dawes
2012 recipient of the 2011 RMIT Visual Art Painting Award
Gallery Positions:
2016- present Volunteer, c3 Art Space, The Convent, Abbotsford
2013 Committee member, Brunswick Arts Space, Brunswick, Victoria
Relevant Experience:
2016- Current: Front of House Coordinator, Australian Tapestry Workshop, South 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
Bibliography/ Publications:
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 (2016) 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)
Volunteer Positions:
2016 Volunteer, The Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne
2016 Volunteer, c3 Art Space, The Convent, Abbotsford
2015 Assisted in set up of Art Hills for Ender Guzey, Bodrum, Turkey
2013 Brunswick Art Space (Committee Member)
2011 Melbourne Art Fair
2011 New Collectables, First Site Gallery
Collections:
RMIT Printmaking Collection
State Library of Victoria
Various private collections
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