EDUCATION:
2017 Bachelor of Fine Art Honours (First Class), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Bachelor of Fine Art (Expanded Studio Practise), RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Paris Study Tour (through RMIT), Paris, France
2011 Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2019 (forthcoming) TAB Residency Exhibition, Tasarim Bakkali Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey (September)
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:
2019 (forthcoming) m_othering the perceptual ars poetica, curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk & Antonia Sellbach, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2019 (forthcoming) Relics of Survival, curated by Zoë Bastin and Kari Lee McInneny-McRae, Bus Projects, Collingwood
2019 (forthcoming) The Utopian Object (Annual Fundraiser), c3 contemporary art space, The 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, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray
2018 2018 CCP 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
GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / WORKSHOPS:
2019 (forthcoming) Córtex Frontal Residency, Arraiolos, Portugal
2019 (forthcoming) 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
2018 The Macfarlane Fund Residency, Kyneton
2018 KINGS Emerging Writers Program (through Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne)
2018 Cultural Research Residency, Arquetopia Foundation, Puebla, Mexico
2018 Shortlisted, John Fries Award
2013 recipient of RMIT Link Arts Individual Visual Artist grant
2012 recipient of the 2011 RMIT Visual Art Painting Award
WRITING (BY THE ARTIST):
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 “to utter aloud or render in speech”, collection of poems produced through the Macfarlane Fund Residency in Kyneton, Victoria
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
2017 mothering my mother’s mother: An Investigation in being in and out of time, Honours exegesis, Monash University
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
WRITING/ REVIEWS (ABOUT THE ARTIST):
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
