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Education:

2003    Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

1999    B.A. (Honours), Visual Arts, University of Western Sydney (Nepean)

1994    Bachelor of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

 

Solo Exhibitions

2024   

Paper Mountains, The Creator Incubator, Mulubinba / Newcastle

Liquid and Solid, joint exhibition with Helena Bezzina, Airspace Projects, Sydney

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2019   

The Modern Dance, Articulate Project Space, Sydney

The Modern Dance, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, USA

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2008   

Figure of Plastic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Newtown

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2002   

Beige and Brown Customs, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney

Modus Operandi, joint exhibition with Ryszard Dabek, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

Trailer Life, Blaugrau, Sydney

Trailer Life, The Cube, Canberra Contemporary Art Centre, Canberra

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2000   

Conversational Portraits, Elastic Project Space, Sydney

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1998   

Visiting Pieces, collaboration with Lisa Kelly, Westspace, Melbourne

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1994   

Floral Clock, first draft, Sydney

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1992   

Untitled, First Draft (West), Sydney

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1982   

Photographs, One Flat, Brisbane

 

Group exhibitions

2024

Paper Mountains, Creator Incubator, Newcastle/Mulubinba

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2023   

Tryst, Torrance Museum, Torrance, USA

Liquid and Solid, Airspace Projects, Sydney

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2021   

Space YZ, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown

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2016   

New Art, Wollombi Cultural Centre, Wollombi

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2015   

Future Feminist Archive, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

Affiliated text. Notes Towards a Future Feminist Archive, Cross Art + Books, Sydney

Wellspring, Cessnock Regional Gallery

Bookish II, Fisher Library, University of Sydney

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2014   

LA Connection, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, USA

Selfish, Marrickville Garage, Sydney

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2013   

Bookish, Marrickville Garage, Sydney

+1, Marrickville Garage, Sydney

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2011   

20/20, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney

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2010   

Time and Space, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Hazelhurst

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2009   

Imprint, Artspace, Sydney

Rising Tide: Film and Video works from the MCA Collection, Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA

Anne Kay, Irmina van Niele, Sera Waters, artroom 5, South Australia

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2008   

Figure of Plastic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Newtown

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2007   

Loose Ends, Loose Projects, Sydney

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2006   

It’s a new day, Artspace, Sydney

Acquisitions 06, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Cones of Zontact, Loose Projects, Sydney

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2005   

Artist Archive, Situation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

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2004   

Junket, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico

Re-group, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney

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2003   

We've Moved, The Armory, Pasadena, California

...Landscape, Westspace, Melbourne

Whatever, The Lifestyle Channel, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney

Lightweight, Lime Gallery, California Institute of the Arts

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2001   

Boot Camp, Block, Sydney

The Secret of Grey Walls, BlauGrau, Sydney

Caravan, elastic at Scots Church, Sydney

Vanishing Point, BlauGrau, Sydney

Gettin' Lucky, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, New South Wales

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2000   

Resident's Exhibition, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, California

Taxi, elastic, Sydney

King's Lead Hat, BlauGrau, Sydney

Emergency Rescue, Ruby Ayre Gallery, Sydney

10 Day City, Gallery 19, Sydney, collaborative installation

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1999   

20:20 Vision, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney

Evergreen Archive, Platform2, Melbourne

S---Hot, Artspace, Sydney

Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney

Oblique-The Otira Project, site-specific project, Otira, New Zealand

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1998   

Mythopaeia II, Old Bega Hospital, Bega

Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney

Pin, South, Sydney

Pillow Talk, South, Sydney

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1997   

Sterile Until Opened, Artspace, Sydney

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1996   

Ten Year Anniversary Show, first draft, Sydney

1+1+1+1+1=? ARDT Gallery, Sydney

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1995   

The Viaduct Project, Federal Park, Annandale

Critical Spaces, Artspace, Sydney

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1994   

Home, Pendulum, Sydney

Home 2, Catacombs, Sydney

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1993   

Untitled 93, Performance Space, Sydney

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1991   

SPI Space, Airspace, Chippendale

Word of Mouth, Performance Space, Sydney

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1982   

Photographs, One Flat, Brisbane

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1980   

Fairfax Photography Competitions Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales

 

Public Art Commission

2006    Place as Embodied Time, video installation and interactive control system, Westpac Place, Kent St, Sydney

 

Selected Awards / Grants

2008    Australian Post-Graduate Award

2002    Australia Council for the Arts, New Work Grant (Elastic group)

2001    Anne and Gordon Samstag International Travelling Scholarship

 

Collections       

National Art Archive, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Contemporary Art Archive, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Campbelltown Arts Centre

 

Selected Writing / Publications

2009   

Artists pages, Imprint exhibition, Column 4, Artspace, Sydney

Loose Papers: Loose Projects 2006-2007

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2008   

‘Failure to Communicate,’ Runway, Conversations issue, with Josie Cavallaro, in issue 11

Artists pages, Column 1, Artspace, Sydney

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2006   

‘The Copy and Paste Life,’ Runway, issue 7

 Cones of Zontact Catalogue, Loose Projects, Sydney

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2005    ‘

Don’t ask don’t tell,’ Situation catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

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2003   

Elastic Printed Project, Chapter: ‘Point of View,’ Elastic, Sydney

 

Reviews / Publications:

2015   

Catalogue, Future Feminist Archive, 2015, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney

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2010   

Catalogue, Time and Space: Art and Artist-Run Spaces 1970 to now, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery

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2009   

Robert L. Pincus, ‘Trading Places,’ San Diego Tribune, 2.4.09, p. 25

Catalogue, Rising Tide: Film and Video Works from the MCA Collection, Sydney. Museum of Contemporary Art

San Diego

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2008   

Sean Lowry, ‘Monuments to Heroic Failure,’ Broadsheet, vol. 37, no.1, pp. 198- 201

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2007   

B. L. Manger, “It’s a New Day,” Eyeline, no.64, p. 60

Catriona Moore and Jo Holder, ‘Woolloomooloo and the Expanded Neighbourhood of Process-driven Art Practice,’ Artspace Projects 2006, Artspace, Sydney, pp.132-150

The Artist Voice,’ DVD series 2, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

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2006   

Catalogue, MCA Collection: New Acquisitions 2006, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Elvis Richardson, ‘Communicating with the future,’ Photofile, Spring, pp. 24-7

Ann Finegan, ‘Good times & friendship: Artist initiatives and relational aesthetics,’ Art Monthly, no.190, pp. 18-22

Jacqueline Milner, ‘Situation Review,’ Eyeline, no.59, p. 53

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2005   

Bec Dean, ‘Situation,’ UnMagazine, Issue 5, pp.12-3

Russell Storer, ‘Curating a Situation,’ Artfairs International, July/August pp. 88-89

John McDonald, ‘Westerly Directions’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 July 2005

Sebastian Smee, ‘Capturing the Community,’ The Australian, July 7 2005

Adam Gezcy, ‘When Art is No Object,’ Broadsheet, Vol. 34, 4, Sept-Nov

Jane Polkinghorne, Why Tijuana? Natural Selection, Issue 3, Summer, pp. 21.1-21.4

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2004   

Ann Finnegan, ‘Review of Elastic Printed Project,’ Eyeline, 55, 2004, pp. 11-14

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2002   

Bruce James, ‘Flattering Highlights,’ Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 27 2002

Daniel Palmer, 'The Order of Things,' Photofile, 67, Dec 2002, pp. 18-22

Bruce James, ‘Carried Away by the People Movers' Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 19       p. 14

Russell Storer, 'US bequest begets a Millennial million,' Australian Art Collector, no.15, Jan, 50-51

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2001   

Alex Gawronski, 'Now You See It..,' Real Time, 44, July, 2001

Myra McIntyre, 'At Home with America's Nomads', Canberra Times, April 17 p.10

Broadcast, Artzone, Radio 2XX, Canberra, April 4 2001

The Premise of the Premises, Interviews by Elizabeth Pulie, elastic publication

Victoria Hynes, 'Lucky Stars,' Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, March 2 2001, p.26

Broadcast, Arts Today, Radio National, Feb 14

Gettin' Lucky, Catalogue, Penrith Regional and The Lewer's Bequest Gallery

Russell Storer, 'US bequest begets a Millennial Million,' Australian Art Collector,15, Jan 2001      pp. 50-51

Robyn McKenzie, 'Art and Research,' Samstag Catalogue, 2001

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2000   

Evergreen, Below and Behold, Platform Artists Group, pp. 38-41

Leah McLeod, 'Elastic Contemporary Art Projects,' Globe e, Issue 11

Artist's pages, Uniglory 1, Infection

Bruce James, 'Undiscovered Artists,' Australian Art Collector, 12, April, p.69

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1999   

Melissa Chui, S---Hot Catalogue, Artspace

Tiffany Lee-Shoy, 'Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Exhibition,' Eyeline, Summer, p.47-48

Artist's pages, Civic, Dialogue, no. 12, Aug, Westspace, pp. 88-89

Bruce James, 'Flies in the Face of Reality,' Sydney Morning Herald, April 24 1999, p.12

Ben Genocchio, 'Thread-bare,' Object, April 1999, pp. 59-61

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1995   

The Changing Critical Role of Artist Run Initiatives, First Draft, p.57

Linda Goodman, Catalogue essay, The Viaduct Project Catalogue

Critical Spaces Catalogue essay, Artspace.

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1994   

Elwynn Lynn, 'Pleasures and Puzzles,' The Australian, Sept 17 1993, p. 13

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1993   

Christopher Heathcote, 'Review Artworkz 5,' The Melbourne Age, Sept 24 1993

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1993   

Alex Gawronski, 'Review Untitled 93,' Eyeline, no. 22, Sept 1992, pp. 65 –66

 

Artists Talks / Panel Discussions

2007    Guest speaker, Faculty of Arts/School of Letters, Art & Media, University of Sydney.

2006    Visiting artist lecture, Sydney College of the Arts

            Artists Voice with Jane Polkinghorne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

            Acquisitions06 gallery floor talk, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2005    Situation gallery talk, Museum of Contemporary Art

2004    Artists Talk, University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Art

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Studio Residencies

2009    Artspace, Sydney

2008    Artspace, Sydney

2007    Artspace, Sydney with Josie Cavallaro,

 

Related Professional Activities

2009    Member of the Museum of Contemporary Art Artist Advisory Group

2008    Member of Free Association, Sydney-based group critical discussion group

2006    Co-director, Loose Projects, Sydney

            Initiated and managed: Loose talk, artist floor talks by exhibiting artists.

2005-7 Coordinator of multidisciplinary reading group

2000-3 Co-director, Elastic Contemporary Art Projects, Chippendale, Sydney

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