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Education:
2003
Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
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1999
B.A. (Honours), Visual Arts, University of Western Sydney (Nepean)
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1994
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Borrowed Scenery, The Creator Incubator, Newcastle
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2023
Liquid and Solid, with Helena Bezzina, Airspace Projects, Sydney
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2021
Space YZ, Campbelltown Arts Centre
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2019
The Modern Dance, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
The Parent Material, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles
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2016
New Art, Wollombi Cultural Centre, Wollombi
The Parent Material, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles
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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, Sydney
Wellspring, Cessnock Regional Gallery
Bookish II, Fisher Library, University of Sydney
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2014
LA Connection, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles
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
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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
Anne Kay, Irmina van Niele, Sera Waters, artroom 5, South Australia
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2008
Figure of Plastic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Newtown, Sydney
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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
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2002
Whatever, The Lifestyle Channel, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
Beige and Brown Customs, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
Modus Operandi, joint exhibition with Ryszard Dabek, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
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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
Trailer Life, Blaugrau, Sydney
Trailer Life, The Cube, Canberra Contemporary Art Centre, Canberra
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2000
Conversational Portraits, Elastic Project Space, Sydney
Resident's Exhibition, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, California
King's Lead Hat, BlauGrau, Sydney
Emergency Rescue, RubyAyre Gallery, Sydney
10 Day City, Gallery 19, Sydney, collaborative installation
Political education, California Institute of the Aarts, Los Angeles
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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
Visiting Pieces, collaboration with Lisa Kelly, Westspace, Melbourne
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, Sydney
Critical Spaces, Artspace, Sydney
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1994
Floral Clock, first draft, Sydney
Home, Pendulum, Sydney
Home, Catacombs, Sydney
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1993
Untitled 93, Performance Space, Sydney
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1992
Untitled, First Draft (West), 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
2005-6
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 NSW
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Campbelltown Art 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,’ Conversations issue, with Josie Cavallaro, in Runway, 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
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2005
‘Don’t ask don’t tell,’ Situation catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2003
Elastic Printed Project, Chapter: ‘Point of View,’ Elastic, Sydney
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2000
Artist's pages, Uniglory, 1 Infection, Evergreen
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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 Finnegan, ‘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 2002, 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
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
Gettin' Lucky, Catalogue, Penrith Regional and The Lewers Bequest Gallery
Evergreen, Below and Behold, Platform Artists Group, pp. 38-41
Leah McLeod, 'Elastic Contemporary Art Projects,' Globe e, Issue 11
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
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
Artists pages of Away Match, Artists Talk, ed. Richard Holt and Brett Jones, Westspace, Melbourne
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1995
The Changing Critical Role of Artist Run Initiatives, firstdraft, 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
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
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2006
Visiting artist lecture, Sydney College of the Arts
Acquisitions06 artist talk, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
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2005
Situation artist talk, Museum of Contemporary Art
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2004
Artists Talk, University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Art
Studio Residencies
2009
Studio Residency, Artspace, Sydney
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2008
Studio Residency, Artspace, Sydney
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2007
Studio Residency, with Josie Cavallaro, Artspace, Sydney
Related Professional Activities
2009
Member of the Museum of Contemporary Art Artist Advisory Group
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2008
Member of Free Association, Sydney-based group critical discussion group
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2006
Co-director, Loose Projects, Sydney
Initiated and managed: Loose talk, artist floor talks by exhibiting artists
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2005-7
Coordinator of multidisciplinary reading group
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2000-3
Co-director, Elastic Contemporary Art Projects, Chippendale, Sydney