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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
Selected Exhibitions
2021
Space YZ, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2018
The Modern Danse, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
The Parent Material, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles
2016
New Art, Wollombi Cultural Centre, Wollombi
The Parent Material, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles
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
2014
LA Connection, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles
Selfish, Marrickville Garage, Sydney
2013
Bookish, Marrickville Garage, Sydney
+1, Marrickville Garage, Sydney
2011
20/20, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2010
Time and Space, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
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
2008
Figure of Plastic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Newtown, Sydney
2007
Loose Ends, Loose Projects, Sydney
2006
It’s a new day, Artspace, Sydney
Acquisitions 06, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Cones of Zontact, Loose Projects, Sydney
2005
Artist Archive, Situation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2004
Junket, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico
Re-group, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
2003
We've Moved, The Armory, Pasadena, California
...Landscape, Westspace, Melbourne
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
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
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
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
1998
Visiting Pieces, collaboration with Lisa Kelly, Westspace, Melbourne
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
Pin, South, Sydney
Pillow Talk, South, Sydney
1997
Sterile Until Opened, Artspace, Sydney
1996
Ten Year Anniversary Show, first draft, Sydney
1+1+1+1+1=? ARDT Gallery, Sydney
1995
The Viaduct Project, Federal Park, Annandale, Sydney
Critical Spaces, Artspace, Sydney
1994
Floral Clock, first draft, Sydney
Home, Pendulum, Sydney
Home, Catacombs, Sydney
1993
Untitled 93, Performance Space, Sydney
1992
Untitled, First Draft (West), Sydney
1991
SPI Space, Airspace, Chippendale
Word of Mouth, Performance Space, Sydney
1982
Photographs, One Flat, Brisbane
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
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
2008
‘Failure to Communicate,’ Conversations issue, with Josie Cavallaro, in Runway, issue 11
Artists pages, Column 1, Artspace, Sydney
2006
‘The Copy and Paste Life,’ Runway, issue 7
Cones of Zontact Catalogue, Loose Projects
2005
‘Don’t ask don’t tell,’ Situation catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2003
Elastic Printed Project, Chapter: ‘Point of View,’ Elastic, Sydney
2000
Artist's pages, Uniglory, 1 Infection, Evergreen
Reviews / Publications:
2015
Catalogue, Future Feminist Archive, 2015, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
2010
Catalogue, Time and Space: Art and Artist-Run Spaces 1970 to now, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
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
2008
Sean Lowry, ‘Monuments to Heroic Failure,’ Broadsheet, vol. 37, no.1, pp. 198- 201
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
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
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
2004
Ann Finnegan, ‘Review of Elastic Printed Project,’ Eyeline, 55, 2004, pp. 11-14
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
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
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
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
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.
1994
Elwynn Lynn, 'Pleasures and Puzzles,' The Australian, Sept 17 1993, p. 13
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
2006
Visiting artist lecture, Sydney College of the Arts
Acquisitions06 artist talk, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2005
Situation artist talk, Museum of Contemporary Art
2004
Artists Talk, University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Art
Studio Residencies
2009
Studio Residency, Artspace, Sydney
2008
Studio Residency, Artspace, Sydney
2007
Studio Residency, with Josie Cavallaro, Artspace, Sydney
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