Education
2022 Doctor of Philosophy, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
2008 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
Employment Details
2022-present Sessional Academic at the University of Sydney.
Solo Exhibitions and Graduation Exhibitions
2023 ‘Ad/dressing the Wound’, Ellipsis gallery, Woolloomooloo (Upcoming: June 21 – July 8).
2022 ‘Sacrificial Bodies’, PhD examination exhibition, SCA Project Space, Camperdown.
2012 ‘Alchemical Abstraction’, SNO, Marrickville.
2010 ‘Critical Tension’, ESP Gallery, Marrickville.
2008 Seminal Fluids, collaboration with Sach Catts, First Draft, Surry Hills.
2008 ‘Notes from the Fall’, Silver Spoon Gallery, Balmain.
Group Exhibitions and Performances (2020 – present)
2023 From the Deep Waters of Sleep, ‘Spirit Wave’, Art Space on the Concourse, Chatswood.
2023 Pietà, ‘Spirit Wave’, Art Space on the Concourse, Chatswood.
2023 Shadow, ‘Together or otherwise a(part)’, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt,.
2023 Night Soil, ‘Earth’, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt.
2022 Shivah, ‘New Contemporaries’, SCA Gallery, Camperdown.
2022 Depression Quilt, ‘Seed Stitch Contemporary Textiles Award’, Australian Design Centre and Tamworth Regional Gallery.
2022 Shivah, Creative Trails Midjuburi, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville.
2022 Shivah, ‘LIVE DREAMS: THRESHOLD’, Carriageworks, Eveleigh.
2022 Emergency Blankets, ‘Carnivale Catastrophe’, Cementa22, Kandos.
2022 Chashmal, ‘Mirrors Unstill of the Eternal Change’, Backspace, Sydney.
2022 Ruach Redux, ‘per.doc’, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt.
2021 Tehom [the Deep], ‘Cessnock Contemporary’, Cessnock.
2021 Pietà, ‘BLUE TOO’, WAYOUT, Kandos.
2021 Reverse Alchemy, ‘SEWNUP 2’, Lyttleton Stores, Lawson.
2020 Pietà, ‘BLUE’, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba.
2020 Reverse Alchemy, ‘SEWNUP’, Lyttleton Stores, Lawson.
Grants, Awards and Prizes
2023 Small Project Grant (Quick Response), Create NSW.
2023 Full fee subsidy to attend ‘Creative Approaches to Working with Trauma and Mental Health’, Australia Council for the Arts.
2022 Finalist Seed Stitch Contemporary Art Award, Australian Design Centre.
2021 Small Project Grant (Quick Response), Create NSW.
2018/2019 Arts and Culture Grant, Inner West Council.
2017/2018 Arts and Culture Grant, Inner West Council.
Residencies
2023 Canberra Art Biennial X Cementa Laboratory (Upcoming)
2023 Rex Cramphorn Studio Residency, the University of Sydney (Upcoming).
2022/2023 CASE Incubator, the CAD Factory.
2022 Cloudbough Art Residency, Kandos.
2018 The Kiosk 3×6 Projects, Katoomba Falls Kiosk, Katoomba.
2016 Intercessions Lab (led by Julie Vulcan and Alan Schacher), BigCi, Bilpin.
2016 Residential Performance Lab (led by Alan Schacher), BigCi, Bilpin.
Curatorial Projects
2018 ‘The Open Body’, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville.
2017 ‘Proximity’, Scratch Art Space, Marrickville.
2011 ‘EX VOTO: Joseph Beuys’, INDEX, St Peters.
2010 ‘Living Space’, At The Vanishing Point, Newtown.
Bibliography
2022 Anastasia Murney, “Cementa22”. Memo, May 22, 2022.
2022 Thomas G Isaacs, PhD Thesis, “Sacrificial Bodies: Body Art, Ritual and the Problem of Alienation”.
2019 Fiona Davies, PhD Thesis, “Cast a cold eye on life, on death: the Remake: Medicalised Death in ICU”, 40-42.
2011 Mark Shorter, PhD Thesis, “Variety theatre, performance art and the carnivalesque”, 7, 8, 96-104.
2010 David and Thomas G Isaacs, “Is Child Nudity in Art Ever Pornographic?: Child Nudity in Art.” Journal of paediatrics and child health 46, no. 7-8 (2010): 369–371.
Conference Papers
2019 Suelo Común (Common Ground): The death drive in the body art of Regina José Galindo, Bodies of Work 2019, Sydney.
2017 The Overflowing Body: Transgression in Body Art, Performance Studies International conference, Hamburg.
2016 Indeterminate Identities: Body Art, Ritual and the Subject, The Fifth Euroacademia International conference, Rome.
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