Details
Latitude-31.8890099 Longitude116.002453 Start Date1993-01-01 End Date1993-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jonathon-doughty
- Birth Place
- Midland, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Fremantle based Yamatji and Wongi painter Jonathon Richard Doughty is from an artistic family. His father, Phillip Doughty, is a landscape painter and his paternal grandmother is also a painter. Doughty began painting with his father at the Ottey Centre, a community centre run by the City of Cockburn Council which is situated in the southern outskirts of Fremantle. In 2009 Doughty and his father enrolled in Kidogo Art Institute’s Certificate III course in Visual Art and Contemporary Craft. In June and July of 2009 the students of this course, along with some invited artists, presented their works in the 'Moorditj Mob’ exhibition at Kidogo Arthouse.
This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1993
- Summary
- Painter. Exhibited in the 'Moorditj Mob' exhibition at Kidogo Arthouse in 2009.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9880
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1993-01-01 End Date1993-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9881
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37.8246698 Longitude140.7820068 Start Date1993-01-01 End Date1993-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lucy-forsberg
- Birth Place
- Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- Lu Forsberg is an artist-researcher, writer and facilitator living on and working between the traditional lands of the Darug and Gundungurra People and the land of Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. Their research-led practice utilises moving image and online mapping tools to unveil the hidden mechanisms of extractivism. Lu has received various awards and scholarships for their work and has exhibited at various art spaces across Australia including the IMA, UNSW Galleries, QUT Art Museum, and Metro Arts. In 2017 Lu was awarded the biennial Jeremy Hynes award for emerging and experimental Queensland art practice. In 2018 they received a Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship to undertake self-directed research in Sweden. They are currently completing a Masters of Fine Art at UNSW Art & Design.
Writers:
lucyforsberg1993
Lu Forsberg
Date written:
2016
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1993
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Unspecified
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9882
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-42.880556 Longitude147.325 Start Date1993-01-01 End Date1993-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/reuben-oates
- Birth Place
- Hobart, TAS, Australia
- Biography
- Reuben Oates, Trawlwoolway artist, was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1993, and currently lives in the Huon Valley in southern Tasmania. Oates was taught to paint by his father Leigh Oates , and predominantly paints Australian native animals from the region around his home. Oates is associated with Art Mob, Hobart, and his exhibitions at the gallery have included 'Tasmanian Living Artists Week’ (2007) and 'Leigh and Reuben Oates Father and Son Exhibition’ (2006).
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote: In correspondence with the artist
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1993
- Summary
- Tasmanian Aboriginal artist who paints Australian native animals from the region around his home in the Huon Valley. Oates was taught to paint by his father, fellow artist Leigh Oates.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9883
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude14.5958 Longitude120.9772 Start Date1992-01-01 End Date1992-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9884
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-16.92 Longitude145.78 Start Date1992-01-01 End Date1992-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jack-jans
- Birth Place
- Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- Jack Andrew Wilkie-Jans originally started his career in the arts as a volunteer artsworker, curator and events and exhibitions co-ordinator for local grass-roots level arts and cultural events. His tribal Grandmother was the late, “Thapich” Dr Gloria Fletcher James AO. Jack lives and works in Cairns, far north Queensland. In 2011 he, along with many other volunteers who work in a wide selection of industries, was awarded the Senator Jan McLucas Volunteer Recognition Award for his efforts and work with youth at risk with youth charities and for his efforts in strengthening the local Cairns arts & cultural scene.
Jack first started volunteering in the Arts at Cell Art Space, an Artist Run Initiative in far north Queensland. This role saw him participate in a group exhibition of the Co-Directors called 'Art Sense’ in 2011.
His most notable project was The ’2012’ Exhibition, funded by Youth Arts Queensland. The exhibition showcased many emerging artists alongside many established local artists. The exhibition drew a crowd consisting of many state and local dignitaries; providing emerging artists with exhibition preparation skills and networks.
As an artist he has exhibited earlier works in several group exhibitions. In 2011 Jack was a participant in the Wesfarmer’s Arts Indigenous Leadership Program at the National Gallery of Australia.
In May 2012, Jack held his first solo exhibition at C.1907 Gallery & Art Space titled 'the First & Last Fleet’. It spoke of the most significant moment in Australian history when the First Fleet landed on Australian shores, changing the landscape, both social and material, forever. He has also donated several artworks to a special bursary created in honour of Thapich Dr Gloria Fletcher James AO. The bursary funds are awarded to young and emerging Western Cape artists wishing to expand their career opportunities and industry connections.
In August 2012 Jack held a solo exhibition throughout the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, with the Indigenous Beautiful Art Spaces programme partnered with Art Queensland, the Cairns Regional Council and the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. The exhibition was held at Vibe Bar and Lounge in Cairns. The exhibition will travel in October to another venue in Cairns, the Salthouse, for further display.
In October 2012 Jack organised a charitable art auction for the Declan Crouch Fund in partnership with the Dr Edward Koch Foundation. The Declan Crouch Fund Charity Art Auction was auctioneered by The Hon. Warren Entsch MP and raised well over $4,000 for the Fund to go towards their great work with Suicide Prevention and Awareness Raising in the Cairns community.
Writers:
fishel
LeccyMartin
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1992
- Summary
- Jack Andrew Wilkie-Jans is an artist, artsworker, curator and events and exhibitions coordinator. His tribal Grandmother was the late Thancoupie/ Thanakupi, Dr Gloria Fletcher James AO.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9885
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/hannah-bronte
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1991
- Summary
- Hannah Brontë explores female empowementr using the visual and aural language of popular culture, hip-hop and slang
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9886
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-30 Longitude135 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-power
- Birth Place
- South Australia
- Biography
- Kate Power is sculpture and installation artist based in Adelaide. Her practice embraces video, craft, textiles, sculpture and installation to investigate coexistence and enforced social constructions that can complicate how we relate to others. Power is a graduate with first class Honours from the South Australian School of Art(2008). She has been awarded the Constance Gordon-Johnson Sculpture and Installation Prize. Power has exhibited at FELTspace (SA); Light Square Gallery (SA); Tooth and Nail (SA); Format (SA); Sydney Contemporary Art fair (NSW); and Seedling Art Space (SA). She is a co-Director at FELTspace and co-founder of Axe House Studios.
Writers:
katepower
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1991
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9887
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.3267797 Longitude115.636698 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/iesha-farmer
- Birth Place
- Bunbury, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Iesha Farmer is a Noongar woman born in 1991 at Bunbury, Western Australia.
Farmer began to practise art seriously in Year 10 at Aranmore Catholic College in Perth. After graduating from high school in 2008 Farmer continued studying visual art and in 2009 she enrolled in the Certificate III course in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft at the Kidogo Art Institute in Fremantle. In June and July of 2009 she participated in a group show of the Kidogo students’ work, 'Moorditj Mob’, at Kidogo Arthouse. In the same year Troy Bennell curated her into the exhibition 'Noongar Country’ at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries. Other artists in this group show included Wendy Hayden, Ronald Williams, Lance Chad, Sharyn Egan, Janet Hansen, Dolores Fraser (Jillawarra), Troy Bennell, Athol Farmer, Graham (Swag) Taylor and Laurel NannuThis entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1991
- Summary
- Noongar artist whose work was included in 'Noongar Country' (2009) at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, Western Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9888
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.8262187 Longitude150.9414378 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jessica-nolan
- Birth Place
- Greystanes, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 26 February 1991
- Summary
- Jess Nolan was an emerging South Australian artist who died in 2018.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 25-Jun-18
- Age at death
- 27
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9889
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ellie-noir
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1991
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gabrielle-cirocco
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1991
- Summary
- Adelaide-born artist, working in multiple art forms, now based in London
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37.560833 Longitude143.8475 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/josh-muir
- Birth Place
- Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1 January 1991
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 5-Feb-22
- Age at death
- 31
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-24.4882245 Longitude149.9418209 Start Date1990-01-01 End Date1990-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tyza-stewart
- Birth Place
- Moura, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Tyza is a recent Honors graduate of the Queensland College of Art and is currently represented by Heiser Gallery, Brisbane. Tyza’s work has appeared in numerous exhibitions in Australia, including 15 artists at Redcliffe Art Gallery, The Churchie at Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Breakthrough, Gympie Regional Art Gallery, Interstate Romance at Pseudo Space, Sydney and BEAF 2013 at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane.
Writers:
Zoe Knight
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1990
- Summary
- Tyza Stewart is a visual artist based in Brisbane, QLD.
- Gender
- Unspecified
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-32.4925 Longitude137.765833 Start Date1990-01-01 End Date1990-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/juanella-mckenzie
- Birth Place
- Port Augusta, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Jaunella McKenzie was born in 1990 in Port Augusta, South Australia. Her mother, painter Regina McKenzie, is a Kuyani and Luritja woman and her father is an African-American man.
McKenzie’s aunt, Milly Taylor, and McKenzie’s mother have painted for many years and McKenzie would paint alongside them as a child, learning the stories of the local people from them as she painted. In 2005 McKenzie showed her acrylic on canvas painting Seven Sisters Dreaming in the exhibition ' Yarta Arts: Contemporary Indigenous art from Flinders Ranges and Marree’ at Arkaba Woolshed (near Wilpena Pound).In 2007 McKenzie participated in 'Our Mob’ at the Adelaide Festival Centre. In 2008 she exhibited with her mother and John Millard (a non-Aboriginal artist) in the show 'Flinders Ranges Through Our Eyes ' at the Fountain Gallery during the Adelaide Fringe festival. McKenzie lives near Hawker in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
staffcontributor
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1990
- Summary
- Taught to paint by her mother and aunt as a child. Flinders Ranges based painter of acrylic on canvas. Exhibited in 'Our Mob' in 2007 at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1990-01-01 End Date1990-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1990-01-01 End Date1990-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9890
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude50.8221133 Longitude-1.067760249 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/glenn-kestell
- Birth Place
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9891
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-10.416667 Longitude142.166667 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sharni-oconnor
- Birth Place
- Torres Strait, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Sharni O’Connor was born on Thursday Island, Torres Strait in 1989. She carves jewellery in the shapes of marine life and the flora of the Torres Strait from gold lipped mother-of-pearl shells. O’Connor exhibited in the 2006 'Gatherings II’ exhibition in Brisbane and states in the accompanying catalogue that “mother-of-pearl is such a beautiful medium. I look for the lustre, pattern and iridescent hues when choosing which piece of shell to carve. It is like a gem from the ocean and I feel that every piece has its own magic.”
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- Torres Strait Islander, Sharni O'Connor carves jewellery in the shapes of marine life and the flora of the Torres Strait from gold lipped mother-of-pearl shells she sources locally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9892
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-20.4018085 Longitude148.5832137 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brooke-ferguson
- Birth Place
- Proserpine, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
amyk
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- Brooke Ferguson is an artist living and working in Brisbane, Australia and Brussels, Belgium
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9893
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-26.6257326 Longitude152.959953 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-david-howard
- Birth Place
- Nambour, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Peter David Howard is an emerging producer, director and editor based in Melbourne, Australia. He is known for the short film PIROUETTE (2020), ABCs’ Heart & Soul (2013) and Channel 31s’ Live on Bowen (2012). He graduated from RMIT in 2012 and worked for Network ten as a live-to-air graphics operator (2013), at RMITV as the Training Manager (2014), the national broadband network as a Multimedia Producer (2015-2018) and at the University of Melbourne as a content producer (2019-2020). Peter aims to produce short and feature-length genre films that explore Australian characters that have been marginalised by their societies and government.
Writers:
petedavidhoward89
Date written:
2020
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- A filmmaker resident in Melbourne in 2021. Known for his film 'Pirouette' which was produced in Melbourne and screened in five states across Australia. It was been selected by three film festivals in 2020.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9894
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-30 Longitude135 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9895
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9896
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/luke-stambouliah
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Growing up in a household where Super 8 was like another member of our family, my fascination with photography and cinema was nurtured.
Intrigued by my father’s profession as a psychologist and my sister’s craft as an actor I wanted to fuse the study of the mind with the power of expression.
My exhibited works have since been collaborations with actors to communicate the strength of storytelling through still images.
I graduated with Honours in Photomedia from the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts. My body of work Betwixt (The Black Show) was the first photographic exhibition to be held at the prestigious Roslyn Packer Theatre.
Beyond the gallery walls I’ve continued my path into film and television, shooting stills for Australia’s leading productions.
Through my work I look to uncover the bigger picture within the smallest moments.
Writers:
Luke Stambouliah
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2016
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- Luke Stambouliah is an international celebrity portrait photographer based in Sydney specialising in headshots, film stills and fine art prints.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9897
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9898
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37 Longitude144 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/makia-mclaughlin
- Birth Place
- VIC
- Biography
- Makia McLaughlin was born in 1989 in Victoria. McLaughlin’s father is from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and her mother’s people are Yorta Yorta from Victoria. McLaughlin’s work, My Yolngu/Yorta Yorta Dreaming, a 2005 acrylic on canvas work, was shortlisted in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards.
At the time of the awards McLaughlin was enrolled in a Certificate III course in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Design at North Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT), Preston. McLaughlin has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions including “Gumbri: White Dove” at Bundoora Homestead (2004), “Sorry – It’s Not So Hard To Say” at Bundoora Homestead (2005), and “Gathering of the Land” at A-Space, NMIT, Bundoora (2005).McLaughlin’s work is held in the collection of the Faculty of Further Education, NMIT. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- Makia McLauglin was a finalist in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards with her painting 'My Yolngu/Yorta Yorta Dreaming'.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9899
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude37.5666791 Longitude126.9782914 Start Date1988-01-01 End Date1988-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb989a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude6.9387469 Longitude79.8541134 Start Date1988-01-01 End Date1988-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb989b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1988-01-01 End Date1988-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb989c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1988-01-01 End Date1988-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/henry-wilson
- Birth Place
- Sydney, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1988
- Summary
- Henry Wilson is an industrial designer. He established a Sydney studio in 2010. In 2011, Wilson won the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award for a metal joint ("A Joint") that allows the simple assembly of table legs and table surfaces without the use of tools. In 2011, he was a partner in Trent & Henry & began lecturing at the UNSW, Sydney. He has exhibited in London, Belgium, the Netherlands and Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb989d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1988-01-01 End Date1988-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/beaver-lennon
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Beaver Lennon was born in Adelaide in 1988 and has lived most of his life in Ceduna, South Australia. He is of the Mirning people on his grandmother’s side and the Antikirinjara people of South Australia on his grandfather’s side. His grandmother Verna Lawrie and his late mother, Bernadette Lennon-Lawrie, are also well-respected artists. His grandfather Stanley Lennon was also a talented artist who greatly influenced Beaver; he passed away in 2003. His great-grandmother Jessie Lennon was a published author who wrote two books, I’m the one that know this country and I’ve been walking everywhere. These were recollections of living in and around Coober Pedy in the early 1920s and were written in her own voice and illustrated with photographs. They are especially important today for offering insight into the history of this regional area from an Aboriginal perspective. Beaver began painting for the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre in 2005. His earlier paintings were influenced by his grandmother’s Dreaming stories of the Bunda Cliffs along the Great Australian Bight (SA), including images of whales and ocean themes. He is now more influenced by his grandfather’s Dreaming of Malu Tjuta (many kangaroos) and some of his paintings include depictions of kangaroos within vast open landscapes. Lennon also paints portraits and in 2008, after a workshop with Siv Grava and John Turpie, he completed My Jammu, My Grandfather, a portrait of Stanley Lennon. Lennon paints in a realistic style, and his landscapes capture the distinctive open skies and vast expanses of country with an extraordinary degree of depth, inviting the viewer to step into his world. He favours the effects of early morning or late afternoon light, with romantic skies of rolling clouds that reflect the colours found underfoot. Through astute observational recordings he maps out his deep connection to country. His work has been included in 'Our Mob’ at the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Artspace in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was a finalist in the 2006 Fleurieu Peninsula Youth Scholarship Award and in 2007 he was given an Honoured Citizen Award for his service to the arts during the Reconciliation Week celebrations in Ceduna. In 2008 he was a finalist in the prestigious Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award at the Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery. His work has also been included in group shows at Tandanya, the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide and in Port Lincoln at Kuju Art Centre (2008) as well as at Red Poles Gallery in McLaren Vale (2007 and 2009). Lennon also completed a series of commissioned murals on public buildings around Ceduna, c. 2008.
Writers:
Cumpston, Nici
Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2010
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1988
- Summary
- Beaver Lennon is a visual artist working as a painter. Residing in Ceduna, South Australia, he belongs to the Mirning and Antakirinja people.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb989e
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/max-berry
- Birth Place
- Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Max Berry was born in 1987 in Katherine, NT. He completed a Bachelor of Design in 2009 at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, majoring in Graphic Design and Textiles. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Dwyer, JeremyDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1987
- Summary
- Max Berry is a painter born in 1987 in Katherine, NT. Berry completed a Bachelor of Design in 2009 at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, majoring in Graphic Design and Textiles.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98a0
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TLCMap IDtb98a1
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/louise-kate-anderson
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1987
- Summary
- Sydney based conceptual artist, creative director & arts worker in the arts/ disability sector.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98a2
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TLCMap IDtb98a3
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TLCMap IDtb98a4
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Description
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TLCMap IDtb98a5
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TLCMap IDtb98a6
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Latitude51.507222 Longitude-0.1275 Start Date1986-01-01 End Date1986-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kat-sapera
- Birth Place
- London
- Biography
- Kat Sapera moved to Sydney in late 2009 and has since been residing here and working as an independent curator.
This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1986
- Summary
- Kat Sapera is an independent curator based in Sydney.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98a7
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude21.1773982 Longitude106.0706893 Start Date1986-01-01 End Date1986-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/van-tu-vu
- Birth Place
- Bacninh, Vietnam
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1986
- Summary
- Van Tu Vu works with eco-friendly materials in 3-dimensional forms.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98a8
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1986-01-01 End Date1986-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/claire-krouzecky
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Claire Krouzecky, painter, is a Perth-born artist who moved to Tasmania to study in 2010. Her work was featured in 'Hatched’, the National Graduate exhibition held at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia, in 2011. Krouzecky participated in '...come to life…’, an exhibition showcasing emerging young Tasmanian artists, which was co-curated by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) and Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST) and held at the QVMAG, Launceston, from 13 July 2012 to 17 February 2013. She is a member of Inter Collective, a collaborative arts practice with Anna Cocks and Laura Hindmarsh, which encompasses installation and live performance.
Writers:
Nancy Mauro-Flude
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1986
- Summary
- Claire Krouzecky, painter, is a Perth-born artist who moved to Tasmania to study in 2010. She is a member of Inter Collective, a collaborative arts practice with Anna Cocks and Laura Hindmarsh, which encompasses installation and live performance.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98a9
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1985-01-01 End Date1985-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tina-tran
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Tina Tran is a self-taught Sydney-based artist who explores abstract forms in the media of drawing and painting. Whether using acrylic paint on canvas or pencil, coloured graphite, watercolour or ink on various paper stocks, Tran creates organic and undulating abstract forms that meld together.Born in Sydney in 1985, Tran began her art practice in 2003, receiving her first accolade when her High School Certificate (HSC) body of work entitled, When you see a flower and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment was selected for ArtExpress 2003 and exhibited at Sydney city’s David Jones window display in December 2003 and Hazelhurst Regional Arts and Crafts Centre in January 2004. After completing high school in 2003, Tran studied for a Bachelor of Business at the University of Technology, Sydney; a decision that temporarily curtailed her art practice. Upon completing her degree in 2006, Tran refocused on the development of her art making, supporting herself through part-time work. Buoyed by this new creative focus in her life, in late 2007 Tran joined a group of like-minded friends and family members residing in the Cabramatta and Canley Vale precincts of Sydney, to establish the Popperbox collective. Inspired by group painting performances by art collectives broadcasted over the internet, the Popperbox collective became a vehicle to creatively collaborate on a variety of public and interactive art projects. In April 2008, in conjunction with Fairfield City Council, Popperbox performed a live drawing performance entitled Glassbox, at Cabravale Leisure Centre in Cabramatta, Sydney. In addition to the work of the Popperbox collective, Tran has had an active solo practice. Tina Tran brings an emotive and intuitive approach to her abstract painting and drawing. Recent success in her solo endeavours has been reflected in a number of group exhibitions throughout 2008 including “Populous Cast” at Global Gallery (Sydney), “Black and Blue 2” at Pigment Gallery (Melbourne) and “Square 1 Art Auction” at Mori Gallery (Sydney).
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Note: Hoo, James
Note: James is a student in Design at COFA, UNSW
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1985
- Summary
- Tina Tran is a painter as well as a member of the Popperbox collective, an interactive public art group in the Fairfield region of Sydney.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98aa
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Details
Latitude-6.175247 Longitude106.8270488 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/benjamin-prabowo-sexton
- Birth Place
- Jakarta, Indonesia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Benjamin Prabowo Sexton works in photography, manipulating images in post-production.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ab
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alana-hunt
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ac
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TLCMap IDtb98ad
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jessica-birk
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- A young Indigenous artist, Jessica Birk was born in 1984 on the Northern Beaches of Sydney where she was still living in 2008. Birk is a proud descendant of the Yaegl people, from the Northern Rivers of NSW, The Clarence Valley. Through her art Birk asserts herself as a contemporary storyteller of the Yaegl people and her art-making practice allows her to explore to what extent she can imprint her identity and personal experiences, as well as the notions of belonging and familial lineage, upon the imagery, the colours, the patterns and the forms in her work.Birk has a strong connection to both the Northern Beaches and the Northern Rivers areas of NSW and her work focuses on these areas and aims to articulate her feelings of belonging that are tied to these places. Having grown up on the Northern Beaches Birk has grown to know and respect the area over time and her connection to the Northern Rivers is through her mother’s family, a legacy and gift given to her as a descendant of that land.
For Birk, the notion of belonging is an abstract one and she aims to develop a visual language that enables her audience to grasp the implicitly rich understanding of a landscape where belonging means knowing your country intimately. As such, every component of her images have a meaning where the colours, the patterns and the forms all combine to visually articulate the 'holistic’ experience of the landscapes.
Says Birk “This understanding of country allows for a two-way communication to evolve, between those belonging and the country to which they belong. Country is spoken to, sung to, loved and mourned, just as if were a family member. This personification of the landscape allows a more personal interpretation of what lies in it; everything then has a purpose and a story to tell, from the colours of the landscape right down to the stones within it.”
The imagery Birk uses serves as a metaphor for the strength and enduring quality of the ancestral presence within the landscape. She says, “By doing so I want to show that in order to tap into this collective wisdom and knowledge of the land you need to learn to love and look after it as a living entity.An 'abstract’ landscape becomes intrinsically more literal through a 'holistic’ representation of a landscape and thus includes its aesthetic qualities, its colours, textures and representational forms, but also its past, its future and its stories.”
In 2006 Birk graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking) from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. Since 2003 she has participated in a number of group exhibitions and in 2006 she had a solo show at Manly Regional Art Gallery entitled 'Born Belonging’ and was a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize.
Writers:
Birk, Jessica
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- An Indigenous painter and printmaker living in Sydney. Birk is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts, UNSW and her work is predominately themed around her coastal home and cultural links.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ae
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tony-curran
- Birth Place
- Sydney, Australia
- Biography
- artist, was born 1984 in Sydney to Bernard and Wendy Curran. Tony Curran’s work focuses on visual culture and psychology through the use of painting, drawing and sculpture. This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
Young, RebeccaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Sydney artist born in 1984, Tony Curran focuses on visual culture and psychology through the use of painting, drawing and sculpture.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98af
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b0
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Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cedric-varcoe
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Cedric Varcoe was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1984 and later moved to Port Pirie, South Australia. He has family connections to the Raukkan of Point Pierce and is of the Narangga Ngarrindjeri language grou
He began painting from the age of eight, inspired by observing his mother, aunties, uncles and sister paint. He works mainly in acrylics on canvas and his subjects are usually “lizards, snakes and stylized male figures” (artist statement, 2008).
In 2008 Varcoe completed a mural in a cell at the Port Pirie Police Station, which he hopes will encourage young people who are arrested by the police to see a different future for themselves and inspire them to express themselves using creative means. 2008 also saw his work exhibited in the 'Our Mob’ exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
Not content to remain in the media of painting, Varcoe is exploring other areas of the visual arts including sculpture and printmaking.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Painter who exhibited in the 2008 'Our Mob' exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b1
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b2
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-35.308056 Longitude149.124444 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/stella-rosa-mcdonald
- Birth Place
- Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more text.
Writers:
amyk
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Stella Rosa McDonald is a video artist based in Sydney. Her practice examines the various influences of language, text and image on the portrayal of historical matter via artistic and literary abstraction.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b3
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-36.23563 Longitude149.1264221 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lucas-grogan
- Birth Place
- Cooma, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Lucas Grogan was born in 1984 in Cooma in New South Wales. Grogan studied at the University of Newcastle before moving to Melbourne where he lives and works.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Cooma born artist whose practice spans multiple disciplines including, drawing, painting, sculpture and embroidery.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b4
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kelly-dole
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Kelly Doley’s cross-disciplinary work is based upon engaging with themes current in society. She often uses performance, collaboration and interaction as tools to investigate the certain issue such as gender or self with direct communication. Most of the works are inherently feminist that then also question social and political structures within our culture. The information she uncovers and gains is then used for further online, exhibition and print projects.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2011) as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from COFA, UNSW (2006)
Since 2008 she has been working on participatory, curatorial and publishing projects.
Doley has exhibited and presented solo and collaboratively in a range of contexts and spaces nationally and internationally
Writers:
JustynaStanczew
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Kelly Doley is an artist based in Sydney. As well as having a solo practice creating video works, paintings and performance pieces, she is also a member of the all female performance collective Brown Council.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b5
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rob-oconnor
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Rob O’Connor, painter, was born in Melbourne in 1984 and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the University of Tasmania, School of Art, Hobart, in 2007. O’Connor has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions, including '...come to life…’, an exhibition showcasing emerging young Tasmanian artists, which was co-curated by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) and Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST) and held at the QVMAG, Launceston, from 13 July 2012 to 17 February 2013; 'Core’, Bett Gallery, Hobart, 2011; 'The Great White Hoax’, Moorilla Scholarship Exhibition, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, 2008; and 'A Tale told by an Idiot’, Little Space Gallery, Hobart, 2007.
In 2011 O’Connor was the winner of the RACT Tasmanian Youth Portraiture Prize and was an artist in residence, He-Shun International Arts Festival, Xu Village, Shanxi, China. His work is held in several collections, including He Shun International Arts Village, China; RACT Tasmania; and Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart.
Writers:
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Rob O’Connor, painter, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the University of Tasmania, School of Art, Hobart, in 2007. In 2011 O’Connor was the winner of the RACT Tasmanian Youth Portraiture Prize.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b6
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1983-01-01 End Date1983-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alice-lang
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Alice Lang’s work unfolds from various points of mixed-media and does so by alternating disciplines that encompass painting, drawing, and craft-form objects. Lang’s work underlie key surfacing themes within her practice that consider the emotive aspects of materiality, the historical & current roles of feminism, and in recent works the tension of identity constructs and fragmentation between our virtual and physical selves. While her art-objects take into account material expression between form and formlessness, allure and repulsion, the known and the unknown. Her signature crafted forms are able to tease the relationship between the decorative and the grotesque, previously she has experimented using techniques such as macramé and other fibre crafts throughout her oeuvre. Lang seemingly represents an alternate contemporary populist range of craft materials such as puff paints, and bright fluorescent thread.
She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (Visual Arts) First Class from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (2004).
Writers:
Jacob Martin
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. c.1983
- Summary
- Alice Lang is a founding member and co-director of LEVEL, an artist run initiative dedicated to providing opportunities for emerging and early career female visual artists,
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b7
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1983-01-01 End Date1983-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/heidi-axelsen
- Birth Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b8
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1983-01-01 End Date1983-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/monte-masi
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b9
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1983-01-01 End Date1983-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-drew
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- Peter Drew has been practicing as an artist since 2006 and publishing writing on visual arts since 2009. While making studio based work for the gallery he is best known for his interventions in the urban landscape. (peterdrewarts.com/about)
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ba
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1983-01-01 End Date1983-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/charlie-sofo
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Exhibiting in group and solo shows since 2005, Charlie Sofo combines a variety of media including sculpture, video, installation, drawing and text.Primarily concerned with the documentation and cataloguing of experiences – street walks and the variety of odours found in suburbs, the detritus removed from his running shoes, a video catalogue of lounging cats – Sofo’s taxonomic aesthetic is precise and humorous.A selection of Sofo’s work was included under the title Fields (2010-11) in Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts 2011 at the Art Gallery of NSW. Two video components of the installation were Touch (2010-11) – a record of the hands of the artists encountering a variety of natural and manmade textures – and I Wander (2010), a documentation of the artist walking through the backstreets and parks of the Melbourne suburb of Northcote.The Anne Landa 2011 curator Justin Paton described Sofo’s work as having the “procedural feeling, the one-thing-after-another quality, of early conceptual art”.
Writers:
Andrew Frost
Date written:
Last updated:
Status:
moderator approved
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jirra-lulla-harvey
- Birth Place
- Selby, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Melbourne based artist Jirra Lulla Harvey is a Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri painter. She works in the medium of synthetic polymer on canvas.
In 2004 she was awarded the NAIDOC National Artist of the Year and in 2005 was shortlisted in the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards with her painting, Daya, garra (Here, now) . In the catalogue accompanying the awards she says that this painting is about “cultural survival and progression. The diamond patterning, resembling a traditional Victorian style, structures the rest of the image. Ochre tones create the base, and bright colours and contemporary patterning show our culture’s evolution.” (Victorian Indigenous Art Awards catalogue, 2005, pg 18).
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- Melbourne based artist Jirra Lulla Harvey is a Yorta Yorta/Wiradjuri painter who was the 2004 NAIDOC National Artist of the Year.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/matthew-siwerski
- Birth Place
- New Zealand
- Biography
- Matthew Siwerski was born in New Zealand in1983. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Dunedin School of Art in 2008. He moved to Australia in 2011, andlives and works in Melbourne. Siwerski works with digital media and textiles. He creates large-scale sculptural installations that include many embroidered elements,combining his skills in digital modelling, sculpture and machine sewing. His interest in textiles developed from his exploration of gender politics and fashion. He is interested in “decoding masculinities…breaking down common beliefs and challenging socialconstructions”. Although fascinated by a variety of digital technologies including 3dmodelling and printing, video and programming, Siwerski requires a more physical element to his practice as well. “…at art school in the digital department and I dearlymissed a hands on sculptural approach. I also strongly believe in creating your own processes and experimenting as much as possible. So I merged the two, the computerplatform and working in textiles”.
Writers:
Belinda von Mengersen
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- New Zealand born artist working with digital media and textiles
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98bd
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/adrian-hill
- Birth Place
- Montreal, QC, Canada
- Biography
- Adrian Hill, landscape architect and artist, was born in Montreal, Canada in 1982. He is the brother of Justin Hill and first son of Bruce and Helen Hill, who encouraged his interest in art and supported him in his studies.
Hill attended high school in Stanmore, Sydney. His art teacher Neville Dawson had a great influence on Hill’s artistic focus and the two remained friends. In 2004 Hill received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of New South Wales. His theoretical training and knowledge was complemented by work experience with artist/landscape architect Anton James in Sydney. In 2008 Hill was an associate in Terras Landscape Architects in Newcastle.
After moving to Newcastle, Adrian Hill created one major artwork and coordinated several others. Second Nature (2008), Hill’s first significant temporary public artwork, developed in collaboration with Nicola Xavier, was included in the public art project 'Back to the City’. Taking its name and inspiration from American author Michael Pollan’s Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (1991), the Hill and Xavier piece made use of a robust, large-framed structure onto which was stretched geo-fabric bearing a stenciled William Morris flower pattern around lines from Pollan’s text. Hessian matting was implanted with wheatgrass seeds and hung vertically. The wheatgrass was watered and germinated up the wall, evolving throughout the three week exhibition period. Hill’s insights into landscape remediation played a key role in the creation of this work, which he says was “about developing a use for a dysfunctional space and giving meaning or creating 'place’.” (2008 pers. comm.) Second Nature received a highly commended prize at the completion of the exhibition; the site is expected to become a community public garden and a memorial to Australian horticulturalist Judy Cuppaidge.
The most significant of Hill’s curated exhibitions to date is 'Small Places’, a temporary art series instigated in 2005 to focus on Newcastle’s City Centre, and in this respect not dissimilar to Steffen Lehmann’s 'Back to the City’.
At the time of writing, Adrian Hill was active in Newcastle’s Australian Architecture Association chapter; was chair of the Trees in Newcastle (TIN) committee, a Hunter based non-government organisation and community environmental organisation; and sat on the Newcastle City Council’s Public Art Advisory Committee (2008-10). He was also involved in the development of a temporary architectural exhibition space within disused shop-fronts in Newcastle’s central business district.
Writers:
Potoczny, EvelynDe Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Newcastle based landscape architect and public artist.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98be
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brenton-mckenna
- Birth Place
- Broome, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Brenton McKenna, Ywarru graphic artist and novelist, was born in Broome in 1982 and lived there until he was fifteen. McKenna was attracted to comics at an early age: when he was eight years old, a Ghost Rider comic book came into his possession and marked the starting point of his love of drawing. He taught himself to draw during his teenage years by copying images from comics and learning from a cartooning book by Chris Hart that was given to him by a high school art teacher when he was fifteen. McKenna’s drawing skills flourished in the following years when he moved to Victoria and completed high school at Wodonga Catholic College, and were further consolidated when he undertook a period of study (Diploma of Visual Arts program) at the Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE in Wangaratta between 2000 and 2002. Over the years he refined his skills through practice and experimentation, working with pencil, blue lead and art liners, as well as digital tools such as Photoshop and Corel Painter.Writing and illustrating are always interconnected in McKenna’s practice. His dedication to the form of the graphic novel is underpinned by his interest in the way text and image can interact; in the way a narrative can be brought to life for a reader through both visual and textual components. He draws inspiration from a range of sources, including Aboriginal mythology, folklore from a range of cultures, urban history and legend, war correspondence and military stories, science fiction and the natural world. His main sources of inspiration, however, are his memories of growing up in Broome. McKenna speaks of his voracious imagination and sense of curiosity about a range of topics, which often entails extrapolating fantastical stories and circumstances from everyday situations. As a result, he was often in trouble at school for not paying attention, but he continued to nourish the habit: “Now every day I actively try and create stories, characters and scenes out of everyday things I see and hear no matter where I am” (McKenna pers. comm. 2009).In 2002 McKenna began working on the manuscript and illustrations for a graphic novel titled Ubby’s Underdogs and the Legend of the Phoenix Dragon, under contract with Magabala Books. In 2002 he had just moved to Adelaide and started working on the novel to cope with his homesickness for the life and people of Broome. The novel revolves around the experiences of Ubby, a character inspired by McKenna’s grandmother, Alberta Dolby. The story is set in Broome, in a period in the town’s history when it was overcoming the effects of WWII – Broome had endured a Japanese air-raid attack in 1942. McKenna has drawn on family stories “about Nan and her sisters getting into fights and causing trouble when she was young… I took my knowledge of my grandmother, placed the character in a situation, then I tried to imagine what I think my nan would have done to hopefully project the character’s (Ubby’s) attitude and actions” (McKenna, pers comm. 2009). In the novel, Ubby is a smart and street-wise Aboriginal girl and leader of the 'Underdogs’, a group of ruffian youths who roam the streets of Broome. It follows Ubby’s experiences with Sai Fong, a girl who has recently arrived in Broome from Beijing, and their encounters and adventures are imbued with themes from Chinese and Aboriginal mythology. The production of the novel was assisted by an Australia Council for the Arts grant, awarded in 2004, and a Project Development Grant from the South Australian Youth Arts Board, awarded in 2005. In that year McKenna also began a traineeship with Arts SA, which he completed in 2006. In 2008 he was awarded an Australian Society of Authors Mentorship, which saw him benefit from the guidance and advice of Wolfgang Bylsma, an editor with graphic novel publisher Gestalt Publishing. Magabala Books’ publishing manager, Rachael Christensen, also provided McKenna with a great deal of support over a number of years as he established himself as a graphic novelist. In 2008 McKenna participated in the 'Our Metro Mob’ Exhibition at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide. In 2009 he was working on a number of book illustration projects, including Living Along Side the Animals: Anangu Way, written by Eileen Wani Wingfield and Emily Munyungka Austin (IAD Press), and two educational graphic novels to be published by Laguna Bay Publishing (planned for publication in 2011). In 2009 he was living in Adelaide with his partner and children, and working in the South Australian Government Department of Premier and Cabinet.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote:
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Emerging graphic novelist and cartoonist of Ywarru heritage, based in Adelaide. His main sources of inspiration are his memories of growing up in Broome.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98c0
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dale-harding
- Birth Place
- Moranbah, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Dale Harding was born in 1982 in the coal-mining town of Moranbah, Queensland, and grew up on his parents’ nearby cattle property. The son of Kate and David Harding, he is a descendant of the Bidjara, Garingbal and Ghungalu people, and also acknowledges the Gungari people of Central Queensland. Harding’s artistic talent was recognised early and he was encouraged to participate in afterschool workshops where children received painting lessons as a reward for completing homework. He learnt from local artist Mena Sebastian, who inspired him to start willfully creating work when he was in the fifth grade.
Harding began receiving commissions for paintings soon after, resulting from the recognition his work received in the Moranbah State High School annual art show. His practice at the time encompassed a broader Indigenous aesthetic popular of the era and was bought by teachers, community members and cultural visitors to the school. “That was the beginning of the boom,” he explains. “This Aboriginal aesthetic that people were consuming really heavily.” In hindsight, Harding has conceded that his naïve depictions of dots and marine life weren’t true to his lived experience. “I was a little kid and I didn’t realise the politics behind it. Everything was almost fair fodder in that context. I now know that a lot of the stuff I was painting, I didn’t have access to – that wasn’t my reality.”
The artist recalls habitually passing up playtime as a child, preferring an afternoon spent making work with older locals. He was introduced to ceramics this way and undertook his first lessons on a pottery wheel at age thirteen. This preoccupation with art, rather than sports, rendered him somewhat of a social misfit with his peers in town. In his late teens Harding became heavily involved in the community radio station initiated by a local youth worker, a project he describes as “a safe place for all the kids who didn’t fit in”, an alternate venture in which interested locals could invest their energies.
Keen to experience life outside Moranbah, Harding left the small town in 2001 and headed to the Sunshine Coast. Throughout the next three years he experimented with oils for the first time and worked with timber. With a view to one day enroll in art school, Harding accepted employment with the Bristol paint company as a way of remaining in touch with colour and paint and continued his career in this industry after moving to Brisbane in 2003.
In 2008 he applied for the Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art course (CAIA) at Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art. With Jennifer Herd as course convenor and staff including Bianca Beetson and Laurie Nilsen, Harding was promptly introduced to a number of influential Brisbane-based creatives. “ProppaNOW meetings are regularly held there in one of the classrooms,” he recounts. “We’d be students having a cup of tea or working away and hear these fiery blow-ups and heated discussions echoing around the unit.”
Harding has acted as an apprentice to several prominent artists since first assisting Tony Albert in his studio in 2009. His graduate show and first solo exhibition 'Colour By Number’ was curated by Albert (also a CAIA graduate) and held at Metro Arts in Brisbane in 2012. The exhibition introduced the public to a selection of Harding’s work and unveiled his skill for the ‘gentle arts’ and ability to extort a powerful impact from calculated simplicity.
'Colour By Number’ explores the dislocation and discontent among the young, black and queer community through a “provocative subversion of the domestic art of cross-stitching”1. Works such as And All Who Enter (2010) and A Cock’atwo and a Kangaroo (2012) employ tongue-in-cheek visual puns to relay homoerotic connotations. The artist has described these works as offerings to the community, intended to bring some humour to a touchy topic in effort to desensitise the negative language callously used to reference homosexuality. The Griffith University Art Collection acquired his work Brown Family Values (2010) in 2012.
The title ‘Colour by Number’ is a reference to Harding’s celebrated 2009 work Unnamed, created in response to his Nanna’s recount of growing up on Woorabinda Aboriginal Mission in Central Queensland. A system of the Department of Native Affairs in Queensland at the time had her referred to by an alphanumeric number, rather than her given name. Unnamed is a king plate with his Nanna’s identification number, 'W38’, beaten into it. It is a likeness of the gorgets used by 19th-Century colonial authorities to identify Indigenous leaders.2
Harding works in whatever medium is necessary to convey his message and in the case of Unnamed this material choice is significant. The use of lead, an element with no precious metal value, symbolises the burden and toxicity of the demoralising alphanumeric identification system. Unnamed was Harding’s first work purchased for a major public collection, with the breastplate being gifted to the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art by Julie Ewington, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2013. Unnamed has since been exhibited as part of 'My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia’ at the QAGOMA in 2013, curated by Bruce McLean.
Inspired by unwritten histories and unknown Aboriginal perspectives, Harding aims to depose convention in order to write these realities into the books. “These histories and these pieces of inherited knowledge often don’t extend beyond the family unit, or the wider Aboriginal community.”2 As a student of the CAIA course, Harding was encouraged to explore his family background and ancestry, as well as his own identity and aspirations for the future. He began formally recording the oral histories of his Indigenous relatives, and was moved by the courageous stories of strength and their associated pain. Nanna Margaret Lawton, his maternal grandmother, was named NAIDOC Female Elder of the Year in 2012 for her work in improving her community in Rockhampton and the Fitzroy Basin region. Harding’s Nanna Margaret has relayed tales of tragedy and triumph in her own life growing up ‘in service’ on Woorabinda Mission, on pastoral stations and in the homes of established families around Central Queensland.
Works influenced by the histories of Nanna Margaret Lawton and her mother, Nanna Effie Priestly, include Harding’s contributions to the 2013 exhibition 'String theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. The three artworks selected for the innovative fibre and craft-based exhibition depict narratives of exploitation and injustices committed against young Aboriginal women who were forcibly contracted into servitude. Harding uses traditionally domestic artforms to tell tales of vile misconduct, discreetly overturning the status quo and displaying the hidden truth. White Collared (2013) comprises a selection of vintage crochet collars – the kind previously found on the uniforms of girls in service. Here the artist has tampered with the readymade by adding rawhide and saddlery hardware, comparing the supposed wearers to livestock to comment on their mistreatment and inferior social status.
Bright Eyed Little Dormitory Girls (2013) consists of a series of hessian sacks, referencing the crude dresses that Aboriginal children on the mission were forced to wear as punishment for ‘misbehaviour’. This work recalls the penalty inflicted on Harding’s grandmother when she dared try to defend herself against the unwanted advances of her employer. The sacks were coarse and abrasive and often left the children’s delicate skin mottled with sores. In an attempt to retrospectively alleviate the pain Harding has tenderly added a soft, opulent mohair neckline. In a similar line of comment, Of One’s Own Country (2011) also alludes to stolen innocence and cases of hushed-up abuse within the system. The more conceptual artwork incorporates an oxidised ball of steel wool, reminiscent of pubic hair, slowly but constantly corroding away to the shelf below.3 From it a single needle and metallic thread hangs precariously, suggestive of the weight of what is left unsaid.
Harding has detailed the constant protocol attached to his storytelling, with awareness of the responsibility involved in relaying other peoples’ histories. He seeks consultation and permission and is conscious of the way in which he contributes these perspectives. “These stories, these lived experiences, they don’t belong to me,” he clarifies, “But the history and the emotion now does.”
Just like the potent verbal histories passed onto Harding – and from him, in turn, to the audience – his artistic skills were also handed down from family. His mother Kate, who is a multi-skilled textile and fibre artist, taught him exquisite embroidery and cross-stitch techniques. His father David is a man off the land who shared his extensive knowledge of the properties of timber. Harding’s woodworking is heavily influenced by the traditional practices of artifact making in native Queensland timbers, which he learnt from family Elders and his community.
One of Harding’s greatest career highlights to date is his involvement in collaborative works with Tony Albert. In 2009 Harding was invited to participate in Albert’s collective project, Pay Attention, an installation incorporating individual works by 25 Aboriginal artists from around Australia. Spelling the words ‘PAY ATTENTION MOTHER FUCKERS’, the text-based work references a lithograph by American artist Bruce Nauman, held in the National Gallery of Australia, and calls out the questionable collection policies of major Australian institutions.4 In this work Harding created the letter ‘H’ – “for homo.”
“The work was about bringing together all the different generations and voices into the one work to make a statement of community,” he reflects. “That was the first time I’d been asked to lend my voice to a broader discussion.” Pay Attention was exhibited at City Gallery, Wellington, in 2010 and made its way to the National Gallery of Australia as part of unDisclosed (2012).
In 2012 Harding won the Griffith University Graduate Art Show Espresso GARAGE award for the work No Blame Rests with Them. He received a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art from the Griffith University Queensland College of Art in 2012, completing Honours in Fine Art in 2013. He was a finalist in the Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize in Decemeber 2013, and in April 2014 was selected by Vernon Ah Kee for the Emerging Artist Finalist’s category of the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize.
In February 2014 Harding took part in a Cicada Press Aboriginal Print Residency at UNSW, producing a pink ‘cross-stitch’ etching. He also exhibited at The Cross Art Projects in March 2014 as part of Sydney’s SafARI program. His work punishment tree: Queensland Crucifix references a method of torture once used by authorities in the Sunshine State against Aboriginal inmates on missions. The hardwood ‘punishment tree’ on Woorabinda Mission was used as an anchor, with holes gouged through it and steel bars inserted to form a horizontal cross. Inmates were chained to the ends of the metal bars and left to perish.5 Harding’s reinterpretation involves wax pillar candles that delineate the concept of wasting away. At the time of writing the artist is working towards exhibiting punishment tree in a second incarnation, accompanied by the work’s powerful audio component.
Harding’s practice has been commended with an episode of Colour Theory with Richard Bell, which first aired nationally in Australia on NITV in March 2014.
1 Howell, Angelita (2012) ‘Colour by Number’, Artlink, Vol 32 No 4, 2012.
2 Harding, Dale (2013) Dale Harding | Artist Interview [video recording], QAGOMA TV, June 1st 2013 tv.qagoma.qld.gov.au/2013/05/29/dale-harding-artist-interview/
3 Allas, Tess (2013) ‘A Stitch in Time’, string theory: focus on contemporary Australian art [exhibition catalogue], pp.42-45. Museum of Contemporary Art: Sydney.
4 Unknown Author (2011) ‘PAY ATTENTION: Tony Albert’ [webpage], City Gallery Wellington, citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/pay-attention-tony-albert
5 Harding, Dale (2014) punishment tree: Queensland Crucifix [audio recording], via Vimeo, vimeo.com/88742829
Writers:
Kimberley Bulliman
duggim
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2016
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Dale Harding was born in Moranbah, QLD, in 1982. Currently based in Brisbane, his work has been exhibited as part of the MCA touring exhibition, 'String theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art'.
- Gender
- Unspecified
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/frances-belle-parker
- Birth Place
- Dubbo, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Painter, drawer, printmaker and installation artist Frances Belle Parker was born in 1982 in Dubbo, New South Wales. She is from the Yaegl people of northern New South Wales. Her mother, Lenore Parker, grew up on Ulgundahi Island in the Clarence River near Maclean on the New South Wales north coast and it was to Maclean that the family returned when Parker was still in pre-school. Ulgundahi Island was established as an Aboriginal Mission when the Scottish settlers moved into the surrounding area in the late 1800s. The Aboriginal people of this area and from as far away as Nambucca and Bowraville (NSW) were moved off their lands and onto the island. On the island the people were able to live a relatively 'free’ existence. They were able to continue their traditional practices even though they were under the ever-vigilant eye of the Aboriginal Protection Board. It is because of this continued cultural life that Ulgundahi contains many places of Aboriginal significance and claims a women’s sacred site.Parker began her artistic career in 2000, the same year she won the Blake Prize for Religious Art with an acrylic on canvas work titled The Journey. She was the youngest person and first Aboriginal artist to win this award. The Journey depicted a stylised Rainbow Serpent raising itself high with a Christian crucifix surrounded in a glowing light sitting atop the serpent’s head. The 2000 Blake Prize was judged by Fr Anthony Kelly, Dr Ross Mellick and Imants Tillers.Mostly, however, Parker’s work is informed by the Ulgundahi landscape and the family, community and cultural stories and memories that the island holds. Enrolling in a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing at the College of Fine Arts (COFA – University of New South Wales) in 2001 enabled Parker to explore the Ulgundahi themes through scholarly research and creative practise. She completed this undergraduate degree in 2003 and continued her academic achievements at Southern Cross University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons). Ulgundahi has remained a constant throughout Parker’s post-university career. In 2007 she won the COFA Professional Development Award for her painting The vein of our existence at the 2007 'Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize’. In her artist statement in the accompanying catalogue Parker says of this work that she has depicted Beiirrimba (Clarence River) “by layering both a landscape view and an aerial view, representing my connection with the river”.The COFA Award provided Parker with a two-week residency in the COFA flat, the opportunity to work with a master artisan staff member and a solo show. Parker chose to work in printmaking with Michael Kempson. She had never worked in printmaking before with the exception of some introductory lessons during her undergraduate life. Michael Kempson introduced Parker to etching and lino-cut reduction prints. The result of this residency was her first solo exhibition, 'Identifying Ulgundahi’.In 2007 Djon Mundine curated Parker’s work into the group exhibition 'Eye Saw The Sun’ at Lismore Regional Gallery, and in 2008 into 'Ngadhu, Ngulili, Ngeaninyagu – A Personal History of Aboriginal Art’ at Campbelltown Arts Centre. In 2009 the Lismore Regional Gallery commissioned Parker to produce a New Media work to be shown as a stand-alone exhibition at Lismore Regional Gallery in August and September 2009.The 2000 Blake Prize and the 2007 COFA Award are just two of a number of awards that Parker has received since embarking on an artistic career. In 2004 her installation Sorry = Reconciliation was Highly Commended in COFA’s 'Jenny Birt Award’; in 2006 she was a finalist in the 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award with her installation of 10,000 painted wooden clothes pegs fashioned into a map of Ulgundahi Island titled Mapping Ulgundahi; and in 2007 she was Highly Commended in the Bundjalung Art Award and was the winner of the Youth Award Category for the 'Drawing Together Art Prize’ in Canberra and the Overall Winner and Visual Arts Category winner of the 'ABC Northcoast Artsnest Award for Emerging Artists’.Parker’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Federal Department of Health and Ageing – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and in Grafton Regional Gallery. In 2009 Parker was living in Maclean and working as the Indigenous Arts Development Officer for Arts Northern Rivers as well as continuing with her work as a visual artist.
Writers:
Tess AllasNote:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Frances Belle Parker is a Yaegl woman who works in a variety of media including painting, printmaking and installation. The majority of her work is based around her personal connection to the Yaegl landscape of northern New South Wales. She won the 2000 Blake Prize for Religious Art, the first Aboriginal artist to win this award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-stokes
- Birth Place
- Donnybrook, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Kate Stokes is a product designer, specialising in lighting design. Stokes founded her Melbourne based design practice, Coco Flip Design Studio, in 2010, her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
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Writers:
Bianca Vallentine
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Kate Stokes is a product designer, specialising in lighting design. Stokes founded her Melbourne based design practice, Coco Flip Design Studio, in 2010, her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-mitchell
- Birth Place
- Sydney, Australia
- Biography
- Kate Mitchell lives and works in Sydney. In 2006, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) (Photomedia) from the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) and completed a Masters of Fine Arts in 2008.Her practice includes performance-based videos, projections and objects, drawings and conceptual offerings. Her work has consistently played with the joke and the cartooning of violence. Across many videos she performs the Disneyland impossible: cutting a hole around yourself with a saw; walking on a barrel; climbing a ladder while cutting rungs. Her performances are magical to watch, shocking and brave. In the work 9 to 5, for example, Mitchell becomes a sun dial staying out in the sun all day while time passes for her, marked by her own shadow.Mitchell works on the limit of the acceptable and normal. She finds the irrational in life in order to reflexively question herself, her material reality, and her place within a society in which we all constantly perform.
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Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Kate Mitchell is an Australian artist whose practice includes performance-based videos, projections and objects, drawings and conceptual offerings. Her work has consistently played with the joke and the cartooning of violence.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anna-plunkett
- Birth Place
- Albury, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98c7
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/carla-hananiah
- Birth Place
- New Zealand
- Biography
- Landscape artist Carla Hananiah (nee Minogue) was born in August 1982 in rural New Zealand, the eldest of three sisters. In 1998, aged sixteen, she moved with her family to Sydney, Australia, where she completed the last two years of high school. Although most of her family returned to New Zealand in 2000, Carla and one sister chose to remain in Australia.
After high school she enrolled at the College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales, gaining her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2004. In 2008 she returned to her alma mater to enroll in a Masters of Art, majoring in painting and then a Masters of Fine Art by research. Her additional studies in painting reignited her passion for the medium and helped develop her style and technique, which she describes as semi-abstract, colourful and painterly.
During her studies Hananiah entered art competitions and group exhibitions, winning recognition and awards. She was a finalist for the National Tertiary Art Prize in November 2008, and in 2009 was a finalist in the Face of Compassion Art Prize, the Mosman Art Prize, the Lloyd Rees Art Prize, Live Life Villages Art Prize, and the Waverly Art Prize. In 2009 she also received the Second Runner Up Prize at the UNSW Arc Annual Exhibition at Kudos Gallery.
Her paintings explore the classical theme of the relationship between humans and nature. She seeks to convey a sense of 'overwhelming beauty’ from being 'in the land’, hoping her audience might question who created it. Her method involves pouring the oil paint onto preferably large-scale canvas or board, and allowing it to form a pattern, before then using the brush to complete the process. She believes this technique allows her colours to flow and intertwine in ways that suggest being 'in the land’. In addition to landscape painting, Hananiah explores other subject matter and employs media, such as photography, etching and drawing. Hananiah’s creative routine involves waking up early to walk and watch the sunrise. Later, in her studio she recalls these sensations.
In 2010 she held a solo exhibition, 'Sublime’, at Artereal in Rozelle, Sydney. The Macquarie Bank bought a work from this exhibition for their collection.
Hananiah, who supplements her art practice with work in the retail industry, lives in Sydney with her husband Isaac Hananiah (married 2005).
Writers:
Bonus, LeahDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Carla Hananiah is a landscape painter who lives and works in Sydney.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98c8
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/katharina-meister
- Birth Place
- Karlsruhe, Germany
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- German-born ceramist, printmaker and painter. Settled in WA 2012
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98c9
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jason-nelson
- Birth Place
- Oklahoma, USA
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Jason Nelson is a digital poet and net artist
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ca
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/fiona-omeenyo
- Birth Place
- Cape York, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Fiona Omeenyo of the Umpila language group of Lockhart River in the Cape York region of Queensland was born in 1981. She is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang and is a painter a printmaker of etchings, screen prints and linocuts. Her work is in the collections of the Cairns Regional Art Gallery and the ATSIC collection. In 1999 Omeenyo won first prize in the Works on Paper category at the Cape York Art Award at the Laura Festival and in 2001 won the major prize for her painting, Sorrow at the same festival.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Fiona Omeenyo is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang and is a painter and printmaker of etchings, screen prints and linocuts.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98cb
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Latitude-12.438056 Longitude130.841111 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb98cc
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/samantha-hobson
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Samantha Hobson of the Kuuku Yau language group of Lockhart River in the Cape York region of Queensland was born in 1981. A member of the Lockhart River Art Gang, Hobson is a painter who has exhibited in a number of exhibitions including “Story Place” in 2003 at the Queensland Art Gallery and “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” in 2001 in Brisbane. In the 'Gatherings’ catalogue her artist statement reads, “I paint stories my grandmother tells me from the old days … paintings about traditional culture …. I paint the things that happen in the community … I paint about people in the community … what happens to them … what they do and what really hurts them… that makes me hurt inside too … that painting makes the bad feeling go away.” Hobson has works held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Cairns Regional Art Gallery.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Samanth Hobson of the Kuuku Yau language group of Lockhart River in the Cape York region of Queensland was born in 1981. A member of the Lockhart River Art Gang, Hobson is a painter who has exhibited in a number of exhibitions including 'Story Place' in 2003 at the Queensland Art Gallery.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98cd
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Latitude-25 Longitude133 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/camilla-freeman-topper
- Birth Place
- Australia
- Biography
- Camilla Freeman-Topper began her fashion design training at Sydney’s Whitehouse Institute of Design followed by the completion of her Masters of Fashion Design at the Accademia Italiana Arte Moda in 2003. At the end of 2003 Camilla collaborated with her brother Marc to debut their first spring/summer collection, 'A Warm Summer’s Afternoon”, at the Australian Fashion Week 2003 to a favourable response. Upon the completion of Camilla’s Masters degree, the design duo debuted their winter 2004 collection in Melbourne, Australia. This collection was picked up by Myer department store in Australia and Selfridges in London. This was the first time in history that an Australian department store had decided to stock a label in its first year of business.
Writers:
Jenni Hagedorn
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Designer and Director of Camilla and Marc
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ce
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Latitude-25 Longitude133 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/elizabeth-reidy
- Birth Place
- Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. c.1981
- Summary
- Elizabeth Reidy is an Australian artist and curator. She has been involved in Sydney Artist Run Initiatives as both artist, curator and director since the early 2000s.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98cf
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/andrea-fisher
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Andrea Fisher was born in Brisbane in 1981 and is from the Birri Gubba language group from central Queensland. Her paternal family, the Fishers, were moved to Cherbourg in southern Queensland in the early 1900s when the settlement was known as Barambah. In 2001, Fisher graduated from the Queensland College of Art (QCA) with a degree in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art. Her professional development since then has been aided in part by her involvement with proppaNOW, an artists collective that includes Tony Albert , her contemporary at QCA, and other more senior artists such as Richard Bell , Gordon Hookey and Jennifer Herd . Fisher has created work in mixed media and more consistently, wearable jewellery – for example, brooches based on traditional shield designs from Wakka Wakka country. More recently she has produced a series of works consisting of copper wire woven into traditional bags. One of these works was preselected for the 2007 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award and exhibited at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT). Also in 2007, Fisher began work on a confronting series of wearable cast iron shackles, such as were used to restrain Aboriginal people on the Queensland frontier. Although specialising in jewellery, Fisher is primarily a visual 3D artist who describes her practice as one which applies “a sense of Aboriginal history to the materials and aesthetic of jewellery making, object and installation”. Fisher has exhibited work at the Queensland Art Gallery, Craft Queensland and Fireworks Gallery.
Writers:
Browning, Daniel
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Queensland artist, Andrea Fisher works in the medium of jewellery design and 'wearable art'. She was a finalist in the 2007 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d0
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tony-albert
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Tony Albert was born in Brisbane in 1981. He is one of the longest serving members of the Brisbane-based artists collective, proppaNOW. His career has focused on the experience of displaced urban Aboriginal people who are alienated by history from their traditional country, language and material culture – that is, the demographic majority of Aboriginal people in Australia. His Campfire – a bar heater, with electrical cord in the Aboriginal colours, is a comedic take on the modern urban Aboriginal experience. The campfire, a gathering place in both traditional and contemporary Aboriginal culture, is still a collective experience where knowledge is shared and exchanged. It is relevant to note that Albert’s father’s country is around Cardwell in north Queensland, the traditional land of the Garimay rainforest people with whom he identifies. His family relationships extend further, to Palm Island off the Queensland city of Townsville. Albert was among the first to graduate with a degree in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art from the Queensland College of Art (QCA) in 2004. Australian Art Collector magazine has named Albert as one of the country’s most collectable artists several times. Albert toys repetitively with popular culture and the representation of Aboriginal people within it. His most recent work recycles genuine Aboriginalia, including kitsch, mass-produced objects such as plaster heads and black velvet paintings. He alters the context in which these objects are understood – most dramatically in his installation work Headhunter, which was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2007. The point he makes is that Aboriginal people’s bodies, literally and metaphorically, are hunted down and commodified. He has since embarked on a shield-making project with members of his family in Cardwell. He was preselected for the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2006 and 2007 and his work was consequently hung in the exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) alongside that of many of his peers, including his acknowledged mentor Richard Bell . In 2007 Albert was the recipient of the $15,000 acquisitive Sunshine Coast Art Prize for his photographic series Gangsta Supastar , in which he acts out the role of 50perCENT, an identifiably Aboriginal hip hop artist/gangsta whose posse includes such imaginary personas as Lil Gin, Murri J Blige and Notorious B.E.L.L.Major group exhibitions include: 'The Visitors’, Penrith Regional Gallery (2007); the 2007 Arc Biennial, QUT Art Museum; 'The Revenge of Genres’, Les Brasseurs in Liege Belgium and Cité International des Arts, Paris (2007); the 23rd and 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award, MAGNT (2006 & 2007) and 'Thresholds of Tolerance’, Australian National University, Canberra in 2007. His work has been collected by the National Museum of Australia, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Griffith Artworks, Brisbane.
Writers:
Browning, Daniel
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Brisbane-based artist, Tony Albert's work often discusses and recycles genuine Aboriginalia, including kitsch, mass-produced objects such as plaster heads and black velvet paintings. Albert was a finalist in the 2006 and 2007 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d1
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/glenn-pilkington
- Birth Place
- Subiaco, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Yamatji/Nyoongar artist Glenn Pilkington was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1981. He spent most of his childhood in the Kimberley region before his family moved to Bunbury in 1994. He moved back to Perth in 2000 and began developing his art practice soon after. In 2008 he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Edith Cowan University, majoring in Printmaking.The contrast between his childhood in remote country in the north of the state, and the urban environment of Perth is a foundational concern for Pilkington. His work derives from his reflections upon the impact of this social and environmental transition upon his subjectivity as an Indigenous Australian. He writes:“Coming from strong Aboriginal and European heritage, my work explores displacement in both the emotional and physical context, loss of connections to both places and people in an attempt to place myself as an individual… Through the investigation of spaces and places, both natural and urban, my work explores the connection with country that I feel as an Aboriginal Australian living and working within an urban environment. The aesthetic of my work represents the peace I have trained myself to feel in the urban world in direct contrast to the years I have spent in 'traditional country’.” (artist’s statement, Mossenson Galleries 2006).
Working predominantly in photomedia, Pilkington makes use of third generation digital technology to create images of urban environments which are then subjected to a studio-based digital editing process. This process usually involves the erosion of recognisable content to varying degrees, so that an abstracted pictorial structure emerges. Pilkington’s editing often obscures the spatial logic of the original scene such that aspects of the imagery are fragmented, mirrored and repeated. The urban settings are thereby transformed into shapes, vectors and planes that find an aesthetic harmony through symmetry and geometric patterning, or by centering points of curiosity that may have been marginal in the original image.
These processes are underpinned by Pilkington’s explorations of the experience of travelling between the country and the city, tracing the passing of time, finding the familiar in the foreign, and sensing emotive resonances within spaces that echo places or moments from the past. Sarah Jane Pell, writing in the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award 2008 Catalogue, suggests that “by using digital editing to re-present the urban terrain as an abstract topography, Pilkington emulates and respects his traditional relationship to country”.
Pilkington has exhibited throughout Australia since 2006. He was a finalist in the Ergon Energy Central Queensland Art Award (2006), the Hutchins Art Prize (2007) and the Sunshine Coast Art Prize (2007). In 2007 he won The Linden Award, which is part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and in 2008 he was shortlisted for both the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award and the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award. Exhibitions have included the solo show 'Urban Country’ at Mossenson Galleries in Melbourne (2007), ’30 Under 30: A New Generation of Indigenous Artists’ which was shown at Mossenson Galleries in Melbourne and Perth (2008), and 'Innovators 3’ at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne (2008).
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
giseger
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Perth-based Yamatji/Nyoongar photomedia artist who explores themes of loss, displacement and home in relation to both the urban and remote country in which he has lived. In 2008 he was a finalist in the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d2
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Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/heather-webb
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Heather Webb was born in Perth and has worked across the mediums of photography, film and installation. Exhibitions include 'Screen’ at the 2002 Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP).
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Writers:
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Perth-based artist who has worked across the mediums of photography, film and installation.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d3
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Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/pilar-mata
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Pilar Mata Dupont is an artist based between Western Australia and the Netherlands. Using highly theatrical and cinematic methods, she investigates ideas of nationalism, identity, mythology, and the psychological triggers of nostalgia through the use of parable and allegory.
In 2012 she was a recipient of a Mid-career Fellowship from the Western Australian Government, allowing her to investigate her family history in Argentina as part of an ongoing project. A survey of her solo video works were shown as part of the CineB Film Festival in Santiago, Chile in late 2013 and her most recent solo exhibition, Pilar Mata Dupont – Kaiho, opened in the Rappu space at the Pori Art Museum, Finland in late 2014. In 2015 she was one of ten nominees for the main prize at the prestigious Spring Exhibition at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.
In July 2015, she was the winner of the Art Mill Gallery and Framing Centre main award at the Plymouth Contemporary Open Art Prize in the UK. The judges of this prize included Turner Prize judge, Helen Legg, and Artistic Director of Tate St Ives, Sam Thorne. In October 2015, she won the Residency Prize for the Wexner Center for the Arts at the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, in São Paulo, Brazil.
Other recent exhibition highlights include the SeMA Biennale – Mediacity Seoul, at the Seoul Museum of Art; Salon Fluchthilfe – Utopian Pulse, Flares in the Darkroom, at the Secession museum in Vienna and Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; and An Internal Difficulty, at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
In collaboration with Tarryn Gill, she participated in the 17th Sydney Biennale and won the $100,000AUD Basil Sellers Art Prize in 2010, and held a ten-year retrospective at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2011. In partnership with Thea Costantino and Gill as multi-artform collective Hold Your Horses, she made work commissioned by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, 2012, for the exhibition Wagner 2013: Künstlerpositionen. Mata Dupont has solo and collaborative work in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Campbelltown Arts Centre, University of Western Australia, Artbank, the City of Perth, Queensland Art Gallery and Stadiums Queensland.
Writers:
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
Pilar Mata Dupont
fulleg
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Pilar Mata Dupont is a Western Australian artist, who works across film, photography, spectacle, performance, and design, sometimes in collaboration with Tarryn Gill, or as part of Hold Your Horses, with Gill and Thea Costantino.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d4
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Latitude-32.5421803 Longitude151.2185641 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tim-gregory
- Birth Place
- Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Tim Gregory was born in 1981 on a Hunter Valley property that for five generations – over a hundred and fifty years – had been home to a family of viticulturalists. His mother, Estelle, was born in Nice, Southern France, before immigrating with her family to Australia in the 1950s. Estelle started a boutique winery on the property and Tim spent his formative years sketching the landscape of the region.
During his adolescence Gregory went on many trips to Europe and the United Kingdom, including one year in France, where he developed a passion for landscape painting. He was impressed by Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich and the Pre-Raphaelites John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Gregory spent time in London’s National Gallery, the Louvre and other major galleries in Europe studying the Masters. Through his plein-air studies of European landscapes he developed a methodology and styling, which he then applied to the Australian landscape.
Upon returning to Australia in 2000 he moved to Sydney to study a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales (UNSW), majoring in painting. He maintained a connection to the Hunter Valley while studying in Sydney, often making weekend trips back to the family property.
While at university, Gregory experimented with a variety of techniques and media. By the time he started his honours year he had moved away from landscape painting towards theoretically informed video and time-based art. During this time he read widely in philosophy and art, being particularly drawn to the ideas of influential theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu, Giorgio Agamben, Marc Augé and Friedrich Nietzsche. Influenced by these theorists, Gregory explored new ways of working with his chosen media through concepts that invited a social critique of gender and politics.
After graduating from Honours in 2004 he was awarded a scholarship to commence a PhD in Art Theory (2006-09) at the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, COFA.
In 2008, Gregory collaborated with Elle Dixon on 'Sexdeath’, an exhibition at Chalk Horse Gallery in Surry Hills. Together Gregory and Dixon produced a video exploring the concepts of voyeurism and of public performance in personal relationships.
Gregory has written on art for a variety of art journals including Eyeline and Broadsheet magazine . In 2007 he accepted a casual lecturing position in art theory at COFA.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, CatherineDixon, Amanda
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- conceptual artist and theorist based in Sydney, NSW. Gregory lectures in Art Theory at the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d5
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Latitude-32.7575206 Longitude151.5854642 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/luke-sales
- Birth Place
- East Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d6
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/emily-hunt
- Birth Place
- Sydney, Australia
- Biography
- Emily Hunt, painter and ceramic artist, holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts. She has exhibited in the 2014 group exhibition, Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Hunt completed her Master of Fine Arts (Print Media) at Sydney College of the Arts in 2011. In the same year, she undertook an Erasmus Exchange Scholarship and studied ceramics at Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst in Ghent, Belgium. In 2013, she undertook a mentorship at the Zentrum für Keramik (Center for Ceramics) in Berlin where she worked with ceramics master, Thomas Hirschler.
Writers:
amurney
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Emily Hunt, painter and ceramic artist, holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts. She has had numerous solo exhibitions and has exhibited in the 2014 group exhibition Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d7
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TLCMap IDtb98d8
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nathan-babet
- Birth Place
- Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1981 in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia. Babet is the youngest of three brothers. His father, John, is of Sudeten-Deutsch, Czech and Austrian descent and was born in Vienna at the conclusion of WWII. His mother, Jennifer, is second generation Australian, of Italian and English descent. Babet grew up in the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag during the 1980s. Once inhabited by the Cameraigal people, this secluded bohemian enclave was settled in 1925 by Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin. Both practising architects originally from Chicago, Marion worked alongside Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter was a respected 'Prairie School’ architect. They created an unprecedented built environment, as Burley Griffin put it “so that each individual can feel the whole landscape is his”.
Babet attended Sydney Grammar School from 1986-99 where he developed a passion for the arts. From high school he went on to study Architecture at the University of Sydney, where he gained an understanding of the relationships between the framing of the human figure and space. After completing a Bachelor of Science (Architecture) degree in 2002, he decided to explore more openly creative fields. Noticing that a postgraduate degree in Film and Digital Media was available to him within the Faculty of Architecture, he decided to pursue this in 2003. This provided his first insight into the world of film and sound theory, where he found parallels between time and space which had begun to develop through his architectural studies.
Upon completion of this course, Babet decided to take up full-time employment within film production to gain an understanding of the industry beyond the confines of the institutional environment. After a period of working in a film production company, he was uninspired by the formulaic nature of traditional film making in Australia. He felt that if he were to produce film, he would need to facilitate a unique perspective in his own right. He began to explore a conceptually driven path which could lend itself towards film, yet was more engaged with the medium and cultural, political and social commentary, rather than just the traditional aesthetics and values that he was seeing in the mainstream film industry.
During 2004 Babet became associated with artistic collectives and individuals that proved influential in his creative exploration – emerging artists from spaces such as the Imperial Slacks, First Draft Gallery, Phat Space, Gallery Wren and Space 3 in Sydney. These establishments’ representation of emerging artists and freedom of expression was something particularly inspiring to Babet.
In 2004 Babet enrolled at the College of Fine Arts Sydney (COFA), majoring in Photomedia, whilst also studying time-based-art. During this time he exhibited at Kudos Gallery and COFA Exhibition and Performance Space. In mid-2006, feeling somewhat constricted by the structural framework of fine arts education in Australia, and its method of defining a student’s work by 'medium’ rather than by the concepts and ideas, Babet went on exchange to Berlin. He studied at Universität der Künste (UDK). During this period he majored in Bildende Künst (conceptual art), studying under the guidance of such practising artists as Katharina Sieverding, David Lamelas and Laura Horelli. He also frequented classes within the faculty of Experimentelle Film Gestaultung (Experimental Film) where he studied under film directors Heinz Emigolz and Michael Busch. He found Berlin refreshing; firstly, this had to do with the notion presented by Berlin Universität der Künste that, as a student at this institution, one was already a practising artist. There was an abundance of freedom to experiment and, further, Babet found the chance to study under artists such as Prof. Katharina Sieverding, once a student of Joseph Beuys, an invaluable opportunity.
Initially, Babet travelled to Berlin with a body of work dealing with notions of male identity and issues within this of a specifically Australian nature. Upon exhibiting at UDK Quergalerie in early 2007 he felt that these issues and cultural facets he was dealing with did not necessarily translate within a specifically European context. As a consequence, he began to explore other tangents and began thinking across a wider spectrum. At this point Babet sought to distance himself from Queer Theory as such, and from being identified in that respect. He wanted to take a direction that associated and dealt with queer issues but was not trapped within Queer Theory. Babet began to look at identity as a universal construct – drawing upon notions of truth, psyche and the subjective nature of memory, whilst also being concerned with society, politics, history and the natural environment, his work often finding a subject matter that played upon the dislocation between two opposing 'realities’.
Whilst in the midst of his studies (mid-2007) Babet travelled through Europe, particularly Bosnia and Croatia, where he shot one video work that would be the beginnings of a new direction. In 2007 he furthered this direction, travelling to Heiligendamm to take part in, and shoot work associated with, the G8 Summit. During this time, Babet was further informing his art practice to speak in a more universal manner with a political undertone by frequenting theory based art establishments in Berlin – such as Kunst Werke (KW) and United Nations Plaza. These establishments provided him with insight into the critical theory of artists and writers who had emerged through the political climate at time of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In mid-2007 Babet participated in three exhibitions as part of the Universität der Künste 'Rundgang 07’. Within these three exhibitions, which featured in 'UDK Fakultät Bildende Kusnt’, 'UDK Fakultät Gestaultung’ and 'Volksbühne’, he exhibited various video installations. At the conclusion of this period he participated in an exhibition as part of KFZ Gelände , a self-initiated artists collective that occupied an empty warehouse space for a period of two days.
At the end of the one year of official exchange, Babet continued to visit Universität der Künste as a guest student, attending critical theory lectures of Hito Steyrel, a postcolonial theorist from Goldsmith’s University in London. It was within Hito Steyrel’s own conceptual art practice, which steps outside the traditional framework of documentary film, that Babet found affiliation with the direction of a new work. With this impetus to further develop a major research based project in the Czech Republic, he decided to spend an extra year in Berlin, during which time he worked for a film production company for a period of six months.
In early 2008 Babet began to undertake preliminary research for his project in the Czech Republic, whereby he made numerous visits to specific locations and began investigating the history of his ancestors. By mid-2008 he had enlisted the help of a Czech translator and begun the initial stages of shooting photographic and video footage. Upon exhausting all available resources in the Czech Republic he decided to return to Australia with the intention to undertake honours at COFA and source funding for further research and shooting in the Czech Republic.
In late 2008 Babet screened work at the Chauvel Cinema in association with the COFA Annual Show. In 2009, as well as exhibiting at Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, he contiued to further develop the first stages of the Czech Republic Project.
Writers:
Linn, Kathleen
amyk
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Nathan Babet is an emerging artist working in the field of New Media. He studied at the University of Sydney, College of Fine Arts, and in Berlin at Universitat der Kunste. He works primarily with video installation as a medium, exploring ideas around identity, heritage and the individual in the environment.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d9
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/james-newitt
- Birth Place
- Hobart, Tas., Australia
- Biography
- James Newitt, installation and mixed media artist, was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1981. Newitt graduated with a PhD in fine arts from the University of Tasmania, School of Art, in 2007. His mixed media work focuses on projection, sound and text installation as well as public projects.
Newitt has participated in a number of exhibitions, including '...come to life…’, an exhibition showcasing emerging young Tasmanian artists, which was co-curated by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) and Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST) and held at the QVMAG, Launceston, from 13 July 2012 to 17 February 2013. He has also shown in 'Social Networking’, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, 2012; 'To Catch a Tiger’, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2011; 'If They Fall’, Rosalux: Berlin-based art office, Berlin, 2010; 'Primavera’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2010; and 'What I Think About When I Think About Dancing’, Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney, 2009.
In 2012 Newitt undertook a three-month Australia Council for the Arts studio residency in Liverpool, U.K., before embarking on a one-year Samstag Scholarship in 2013. He is Head of Visual Communication at the Tasmanian School of Art, and was a founding member and past director of INFLIGHT artist-run initiative, Hobart.
Writers:
Nancy Mauro-Flude
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- James Newitt, Hobart-based installation and mixed media artist, focuses on projection, sound and text installation as well as public projects.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98da
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/helena-bogucki
- Birth Place
- Exetor, England
- Biography
- Helena Bogucki, born 1980, is a jewellery designer and artist.
Born in Exetor, England, the Bogucki family reloacted to New Zealand in 1993 and then to Australia in 1998.
Residing in Perth, Western Australia, Bogucki has been active as a jeweller since 2005. Bogucki’s work has been exhibited nationally.
Writers:
Bianca Vallentine
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Helena Bogucki, born 1980, is a jewellery designer and artist. Born in Exetor, England, the Bogucki family relocated to New Zealand in 1993 and then to Australia in 1998. Residing in Perth, Western Australia, Bogucki has been active as a jeweller since 2005. Bogucki's work has been exhibited nationally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98db
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TLCMap IDtb98dc
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/barayuwa-munungurr
- Birth Place
- Wandawuy, NT, Australia
- Biography
- The youngest artist, Barayuwa Munungurr, (born in 1980, Wandawuy, NT), paints both his own Djapu clan designs as well as his mother’s Munyuku clan. His father is recently deceased, and mother is Bingitj Nurruwutthun, a sister to the late great ritual specialist and artist, Dula Nurruwutthun. Barayuwa has exhibited since 2007 and, in 2009, collaborated with Sydney-based artist Ruark Lewis in Transcriptions for the Perfect House, a multi media installation at The Cross Art Projects and Macquarie University Art Gallery. Barayuwa’s gadawulkwulk (shelter) installation featured in Primavera 2014 at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Writers:
Jo Holder
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98dd
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb98de
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/stephanie-nova-milne
- Birth Place
- Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Stephanie nova Milne is one half of the artistic couple Ms&Mr, with her husband Richard nova Milne.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98df
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kye-mcguire
- Birth Place
- Western Australia, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Kye McGuire was born in Western Australia in 1980 and has lived in Perth, Broome and Melbourne. She was the recipient of the inaugural Lin Onus Award in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. She works in multi-media, digital media and jewellery making.
She holds an Associate Degree in Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Curtin University in Perth, and in 2003 was included in the group exhibition, “Showcase of New Works” at the university. In 2005 she was a participant in Screen Australia’s “Indigenous New Media Lab” (Brisbane), a two-week immersive workshop and exhibition aimed at developing the digital and interactive media skills of its participants. Others visual artists who participated included Tony Albert, Jenny Fraser and Diane Jones. In July of 2007, McGuire exhibited her hand-crafted jewellery in the exhibition, “Shiny Shiny Blak Bling. Flash jewellery by Blak Artists” at Alcaston Gallery in Melbourne alongside Donna Brown, Gail Harradine, Sandy Hodge, Sonja Hodge, Kim Kruger and their teacher, Peter Eccles.This entry is a stub. You can help the daao by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Kye McGuire is the recipient of the inaugural Lin Onus Award in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. She works in multi-media, works on paper, digital media and jewellery making.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e0
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Latitude-33.713759 Longitude150.3121633 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/zehra-ahmed
- Birth Place
- Katoomba, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- artist born in 1980 in Katoomba, NSW. Ahmed’s work is concerned with politics and racial equality. This entry is a stub
Writers:
Wilson, JuliaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Zehra Ahmed is Sydney-born artist working mainly in New Media. Her artworks reflect her interest in political affairs, international equality and certain prejudicial attitudes of society.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e1
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/guy-peppin
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Guy Peppin, painter, was born in Sydney in 1980. Initially working as a graphic designer, Guy turned to studying art after travelling to Europe and viewing the work of Cy Twombly. In 1998 he was part of the Molotov Guerrilla Art Collective. In 2005, Peppin commenced a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School, Sydney, completing his Honours in Printmaking in 2008. During his Honours year, Peppin’s work shifted into abstraction, dispensing with pictorial modes of representation. Subsequently, his work has dealt with ideas of diffusion, erasure and memory.
Peppin held his first solo exhibition, 'Return to Sender’, at Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney (2009), followed by a second solo exhibition in 2011, entitled 'Voyager’. Peppin has participated in group exhibitions in Australia and overseas, including a group showing at ICOGRADA Galleria, Québec, Canada (2003) and Speakeasy Artist Space, Hong Kong (2007), as well as 'The Capitals Project’, Han Jun Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea (2007) and 'International Show’, Xanadu Gallery, Mongolia (2007). In 2009, Peppin was awarded the Storrier Onslow Cité Internationale des Arts Paris Studio Residency courtesy of the Friends of the National Art School. Peppin was a finalist in the RBS Emerging Artist Award in 2009 and again in 2010.
Peppin’s work has featured in Australian Art Collector, the Sydney Morning Herald_, Belle Magazine and Vogue Living. Peppin’s works are represented in private collections in Australia, Asia and North America. Peppin lives and works in Sydney.
Writers:
liverpoolstreetgallery
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Guy Peppin, painter, was born in Sydney in 1980. Initially working as a graphic designer, Guy turned to studying art after travelling to Europe and viewing the work of Cy Twombly. In 2005, Peppin commenced a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School, Sydney, completing his Honours in Printmaking in 2008. During his Honours year, Peppin’s work shifted into abstraction, dispensing with pictorial modes of representation.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e2
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/karl-khoe
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Karl Khoe is an artist based in Sydney, whose work spans printmaking, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance and design, with a particular emphasis on working alongside scientific institutions such as botanic gardens and herbaria.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e3
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sam-smith
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Sam Smith is a Sydney based video and installation artist. In 2007 he was awarded the prestigious Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship to undertake a series of artist mentorships in New York and Berlin.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e4
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tania-zettel
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Tessa Zettel is an artist based in Sydney, whose work includes printmaking, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance and design, with a particular emphasis on working alongside scientific institutions such as botanic gardens and herbaria.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e5
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.4816626 Longitude150.4177868 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ellen-jaye-benson
- Birth Place
- Bowral, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Benson’s work is characterised by a sense of an allegorical journey accompanying a process-based struggle; be it landscape or figurative.
This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Benson, Ellen Jaye
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Mixed-media artist based in the Illawara region. Her work is seated somewhere between representation and abstraction, and treads both observed and metaphorical territories.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e6
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-siebert
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Following his graduation from the South Australian School of Art, Mark Siebert held the position of Co-Director at Downtown Art Space in Adelaide from 2005-2007. During this period he was also a Studio recipient at the Experimental Art Foundation. In 2010 Siebert undertook an Asialink residency to Beijing, China.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e7
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/roy-ananda
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Roy Ananda has established a strong South Australian profile in the arts with a steady exhibition history, collaborative projects and performances, public art, workships and artist residencies. In 2000 and 2001 he was awarded back-to-back internal scholarships at the Adelaide Central School of Art, and in 2002, Ananda was selected for the Helpmann Academy Professional Partnerships Scheme.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e8
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joel-birnie
- Birth Place
- Blackwood, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Joel Birnie is a descendant of the Tasmanian Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834-1905). In 1899 and 1903 Cochrane Smith recorded songs on wax cylinders. These cylinders are held in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and were “the only recordings ever made of Tasmanian Aboriginal song and speech” (Clark, J., 'Fanny Cochrane Smith’ in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online). Birnie was born in the Adelaide Hills in 1980 and from a young age was surrounded by art and art practice, as both his parents were art teachers. Birnie states that he was “taught art by his parents” (pers. comm., March 2009) rather than having any formal art training. With the exception of working as a caretaker for a local Adelaide Hills bed and breakfast, Birnie worked in the arts in a variety of roles including working as an artist liaison officer and co-curator for the event 'Blak Nite', which was held during the 2003 and 2005 'Come Out Youth Festival’ and as a gallery attendant, collections assistant and photographer (among other jobs) at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide from 2004 to 2007.Birnie was awarded the Encouragement Award in the 2001 'Tandanya/Arts SA Aboriginal Artists’ Fellowship Award’. He honoured this award by presenting his first solo exhibition, 'Going Home’, curated by Rosie Potter, at Tandanya in 2001. The information sheet of the exhibition stated that the title “refers to Joel’s 'going home’ as he searches his past [and] explores his identity” (Potter, 2001). The works in 'Going Home’ were a series of sandstone, acrylic and house paint on canvas that depicted designs based on the petroglyph designs of Tasmania.In 2002 Birnie was curated into the national touring exhibition 'Native Title Business’ with his work Fanny, Mary and the Cross (2001). This work of acrylic on board is a portrait of Fanny Cochrane Smith and her daughter Mary. Hanging as an earring from Mary’s right ear is the Christian crucifix. This crucifix and the board the painting is painted on are symbols of “Fanny Cochrane Smith’s beloved wooden church. She had it built on the land she donated to the Methodists of Hobart” (Birnie, 2002, pg. 42).In 2003 Birnie staged his second solo show, 'No’onga/The Spirit Centre’ at Tandanya. This body of work represented a departure in medium for Birnie as it was his first exhibition of photographic works. These works were large digital film stills, the images of which were “traditional Tasmanian petroglyphs but were reworked into abstract designs so as to resemble spirits”(pers. comm., 2009). In 2007 he participated in the group show 'Our Metro Mob’, curated by Fulvia Mantelli alongside Troy-Anthony Baylis, Sharon Sansbury, Alucius Turner, Peter Sharrock and Yhonnie Scarce. This exhibition was also staged at Tandanya. Birnie was commissioned to develop a sand painting, Untitled Petroglyph, for the performance of Petroglyphs: Signs of Life, a dance collaboration between Leigh Warren, Gina Rings and Tandanya in 2005. In 2006 he installed Untitled Petroglyph for the Signs of Life performance at the 'Festival of the Dreaming’ in Woodford, Queensland.Birnie’s choice of media developed from working with mixed media and ground sandstone on canvas to working primarily with photographic media. In 2008 he exhibited his work Maleetye; blossom in the group show 'The Haunted and the Bad’, curated by Julie Gough at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts in St Kilda, Victoria. The other artists who participated in this exhibition were Tony Albert, Nici Cumpston, Andrea Fisher and Yhonnie Scarce. Birnie states that Maleetye; blossom was a “digital video and installation series based upon the aspects of my Indigenous heritage being passed on to me through women. The images and installation are inspired by the photographs of Fanny Cochrane Smith…” (Birnie, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts website).Birnie’s fascination with his ancestor is brought to the fore when he asks, “What would I be as an Indigenous artist without Fanny Cochrane Smith? Due to the fairness of skin, an urban existence on the mainland and destruction of traditional Indigenous Tasmanian culture such as language, art and religion etc, I find myself asking 'what is it for me to be recognised as an 'Indigenous’ artist and is it relevant? Would my work still be recognised by institutions and galleries if the same works were to be labelled as 'non-Indigenous’, if they were not historic in theme and visual style?” (Birnie, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts website). Birnie was a finalist in the 18th 'Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award’ in 2001 with his work Trugati Bona, Men with Wounds, a mixed media on canvas work that discussed the death of William Laney (known as the last 'full blood’ Tasmanian male Aborigine). Laney died circa 1868, aged 34, and his body was dissected and studied in the name of science.Birnie’s work is held in the collections of the Museum and Art Gallery of Tasmania in Hobart and the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.In 2009 Birnie was living and working in Melbourne, Victoria.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Tasmanian Indigenous mixed media and photo media artist was a finalist in the 18th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e9
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-rohde
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Painter, sculptor, mixed media and installation artist Kate Rohde was born in 1980 in Melbourne. Rohde is represented in the collections of Artbank, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Art Gallery of South Australia.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Clipp, CelesteDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Kate Rohde is a Melbourne-based artist who works in the areas of painting, sculpture, mixed media, and installations. Her quirky and innovative work takes a playful and decorative approach to the themes of the museum exhibition, natural history, and the increasing disconnection between human beings and the natural world.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ea
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sanne-mestrom
- Birth Place
- Heerlen ,, Netherlands
- Biography
- Sanne Mestrom is an installation artist based in Melbourne. She was born in 1979. Mestrom graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honours (Fine Art) in 2000 (RMIT University, Melbourne). In 2008, she received a PhD in Fine Art from RMIT University.
Mestrom’s practice is as experimental as it is conceptual. She places before her audience a metaphor: a creative expression for a particular concept. Materials are transposed or transcended and her artworks become a series of experiments and questions about meaning and belief. What do we know as fact? What are our truths? What knowledge and experience do we share? She explores the delicate and liminal spaces within this ontological study that harbour instability, uncertainty and doubt. In a 2010 group exhibition titled 'The Nothing’, Mestrom displayed two weighted, floating balloons within the gallery space. The balloons set up an encounter between chance and control, the random and the bounded.
Mestrom has exhibited in Australia and internationally. Her solo exhibitions include: 'Things fall down. Sometimes we look up.’ (Chalk Horse Gallery); 'Certain Sacrifices’ (RMIT School of Art Gallery); 'A history of space is the history of wars’ (Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington); and 'Passing through’ (ARI, Auckland). Among her group exhibitions are: 'The Nothing’ (Chalk Horse); 'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’ (Nellie Castan Gallery); 'De Architectura’ (MARS Gallery, Melbourne); 'An ideal for living’ (Linden Gallery); and 'Rembrandts: Nine Installations’ (RMIT Architecture, Urban Architecture Laboratory).
Mestrom has been the recipient of the Arts Victoria Creation Grant, in 2007 and 2009. In 2007, she also received the Arts Victoria International Grant.
Writers:
Chalk Horse
amyk
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Sanne Mestrom is a contemporary artist. Her practice is both experimental and conceptual.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98eb
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rosella-namok
- Birth Place
- Lockhart River, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Indigenous artist from Lockhart River on Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland. Hers is the most northern and remote settlement on the Australian coastline.
Namok’s art career commenced in 1998 after she completed her Art Diploma at Cairns TAFE. Returning to Lockhart River, Rosella made her art at the Lockhart River Art and Cultural Centre, with the guidance and encouragement of Fran and Geoff Barker (founders of the Centre). She concentrated on her painting and also explored print-making. Namok’s work gained much public attention in 2000 when it was shown in Sydney in a sellout exhibition in the Hogarth Galleries. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the 15th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (1998); Lin Onus Youth Award – Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards (2000); Australian Bar Association-High Court Centenary Art Award (2003); Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery (2003) and has witnessed her paintings entering the collections of every major Australian art gallery, as well as other Australian, international and private collections.
As a backdrop to her success, a 1997 education and employment initiative for teenage children in Lockhart River provided a way of stimulating intellectual and cultural curiosity that generated self-confidence and self-esteem within the teenage community. Subjects relating to art and culture included Fundamentals of Painting, Aboriginal Performance Techniques, Traditional Body Painting and Acrylic Painting. A number of the artists formed the 'Art Gang’ and their art education continued at the Cairns TAFE. Upon graduating, these teenagers returned to the Lockhart River Art and Cultural Centre where they pursued their individual art practices.An important part of their student education was the concept of art valued as fine art rather than just craft, and they had received practical guidance regarding the exhibition, marketing and sale of work in the fine art market. They were even taught about appropriate dress for exhibition openings and the 'red dot’ system for sales – all of which helped to prepare the students for attending exhibitions in sophisticated galleries in big cities. Funding from the Queensland Government enabled some of Australia’s leading artists to visit the community to conduct workshops in the techniques of printmaking, painting, sculpture and cartooning. These artists included Gary Shead and Guy and Joy Warren. Aboriginal elders ('Old Girls’) from the Lockhart River community provided the glue that held this learning experience together through their guidance about the cultural knowledge and practices and their importance for understanding ones’ place in the world, as well as traditional rules relating to Indigenous clan groups.The Old Girls’ stories informed Namok of her place in the Sandbeach community. In Lockhart River region, the term 'Sandbeach’ gives common identity to a group of five coastal and inland language clans of indigenous people. These people collectively refer to themselves as 'Pama Malnkana’, meaning 'people of the sand beach’. After 1924 the separated lifestyles of the groups changed with the commencement of the Lockhart River Anglican Mission. A single settlement was created where people from different language and kinship clans lived together. The words 'before time’ in the artworks of the Art Gang refer to the time before 1924 when traditional culture and 'moieties’ prevailed. This word 'moiety’ derives from a Latin word meaning half and can refer to marriage partners, kin relationships and general guide to behaviour. In art, moiety can play an important role in determining the subjects that an artist may paint and it is embedded in much of Rosella Namok’s art, where it is referred to as the Kaapay and Kuyan moiety. Namok incorporates traditional aspects of her culture, such as the Kaapay and Kuyan moiety, into her paintings to prevent it from being lost to future generations. She says that everything is divided into two ways; people, land, story places, plants and animals – they belong one way or the other way and it is important to know which way. This is somewhat similar to the concept of the Yin and Yang in Chinese culture.
As a young girl, Rosella Namok began painting by helping her father decorate the bodies of dancers with ochre paints at traditional ceremonies. These ancestral markings remained strong elements in her art, together with other traditional symbolic patterns learnt from her grandmother. She paints using her fingers to mark her thick acrylic paint layers, a method derived from her grandmother’s sand drawing, and this is her metaphorical connection to the land. Namok has a strong background in silk-screen printing and she has employed those techniques in her painting. Recurring foci in Namok’s paintings have been relationships between clan concepts of social organization, landscape and subjects of indigenous grief. The subject of traditional law is a recurrent theme in her work; her 'law’ paintings are large, suggesting the significance of traditional law.Namok expresses concepts of individual relationships and social organization using large scale motifs of Kaapay and Kuyan. The concept of social difference is worked through in her paintings in terms of young couples and old couples, right-way and wrong-way couples, and also in terms of para (white-fella) way and parma (Sandbeach or 'our’) way. The simplicity of the matching shapes is also its depth. The two elements of the Kaapay and Kuyan motif do not represent anything specific so much as, together, they represent their 'proper’ difference.
Namok uses simple geometric shapes of ovals, squares, rectangles, angles and lines. The nature of the shape is not significant, however, the relationship between the two shapes is. These paired elements may represent moieties, traditional law, men and women, generations of people, cousins, insiders and outsiders, and so on. The rigid opposition of the geometric shapes is relieved by Namok’s use of underlying layers of colour and brushstroke to provide subtlety and nuance.
Namok’s response to landscape is seen in her so-called 'rain’ paintings. Her motivation is not to depict the visual aspects of a subject but to convey her understanding and knowledge of it.Rosella Namok is married to Wayne Butcher and together they have two sons, Isaiah and Zane. After the death of Namok’s younger sister, Sonia, the couple adopted Sonia’s daughter. Namok works from a large shed/studio space attached to her home in Cairns.
Writers:
Holtsbaum, Jennie Note: Student, COFA, UNSW, Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons)
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Painter, printmaker and sculptor and original member of the Lockhart River Art Gang, far north-east coastal Queensland. Her abstract work links the landscape, weather, people and their activities in Namok's local area. Namok has won numerous awards including the Lin Onus Youth Award at the Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards (2000).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ec
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/matatia-andrew-warrior
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Painter and lino-cut printer Matatia Andrew Warrior of the Parai tribe in the Torres Strait was born in 1979. His works talk of many aspects of Torres Strait Islander culture including myths, legends, the sea and daily life. Warrior’s lino-cuts were exhibited as part of the 2001 “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” exhibition in Queensland. He is quoted in the catalogue as saying that he has realised “the importance of my culture. Now I want to teach everything I know and was taught by my elders to our younger generation and to expose my culture to the world so that other races know we exist and how we are special and unique in our own way.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Matatia Andrew Warrior's works talk of many aspects of Torres Strait Islander culture including myths, legends, the sea and daily life.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ed
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/matthew-mullawar-anderson
- Birth Place
- Gayndah, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Wakka-Wakka painter, Matthew Mullawar Anderson was born in Gayndah, South East Queensland in 1979. Anderson works in the media of sythetic polymer on canvas. He exhibited in 2001 in the “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland, Australia”, in Brisbane. He stated in the accompanying catalogue that when he is painting he thinks “about my mother, who was a self-taught artist who painted the lands where she came from. I think about the pain she suffered while growing up on her own land at Cherbourg settlement. Thinking about the country where I was born and the surrounding area where my mother’s people used to roam inspires most of my art work.” Anderson was a participating artist in the Fifth Indigenous Heritage Art Awards exhibition titled “The Art of Place.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Queensland-born Indigenous painter, Anderson was a participating artist in the Fifth Indigenous Heritage Art Award held in Canberra in 2000.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ee
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ef
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Latitude-29.69125 Longitude152.9333435 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/wendy-wilkins
- Birth Place
- Grafton, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
amyk
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Wendy Wilkins is an Australian artist based in Europe. In 2000 she began working as an exclusive collaborator with Wes Hill under the name of Wilkins Hill.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f0
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Latitude-32 Longitude147 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/amala-groom
- Birth Place
- New South Wales
- Biography
- Amala Groom is a proud Wiradjuri artist who utilizes a decolonising methodology to inform her creative process. Her practice can be described as multi-disciplinary and project based, focusing on contemporary social and political commentary. As an activist, Groom has advocated passionately for the rights of Aboriginal peoples both at home and internationally, including participating in eight United Nations Forums. For Groom, art-making is an extension of her work as a political activist; a platform for speaking out and speaking up about the legacy of colonialism. Groom explains, “It’s about being able to communicate with people. You can write a submission, do a speech, present a paper at the UN, attend a protest or you can make art… it’s about working. I’m just following my feelings so I can go where I’ll be most able to influence society and change the way people think.”
Whilst Groom’s art is a manifestation of her political engagement her practice is also deeply informed by her cultural identity. As Groom explains, “I want to be known as Amala firstly and secondly as a Wiradjuri artist, because I’m inherently proud of my cultural identity. It’s my politics, my philosophy, my religion, my lore, my spirituality, my ontology, my whole way of life and way of being. So that informs everything in terms of the way I carry out my business and go about my life”.
According to Groom, although she had always been an active appreciator of art, it was not until 2012 – whilst taking a break from her BA in Law at the University of Technology, Sydney – that she was overcome by a profound feeling that she needed to start making art. In response she enrolled in the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Cultural Arts Course at Eora College in Sydney. Amala explains that the decision to enroll in this degree is reflective of her commitment to “…letting my Kurunpa, or spirit, drive my life as opposed to my intellect…essentially it’s just being in tune with where the old people want you to go”.
Whilst completing the diploma at Eora College, Groom participated in several group shows including: Coming Together Amnesty International & Eora at Boomalli Gallery, Sydney (2012), Eora 2013 at Verge Gallery, Sydney (2013) and Two Fires Festival of Arts and Activism at Braidwood (2013).
As a finalist in the Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize in 2013, Groom’s submission, Thank You, an acrylic on canvas depicting a bottle and the text “Thank you for not drinking the poison”, was highly commended. This success led to the launch of her first solo exhibition, The Cider Series, held at Kings Cross Library in February 2014 and launched by the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore. Here, Groom presented a collection of 12 paintings of Colonial Project cider including depictions of bottles of Genocider, Ethnocider and Memoricider. According to the artist this series aimed “… to peel back the white skin of Australia and show the blood that has been shed underneath…to unravel the grief and systemic violence against Aboriginal Peoples that is knotted into the foundations of the nation”. It also sort to level a critique at the “… tactics of colonialism and, most importantly, give confidence to people to question, resist and protect Aboriginal ways of being on this ancient and sacred place that always was and always will be Aboriginal land”. Thus, The Cider Series typifies Groom’s artistic modus operandi as an uncompromising and forceful socio-political commentator.
In 2014 Groom won a place as a finalist in the Chippendale New World Art Prize with her photographic work, My definition of an boombastic Utopian style, exhibited at the NG Gallery, Sydney. The submission of a photographic work signifies the expansion of her artistic repertoire away from a painting-focused practice, towards a multi- disciplinary one.
In line with this expansion the artist has gone on to create new works across a broad range of media, including installation and text-based illustration. Many of these works have been exhibited as part of group shows including; Breaking the Mould at MLC School, Burwood (2014), Monuments to the Frontier Wars (2014) and Lawful & Permissible (2014) both at the Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern. Despite diversification in terms of modes of practice Groom’s work continues to be broadly politically engaged: The seven works exhibited at Lawful & Permissible provocatively criticized the Abbott Government’s proposed repeal of section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act, as well as playfully exploring just how receptive political representatives are to feedback from their constituents when such proposals come under review.
2014 also marked Groom’s resumption of the study of law as well as the further consolidation of her artistic education via the commencement of a Bachelor of Fine Arts/Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Writers:
PriyaVaughan
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Amala Groom is a proud Wiradjuri artist who utilizes a decolonising methodology to inform her creative process. Her practice can be described as multi-disciplinary and project based, focusing on contemporary social and political commentary.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f1
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sebastian-moody
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding in more detail.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f2
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Latitude-34.9287373 Longitude150.7628684 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dale-miles
- Birth Place
- Culburra, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Sculptor born in 1979 in Culburra, NSW, Dale Miles later moved to Sydney.
Between 1998-99 Miles studied a Certificate of Foundry Metal Casting at Wollongong TAFE. In 2000 he travelled to Italy to study Ancient and Renaissance Sculpture and Painting. In 2001 he received an Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts from Wollongong TAFE and in 2006 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the National Art School, Sydney. Miles worked as Assistant Sculptor to Dennis Adams OAM between 1993 and 2001.
Miles uses carved wood and found objects to create sculptures which are not always what they seem. He creates alternate realities where the natural world takes on elements of the man made and vice versa. Miles works across scale and creates both extremely large and small works. In 2005 Miles was artist-in-residence at Sydney Olympic Park and in the same year won the Bowral Art Award. In 2002 he won the Waverly Art Prize and in 2001 he was awarded the West Wollongong TAFE Sculpture Prize. In 2000 Miles was awarded a residency at Bundanon, NSW, and in 1999 he won first prize for sculpture at the Thirroul Seaside Arts Festival. Miles’ work is represented in many public and private collections, including the Department of Education, William Wilkins Memorial Collection, Clayton Utz Art Collection and the University of Wollongong.
Writers:
Stella Downer
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Sculptor born in 1979 in Culburra, NSW, Dale Miles later moved to Sydney. In 2000 Miles was awarded a residency at Bundanon, NSW.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f3
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Latitude-35.1309451 Longitude139.2651638 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sera-waters
- Birth Place
- Murray Bridge, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Sera Waters was born in 1979 in Murray Bridge, South Australia. In 2000 she graduated from the South Australian School of Art, and in 2006 she completed aMasters degree in Art History at the University of Adelaide. She is an Adelaide-based artist, writer, and lecturer. In 2006 Waters was awarded the Ruth Tuck Scholarship to attend the Royal School of Needlework (Hampton Court Palace, England) to study hand embroidery. It was here that she learned about the meticulous, traditional technique of Black Work, whichhas been highly influential on her practice ever since. She is particularly interested in colonial Australian history, using her own family history as starting point of reference.
Writers:
Belinda von Mengersen
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Artist, writer and educator, Sera Waters has established a strong South Australian profile. In 2002 she was the recipient of an 'Artists-in-Studios' grant, and in 2005 was awarded a Ruth Tuck Scholarship, which allowed her to undertake tuition at the Royal School of Needlework, Surrey in the UK. Her work is represented in the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f4
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Latitude-35.308056 Longitude149.124444 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/daniel-hollier
- Birth Place
- Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- Daniel Hollier, artist, was born in Canberra in 1979. Hollier studied at the National Art School, Sydney, completing a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) in 2009.
After graduating, Hollier exhibited in a number of artist-run-initiatives including Sydney Non-Objective (SNO) and MOP Projects, where he curated the group exhibition 'Lesser Abstraction’ in 2010. This exhibition featured the work of Justin Balmain, ADS Donaldson and David Serisier in addition to that of Hollier. In 2010, Hollier also held a solo exhibition at Liverpool Street Gallery entitled 'Between the Imaginary and the Real’ followed by 'Shape Shifter’ in 2012.
Hollier has featured in several group exhibitions, including 'SNO 50’, Sydney Non-Objective, Sydney (2009); 'Bucket’, Mop Projects, Sydney (2009); 'Big Thoughts’, Fraser Studio Residency Exhibition (2010); 'Welcome’, Fraser Studio Projects, Queen Street Studios, Sydney (2011); 'Origins’, William Wright Projects, Sydney (2011) and 'You Give Good Colour’, curated by Claudia Damichi at Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne (2012).
Hollier was the recipient of the Queen Street Studio Residency Award at Fraser Studio Projects in 2009 and the Clitheroe Foundation Scholarship in 2008. In addition, Hollier was the recipient of the Storrier Onslow Cité de Paris Residency (2010), which he undertook in early 2011, and was also a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship both in 2011 and in 2010 at Artspace, Sydney. In 2011, Hollier was awarded a New Work Grant by the Australia Council for the Arts.
His work is represented in the collection of Artbank as well as private collections in Australia, United Kingdom and Holland. Daniel Hollier lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
Writers:
liverpoolstreetgallery
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Daniel Hollier, artist, was born in Canberra in 1979. Hollier has exhibited in a number of artist-run-initiatives including Sydney Non-Objective (SNO) and MOP Projects, where he curated the group exhibition 'Lesser Abstraction' in 2010. He has held a number of solo exhibitions at Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f5
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Latitude-35.8182635 Longitude137.1566125 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bridget-currie
- Birth Place
- Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- Bridget Currie is a sculptor and installation artist known for her delicate and awkward abstraction. Currie was a Founding Member and Co-Director of Downtown Artist Run Space in Adelaide from 2002-2006. She has exhibited internationally, participating in the Research Program at the CCA Kitakyushu Japan (2007-08) on a Freedman Foundation scholarship and working in Stockholm during her Samstag Scholarship. Currie has a long running collaboration with her sister Dance artist, Alison Currie.
Her work has been shown at numerous spaces including: The AEAF, CCA Kitakyushu, Mejan Gallery Stockholm, AADK Centro Negra Spain, WOLKE and foAM Brussels, Artspace Sydney, PICA, CACSA, Greenaway Art Gallery, GrantPirrie, Ryan Renshaw and other independent and artist run art spaces.
Writers:
currib
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Bridget Currie is a sculptor and installation artist known for her delicate and awkward abstraction. Currie was a Founding Member and Co-Director of Downtown Artist Run Space in Adelaide from 2002-06. She has exhibited internationally, participating in the Research Program at the CCA Kitakyushu Japan (2007-08) on a Freedman Foundation scholarship and working in Stockholm during her Samstag Scholarship.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f6
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/helen-johnson
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Helen Johnson's paintings are concerned with how art can be used to create contemplative spaces, to consider different ways of thinking.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f7
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Latitude-42 Longitude147 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/samuel-wade
- Birth Place
- Tasmania
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Samuel Wade is a painter who lives and works in Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f8
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f9
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Latitude30.1957677 Longitude67.0172447 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/khadim-ali
- Birth Place
- Quetta, Pakistan
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
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Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. c.1978
- Summary
- Khadim Ali is a contemporary artist who creates miniature-style paintings. He was trained in the Mughul and Kabul miniature traditions. His works focus on contemporary issues in Afghanistan, in particular the plight of the Hazara minority.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98fa
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joey-laifoo
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Lino cut printer, Joey Laifoo from Badu Island in the Torres Strait was born in 1978 and was a featured artist in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Lino cut printer, Joey Laifoo from Badu Island in the Torres Strait was born in 1978 was a featured artist in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition "Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia".
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98fb
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nicki-dorante
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Nicki Dorante (Levers) is a Tjapukai woman from the rain forests of North Queensland. She lives in Port Augusta in South Australia where she has exhibited her paintings in the 2006 and 2007 Our Mob exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre. In 2005 she was pastoring in the Port Augusta and Whyalla churches of the Seventh Day Adventists.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Painter who showed in the 2006 and 2007 'Our Mob' exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98fc
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/silas-hobson
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Silas Hobson of the Kuuku Yau/Wuthathi language groups is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang and works in the media of painting and printmaking. Hobson has works in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Silas Hobson of the Kuuku Yau/Wuthathi language groups is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang who works in the media of painting and printmaking.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98fd
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/samantha-napurrurla-jurra
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu in 1978, Samantha came to Alice Springs with her aunt, Rachel Napaljarri Jurra , in 1980. Samantha’s relatives live at Yuendumu, Willowra, Lajamanu, Jila and Nyirrpi. She is a Warlpiri speaker and her country is Jila Well, west of Yuendumu. In 1991 Rachel Jurra started to teach her young niece to paint her Dreamings, Warna (Snake), Yuparli (Bush Banana) and (Mulju) Soakage.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist from Yuendumu who moved to Alice Springs (NT) in 1980. She learnt to paint her Dreamings from her aunt, Rachel Napaljarri Jurra.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98fe
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ff
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/miik-green
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Sculptor Miik Green was born in 1978 in Perth, WA. Having studied an Advanced Diploma of Design for Industry at TAFE in 2000, Green then graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting) from Edith Cowan University, WA, in 2002. Green is influenced by the human body, fungi and cell organisms. His works reflect the sensual curves of nature. Green creates cellular as well as amoeba-like structures which he coats with metallic paint, leaving the surface smooth and reflective.Since 2000 Green has had eight solo shows and exhibited in over twelve group exhibitions. In 2005 Green was commissioned to create a work for Arccon’s boardroom in Perth, WA. Green’s work is represented in the collections of Perth Galleries, Edith Cowan University Collection, Gallery East, Macquarie University, Gallery Dusseldorf, Turner Galleries as well as private collections in Ireland, Malaysia, South Africa and Australia.
Writers:
Stella Downer
downes
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Contemporary sculptor born in 1978 in Perth, WA. In 2005 Green was commissioned to create a work for Arccon's boardroom in Perth.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9900
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-32 Longitude147 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jason-wing
- Birth Place
- NSW
- Biography
- Jason Wing is a young Aboriginal artist from the western Sydney suburb of Blacktown, which has a relatively high Aboriginal population. Wing’s father is Chinese (Cantonese) and his mother is an Aboriginal woman from the Biripi people in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Sydney’s College of Fine Arts in 1998, Wing has steadily emerged in the Sydney and national art scene as a versatile artist who explores issues of bi-cultural and Indigenous political identity, environmental awareness and spirituality with a street-wise flair (owing in part to his use of stencil printing) and strong commitment to community engagement.
The artist statement on Wing’s website begins: 'My art is inspired by the way my life has thrown up apparent contradictions. It is the place between the contradictory energies that creates a unique space for me to carve out who I am as an artist and a man.’ He then goes on to explain the stark differences between his father’s business/urban influences and the rural/non-materialist motivations of his mother’s Aboriginal way of life. 'Two things in opposition can become the base of a pattern’, explains Wing, and we can see the visual manifestation of this philosophy in a mural work such as Rebirth (2008) which incorporates a cupid and cloud scrolls in a graffiti aesthetic of spraypaint streaks and drips. In Migration (2007), the coming together of opposites is more literal, with two cupid-like figures (one coloured, the other white) at each end of the picture, joined by a throng of 'migratory’ black birds (magpies and crows) which stream out of a hole in each of their chests. At once joyous, poetic and redemptive, Migration is characteristic of Wing’s particular style, as is the painting’s use of cupid and bird motifs. The artist explains that this cupid image is a loose self-portrait-as-child.
Wing supplemented his Fine Art degree with a Bachelor of Graphic Design at Sydney Graphics College in 2002. Indeed one can also see this duality in his work; the blend of the more expressive/experimental visual artist with the message-conscious cool and focus of the graphic designer. It was a few years after formal study before Wing’s exhibiting life began, in 2005, as part of a group show in his hometown Blacktown Arts Centre '10th Annual Blacktown Art Show’; an auspicious start which earned him two awards, as the best local artist and a Highly Commended. In the next year, things started accelerating. He was selected to show in Sydney Art Fair’s 'Off The Wall’ platform for emerging artists, a distinction repeated in 2008 with 'Off The Wall’ representation at Art Fairs in Brisbane and Melbourne. In 2006, he also participated in a number of group shows in Sydney galleries (Newington Armoury, Orson and Blake Gallery, Gallery 4A, Blacktown Art Centre for their 'Crossing Cultures’ exhibition) and Adelaide (Green Hill Galleries). Significantly, 2009 he also collaborated with internationally renowned Taiwanese/American artist Lee Mingwei on Mingwei’s solo exhibition, 'Tourist’, at Sydney’s Sherman Gallery.
It was in 2008 that this researcher first came to know about Wing’s work. In writing on Wing for Art Monthly Australia’s very first 'Em File’ (a feature profiling emerging artists, commencing in April ’08) I noted that this 'emerging’ label might be wearing thin, given his Art Fair guernseys and a 'rising star’ recognition in 'belle’ magazine back in 2006. Still, at that time he was without commercial gallery representation in Australia and yet to stage a solo exhibition. This looks set to change in 2009, with a solo exhibition scheduled for Melbourne’s Arc One gallery in August. In 2008, Wing demonstrated his versatility with work in two shows that departed from his 2D stencil-based pieces. As part of curator Djon Mundine’s 2008 Campbelltown Art Centre exhibition, 'Ngadhu Ngulili Ngeaninyagu Premier State’, a survey exhibition of art by NSW Kooris, Wing created a commanding installation, 'Sign of the Times’, effectively a leitmotif for this show, which comprised an assembly of road signage along with other streetscape paraphernalia including CCTV cameras ('surveilling’ the gallery spectators), a street-cum-totem pole and a real estate sign boasting 'Prem1er Real Estate’ with a map of NSW 'For Sale’. The installation was mounted on an earthen base in the shape of NSW.
Earlier in 2008, Wing was selected to present work in the 'Jesus Walks Project’, a public sculptural event coinciding with the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day spectacle which took place in Sydney, July 2008. With a brief to determine 'how relevant is faith in today’s society’, and a life-size fibreglass model of Jesus, Wing installed an interactive LED message panel on a black Jesus and utilised the glib, catchy language of commerce to attract attention and make viewers wonder about (and even input) their own idea of faith in a logo-centric world. The project was also a fundraiser for Father Chris Riley’s Youth Off The Streets program.
That Wing can exhibit in member shows for Sydney’s Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative and Gallery 4A Asia-Australia Art Centre speaks volumes about the fluidity of self-identity and also about a certain multicultural maturity. That he is determined to enlist his art in the quest for greater good is shown by its earnest political- and community-mindedness, as well as in his work teaching art therapy to children with disabilities.
Writers:
Maurice O'Riordan
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Jason Wing is a young Sydney-based Aboriginal artist who also strongly identifies with his Asian heritage; in fact his art taps into this duality to challenge stereotypes about cultural affinity, ethnicity, and Australian life in the 21st century.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9901
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-32.5980702 Longitude149.5886383 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christopher-hanrahan
- Birth Place
- Mudgee, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Christopher Hanrahan is a Sydney based sculpture artist.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9902
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9903
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.88477 Longitude151.22621 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-hanham
- Birth Place
- Paddington, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- painter and owner of the Mark Hanham Gallery. Hanham was born in 1978 in Paddington, Sydney.
This entry is a stub. A full biography is coming.
Writers:
Isaac, ColetteDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- painter and owner of the Mark Hanham Gallery. Hanham was born in 1978 in Paddington, Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9904
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.1743516 Longitude140.7468863 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/wesley-hill
- Birth Place
- Renmark, SA, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
amyk
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Wesley Wilkins is an Australian artist based in Europe. In 2000 he began working as an exclusive collaborator with Wendy Wilkins under the name of Wilkins Hill.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9905
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude60 Longitude-110 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/richard-nova-milns
- Birth Place
- Canada
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Richard nove Milne is one half of the artistic couple Mr&Mr, with his spouse Stephanie nova Milne. They have been collaborating together since 1999.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9906
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude46.2596772 Longitude-71.521879 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jess-macneil
- Birth Place
- Inverness, Canada
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Jess MacNeil lives and works between Sydney and London. Her artistic practice encompasses a diverse range of mediums, including painting, drawing, video, and installation, borrowing from one medium to another. MacNeil's works often explore the dynamics of the human/environment relationship.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9907
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-13.6020675 Longitude141.7706849 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/craig-koomeeta
- Birth Place
- Aurukun, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Award-winning carver, Craig Koomeeta has been carving since he was 14 years old. His work has been included in 'Story Place’ in 2003 at Queensland Art Gallery, 'Gatherings II’ in 2006 in Brisbane and 'Wild Nature in Contemporary Art and Craft’ in 2002, as well as solo shows including 'Paintings and Sculptures’, 2005 at Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 'Ngamp yotam ma kee antan’ in 2004 at Queensland Art Gallery and 'Craig Koomeeta: Recent Sculpture’ in 2003 at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in Melbourne. In 2001 Koomeeta won the Wandjuk Marika Three Dimensional Memorial Prize at the 18th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in Darwin.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Award-winning carver, Graig Koomeeta has been carving since he was 14 years old. His work has been included in a number of exhibitions including 'Story Place' in 2003 at the Queensland Art Gallery.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9908
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-16.92 Longitude145.78 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lisa-michl
- Birth Place
- Cairns, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Born in Cairns, Queensland in 1977, painter and printmaker Lisa is of the Kokoberrin language group, located on Central West Coast of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. Her traditional homelands, on her Grandmother’s side, are known as Pinnarinch or Mudpaalanjen and stretch between Staaten River National Park and north to Nassau River, including Wyabba Creek and Dorunda Lodge area. Today the Kokoberrin mainly reside in Kowanyama, Normanton and North Queensland communities. Pinarrinch encompasses several creation places, with Lisa’s totem name Ko-manggén being one of them. Lisa was given her totem name Ko-manggén in 2005 by her great-grandfather who was the most senior Kokoberrin elder and lore man and named Lisa after his cousin, Fannie Bruce. Michl stated in November 2007 that she uses “colours, texture and design along with my thoughts and feelings to create my works. My paintings express elements of our creation stories, traditional practices and our everyday lifestyle.” Michl, like her brother and fellow artist, Shaun Edwards Kalk, is a graduate of the Banggu Minjaany Art and Cultural Centre at Cairns TAFE gaining an Advanced Diploma of Visual Art in 1997. Michl has participated in a number of exhibitions including “Story Place: Indigenous Art of the Cape York and Rainforest” in 2003 at the Queensland Art Gallery and “Out of Country” in 2004 in Washington DC, USA. Since 2005, Michl has shown her work in commercial galleries including Andrew Baker Art Dealer in Brisbane, Queensland, Hogarth Galleries in Sydney, NSW, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT and Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA. Michl has been a finalist three times in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards held each year at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin – in 1993, 2005 and 2007. She was also the 2006/2007 recipient of the Ivyon Coen Indigenous Youth Art and Leadership Award presented by the Wilin Centre at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria. Since 2000 Michl has worked in the Indigenous arts industry within North Queensland holding down positions with TANK Arts Centre in Cairns and has been a Board Member of the Indigenous Environment Foundation (IEF) Queensland, the Indigenous Arts Marketing, Export Agency (QIAMEA). Michl sits as a member of the National Indigenous Reference Group (NIRG) for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and at the time of writing Michl was the Chairperson for Umi Arts Pty Ltd in Cairns.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Printmaker and painter, Lisa Michl of the Kokoberrin language group of Cape York in Far North Queensland has had her work included in 'Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest' in 2003. Her work references the daily life and cultural memories of her people.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9909
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-30 Longitude135 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/david-caon
- Birth Place
- South Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Caon is an industrial designer who has worked in Milan with Mondadori (publishers) and George Sowden. In 2003, he began working with Marc Newson in Paris, later in Sydney on the QANTAS project. In 2009, he established an independent studio in Sydney while working directly for QANTAS on a long-haul jet project. The studio works in furniture, furnishings and transport.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-30 Longitude135 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sam-lester
- Birth Place
- South Australia
- Biography
- Sam Lester is an Arabunna woman born in 1977. She is also a descendant of the Luritja language group of the Western Desert region of the Northern Territory. In 2002 Lester was invited to exhibit her acrylic on canvas paintings in a group exhibition, 'Arid Arcadia: Art of the Flinders Ranges’, alongside Antony Hamilton, Nikolaus Lang, Sally Smart, Nicholas Folland, James Geurts and Regina McKenzie.
In 2004 she staged a self-titled exhibition at Holden Street Theatres in Hindmarsh, Adelaide, as part of the 2004 Fringe Festival.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Flinders Ranges based painter who exhibited during the 2004 Adelaide Fringe Festival and in 'Arid Arcadia: Art of the Flinders Ranges' at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2002.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alexander-seton
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Alexander Seton is a Sydney based sculptor who works predominately in carved marble and synthetic stone. Seton's sculptures present visual puzzles which explore the tension between material and object.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9910
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/daniel-askill
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Daniel Askill is an internationally renowned filmmaker and video artist.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9911
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nicole-brakat
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Nicole Barakat is an artist who works to examine the intersections between different forms of art including textiles, drawing, performance and installation.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9912
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sam-doctor
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9913
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.46346 Longitude150.9014827 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/abdul-rahman-abdullah
- Birth Place
- Port Kembla, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Abdul-Rahman Abdullah was born in Port Kembla, NSW in 1977 and his family moved to Perth was he was very young. He studied at the Victorian College for the Arts (2010) and attained his Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) from the Curtin University in 2012.
His work, which explores definitions of identity and belonging, emerges from his Muslim heritage that is both seventh-generation Australian and Malay. Within these cultural parameters he explores a personal engagement with the migrant experience of his mother, the ongoing implications of his Australian father’s early conversion to Islam and “the mutable understanding of childhood values in the present tense.”
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9914
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9964963 Longitude-64.9672817 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ariel-hassan
- Birth Place
- Argentina
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Ariel Hassan has exhibited in several major international exhibitions including the 'Shanghai World Expo' in China during 2010 and the 'Scope Basel Art Fair', Switzerland during 2008. His work is represented in various collections including Artbank and the French National Collection.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9915
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-35.6545087 Longitude149.3635308 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-murphy
- Birth Place
- Queanbeyan, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- Kate Murphy graduated with First Class Honours and was awarded the University Medal from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University in 1999. In 2005 she completed a Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Murphy won the 2004 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, which she undertook in 2006, travelling to the UK and Ireland, where she was international artist in residence at the Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin. In 2007 she was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts residency at the Greene Street studio in New York. In 2008 Murphy received a New Work Grant (Established) from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.
Her first solo exhibition, 'Britney Love’ was held in 2000 at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, following a residency there. Her other solo exhibitions include 'Cry me a Future’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra in 2009, 'Rehearsal at Virgin Mary Church’, Dublin in 2007, 'Britney Love’ at Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin in 2006 and 'Placing the Camera’ at Performance Space, Sydney in 2005.
Murphy’s five-channel video installation, Prayers of a Mother was acquired by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne and presented in the major exhibition 'Remembrance + the Moving Image: Reverberation’ (2003) curated by Ross Gibson. More recently, Prayers of a Mother was acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and exhibited in New Acquisitions 2007, curated by Rachel Kent.
Excerpt from Scanlines (ARC Research project)
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Sydney-based video artist who was the recipient of the 2004 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9916
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Latitude-36.840556 Longitude174.74 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/angela-elizabeth-johnson
- Birth Place
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Johnson is a painter based in Auckland, New Zealand. In addition to her painting, she has also produced murals.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9917
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rebecca-ross
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Rebecca Ross' art practice spans installation, video, painting, sculpture, collage and weaving. She refers to her artworks as 'exercises in mapping'; these exercises are concerned with mapping the junctures of site, situation and sensation.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9918
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude46.7985624 Longitude8.2319736 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lucas-gross
- Birth Place
- Switzerland
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Photomedia and new media artist born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1976. In 2010 he travelled to Australia and initiated 'a mobile studio in Australia' project.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9919
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude33.3061701 Longitude44.3872213 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/abbas-makrab
- Birth Place
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Biography
- Abstract painter and mosaic artist Abbas Makrab was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1967. Makrab recalls spending much of his childhood competing with his four brothers, each trying to capture the best still lifes or family portraits. His brothers inspired him to follow his creative pursuits as an artist. In Iraq, Makrab regularly featured in the local newspaper as a caricaturist. In 1992, he graduated from the College of Fine Arts, Baghdad, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in painting. During his art education at the College of Fine Arts, Makrab was also trained in mosaics.
From 1992 to 2000, Makrab exhibited his abstract paintings in exhibitions such as 'Art from Mesopotamia’ at the College of Fine Arts, Baghdad, and the International Babylon Festival at Baghdad Arts Centre. In 1999, he travelled to Jordan where he stayed for three years and hosted his first solo exhibition, 'Seazeef’, at the Orient Gallery, Amman, Jordan.
On the 28 September 2001, Makrab immigrated to Australia. He began working on public art projects in 2003, initially with Fairfield City Council, which in that year commissioned him to design and create thirty-six ceramic panels for fourteen planter boxes lining both sides of the main road of Smithfield. His roots in abstract painting inform the designs and colours of the planter boxes.
In 2005 Fairfield City Council invited Makrab to design and engineer four mosaic panels for three new concrete seats to be located around the children’s playground area in Day Street Park, Lansvale. According to the artist, local bird-watching groups and his workshops with the children of a district public school, Lansvale East, inspired the three parrot designs featured on the seating.
In 2008 Makrab graduated from the National Art School, Sydney, with a Masters of Fine Art (majoring in painting) and in the same year he won a competition to design and create mosaic artworks for Blacktown City Council. The mosaics featured on four retaining walls located at the centre of a large roundabout on Carlisle and Woodstock Avenues. The plethora of blue hues used in the work, he says, reflects the uniqueness of the Australian sky, which is unlike Iraq or Jordan.
In addition to working with local councils on community workshops and public art sculptures, Makrab has also exhibited in public and commercial galleries including Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula (2003), MLC Gallery, Sydney (2004 and 2006), Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown (2005), Mura Clay Gallery, Newtown (2006), and Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown (2007).
Writers:
Kirkman, CamilleDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Born in Baghdad in 1967 Abbas Makrab is an abstract painter and mosaic artist living and working in Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-10.416667 Longitude142.166667 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-mast
- Birth Place
- Torres Strait, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1976, Robert Mast of Badu Island, Torres Strait is a lino cut printer and painter and a carver of wood, pearl shell and black coral. He exhibited in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Robert Mast of Badu Island, Torres Strait is a lino cut printer, painter and a carver of wood, pearl shell and black coral.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/warren-brim
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Warren Brim of the Djabugay people of Kuranda, North Queensland was born in 1976 and works as a painter and linocut printer. He was featured in the 2001 “Gatherings, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia” exhibition in Brisbane.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Warren Brim of the Djabugay people of Kuranda, North Queensland was born in 1976 and works as a painter and linocut printer.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anthony-kendal
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michelle-jank
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-32.716667 Longitude151.55 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dion-archibald
- Birth Place
- Maitland, NSW, Maitland ,NSW
- Biography
- Artist Dion Archibald was born in January 1976 in Maitland, New South Wales. Despite being born into a family with no connection to the visual arts, Archibald was engaged in art-making from an early age. He remembers drawing a lot as a child, until the age of fifteen when he 'discovered’ oil paints, a medium with which he continued to work.
At the age of eighteen, Archibald began working full-time as an artist. Two years later, in 1996, he began his tertiary education, first studying for a Diploma in Fine Arts at the TAFE Hunter Institute in Newcastle, then attending the University of Newcastle (1998), where he studied Visual Arts for two years. During his time at TAFE, he was influenced by his teacher Michael Bell, a local artist, who inspired him to secure a studio space and practice art professionally. Archibald claimed that Bell, “... helped me to understand that to be an artist, you have to make sacrifices, be very disciplined and most importantly, have fun with art!” (Archibald in Percy 2003, p 24).
Archibald has been inspired by artists as varied as Anselm Kiefer, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Cezanne, Brett Whiteley, Jean Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso and Egon Schiele, whose works he came to know primarily through publications. He finds just about everything he encounters in the world around him to be some form of inspiration – even basic objects, as seen in his Around Home series (1999-2000). He explains: “Regardless of whether the subject is something as mundane as a toothbrush or as awe inspiring as the beauty of nature, it has to speak to me in some way. I have to feel empathy towards the subject and a desire to form a relationship with it…” (Archibald 2009, pers. comm.).
Working on twenty or more paintings at the one time, Archibald follows a set process with each work. Beginning with rough sketches, the subject matter is refined incrementally to resolve composition and form, light and shade, a focused palette, texture, clear delineation and finally highlights.
His cityscape repertoire includes the Turkish series (2001-02), the Newcastle series (2002-03) and the Sydney series (2005). Archibald insists that his primary interest is not in accurate depiction so much as in underlying ideas concerning urban densities. Occasionally, Archibald also does self-portraits.
Incorporated into his expressive figurative art are his experiences and thoughts on issues including food consumption, war and the destruction of the planet. He explains that “Every painting has a piece of me in it. I’m into feelings and emotions… I see my paintings as a diary of feelings…” (Archibald 2009, pers. comm.). Distinctive traits of his personal style include: thick brush strokes, stark blocks of colour bound by a strong linear quality, tonal contrasts, both a build up of layers and a linear sgraffito-like treatment of the surface.
In 2004 Archibald had a solo exhibition at the Newcastle Art Space. In the same year, he received the Still Life award, and was Highly Commended for the Overall category, in the Weston Art Show in Maitland. In 2005 he exhibited in the group exhibition 'In Alexander’s Footsteps’ with Vlado Krstevski, Jeremy Kang and Sophie Munn at Studio 48, Newcastle.
In 2007 Archibald briefly worked full-time in an internet business. By 2009 he was working part-time in the same business, once again making his art practice his primary focus.
His works are in private collections in Turkey, the USA, Australia, Europe and Asia.
Writers:
Bashir, Rezwana
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Dion Archibald is a contemporary figurative painter based in Maitland, NSW. In 2004 Archibald received the Still Life award, and was Highly Commended for the Overall category, in the Weston Art Show in Maitland.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-32.916667 Longitude151.75 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9920
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christopher-horder
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Christopher Horder, artist, was born in Sydney in 1976. Horder began his studies with a Diploma of Fine Arts (1993-96) at TAFE, later completing a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) at the National Art School, Sydney (2005-08). In 2010, Horder moved to Berlin to live and work, relocating back to Sydney in 2011.
Horder first began exhibiting in Melbourne, with his debut solo exhibition at Roar Studios in 1998. He subsequently has held solo exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne including at Fitzroy Galleries, Melbourne, Lennox Street Studios, Sydney, and two solo exhibitions at Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney: 'The Random Walk’ (2009) and 'Berlin Zeit’ (2011). In 2007, he was awarded the Reg Richardson Travelling Art Scholarship, which allowed him the opportunity to travel to Europe.
Horder has participated in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. He was a finalist in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Arts Scholarship (2000, 2002) and in the Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2002). Horder has also been a two-time finalist in the RBS Emerging Artist Award (2009, 2010). In 2010, whilst residing in Berlin, Horder participated in a group exhibition at the Kunstquartier, Bethanien, Berlin. The exhibition, 'A Perfect Day to Chase Tornadoes (White)’, was curated by the Sydney curatorial duo SuperKaleidoscope, Sarah Mosca and Kim Fasher, and presented the diverse work of Australian emerging artists living in Berlin at that time. In 2011 Horder was also a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize and was awarded Highly Commended.
Horder is based in Sydney, Australia. His work is represented in private collections in Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Writers:
liverpoolstreetgallery
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Christopher Horder, artist, was born in Sydney in 1976. Horder first began exhibiting in Melbourne, with his debut solo exhibition at Roar Studios in 1998. In 2010, Horder moved to Berlin to live and work, relocating back to Sydney in 2011.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9921
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tamara-dean
- Birth Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Tamara Dean is a photographic artist based in Australia whose works explore the informal rites of passage and rituals of young people set within the natural world.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9922
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/troy-anthony-baylis
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Sydney in 1976, Troy-Anthony Baylis is a painter, textile artist, installation artist and performance artist. A descendant of the Jawoyn Aboriginal people from the Katherine region in the Northern Territory, Baylis grew up in country towns in New South Wales and Queensland prior to moving to Brisbane in 1989. Since 2000 he has lived and worked in Adelaide.
Baylis’s multi-faceted artistic practice is founded in the process of ‘queering’ and unsettling traditional ways of representing Aboriginality. His practice is emotional, politically provocative, visually arresting, and deeply personal. He has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally, having exhibited and performed across New Zealand, the Philippines, Iceland and Germany.
He is currently undertaking a PhD on the subject of ‘Deadly Mimicry: Indigeneity and Drag in Contemporary Artistic Representation.’
Troy-Anthony Baylis’s work is informed by his multi-layered identity, and whilst he cites his Indigeneity and sexuality as important parts of his work and his identity, being representational of his generation is of the utmost importance to him.
In its assertions of identity, the drag performance offers Baylis a vehicle for sexual, social and political liberation. He has stated that ‘[I] want to use drag to liberate myself both personally and culturally from repression and conservatism’.
In 2009 Baylis created the digital collage series Making Camp which Baylis intruded upon the colonial landscapes of Glover, Johnstone and Martens, playfully imposing his drag persona along with photographs of works from his (pink) Poles series onto the works.
He cites early experiences knitting with his grandmothers and mother as being influential in his practice. The Postcard series (2010-11) includes artefacts representing private dialogues between geographically dispersed networks of ‘sistas’, where objects are reconstructed from Glomesh and other upcycled artificial fabrics. There are parallels between the ‘high-ceremony’ of the cross-cultural ‘Postcard’ exchange to the 19th/20th century colonial practice of adorning respected Aboriginal peoples with symbolic ‘breastplates’ denoting status and honour.
Writers:
Ben Messih
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Since graduating with an Honours Visual Art degree in 1997, Troy-Anthony Baylis has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas. His art practice draws from popular culture icons such as Andy Warhol, Kylie Minogue and Barbara Cartland. He is also a pioneer of contemporary art knitting.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9923
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.8896116 Longitude151.1800986 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anthony-white
- Birth Place
- Camperdown, Sydney, Australia
- Biography
- Anthony White is a Paris-based Australian artist working across painting, collage and printmaking. He immigrated to France from Australia during 2009.
White’s practice explores the intersection of historical and current social issues and how they relate to the production of contemporary image making. His works are often characterised by an acute awareness of surface and a preoccupation with the engagement of physicality and the found object.
The 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris was a catalysing moment for the artist to look at civilisation more broadly and how civilisation is linked to culture. His practice considers collision points, shifts and ruptures at the site of geopolitical and cultural boundaries, particularly in relation to global immigration crisis. He has expressed in an interviews in Australia during 2018 an interest “in reclaiming the radicality of the gestural mark as a form of dissent, to question the functioning of the Western ideals of sovereign power,democracy and the fallout of current foreign policy.”
White’s recent work, shown in the exhibition Signs of Civilization, (2018) reflects a move to socially engaged practice. Art writer Jane O’Neill says “White takes some cues from earlier activist artists such as Yves Klein or the post-war Japanese Gutai movement. Yet the driving force behind these works is Franz Kafka’s 1919 novel In the Penal Colony, a story that pre-empts the current refugee crises throughout the Pacific. White describes how the exhibition “continues my sustained enquiry into the relationship between Modernism and colonialist concepts of empire”. In doing so, he asserts the role of the artist as inherently political and urges us to consider the role of artistic interventions in the current climate.”
Anthony White born Australia 1976 Lives and works in Paris France. He has exhibited widely over the past decade with solo exhibitions in Australia, France,Germany and Latvia and Asia. White has also been regularly curated into exhibitions focusing on Contemporary Painting in Sydney, London, Hong Kong, Paris and Brisbane.
Writers:
Admin_Industries
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2019
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Anthony White b.1976 National Art School (Painting) Sydney. He immigrated to Paris, 2009. He was the recipient of The Gruner Prize for Landscape Painting 2005 (AGNSW) and The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship 2007. Solo exhibitions include Paris Paintings-Iain Dawson Gallery (2010) Scratching the Surface (2011) and Informal Relations (2013) The Cat St Gallery Hong Kong.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9924
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.7211905 Longitude135.8592218 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tamara-baillie
- Birth Place
- Port Lincoln, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- Master of Visual Arts, University of South Australia, 2013-2015 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture), Adelaide Centre for the Arts, 2006
Writers:
tamlee
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Sculptor living and working in South Australia
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9925
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brigid-noone
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- South Australian artist and curator
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9926
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9927
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-35.308056 Longitude149.124444 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/somaya-langley
- Birth Place
- Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- Somaya Langley has a background in the broad scope of digital culture with a focus on sound/media arts, digital collections/archiving, festivals and events. Both her professional and artistic interests lie somewhere in the realm of ideas, information, technology, socio-politics, communities, networks and empowerment.
Her professional arts practice focuses on embodied and immersive experiences mediated by technology, to initiate socio-political dialogue. This has included, ID-i/o (a live solo audiovisual sensor-performance endeavour), the Suspect Backpack (a wearable mobile intervention), and Mobile Patters (a wearable audio experience). Collaborative installation and performance projects over the past decade include Collars with media artist Alexandra Gillespie, MetaSense with sound technologist Nick Mariette and HyperSense Complex with Dr. Alistair Riddell and Simon Burton. Somaya was also a member of the research project Thinking Through the Body, initiated by George Khut and Lizzie Muller along with Jonathan Duckworth, Lian Loke, Garth Paine, Maggie Slattery and Catherine Truman. She has a love of field recording and in addition to her own field recording around the world, she has participated in sound recording workshops with Chris Watson (UK) and Douglas Quin (USA). In 2012 she assisted with field recordings for the Centenary of Canberra’s artist in residence, Jyll Bradley’s (UK) project City of Trees.
Her work has been presented and performed in conferences and festivals throughout Australia and internationally including Cells Button (Indonesia), DOCAM Symposium (Canada), the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) (Lithuania), das kleine field recordings festival (Germany), SEAM Symposium, the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), Tuned City, New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Liquid Architecture, the NOW now festival, the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), UNAUSTRALIA – the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference, Sound Lab Channel III, Electrofringe, the Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC), the Australasian Sound Recording Association (ASRA) Conference, the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM), the Totally Huge New Music Festival, the Melbourne Fringe Festival and Skylounge.
Somaya has worked in producing for broadcast and online and for cultural collecting institutions in the fields of data management, digital archiving, digital collecting, digital preservation and online delivery. These organisations include the Australian Music Centre, ABC Classic FM, Design & Art Australia Online, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia the National Library of Australia, the State Library of New South Wales, including national projects such as MusicAustralia. In 2010 to 2011 she undertook research to develop a scoping study report on Archives in the Digital Era for the Australia Council for the Arts.
She was Production Manager of the International Society of Contemporary Music 2010 World New Music Days festival and was a Co-Director of the 2008 and 2009 Electrofringe festivals. In 2009 she was Co-Curator of Transit Lounge, a partner project of Berlin’s transmediale festival. For a decade (1997 – 2007) she presented and produced the radio program, SubSequence, broadcast across the Community Radio Network in Australia.
Writers:
Somaya Langley
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 12 December 1976
- Summary
- Somaya Langley has a background in digital culture with a focus on sound and media arts, digital collections, festivals and events. She was Production Manager of the International Society of Contemporary Music 2010 World New Music Days festival and was a Co-Director of the 2008 and 2009 Electrofringe festivals. In 2009 she was Co-Curator of Transit Lounge, a partner project of Berlin’s transmediale festival.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- c.21st century
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9928
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-36.381072 Longitude145.3993172 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/matthew-gardiner
- Birth Place
- Shepparton, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Matthew Gardiner is an artist most well known for his work with origami and robotics. He created the field of art/science research called Oribotics. One of his works was a full scale Origami House made from 1 square km of paper.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9929
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/louise-jennison
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Based in Melbourne and collaborating extensively with fellow artist Gracia Haby, Louise Jennison explores the possibilities of works on paper, from carefully-constructed limited edition artists' books to prints, zines, postcard collages and other small projects.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb992a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude52.2319581 Longitude21.0067249 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-alwast
- Birth Place
- Warsaw, Poland
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Peter Alwast is a contemporary artist working across a range of media including video, computer graphics, painting and drawing. In 2008 he was the inaugural recipient of The Premier of Queensland New Media Art Award.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb992b
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Latitude51 Longitude9 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/silke-raetze
- Birth Place
- Germany
- Biography
- Silke Raetze was born in Germany in 1975, and moved to Australia as a child in 1979. She completed a Bachelor of Art at the National Art School, Sydney in 2005,majoring in painting, however her practice evolved to encompasses a variety of materials and techniques including text-based cross-stitch embroidery. Raetze began to work with cross-stitch works really began when she was single and living alone, after being divorced. Some of the works make reference to herexperience of the online dating world and its trials and tribulations. She has a fascination with the traditional sampler and how they reinforce a sense of domesticbliss and traditional values. Raetze also had a love of German folk art, which influences her depiction of figures.
Writers:
Belinda von Mengersen
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- German born painter and textile artist
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb992c
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Latitude46.7985624 Longitude8.2319736 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/monika-tichacek
- Birth Place
- Switzerland
- Biography
- Born in Switzerland in 1975 , Monika Tichacek studied at the School of Visual Arts, Zurich before moving to Perth in 1994, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University, Perth (1994-96). In 2000, she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and, following sojourns abroad in New York and Prague, was living and working in Sydney in 2008.
In 2005, Tichacek staged her first major solo exhibition, The Shadowers, a video work that was shown at Artspace, Sydney; the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. A selection of photographic works only was also exhibited at Sherman Galleries, Sydney and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne.
Tichacek has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, both locally and abroad, including the Anne Landa Award for Video & New Media Arts (2007), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (Winner); Supernatural Artificial: Contemporary photo-based art from Australia , Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan (then toured various venues throughout Asia 2004-06); Australian Culture Now , National Gallery of Victoria and Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne (2004); I thought I knew but I was wrong – New video art from Australia , Australian Centre for the Moving Image and touring various venues throughout Asia (2004); Kiefer Hablitzel – Eidgenoessischer Wettbewerb Fuer Kunst , ART 33, Basel, Switzerland (2002); and Homecoming King , Performance Space, Sydney (2001).
Tichacek has received a number of grants and awards, notably the Anne Landa Award for Video & New Media Arts , Art Gallery of New South Wales (2007); Kiefer Hablitzel Stipendium from the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation, Zurich (2002); the Dyson Bequest , Art Gallery of New South Wales (2001); the Helen Lemprière Travelling Arts Scholarship , Ministry of the Arts, New South Wales (2001); and the Basil Muriel Hooper Scholarship , Art Gallery of New South Wales (2000).
In 2005 Tichacek featured on the cover of Australian Art Collector’s April – June issue and was included in the publication’s Australia’s Most Collectable Artists issue in 2004. Her work has also attracted substantial national media attention. When The Shadowers was exhibited at Artspace in 2005, the Office of Film and Literature Classification made calls arguing that video art should be subjected to classification before being screened in a public gallery space.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Working across performance, video and photography, Monika Tichacek is best known for her 2005 video work 'The Shadowers'. Tichacek won the Anne Landa Award for Video & New Media Arts in 2007.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb992d
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Latitude43.6534817 Longitude-79.3839347 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rolande-souliere
- Birth Place
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Biography
- Souliere was born in Toronto, Ontario. As a child she attended an after-school program for Indigenous children in Toronto, where she was encouraged to engage in her culture through traditional song, dance, storytelling and art making. This immersion in the traditions and values of First Nation peoples was reinforced by her family, and continues to fuel her artistic thinking. Souliere recognises and identifies with the many socio-political Indigenous issues in Australia, as these issues have many parallels in North America. It was this trans-Pacific move that enabled her to examine her background from new perspectives, which now inform her work. It was in Australia that she began her formal training and development of her professional arts practice and began to be shown in exhibitions. Prior to living in Australia, Souliere’s art activities were grounded in the making of traditional First Nation regalia and objects for her own personal use as a traditional dancer and for sale at market stalls.
Souliere obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from Sydney College of the Arts in 2004, a Masters of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts in 2006 and commenced a PhD in 2010 from Sydney College of the Arts, where her primary research focuses on Indigenous artists from Australia and North America and its integration into contemporary art practice.
Souliere was a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship in 2006 and 2007; a finalist in the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship in 2008 and in 2011 was a finalist in the David Harold Tribe Sculpture Prize. She has participated in 27 group exhibitions including the 2010 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, curated by Gerald McMaster, in Toronto, Canada and Point of Origin, curated by Gary Pearson, in 2008 at Artspace, Sydney. In 2012, Souliere was curated in the group exhibition Beat Nation, curated by Kathleen Ritter and Tania Willard, which travelled the length and breadth of Canada from 2012-2014. Beat Nation explores the intersections between Aboriginal cultures, hip-hop, politics and art hijacking symbols from skateboard, bike, hip-hop and graffiti scenes to claim new spaces for native culture. In Australia, she has collaborated with artist Mikala Dwyer and art collective Alterbeast for the exhibition Alterbeast at Penrith Regional Galleries and at Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne and Sara Cottier Gallery in Sydney.
Souliere had her first Australian solo exhibition in 2003, at Newspace Gallery in Sydney, and her first in Canada came in 2008 at Grunt Gallery, Vancouver. Souliere has subsequently held solo exhibitions GPS (The Good Red Road) at Peloton Gallery, Sydney in 2009, I am JUST not that good at following directions at The New Gallery, Calgary in 2010 and CrossRoads, at Urban Shaman gallery, Winnipeg in 2011.
Souliere has been the recipient of visual art grants, such as marketing grants from the Australian National Association of the Visual Arts in 2006 and 2012 and the New Work Grant by the Canada Council in 2012.
Souliere was the director of the student-run gallery Newspace from 2001-03 and was a committee member of ARTPORT (a joint initiative of Sydney’s artist-run spaces and the Museums and Galleries Foundation of NSW) in 2003-04. She has been a member of the (Australian) National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA). She has tutored and taught painting, sculpture, performance and installation across Sydney’s three main arts institutions: Sydney College of the Arts, the National Art School and the College of Fine Arts. Souliere participates in workshops, artist presentations nationally and internationally and artist residency programs, previously working at the University of Newcastle; Artspace, Sydney; the University of Manitoba; University of British Columbia (Okanagan); and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
Working primarily with sculpture, installations and more recently, collage, Souliere combines hard-edge abstraction, organic forms, the handmade and the assisted readymade to address aspects of First Nation culture and Indigenous people(s) issues on a global scale. Souliere’s visual language is grounded in her traditional culture, while simultaneously being attuned to Western aesthetic sensibilities. Traditional Indigenous processes such as weaving, knotting, binding and wrapping are central to her practice, as are references to performance and traditional Anishinabek worldviews. Souliere uses feathers, lampshades and human hair as well as objects connected to driving and the road: automotive parts, lights, reflectors, road signs, and traffic control tape. The latter materials can be read as the markers of a long history of land appropriations, authority, regulation and control. Souliere’s work with these road-related objects has been described as a “culturally interruptive… intervention [that works] against the pressure of colonial imposition”.
In her work Points Of Origin (2008), Souliere has created a cluster of metal road signs on poles, but replaces the usual, mass-produced, laser cut graphics with vibrant hand-cut patterns on reflective vinyl based on traditional motifs. This reversal of the usual direction of the superimposition of one language and/or culture over another renders the signs unreadable to the average western viewer. Souliere’s work challenges the notion that road signs can be universally or unambiguously understood and asks the viewer to question whose law is being asserted through such directives and over whom do they have authority? Souliere’s signs do not give directions, but – as recognisable to a specific audience – speak of other types of guidance for the journey of life, knowledge passed down from generation to generation through traditional legends and mythology.
Materiality and Otherness, Souliere’s 2008 exhibition at Grunt Gallery, exhibited one of Souliere’s best known works, Aspects of the Skyworld, which consisted of a series of wall-mounted, circular objects, shaped like cones or hourglasses. The exteriors of these objects are covered with pheasant and guinea fowl feathers that flutter invitingly as they catch the breezes from an open door or people walking past. This tactile exterior is matched by the brightly coloured interior of red, green, orange or purple wools that evoke the interior of a flower. The textured sculptures seem almost alive, watching and listening to everything in the room, a kind of bizarre surveillance in feathered form. The objects, meant to recall birds in flight, were inspired by a traditional Anishinabek legend, the song of the Whirling Rainbow Woman, who catches the rain and nurtures the earth.
Souliere’s Thunderbirds and Young Binessiwags series (both 2006) use installations of car headlights and taillights to reference the Anishinabek legend of the Thunderbirds or Binessiwags, whose flashing eyes would create the lightning in a storm. To avoid attracting the attention of the Thunderbird, shiny or reflective objects would customarily be hidden during a storm.
The title of Souliere’s 2009 exhibition, The Good Red Road, at Peloton Gallery, Sydney, references the notion of “the one who is walking the road of a balanced life”, an idea which is common to many Native American communities, both as an ethical code and a cosmology. Souliere’s work is asking thoughtful questions about the sustainability of the mainstream capitalist and consumerist North American or Western lifestyle. More specifically, Souliere’s work is asking where these roads are leading us and why we are not heeding any of the warning signs.
In 2013, Souliere began working on a social art project, “The Collage of Indigenization”, where participants are invited to make a collage on what they feel it means to be Indigenous today. As part of this project Souliere conducts collage workshops to demonstrate the technique. Souliere launched the project at Artbank NT in Alice Springs, and has conducted residencies and workshops at the Yamaji Art Centre in Geraldton, WA, Mullewa Women’s Centre, WA, Ngurratjuta Many Hands Art Centre in Alice Springs, NT, and Geraldon Youth Center, WA. In November 2013, Souliere conducted a collage workshop at the eighteenth MCA ARTBAR, as curated by Tony Albert. In June 2014, Souliere will host a residency at the annual Barkly Art Camp in Tennant Creek, NT, which is run by Desart for the 45 art centres it administers. Ultimately, Souliere intends to generate a 34 metre collage from workshops conducted nationally and internationally.
Souliere’s work is held in private collections in Australia and Canada.
Writers:
Zoe Wilesmith
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Rolande Souliere is an Australian-based and Canadian-born artist of Anishinabe descent and is a member of Michipicoten First Nation. Souliere produces work that juxtaposes her Anishinabek culture and contemporary life in a globalised environment as inspired by her Indigenous upbringing in Canada and her life in Australia over the past eighteen years. Souliere became an Australian citizen in 2006.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb992e
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Latitude-9.9009174 Longitude142.7748071 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/glen-mackie
- Birth Place
- Yam Island, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- A Yam Islander, Glen Mackie was born in 1975 and was taught to carve and paint by members of his extended family. He has gone on to become a lino-cut printer as well as a drawer and ceramicist. His lino cuts were featured in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Glen Mackie was born in 1975 and was taught to carve and paint by members of his extended family. He has since gone on to become a lino-cut printer as well as a drawer and ceramicist.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb992f
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Latitude-10.2851069 Longitude142.2409061 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alick-tipoti
- Birth Place
- Torres Strait Islands, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- “Ngath kulay thayan inab zageth ika, ngaw awgadhal, Thupmul a Koedal; ngaw gubal, Sager a Naygay; ngaw thithuy, Zugubaw Baydham; ngaw yangu kudu, Kala Lagaw Ya. Ngay lak mina koeyma ap asin ngaw Kuyku Mabayg ika, Muruylgal a Zugubal. Ngaw ngulayg ngapa nithamuningu.”(I put before my art practice my totems, File-ray and Crocodile; my winds, South Easterly and North Easterly; my stars, Zugubaw Baydham constellation; my language, Kala Lagaw Ya. I humble myself before my Elders, and my spiritual ancestors, the Muruylgal and the Zugubal. This knowledge I possess was inherited from them.)– Alick Tipoti (Spoken at 'unDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial’, 2010)
Alick Tipoti was born in 1975 on Thursday Island. He is a Cairns-based contemporary linocut printer and sculptor and a member of the Argan and Wakaydh language groups of Badu Island. He speaks both Kala Lagaw Ya of the Maluilgal Nation and Kala Kawa Ya of the Guda Maluyligal Nation of the Torres Strait.
As a Torres Strait Islander, Tipoti is guided by the traditional cultural practices of his people. He feels a strong responsibility to document these practices- the stories, genealogies and songs- so that they are available for future generations to learn, understand and practice. For Tipoti, art is; “all about telling and illustrating the stories my father told me. The one thing I will never do is let my forefathers’ words be lost.”
Tipoti’s artworks function as cultural documents, displaying the ancestral narratives of his people. The works often focus on legendary figures, accompanied by dhari headdresses, elaborate masks, percussive instruments, conches and other objects related to dance and ceremony. His works include elements of island life and much of the native fauna of the region, including dugongs, salt-water crocodiles and turtles.
Alick Tipoti’s interest in visual art began at a young age and he has since become widely recognised as an important and innovative artist of the Torres Strait Islands. Tipoti received his primary schooling on Badu Island and secondary schooling on Thursday Island. In 1992, he received an Advanced Diploma in Arts from Thursday Island TAFE College and in 1994 he obtained a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Printmaking) from the School of Art at the Australian National University, Canberra. His current practice is inspired by stories told by his father and elders about life on Badu Island before colonisation. In his words, “my art is built on, and held together by, traditional Torres Strait designs, based on legends of the past.”
In the early 1990s, Tipoti began exhibiting in smaller regional exhibitions in far North Queensland. Following the move to Canberra, his exhibitions focused on work completed at the Canberra School of Art. Throughout the early 2000s Tipoti’s work was met with growing interest in multiple regional galleries in NSW and Queensland and in 2003 he was awarded the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in the category of works on paper.
As an artist inspired by the traditional stories of his people, Tipoti’s work has a strong cultural and spiritual focus. He believes in the Zugabal (the spirits of his ancestors) and their ability to guide his work as an artist. “When I work late at night carving traditional designs, I can sense the presence of the spirits who I verbally acknowledge and thank, in language, for their guidance and help in visualising the words they have given me.” This guidance extends beyond the visual arts and into dance and song. Tipoti has both composed and choreographed chants for performance alongside his works, and through such practices is very much involved in the continuation of his culture and language.
Between 2003 and 2004, Tipoti took a brief break from the art world in order to spend more time with his two young children. The death of his parents around that time provided a catalyst for him to refocus on his role within his family, local community and wider Torres Strait Island culture. His father, Leniaso, was an artist and cultural advisor, who fostered in his son an early interest in song and art. Leniaso didn’t speak English and Tipoti credits this as a key factor in shaping his own respect for the importance of his traditional language.
Language is critical to Tipoti for he believes that it is the vital ingredient that binds cultures together. “Without language you become a foreigner, lost in another person’s culture… singing and dancing are forms of art that branch out from the centrepiece called language. Everything you do, traditionally or culturally, evolves from a language. When you know the language, you know your culture.” Alick Tipoti is both a cultural ambassador and contemporary artist. He uses his art as an avenue to stimulate wider understandings of the connection between material culture and language, custom and law.
This concern with the continuation of his culture has seen Tipoti research ancient artefacts from the Torres Strait, in universities and museums, and these objects have inspired and informed his contemporary works. Tipoti has travelled to Cambridge, England, in order to study treasures taken from the Torres Strait in 1898 by anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon. Tipoti doesn’t like to dwell on the negative side of this collection taken in the colonial period. Instead, he is grateful to be able to view, and be inspired by, such a collection of original masks, designs, and artworks created by his ancestors.
Similarly, he has researched the genealogy of Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait) in order to strengthen his own understanding of his country and people. For Tipoti knowledge is the cornerstone of culture, and his artworks help to make this knowledge available for future generations to learn, understand and practice. Tipoti passes his own knowledge on to students at both Thagai State College and Thursday Island TAFE, where he teaches language, culture and history. Tipoti’s teaching and artistic practice represent an attempt to ensure a dynamic continuation and development of his culture.
In 2007, Tipoti won the works on paper category of the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award for the second time. In the same year, he also held his first solo exhibition, 'Malangu – From the sea’, at the Andrew Baker Gallery in Brisbane. The show was a resounding success and as a result it toured nationally and internationally to 8 other galleries over the course of 2008 and 2009. He was awarded the Silk Cut Award for Lino Prints in 2008 and has drawn widespread praise for the technical skill that drives his practice. In 2011 he held his second solo exhibition, 'Mawa Adhaz Parul – Sorcerer Masks’, at the Australian Art Network Galleries at Canopy Artspace, Cairns.
Despite commencing his artistic career as a printmaker, Tipoti has also diversified his practice into mask making. In 2007 he began to make three-dimensional renditions of ceremonial masks. These masks have traditionally been made from wood or turtle shell. Tipoti’s ancestors had mastered the techniques of moulding the carapace of the wunuwa (hawksbill turtle) to construct masks before endowing them with intricate engravings and fretwork. Tipoti has substituted the turtle shell with fibre-glass and resins. The fibre-glass has the required flexibility for moulding and shaping and the stained resin finish resembles the highly polished turtle shells used in traditional practice. As is the case with his printmaking, Tipoti’s mask-making technique utilises contemporary art making practices to express his traditional culture and to highlight the dynamic nature of Torres Strait art making and culture.
Tipoti notes that turtle-shell masks were traditionally shrouded in secrecy and the making of the masks was restricted knowledge. Although elements of Tipoti’s work remain undisclosed to viewers, they have also become iconic representations of Torres Strait culture and are widely recognisable. The masks and carving motifs that Tipoti creates play a critical role in the ongoing nourishment of his culture by continuing the creation of culturally significant objects.
Any discussion of Alick Tipoti must also make mention of Dennis Nona (b. 1973), as an ongoing influence and significant friend in the artistic revival of Torres Strait art. Both artists grew up together on Badu Island, were classmates at Thursday Island TAFE and then at the Canberra Institute of Art. Nona and Tipoti share a profound mutual respect and pursue similar goals in both their art-making and cultural practice. The print media and sculptural works of both these artists can be seen as the catalysts for what is now recognised as a ‘school of contemporary Torres Strait Islander art.’ The work of Islander artists such as David Bosun, Victor Motlop, Billy Missi, Mario Assan, Rosie Barkus, Teho Ropeyarn and Joey Laifoo have been informed by their success.In 2012, Tipoti was selected to be part of 'UnDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial’, National Gallery of Australia. Six of Tipoti’s masks were selected for exhibition and now reside in the National Gallery’s Collection. In mid-2012, his monumental 8 metre long linocut, Girelal, was selected for the 18th Biennale of Sydney; ‘All our Relations’ and was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Writers:
Toby Meagher
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Linocut printer Alick Tipoti was born in 1975 and is from Badu Island in the Torres Strait. Tipoti's prints are works that celebrate his island heritage and culture. He is represented in the National Gallery of Australia and the National Museum of Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9930
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Latitude-10.416667 Longitude142.166667 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ceferino-garcia-sabatino
- Birth Place
- Torres Strait, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Ceferino Garcia Sabatino from Hammond Island in the Torres Strait was born in 1975 and has studied for his Diploma in Art at the Tropical North TAFE campus in Cairns, Queensland. He is a painter, sculptor and lino cut printer and his work has featured in the acclaimed “Ilan Pasin” touring exhibition curated by Brian Robinson for the Cairns Regional Gallery and also in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”. His artist statement in the “Gatherings” catalogue states, “I paint because I love the sea and I love showing people what is in the beautiful ocean”.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Ceferino Garcia Sabatino is a painter, sculptor and lino cut printer from Hammond Island in the Torres Strait. He was born in 1975 and has studied for his Diploma in Art at the Tropical North TAFE campus in Cairns, Queensland.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9931
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Latitude-17.129513 Longitude143.924219 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cara-archer
- Birth Place
- Mareeba, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Cara Archer was born in Queensland in 1975 and lives in Port Augusta in South Australia. She is a painter who showed her work in the 2006 Our Mob exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre. Archer also shows and sells work at the Wadlata Outback Centre in Port Augusta.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Showed in the 2006 'Our Mob' exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9932
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Latitude-18.1239696 Longitude179.0122737 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/thelma-thomas-trey
- Birth Place
- Fiji
- Biography
- graffiti artist, hip hop/rap performer and recording artist, was born in Fiji. She came to Australia as a young girl, but old enough to have vivid memories of her island, and she now lives in Parramatta. She began producing aerosol art as a way of affirming her identity in a difficult foreign environment, she said in 2000. Although graff is dominated by male artists Trey’s experience has been that “the older and better you get, the more accepted you are. In the end it is really about skill.” She specialises in both graffiti tags and pieces and weaves together music and graff.
“Aerosol art is part of a complex Hip Hop culture that is continually expanding and incorporates the four elements of DJing (turntablism), MCing (master of ceremonies or rhyming), break dancing and graff, with a dynamic and very organised network of people that hold regular events.”
Trey is regarded as Sydney’s foremost female MC (Master of Ceremonies or rhyming), according to Maud Page writing in the room brochure for Back to the Walls (Djamu Gallery, Customs House Sydney, 2000), an exhibition that included a large wall of Trey’s work. She identifies similarities between local communal culture and her own Pacific culture:
“ 'Hip Hop is a culture, like breaking is your traditional dancing and graff is your tribal art. Pacific cultures have survived and still exist orally, the spoken word, oration, recited genealogies is therefore like MCing.’ In Back to the Walls , Trey combines the cultural and graff aspects she has been experimenting with on CD covers and music fliers to produce large pieces . Particularly influenced by masi (barkcloth), Trey will incorporate the distinctive motifs, colours and bold, grid-like patterns in her pieces .”
Trey painted legal graffiti walls at Bondi Beach promenade (1997), Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (1998), the Settlement, Redfern (1998), Newtown (1998) and Parramatta (1999). She initiated and coordinated two Hip-Hop festivals in Sydney, both called 'Urban – Xpressions’, and she has been rhyming and holding workshops in community centres since 1993. Her work was featured in the documentary Island Style , shown on SBS TV in 1999.
In 2002, with other Western Sydney hip hop artists Wire (Will Jarrett) and Maya Jupiter (Melissha Martinez), Trey was MC on an exchange program with the London-based group Ocean, organised by Information and Cultural Exchange program manager Lena Nahlous. They were to give musical and graffiti performances in the UK, Ireland and Japan (source Artswest March 2002, 10).
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Contemporary Fiji-born, Sydney-based graffiti artist, hip hop/rap performer and recording artist.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9933
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/shaun-kalk-edwards
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Shaun Kalk Edwards was born in 1975 of the Kakoberrin language group of West Coast Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. He works across a wide variety of media including lino cut and screen printing, batik, silk painting, ceramics, painting and weaving. Edwards has work in the permanent collections of National Gallery of Australia and Griffith University, Brisbane.
In 2000 Edwards curated an exhibition of his family’s work and that of four traditional elders of the Kokoberrin people titled 'The Life of Art of the Kokoberrin’ at the Cairns Regional Gallery.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Shaun Kalk Edwards was born in 1975 of the Kakoberrin language group of West Coast Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. He works across a wide variety of media including lino cut and screen printing, batik, silk painting, ceramics, painting and weaving.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9934
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/troy-dukonge-hegarty
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Born in Queensland in 1975 of the Gungarri People of South West Queensland, Troy Hegarty works in the area of painting. His work was featured in the 2001 “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” exhibition in Brisbane.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Born in Queensland in 1975 of the Gungarri People of South West Queensland, Troy Hegarty works in the area of painting.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9935
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Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/arleen-textaqueen
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Arlene TextaQueen, born in 1975 in Perth, WA, is a contemporary Australian artist who draws with texta markers. She graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of Western Australia.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Chan, RosalynnDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Arlene TextaQueen was born in 1975. She creates images of nude performers and friends using texta colours.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9936
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.4925 Longitude137.765833 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lavene-ngatokorua
- Birth Place
- Port Augusta, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Lavene Ngatokorua, Wangkunguru/Adnyamathanha artist, was born in Port Augusta in 1975. Her work was included in the 2006 'Our Mob’ exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre. In 2008 she co-curated and exhibited in 'Ripples in the Sand’ at the Port Augusta Cultural Centre Gallery. The exhibition was commissioned for the 2008 Yarnballa Cultural Festival, which coincided with Port Augusta’s hosting of the 2008 Regional Centre of Culture program.
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Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Wangkunguru/Adnyamathanha artist based in Port Augusta who exhibited in and co-curated 'Ripples in the Sand' at the Port Augusta Cultural Centre in 2008.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9937
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.4925 Longitude137.765833 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nancy-reid
- Birth Place
- Port Augusta, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Nancy Reid is a South Australian Indigenous artist descended from the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjtjara and Kokatha peoples. She was born in Port Augusta in 1975, and was taught to paint by her mother, Jean Reid, and her aunty and uncle. Reid participated in the 2006 and 2007 'Our Mob’ exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre. She also participated in 'Ripples in the Sand’, an exhibition commissioned for the inaugural Yarnaballa Cultural Festival in 2008, which was part of the 2008 'Port Augusta Re-Imagines’ Regional Centre of Culture Program. The exhibition, which took place at the Port Augusta Cultural Centre Gallery, was devoted to the perspectives of Indigenous artists who had a strong connection to Port Augusta. Reid lives in Port Augusta and works as a youth worker at Tji Tji Wiru Youth Centre in Davenport, South Australia.
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Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Port Augusta-based Aboriginal artist who participated in the 2008 'Ripples in the Sand' exhibition.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9938
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.716667 Longitude151.55 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nell
- Birth Place
- Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9939
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.936 Longitude117.178 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lauriedarna-farmer
- Birth Place
- Narrogin, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Lauriedarna Farmer is a Noongar painter who was born in 1975 at Narrogin in the south-west region of Western Australia. She was introduced to art when she lived at Marribank (also in Western Australia) where she first viewed silk paintings and batik work. She attended high school in Bunbury where she enjoyed art classes. After moving to Perth and becoming influenced by her artist brother, Farmer took up painting more seriously and began painting animals and bush foods that she knew as a child.
In 2009 Farmer enrolled in the Certificate III course in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft at the Kidogo Art Institute in Fremantle where she began learning different painting techniques and other technical aspects of visual arts under the tutelage of art teacher Joanna Robertson. In June and July of the same year Farmer participated in a group show of Kidogo students work in the exhibition, 'Moorditj Mob’ held at Kidogo Arthouse.This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Painter. Exhibited in the exhibition 'Moorditj Mob' at Kidogo Arthouse (WA) in 2009.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mel-ocallaghan
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Installation, video, and photomedia artist born in Sydney in 1975. O’Callaghan lives and works in Sydney and Paris.
This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
Barbagallo, MelindaDe Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Installation, video, and photomedia artist born in Sydney in 1975. O'Callaghan lives and works in Sydney and Paris.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.188889 Longitude142.158333 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/craig-charles
- Birth Place
- Mildura, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Craig Charles is a Melbourne-based painter with Yorta Yorta heritage on his father’s side, and Mhutti Mhutti heritage on his mother’s side. Born in 1975 in Mildura, in Latje Latje country, Charles was raised by his great grandparents, Betty Charles, a descendant of the Djara people, and Ron Murray, a descendant of the Wamba Wamba/Lake Boga people. Creativity was part of his life from an early age: the artist remembers listening to stories and drawing with Betty and his siblings at the kitchen table from the age of four. His formal training in art began in 1996, first at the Sunraysia TAFE in Mildura, and then at the Mildura Campus of La Trobe University, where Charles completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1998. As Charles has written in his masters thesis exegesis, a turning point came when an art lecturer “told me about my ability to raise awareness of the 'Koori’ plight, through art” (Charles, 2006:12). Since then Charles’ art practice has been concerned with celebrating Aboriginal people’s resilience, paying tribute to family, ancestors and country, and sharing experiences and stories with wider society. Having lost a number of family members and friends from the Victorian Koori community over the years, creativity of all forms has become a means to draw strength and to heal: the artist describes it as “an amazing form of medicine” (Charles, 2006:8). In 2006 Charles completed a Masters of Fine Arts at RMIT University in Melbourne, during which he pursued these themes and developed technical approaches to articulating them in his work. He has come to draw on a range of artist and natural materials in his paintings for symbolic purposes. For example, gold leaf is frequently employed, as it signifies his respect for his elders and traditional owners. Gold leaf also allows Charles to glorify the country he depicts, such as the Murray River that runs through Latje Latje country, with which he identifies very strongly. The artist has also rubbed his canvases in the earth “to appreciate the physical connection between the image and the land” (Charles, 2006:17), and he uses shellac and oil to bind the dust and grains to the work. Other natural materials such as ochres and charcoal also add texture to his paintings. Charles’ works are recognisable for their dramatic figurative and animal forms and their layered, scraped and glossy surfaces. They are often characterised by a well-defined figure/ground relationship, in which negative space forms a bold, semi-abstract component. In a number of works, Bett’s kitchen tablecloth, symbolised by printed decorative patterning, provides a subtle background. Charles began exhibiting in significant group exhibitions from the mid-1990s, including the National Gallery of Victoria’s “Big Shots Exhibition – We-Iri-We-Homeborn” (1996), the “Art of Place” National Indigenous Heritage Awards exhibitions at Canberra’s Old Parliament House in 1996, 1998 (where he was highly commended in the Emerging Artist section) and 2000, and the touring exhibition “Native Title Business: Contemporary Aboriginal Art” (2002). In 2000 he held his first solo exhibition “Nana Bett and Me” at Melbourne’s Alcaston Gallery and that same year Charles also established his own dance group, The Black Crow Dancers, which toured Singapore, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka. As a young child he was a member of the Latje-Latje Dance Group in Mildura, and alongside painting, dance remains a crucial creative outlet for the artist. Since 2000, Charles has held several solo exhibitions, including “City style, Country Youth” at the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at the Melbourne Museum in Carlton (2005), “Mungo Stories” at Australia Dreaming Art, Melbourne (2006), and most recently, “Elders Place”, at the Prahran Town Hall in Melbourne in 2007. The 'Elders Place’ series pays homage to his great-grandparents, Betty and Ron. The works exemplify the artist’s treatment of painting as an expression of, and extension of, family togetherness and sharing, honouring the spirit of his formative experiences drawing at the kitchen table. The work Nan and Pop’s Campfire Kitchen – Pumpkin Stew from this series is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, having won the NGV Acquisitive Prize at the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, 2007. In 2008 Charles was a finalist for the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Charles’ work is also in the collection of the La Trobe University (as a result of having won the 1997 Colin Barrie Acquisition Scholarship), the Koorie Heritage Trust, and Museum Victoria.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Yorta Yorta and Mhutti Mhutti artist who integrates gold leaf, shellac and other found materials into his acrylic paintings, which pay tribute to his family, indigenous ancestry and country.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.415095 Longitude137.502933 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-newchurch
- Birth Place
- Point Pearce, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Michael Newchurch is a Nurungga artist who was born in Point Pearce, South Australia in 1975 but was raised in Port Augusta. He is associated with Kuju Aboriginal Arts and Crafts and through this organisation has exhibited in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Our Mob exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Exhibited in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 'Our Mob' exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993d
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Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ainslie-murray
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Ainslie Murray is an artist, architect and academic. Born in Adelaide, she graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Architecture, 1st Class Honours in 1999.
It was as an undergraduate that Murray first became fascinated with Indian architecture, spending considerable time in Fiji and later undertaking pilgrimages to India in order to study the history and evolution of Indian art and architecture. She also developed a fascination with Japanese art and architecture. Experiencing these cultures first hand inspired and informed her art practice, which is based on the relationship between human gesture and architectural space.
Through her work Murray endeavours to show a new way of looking at architectural space, using predominantly translucent and white materials to convey purity in form and content, and to allow for a range of possibilities in terms of light and shadows. Murray’s architectonic installations are tactile as well as visual works of art.
In 2006 Murray commenced a practice-based PhD in Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. In 2007 she began working as a lecturer in the Architecture Program of the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of NSW, and has written both on her teaching and her art works in various Australian and international publications.
Murray has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows. Exhibition projects in Australia include 'Ganga’, Muse Gallery (2003); 'Bahanaa’, Little Gallery (2003); 'Sound-Maker’s Place’, SAUC Gallery (2004); 'Exhibition G02’, Sydney College of the Arts (2005); 'The Interference Project’, Tin Sheds Gallery (2007); and 'Tactile Imagination’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery (2007). She has exhibited internationally in India (2004) Japan (2006) Canada (2007), and Tibet (2008).
Murray has been awarded numerous grants and scholarships for the development of her work, from Australia Council grants to internal research scholarships through the University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment. Most significantly, in 2007 she won the Beth Winspear Scholarship, Walking and Art Residency, at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada; and in 2009 she was awarded the University of New South Wales studio at the Cite des Arts, Paris.
Writers:
Thorogood, NicolaCatherine De Lorenzo
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Artist, architect and academic, Ainslie Murray moves within these three roles, each interactive with the other. The common thread is the interrogation and exploration of architectural space.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-35.308056 Longitude149.124444 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/katy-mutton
- Birth Place
- Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- b. Canberra 1975. Drawing, painting, printmaking, installation.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anna-brown
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist, was born in Melbourne on 16 February 1975. She was awarded her BA (Hons.) at the Australian National University’s Institute of the Arts in 1998, majoring in Photomedia. She lives in Canberra where she had various part-time jobs while continuing to draw. Her first cartoon was published in 1996 in Fruity Murmurs , a collection of cartoons by women. She self-published two issues of the comic strip GFORCE in 1997 and 1999. In 1999 she contributed cartoons to Froth (Melbourne) and her The Neighbours of the Beast appeared in One (site no longer operational).
Brown received funding from ArtsACT to produce the comic book Capital Punishment featuring the work of 15 Canberra artists, published at the end of 2000, possibly under an alternative title – Northbourne and Fancy Free .
When responding to Joan Kerr’s survey on the question of why she draws cartoons, Brown stated:
“I like that I have a collection of stories that form a kind of diary. I also love the medium. You can make serious comments in a very 'people friendly’ format. I get a lot of satisfaction in the progress of my technique. I like to watch a ridiculous amount of videos & if I draw during them, I feel as if time is valid. I just love everything about comics as an art form.”
Participated in Silent Army , Express Media, Fitzroy Vic, 2002 (“20 of Australias young comic book veterans together for the first time”: Bicycle, Blanden, Brown , Carvan, Conn, Cure, Danko, Dodds, Fikaris, Greenberg, Mackay, Mangan, Mrongovius, O’Donnell, Ord, Pox, Savieri, Schell, Smith, Taylor ). Published as part of 2002 Next Wave Festival with Arts Victoria sponsorshi
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Contemporary Canberra cartoonist. Brown's first cartoon was published in 1996 in 'Fruity Murmurs', a collection of cartoons by women.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9940
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bindi-cole
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Bindi Cole, Wathaurung artist and photographer, was born in 1975 in Melbourne. An only child, she was raised by her mother, Vicki Reynolds, in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, close to Luna Park. Cole’s mother and maternal grandmother also grew up in St Kilda, and the suburb and its community have often been a source of inspiration for her work. Cole became aware of her Aboriginal heritage in her youth, during a period of time when she couldn’t live with her mother and stayed with her paternal grandmother: “I learnt that I was Aboriginal, that my nan had been part of the Stolen Generations and that we belonged to a mob called Wathaurung” (Next Wave Festival website, Cole 2008). Cole left school when she was sixteen, the same year that her mother died. She spent her early adulthood working in a range of jobs and travelling before deciding, at the age of twenty-six, to pursue her long-standing love of photography. As a child Cole had been fascinated by the photographic practice of a neighbour, Mary, who lived in the same block of flats in St Kilda. Mary sometimes took photos of Vicki, who was a dancer, and had set up a darkroom in a small shed behind the flat complex to develop her photographs. It wasn’t long before Cole began to take and develop her own photographs: “When I was a teenager and old enough to own my own camera, my mum bought me one, as well as developing tanks, chemicals, a black out bag and the other items required for me to develop films at home. I took photographs of my friends and my environment, then sat in my bedroom and processed my first rolls of black and white film” (Next Wave Festival website, Cole 2008).Having made the decision to return to photography in her 20s, Cole worked to further her understanding of darkroom printing techniques under the guidance of Melbourne-based photographer Ponch Hawkes. In 2002, Hawkes helped Cole to put together a folio of photographic works to gain entrance to the North Melbourne Institute of TAFE, and in 2004 she completed a Diploma in Applied Photography. In 2005 she collaborated with Elizabeth Clancy and Kylie-Rose Douglas to create the exhibition 'Same Place, Different Face’, which encompassed a film and photographic series that share the same title. The exhibition documented the changing character of St Kilda, and was displayed during the St Kilda festival of that year. In 2007 she staged her first solo exhibition, 'Heart Strong’, at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne. A portrait of her father, Bryon Powell, which was part of this exhibition, was shortlisted for the 2007 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize. Cole has developed an eclectic methodology encompassing painting, collage, text, weaving, film, performance, soundscapes and projections. She enjoys bringing a range of media together, and tries to include a substantial hand-worked element in all her works (Cole & Browning 2009). Besides Hawkes, she has been influenced by the practice of Sue Ford and Brook Andrew. For Cole, the depth of Ford’s career as a female artist photographer has been a source of inspiration, while Andrew opened her eyes to what she could aspire to as an Indigenous artist, and how it was possible to bring multiple media into conversation in one’s work (Cole, pers. comm. 2009). Cole has also been mentored by the writer and artistic director Donna Jackson, who in the past had worked with Cole’s mother, Vicki, a writer of plays and short stories. Cole works with a range of manual and digital cameras, and all of her images are resolved with some degree of digital manipulation using programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator. For her 2008 solo exhibition 'Post Us’ at Boscia Galleries, Cole storyboarded the images, sourced costumes, props and models and shot the series in a studio on medium format film. Having processed and scanned the film, Cole then undertook a labour-intensive digital manipulation process using Photoshop, whereby the figures were cut out from the studio backgrounds and assimilated with backdrops which Cole had hand painted and photographed. Cole also created a soundscape to accompany these works in the exhibition space.Cole’s choice of subject and her portrayal of them are always underpinned by some kind of social commentary and critique. Her works seek to draw attention to the way the category of Aboriginality, as it is constructed and policed by non-Indigenous Australians, circumscribes the variety of experiences that constitute contemporary Aboriginal Australian identity. A number of her recent works have explored controversial themes and individuals. Her portrait of the Aboriginal boxer Anthony Mundine, Do you like what you see (2007), received the Boscia Galleries Award for Photography at the 2007 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. This work was inspired by the fact that The Daily Telegraph had refused to cover one of the boxer’s super-middleweight title fights that was taking place in Australia, as punishment for comments he had made about the prevalence of discrimination against Aboriginal sportsmen (Media Watch 2007). By presenting Mundine as self-absorbed and vulnerable, Cole’s image offered a counterpoint to his abrasive and outspoken public persona. Another portrait of Mundine, titled Nothing to Hide was shortlisted for the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2007. In How to be a Domestic Goddess (2008), “Foxy”, an Aboriginal drag queen, stands in her glistening kitchen looking out the window. This work was shortlisted for the 2008 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards and the 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. In 2008 Cole was commissioned by the Unity Foundation to produce a calendar titled Men in Black, consisting of photographic portraits of male Aboriginal sports stars. The calendar sought to contribute to the reappraisal of black masculinity in Australia, and sought to raise funds for the Foundation, which is a not-for-profit organisation devoted to assisting marginalised Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to achieve success and wellbeing through social programs, events, mentoring and education. Such objectives resonate with Cole’s own ideals: at the core of her sense of purpose as an artist is a desire to instill pride amongst members of the Aboriginal community, and to create positive images of Aboriginal people that can counteract the negative portrayals that she feels are prevalent in the Australian media (Cole & Browning 2009).2008 also saw Cole exhibit a series of works titled Not Really Aboriginal in a solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival. Not Really Aboriginal commented on the contestation of light-skinned, urban-based Aboriginal people’s identity, a contestation familiar to Cole herself:“I’ve always been told that I was Aboriginal. I never questioned it because of the colour of my skin or where I lived. My Nan, part of the Stolen Generation, was staunchly proud and strong. She made me feel the same way. My land takes in Ballarat, Geelong and Werribee and extends west past Cressy to Derrinallum… All the descendants of traditional Victorian Aboriginal people are now of mixed heritage. I’m not black. I’m not from a remote community. Does that mean I’m not really Aboriginal?” (Cole in CCP 2008).The series includes portraits and family scenes in which the subjects’ faces are blackened with minstrel paint. While she was formulating her ideas on how to approach the subject of being a light-skinned Aboriginal person, Cole learnt that a Melbourne costume shop stocked tins of Minstrel Black and Negro Brown pancake make-up, imported from New York. As Cole related to Daniel Browning on ABC Radio’s Awaye program, she was compelled to work with 'blackface’ because: “I had to take that old stereotype, or that old racist visual cue and flip it on its head” (Cole & Browning 2009). In the work Wathaurung Mob (2008), Cole and her relatives are arranged as a family group and have adopted serious, almost regal poses. The understated clothing and interior creates an impression of benign domesticity, however this homeliness is offset by the impact of the painted faces, the red bandannas and the way the subjects hold the viewer’s gaze. This work, among others, was included in the exhibition 'Inheritance’, shown at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney (2009). Three works from the Not Really Aboriginal series were acquired by the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2008. In 2008 Cole produced a series of collaborative works with Aboriginal sculptor Lorraine Connelly-Northey for the exhibition 'A Time Like This’ at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery of the Victorian College of the Arts. 'A Time Like This’ commemorated a century of women’s suffrage in Victoria, and this series, which was acquired by the Koori Heritage Trust, took the historical objectification and control of Aboriginal women as its theme. In designing the works, Cole and Connelly-Northey collaborated with the Koori artist and writer Jirra Lulla Harvey. Harvey is a close creative associate of Cole’s; she curated and wrote the exhibition essay for 'A Time Like This’, and in 2009 Cole and Harvey were working together on a project involving the transsexual/transgender community on the Tiwi Islands.Besides St Kilda, Cole has also lived in Newport and in 2009 was living in Altona North, which is on the shores of Port Phillip Bay just west of Melbourne. Alongside her art practice, she works as a freelance photographer for community events, and within the arts and music industry.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote:
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Wathaurung artist whose photographic works offer a critique of the way non-Indigenous Australians circumscribe and misconstrue the nature of contemporary Aboriginal identity and experience.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9941
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gracia-haby
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Based in Melbourne and collaborating extensively with fellow artist Louise Jennison, Gracia Haby explores the possibilities of works on paper, from carefully-constructed limited edition artists' books to prints, zines, postcard collages and other small projects.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9942
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michelle-hamer
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Hamer is a Visual artist who specialises in hand-stitched tapestries on large perforated plastic canvasses. Her conceptual practice of incorporating digital images of contemporary society in her works juxtaposes with her conventional and manual stitching techniques. Hamer emphasises signage and text in her works to capture moments often ignored in the everyday.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9943
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.833333 Longitude147.616667 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brett-ross
- Birth Place
- Bairnsdale, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Brett Ross was born in Bairnsdale in 1975 and is a descendant of the Gunai/Kurnai and Mutthi Mutthi people in New South Wales.
Ross spent his early years in Wemba Wemba country at Deniliquin where his grandparents Laura Theresa Edwards and Neil Peter Ross (known as Rusty) raised him. Ross moved to Sydney at fourteen where he completed his schooling before deciding it was time to go home to Bairnsdale to be with his natural mother, Marilyn Stephens.
As he started learning about his culture, Ross began practicing art, eventually finding his preferred medium of drawing, though he also works with other media such as printmaking.
Brett began to draw to mend his identity and explore his Aboriginality. By 2000 he was awarded the Young Emerging Artist of the Year by Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. Working simply in ball point pen on paper to create intricate drawings, he held a sell out solo exhibition in 2001 featuring Moonahclullah memories, connections and stories. He studied units in the Diploma of Visual Arts and Graphic Design at the East Gippsland Institute of TAFE.
Ross’s drawings typically relate to his life and culture and show an artistic talent that incorporates respect for traditional themes based on solid research as well as the contemporary lives of Aboriginal people today. The East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation logo is a fine example of his work.
Writers:
East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Drawer who was awarded the Young Emerging Artist of the Year by Aboriginal Affairs Victoria in 2000. Ross is associated with the East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9944
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/duncan-robinson
- Birth Place
- Wynyard, TAS, Australia
- Biography
- Video artist Duncan Adam Robinson is a descendant of the Trawlwoolway people of northeast Tasmania. He was born in Wynyard, on Tasmania’s northwest coast in 1975, and lived there until he moved to Hobart in 1994. Robinson’s art practice began in 1991 when on a family visit to Port Arthur he began to explore photography in a manner that departed from conventional holiday pictures: suddenly he became less interested in what was being photographed, and more attentive to how the subject looked inside the frame. Furthermore, one photo he took had the appearance of an old-style still life, which led him to think further about the art of photography. Sergei Eisenstein’s film The Battleship Potemkin, which was brought to Robinson’s attention in the artist’s last year of high school, was a significant early reference point for him as an artist. In correspondence with the author he stated of the film: 'I was fascinated by the cinematic style and editing and I took photographic stills of it straight off the television’ (Robinson, 2008). Specifically, Eisenstein’s editing style awoke Robinson to the way a particular editing approach can bring a distinctive character to a work. In 1994 Robinson began a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, which he completed with Honours in 1999. Initially his undergraduate focus was photography, but by his final year he had become bored with the practice and his interests shifted to video. He went on to complete a Master of Fine Arts in 2002 as a video artist under the mentorship of new media artist and Tasmanian School of Art lecturer Leigh Hobba. Robinson first exhibited his work in 1997 in the group exhibition 'Glass Eye’ at the Entrepot Gallery, Hobart. Group exhibitions in which he participated during his postgraduate years include 'Somewhere Between Then and Now’, at Hobart’s CAST Gallery, and 'Between Phenomena – The Panorama in Tasmania’ at Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, both in 2001. Robinson describes his work as being characterised by an appreciation of the 'flaws, glitches, breaks, imperfections and interruptions’ that can be revealed and exacerbated in video, television and photography: 'rather than editing them out I allow them a life and a chance to be seen in another context’ (pers comm, 2008). For his first solo exhibition, ’22 (pieces from a mechanism that travels in a fixed course)’, at Entrepot Gallery, Hobart (2000), Robinson was interested in creating static renditions of the moving image of the video tape, and the show consisted of digital stills – appearing as black images specked with colour – captured from Robinson’s direct physical handling of the tape. Emidio Puglielli, writing in a 2005 Photofile article, describes the artist’s approach as: 'Like a DJ at his turntables Duncan Robinson pops the cover off his VCR to physically manipulate the tape and heads, which disrupts the analogue signal to create visual noise – coloured static on black ground. His work explores the electro-mechanical space of the equipment’ (pg. 37). In the 2002 solo exhibition ’22 (physicality of the analogue)’ at Hobart’s Fine Arts Gallery, Robinson showcased his completed Masters work; a suite of works that had been created from his performance piece of physically interacting with the video tape as it moved through the player. Multiple projectors and monitors displayed varied portrayals of coloured static spots and bars of static that Robinson had constructed during the performance. By attending to the aesthetic and aural possibilities of static, repetition, flawed signals, degraded videotape and the low-resolution imagery that can be created by cameras or mobile phones, Robinson has sought to explore people’s relationship to media and technology. This preoccupation is informed by his position as both an observer and creator of popular culture: he has written and performed music with several bands in Hobart since 1995, including hMAS, Elvis Christ and The Nurses, and since 2000 has created video and sound performances for musical events. In 2008 Robinson was also hosting a film review radio show on Hobart’s Edge Radio. The installation ’22 (the usage of the intrusive)’, which featured in the Salamanca Arts Centre exhibition 'Skin’ (2004), curated by Fiona Foley and Jenny Gorringe, exemplifies this concern with people’s relationship to media and technology. The work foregrounded static as the disruptive antithesis to perfect television transmission. Robinson writes in the 'Skin’ exhibition catalogue: 'Static is the television’s way of making our skin crawl’ (2004, pg. 22). Robinson also conceives of his video imagery as analogous to a landscape that situates him as an Indigenous Australian, a landscape to be explored and narrated. The Tracker, which was included in the exhibition 'The Bodies That Were Not Ours’, held at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts in Melbourne (2006), is an introspective work inspired in part by the figure of the Aboriginal tracker in the 2001 film One Night The Moon, directed by Rachel Perkins. The artist tracked his own movements and experiences in various settings with a mobile phone camera as part of an open-ended journey of discovery. He then took this self-reflective imagery 'back to the analogue realm of the video player’ and overlaid it onto videotape that he had previously manipulated physically, which was 'then played over a hundred times to further degrade the image’ (Robinson, 2006). Robinson comes from a family of artists: his three sisters, Megan Robinson, Brooke Robinson and Rebecca Robinson, and his cousin Denise Robinson are all practising artists who work across a range of media. In late 2008 Robinson was living in Hobart and working as a motorcycle instructor and exam supervisor while continuing his art practice, musical endeavours and working on a film script.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote:
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Tasmanian video artist whose work experiments with faulty and degraded video, television and photographic imagery to explore their dissonant aesthetic and aural potential, and addresses themes relating to popular culture and the artist's personal journey.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9945
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-42 Longitude173 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jacinda-bayne
- Birth Place
- New Zealand
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- New Zealand born painter, resides in Western Australia
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9946
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/darren-moore
- Birth Place
- England, UK
- Biography
- Darren Moore is a percussionist and a composer. He was born in the UK in 1974 and moved to Perth in 1981. He has a Bachelor of Music from the Western Australian Conservatorium of Music. Between 1998 and 2001, Moore lived and worked professionally as a musician in London. He was a member of the improvising duo Hedkikr with Lindsay Vickery, which performed at the 'BioFeel’ exhibition, Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth in 2002. At this time Moore also led the Perth-based avant guard jazz group ‘Open Source Project’.
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Writers:
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Percussionist and composer who participated in the BioFeel exhibition at the 2002 Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9947
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tim-moore
- Birth Place
- England, UK
- Biography
- Tim Moore was born in the England in 1974. He grew up in a small village in Norfolk. He moved to Australia in 2001 and now lives and works in Sydney. Moore completed a Bachelor of Three Dimensional Design (Hons) at Brighton University, England in 1998. Moore’s relationship with embroidery began on the long flight from England to Australia. Having left his drawing materials at home by mistake, he found that the only available art materials were the in-flight sewing kit, which he used to embroider four sick-bags.Humour is an important aspect of Moore’s work, and he grew up with a mother who also had a strong sense of humour. Moore’s father was a painter. Comedy is oftenabout the transgression of social boundaries, and Moore’s works are characterised by cheeky, playful and revealing images.
Writers:
Belinda von Mengersen
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- English born artist working in drawing and embroidery
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9948
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Latitude41.764582 Longitude-72.6908547 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-just
- Birth Place
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Biography
- Kate Just is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne who creates highly personal mixed media installations and sculptures around themes of feminism, womanhood, identity and personal narrative within the context of history and mythology.
She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1974 and moved to Melbourne permanently in 1996 where she has gained a number of degrees, namely a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts (where she now lectures), a Masters of Arts from RMIT, and a doctorate in sculpture from Monash.
She has been widely exhibited in solo shows and group shows across Australia and internationally, and has been the recipient of many grants and prizes. She was included in the 'Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists’ exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2012. Some of her most notable solo exhibits included her work Venus Was Her Name at the Kunsthalle in Krems, Austria, and a survey of her major knitted works entitled, 'Kate Just: The Knitted Work 2004-2011’, at Ararat Regional Gallery. She is currently represented by Daine Singer gallery in Melbourne.
Writers:
Elle S
duggim
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Kate Just is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne who creates highly personal mixed media installations and sculptures around themes of feminism, womanhood, identity and personal narrative within the context of history and mythology.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9949
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Details
Latitude24.8546842 Longitude67.0207055 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/abdullah-mi-syed
- Birth Place
- Karachi, Pakistan
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Syed’s artwork utilizes a variety of mediums and techniques to communicate complex political ideas.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994a
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Latitude-4.3432175 Longitude152.2686741 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christopher-howlett
- Birth Place
- Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
- Biography
- Howlett graduated with a MFA from the Californian Institute of the Arts in 2000. His works have been exhibited internationally including the XXI Triennial International Exhibition in Milan, GamerZ in Marseille, France, Inter-Society of Electronic Arts in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm; Videoholica International Video Art Festival in Bulgaria; Los Angeles Freewaves Festival of Film, Video and New Media and exhibited work at the Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena, California. His solo and collaborative works have also been exhibited locally at the Gallery of Modern Art, Institute of Modern Art, the QUT Art Museum, The Arc Biennial for Art & Design and interstate at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Hobart Art Gallery, Cairns Contemporary Art Space and Blindside Artist Run Space in Melbourne. His public art commissions include “KICK OFF” which was a curated screen-based program at the new Metricon Stadium Homeground of the Gold Coast Suns and Australia’s largest public art canvas the QUT billboard project. In 2012, he was part of the DJ Culture: Contemporary Australian Video Art, screening in the Cinémathèque at Gallery of Modern Art and in 2013 underwent a residency in Armenia at Tumo – center for creative technologies where he completed a series of Alternate Reality Games called ARGARMENIA. He currently completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) at Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane, Queensland.
https://www.chrishowlett.com.au/biography/ 21 February 2020
Writers:
haynesr
Michael Bogle
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Christopher Howlett is a visual artist based in Brisbane, Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/adrian-king
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Painter, Adrian King of the Lama Lama language group from Lockhart River, Cape York, Queensland was born in 1974. King is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang and his brightly coloured paintings depict life on Wenlock Outstation. He was featured in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” and has work in the permanent collection of Cairns Regional Art Gallery.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Adrian King is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang and his brightly coloured paintings depict life on Wenlock Outstation. His work can be found in the permanent collection of the Cairns Regional Art Gallery.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994c
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-wolf
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Robert Wolf was born in 1974 and hails from Charleville in south west Queensland. He works in the medium of synthetic polymer on canvas as well as the traditional woodburning technique taught to him by his mother who is of the Pitjantjatjara people of South Australia. Wolf participated in the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” and his artist statement in the accompanying catalogue reads, “My stories come from my emotional heart and soul together with the spirits of the world as well as my dreams.”
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Robert Wolf works in the medium of synthetic polymer on canvas as well as the traditional woodburning technique taught to him by his mother who is of the Pitjantjatjara people of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994d
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Latitude-23.9427685 Longitude132.7794582 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994e
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Latitude-27.9687807 Longitude153.4066696 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/adam-donovan
- Birth Place
- Southport, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Australian artist working in the area of science, art and technology. Donovan's work involves robotics, real time 3D environments, camera tracking, sound focusing technology, stereo cameras, sculpture and video.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994f
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Latitude-28.86574 Longitude153.5659468 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joanne-lapic
- Birth Place
- Ballina, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- A Bundjalung woman, Joanne was born in Ballina in 1974. Although she has lived in Sydney, Lismore, Byron Bay and Melbourne, her roots are in Ballina. Joanne studied theatre and did dance theatre before moving back to Ballina where she worked voluntarily in an art gallery and began exploring visual art. Although Joanne did some life drawing workshops in Melbourne, she is self-taught. In 2007 Joanne entered the 'Bundjalung Art Award’ and her work was exhibited at the Grafton Regional Gallery. In 2006 she had a solo exhibition, 'Beautiful Creatures’, at the Blue Tongue Café in Lismore. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Melbourne, Ballina and Tweed Heads and has been sold to private collections in Australia.
Writers:
Arts Northern Rivers
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Joanne Lapic is an Indigenous artist living in Ballina. There is a strong connection to country in her work, she is a Bundjalung woman.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9950
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-30.5144881 Longitude151.6656564 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jeremy-mudjai-devitt
- Birth Place
- Armidale, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Jeremy “Mudjai” Devitt was born in Armidale, NSW in 1974. He is a descendent of the Nganyaywana, Daingutti (Dhanggatti) and Gumbainga (Gumbaynggir) nations and has English, Irish and Scottish heritage.
At the age of 19 and halfway through his High School Certificate academic year Devitt contracted Ross River Fever. This illness changed the course of his artistic life as Devitt decided to take time out to learn more about his own culture and to pursue painting as a career. In 1997 Devitt traveled to Darwin, NT for the Fullbright Symposium on Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World. It was here he met “uncle” Peter Manabaru, a traditional man from the Barunga community of Arnhem Land, NT, who allowed Devitt to paint with him. In 1999 Devitt was then placed under the guidance of artist and elder “uncle” Joseph Beard-Wallace of Ramingining, also in Arnhem Land, NT. Together they painted for several years in a style that Devitt calls Spiritway and in 2002 they had a joint exhibition at the Byron Bay Youth Centre in Byron Bay, NSW. Devitt has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally with shows at The Hague, Den Haag, The Netherlands in 2006; Roda Sten, Gothenburg, Sweden in 2004; Helsingborg, Sweden in 2004; Rouguld Festival, Amsterdam, Holland in 2004 and at The Outback Gallery in Sydney also in 2004. In 2007 Devitt was a finalist in the Festival of Fishers Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown Arts Centre and the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize at NSW Parliament House, Sydney. He was commissioned by the Sydney South West Area Health Service to produce the painting he refers to as his Medicine Painting that now hangs in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown, NSW.Devitt is not only a painter but is known as a didgeridoo player and dancer and in 1998 together with Sean Ryan and Roy Newman he founded a dance troupe known as the Wadjarnaru Dancers.At the time of writing Devitt was a student of art at the Eora College in Darlington, an inner city suburb of Sydney.
Writers:
Devitt, JeremyNote: Edited by Penny Stannard with Tess Allas
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Jeremy "Mudjai" Devitt is a painter and dancer who in 1999 was guided in painting techniques by the Ramingining elder, "Uncle" Joseph Beard-Wallace" In 2007 Devitt was a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9951
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-32.5980702 Longitude149.5886383 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/guy-maestri
- Birth Place
- Mudgee, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Guy Maestri was born in Mudgee, New South Wales, in 1974. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in painting at the National Art School (NAS), Sydney, in 2002 and in the same year was Highly Commended in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship exhibition. He received the commendation again in 2003, a year that also saw him win the NAS Paris Studio Award residency and the William Fletcher Fellowshi
As a landscape painter, Maestri is gestural, abstract and experimental. Although upon occasion he makes sculptures, such as the resin cane toads which feature in his work Unnatural Selection (2008), he finds painting a more satisfying medium as it is more immediate than the time consuming process of moulding and casting sculpture. Maestri regards his portrayal of the natural world as more instinctive than deliberate. Having grown up in the Australian countryside, he enjoys capturing observations of wildlife, noting at the same time humanity’s impact on the natural environment. Painting from his studio in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale, Maestri works from his memories and experiences of regional Australia.
His Field Studies (2008) series explores the gradual elimination of certain features from the natural world. Not only does Maestri often paint endangered species but, within the one work, he can repeat a species form over and over until the “confident tracing of a shape appears lost through repetition” (Chow 2008). In Gang Gang (2007), he chooses not to depict a bird literally, but to capture a sense of the creature by allowing the image to emerge and disappear through layering.
Maestri’s 'Natural Selection’ exhibition of 2008 was a series of paintings that resulted from his visit to a friend’s farm in Victoria. Affected by the degraded and dry land, he painted abstract landscapes and made use of found objects he brought back to his studio. The Darwinian title to the exhibition is intrinsically linked to related ideas in Maestri’s work: he is interested in the way native and introduced species interact, the theory of natural selection, extinction, ecosystems, erosion, sedimentation, forgetfulness and memory.Once a year Maestri steers himself away from the natural environment to paint a portrait for the Archibald Prize. Having being rejected eight times, then winning the People’s Choice Award at the 2001 Salon des Refuses, in 2009 Maestri won the Archibald Prize. His winning entry was a portrait of blind Indigenous singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, which Maestri painted after being moved by Yunupingu’s performance at the Peats Ridge Festival in 2008. Maestri took the opportunity to meet Yunupingu at the airport, where he drew sketches and took a photograph. From this experience Maestri “got a sense of his presence and this determined the nature of the portrait: quiet and strong” (Art Gallery of New South Wales 2009).For Maestri the Archibald Prize, “kick started a whole new way of approaching painting,” (Maestri in Droll 2009). His focus shifted from local environment to global, from abstract to figurative, and from a colourful to a monochromatic palette. Referencing images taken from the web, his 2009 show at Tim Olsen Gallery, 'Google Earth’, included observations of humanity’s struggles with mortality and interrelated concerns about the effects of global warming on nature. Maestri has had numerous solo exhibitions in Australia and has also exhibited internationally in the United Kingdom and the United States and Hong Kong. He was a finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Dobell Drawing Prize.
Writers:
Grisedale, AlexandraDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Sydney-based painter Guy Maestri won the 2009 Archibald prize for his portrait of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9952
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brendan-penzer
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Brendan Penzer is an artist who explores environmental issues and processes of social change on his artworks.
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Writers:
dain
fishel
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9953
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/darren-sylvester
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Darren Sylvester, photographer, video artist, painter, sculptor and musician, was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1974. He went to school in Byron Bay, moving to Wagga Wagga in his final years of high school, and later studied at the Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, where he graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Fine Art Photography, Graphic Design.
Three years after his graduation, Sylvester was selected for the annual ‘Primavera’ exhibition, which showcased the work of emerging artists and was held at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art. This exhibition prompted national recognition of Sylvester’s work following prior solo shows in Wagga Wagga and Melbourne. By the middle of 2012, Sylvester had been represented in 84 group exhibitions and 25 solo exhibitions in Australia, primarily in Sydney and Melbourne, and overseas in countries such as China, Singapore, the United States of America, Thailand and New Zealand.
One area within Sylvester’s multi-disciplinary art practice is his creation of highly composed, staged photographs of everyday scenes in crisp, glossy clarity, frequently including visual references to global brands as a reflection of reality, rather than a critique of consumerism. His photographic work often draws upon lines of text from his short stories, with a statement becoming a title for a photograph and triggering thoughts for the corresponding scene.
A noted piece in Sylester’s oeuvre is the full-scale replica he built of the Japanese garden originally enjoyed by the 1970s sibling pop duo ‘The Carpenters’ at their home in Los Angeles. The reconstruction was destroyed after filming the artificial garden for a video installation titled I Was the Last in the Carpenter’s Garden, where the film is projected onto screens, accompanied by a turntable playing Sylvester’s own album of songs. Indeed, Sylvester also works as a musician and in 2009 he released a self-titled debut album with the music label Unstable Ape/Remote Control Records.
Previously, in 2006, the ‘Australian Art Collector’ magazine listed Sylvester as one of the 50 Most Collectable Artists, demonstrating the significant national recognition he had already acquired at this early point in his career. Also contributing to his prominent artistic reputation are the numerous grants and awards he has received, such as the New Work Grant from the Australian Council for the Arts in 2010, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize (Adobe Honourable Mention), Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne in that same year, and the 2011 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast. Adding to his list of accomplishments, Sylvester graduated with a Master of Fine Art from Monash University, Melbourne, in 2010.
His work is represented in several public collections throughout Australia, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, as well as in Australian and foreign private collections, including the collection of the renowned British singer Sir Elton John.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Sylvester's multi-disciplinary artistic practice encompasses photography, video, sculpture, text and painting. His choreographed photographic images are rendered with intense, glossy clarity. Themes in his work include relationships, emotions, urban alienation and the passing of time..
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9954
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kylie-banyard
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Kylie Baryard's multidisciplinary work is grounded in painting, but intersects with photography, video, sculpture and architectural spaces.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9955
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mandy-ord
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist and comic-book artist, was born in Sydney on 21 May 1974. In 1992-96 she was a Bachelor of Visual Arts student at the ANU Canberra School of Art majoring in painting. Her first cartoons appeared in 1994 in the self-published comic Wilnot and in Smell My Finger , a comedy newspaper produced at the Australian National University [ANU]. In 1994 she co-edited and published Fruity Murmurs , a collection of comics by Canberra women, with Kirrily Schell . Between 1994 and 1997 her cartoons appeared in a wide range of alternative comix, including Black Light Angels (Sydney), Manky (Canberra), Cruel World (Sydney), DIY Feminism (Sydney, ed. Kathy Bail), Tango 1 & 2 (Melbourne comic anthologies on the theme of romance), Nice (Melbourne), Sticky Date (Canberra), Sick Puppy (Sydney), Ink (Canberra), Bump & Snore (Canberra), Gar Gah Gag (Sydney), Woroni (ANU student newspaper), Cumquat (Melbourne), Wilnot 2-6 (her self-published comic), Fruity Mumurs 2 (Canberra; published by women ANU students) and Voiceworks (Melbourne magazine).
In 1998 Ord had cartoons in May and August HQ , published Wilnot 7 , exhibited her original drawings for comics in the 14th International Exhibition of Drawings in Croatia (on the theme of comics), produced Pantry , an anthology of about 40 Australian comic artists, and contributed 'separate wavelengths’ to the website One.
Her work was on the digitarts site (no longer in operation) along with other 'Ladies of the black ink’ – Amber Carvan , Nicola Hardy , Fiona Katauskas , Indira Neville (NZ) and Schell – and the sick puppy comix site (also no longer in operation). Early in 1999 she was included in a cartoon exhibition at Spiral Arm, Canberra, along with Horacek & other Canberra cartoonists (mostly non-mainstream men). Later that year she moved to Melbourne, where she works as a customer service officer for Device Technologies Australia. Her cartoons appeared in the Melbourne underground comix Pure Evil and Milkbar (which also features articles and reviews) and she self-published a comic, The Side of the Road . From October 1999 she occasionally had typically abrasive cartoons published in Orbit , the internet supplement in the Weekend Australian . They usually involved gruesome puns and word play, e.g., 'Not only was her smile contagious, it was incredibly itchy as well’, showing an unstable-looking girl grinning at a boy scratching at replicas of her smile dotted pimple-like over his face. In October 2000, however, Amber Cavan and Richard Vogt’s website stated:
“ Mandy Ord 's cartoons have mysteriously disappeared from ORBIT in The Weekend Australian much to the chagrin of myself and other fans. Some other person is doing the cartoon spot now and they really are quite bad! Come back Mandy! When in Melbourne Richard picked up a couple of copies of her latest mini comic, SIDE OF THE ROAD.”
In correspondence with Kerr in 1999 (Joan Kerr Archives, National Library of Australia) Ord wrote that she planned to have work in Top Shelf (USA), publish Wilnot 8 and produce an 'SPX’ catalogue for the small press expo in 2000. Regarding her work, she said:
“I draw comics to tell a story, and for me the best way to tell a story is through words and images combined. Out of this combination, in terms of visual and textual references is born an accessible unrestricted medium that seems to have almost no boundaries in regards to subject matter.
“Also, the nature of comics means that it isn’t too difficult to reproduce my own work via a photocopier. Using this method of reproduction means that I can distribute comics widely, through the mail and via any small press friendly retail outlets. This puts me in contact with other comic artists, out of which is born collaboration and anthologies which are a good way of exposing the work of the local comic talent.
“Comics excite me visually and I love [the fact] that humour, tragedy, real life and fantasy have endless combinations and ways of being explored.”
Participated in Silent Army , Express Media, Fitzroy Vic, 2002 (“20 of Australias young comic book veterans together for the first time”: Bicycle, Blanden, Brown, Carvan, Conn, Cure, Danko, Dodds, Fikaris, Greenberg, Mackay, Mangan, Mrongovius, O’Donnell, Ord , Pox, Savieri, Schell, Smith, Taylor ).
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Prolific contemporary Canberra and Melbourne zine cartoonist and comic-book artist. In the late 1990s Ord contributed occasional cartoons to Orbit, the internet supplement in the Weekend Australian.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9956
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/wade-marynowsky-1
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Wade Marynowsky works across a number of new media forms including video, music, installation and interactive media. His work mocks the stereotypes of Australian visual culture while constructing a critique of the way new media has engaged – or failed to engage – with an audience. Performance video pieces such as The_Geek_From_Swampy_Creek [2007] has gentle fun with the clichés of new media, mocking the nerdish stereotype of the boffin-artist, while Uranium Country [2005] revels in ridiculous meetings of nature and technology – a glowing koala head with swirling red mandala eyes floating over a rapidly moving background. Although broad in their delivery, Marynowsky’s live video mix performances have at their centre a sophisticated notion of transmutation as a defining characteristic of the relationship between sound and image, a continual and subtle evolution of one state to another.Working in what the artist describes as “serious mode (no costumes)” pieces such as Apocalypse Later [2004] reveal the complexity of Marynowsky’s project. Using a vast array of material recorded around the country – including images of nature from national parks and historical re-enactments from theme parks – Apocalypse Later was produced using a custom-designed computer program to create a live mix of sound and image. The result evoked the visual clichés of Australian nationhood while leaving the distinct impression that the construction of its national identity grew from distinctly unnatural forms. Marynowsky’s Autonomous Improvisation VI [2007] explored the notion of the uncanny through the presentation of an automaton – in this case a computer-controlled Pianola – and a three-screen video installation of musical performances by musicians and burlesque artists. Like his live video mixes, Autonomous Improvisation VI offered an intriguing take on the notion of improvisation, asking if the mere coincidence of data equated to a real or “unreal” experience.
Writers:
Andrew Frost
Date written:
Last updated:
Status:
moderator approved
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Media artist working across robotics, immersive and interactive installation, performance, music and video. His work straddles both 'artificial-life' and 'live art'.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9957
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.88477 Longitude151.22621 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jida-murray-gulpilil
- Birth Place
- Paddington, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Jida Murray-Gulpilil was born in Paddington in 1974. He is a Wemba Wemba/Dja Dja Wurrung/Mandalpingu man who works in the mediums of painting, carving and etching onto bark. He was a finalist in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Ar