Organic Gardening Teacher : Australian Contemporary Artist

Curriculum Vitae

ART EDUCATION
2005 Bach­e­lor of Fine Art, Queens­land Col­lege of Art, Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity.
2003 Diploma of Visual Art, South­bank Insti­tute, TAFE Queens­land.
2002 Diploma of Busi­ness, Front­line Man­age­ment for Art­work­ers, South­bank Insti­tute, TAFE Queensland.

FURTHER EDUCATION
2010 Per­ma­cul­ture Design Cer­tifi­cate with Bill Molis­son & Geoff Lawn­ton, Per­ma­cul­ture Insti­tute, Aus­tralia.
2003 Cer­tifi­cate IV Train­ing and Assess­ment, South­bank Insti­tute of TAFE, Queens­land.

WORK HISTORY
2006 – 11 Co-director of MSSR Con­tem­po­rary Art Projects.
2008 – 11 Doc­u­men­tary pro­ducer – ‘MSSR Expo­sure’ DVD series with co-director Chris Ben­nie.
2002 – 11 Full-time artist and free­lance writer.
2000 – 02 Free­lance journalist.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 It was a strangely happy day, Anita Tra­verso Gallery, Mel­bourne.
2011 My Morn­ing Rit­ual, Caloun­dra Regional Gallery, Queens­land.
2010 Between Here and There, Logan Art Gallery, Queens­land.
2010 Lines, M.S.S.R., Bris­bane.
2009 Cohuna Diaries, Anita Tra­verso Gallery, Mel­bourne.
2009 Bath­room Series, Video Screen­ing, Ipswich Art Gallery.
2009 With or with Drought You, Red­land Art Gallery, Cleve­land.
2008 Today, We Don’t Have Plans, Anita Tra­verso Gallery, Mel­bourne.
2008 Over the Gar­den Fence, Bund­aberg Regional Art Gallery, Bund­aberg.
2008 Uncom­mon­place, in-Transit Gallery, Bris­bane.
2007 Nat­ural Instincts, Anita Tra­verso Gallery, Mel­bourne.
2005 Burnt to Life, Neo Gallery, Bris­bane.
2003 Inquis­i­tive by Nature, 60 Merivale St, Bris­bane
2003 Rain­for­est to Reef, Great Bar­rier Reef Research Foun­da­tion, Bris­bane.
2002 Face the Ocean, S.B.I.T. Gallery, Bris­bane.
2002 Townsville to Tasmania-Coastal Impres­sions, Eclec­tica Gallery, Brisbane.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Expo­sure, Metro Arts Gal­leries, Bris­bane.
2009 Ore­bro Inter­na­tional Video Art Fes­ti­val MSSR Showreel, Gold Coast Art Gallery.
2009 BRAG Launch: Col­lec­tion Exhi­bi­tion, Bund­aberg Regional Art Gallery, Bund­aberg.
2009 Linden Post­card Show 2009, Lin­den Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Arts, St Kilda, Vic.
2009 > 1m, Flip­book Gallery, Bris­bane.
2008 Ore­bro Inter­na­tional Video Art Fes­ti­val, Ore­bro, Swe­den
2007 Stan + Mau­reen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery.
2007 MSSR extra: Event 1, More­ton Street Spare Room Project, Bris­bane.
2007 Video Work, Blkm­rkt Gallery, South­port, Gold Coast.
2007 N&A Present One Night Only, ARK Ate­lier, Bris­bane.
2007 The Only Con­stant, Anita Tra­verso Gallery, Mel­bourne.
2006 It’s a Spring Thing!, Anita Tra­verso Gallery, Mel­bourne.
2006 Thiess Art Prize, Espresso Garage Award Recip­i­ent, Dell Gallery, Bris­bane.
2006 Red­land Art Awards, Final­ist, Red­land Art Gallery.
2006 Art­work­ers Award, Final­ist, Raw­space Gallery, Bris­bane.
2006 RBWH Art Award, Royal Bris­bane Women’s Hos­pi­tal, Bris­bane.
2006 Art Syd­ney 06, Rep­re­sented by Padding­ton Con­tem­po­rary, Syd­ney.
2006 Churchie Emerg­ing Art Award, Angli­can Church Gram­mar School, Bris­bane.
2005 Chi­maera – Queens­land Col­lege of Art Grad­u­ate Show, Bris­bane.
2005 Six May, White Space Gallery, Bris­bane.
2004 Imme­di­atemix, Art­works Gallery, South­port, Gold Coast.
2004 RBWH Art Award, Final­ist, Royal Bris­bane Women’s Hos­pi­tal, Bris­bane.
2004 National Ter­tiary Art Prize, Project Gallery, Queens­land Col­lege of Art, Bris­bane.
2004 Ret­ro­spec­tive, 60 Merivale Street, South Bris­bane.
2004 Com­pact Prints 2004, Inter­na­tional Print Exhi­bi­tion, Umbrella Stu­dios, Townsville.
2003 Ocean Works, Melaleuca Gallery, Vic­to­ria.
2003 Recent Paint­ings, Kym Hart Gallery, Gold Coast.
2003 March Exhi­bi­tion, Manyung Gallery, Morn­ing­ton Penin­sula, Victoria.

AWARDS + PRIZES + AQUISITIONS
2007 Short­listed, Stan + Mau­reen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery.
2006 Award Recip­i­ent, Espresso Garage Award, Thiess Art Prize, Dell Gallery, Bris­bane.
2006 Short­listed, Red­land Art Awards, Red­land Art Gallery.
2006 Short­listed , Art­work­ers Award, Raw­space Gallery, Bris­bane.
2006 Short­listed & Acqui­si­tion, RBWH Art Award, Royal Bris­bane Women’s Hos­pi­tal, Bris­bane.
2006 Short­listed, Churchie Emerg­ing Art Award, Bris­bane.
2004 Short­listed & Acqui­si­tion, RBWH Art Award, Royal Bris­bane Women’s Hos­pi­tal, Brisbane.

COMMISSIONS
2009 Metlink, Mel­bourne, Vic­to­ria.
2008 Peri­o­care, Peri­odon­tist offices, Bris­bane.
2005 Medico Legal Report­ing Ser­vices of Aus­tralia, Bris­bane.
2004 Pri­vate res­i­dence, Bris­bane, Queens­land.
2003 Rain­for­est Coop­er­a­tive Research Cen­tre, Cairns, Queens­land.
2002 Pri­vate res­i­dence, Manly, Queensland.

GRANTS
2008 Pre­sen­ta­tion and Devel­op­ment Grant, Arts Queensland.

FACILITATED WORKSHOPS
2010 Project Ser­vices, Queens­land Gov­ern­ment: Adults – Intro­duc­tion to abstract oil & acrylic paint­ing work­shop.
2009 Red­land Art Gallery, Queens­land: Chil­dren aged 6–12 years – sculp­ture work­shop.
2007 For­rest Lake High School: Chil­dren aged 13–17 years – paint­ing work­shop.
2006 St. Joachim’s Pri­mary, Bris­bane: Chil­dren aged 6–7 years – draw­ing work­shop.
2005 Artist in Res­i­dence, ‘Land­scape’ Metung, Vic­to­ria: Seniors – Intro­duc­tion to abstract oil & acrylic paint­ing workshop.

PUBLIC APPEARANCES & ARTIST TALKS
2011 Caloun­dra Regional Gallery, to accom­pany solo exhi­bi­tion ‘My Morn­ing Rit­ual‘
2009 Gold Coast City Art Gallery, to accom­pany group exhi­bi­tion ‘Ore­bro Inter­na­tional Video Art Fes­ti­val MSSR Showreel’
2009 Red­land Art Gallery, to accom­pany solo exhi­bi­tion ‘With or with Drought You‘
2008 Bund­aberg Regional Art Gallery, to accom­pany solo exhi­bi­tion ‘Over the Gar­den Fence’

PUBLISHED ESSAYS & DOCUMENTARY DVD PROJECTS

  • MSSR Expo­sure, DVD Doc­u­men­tary series, co-producer, co-director, co-editor, co-designer, co-distributor with Christo­pher Ben­nie through More­ton Street Spare Room Projects, con­tem­po­rary art projects.
  • Chatham, N. (2007) ‘A Store­house of Expe­ri­ence’, Uncov­er­ing the once dis­cov­ered: info­zone res­i­dency + exhi­bi­tion project, Christo­pher Bennie’s cat­a­logue essay, State Library of Queensland.
  • Chatham, N. (2007) ‘The Alien’s Back’, Christo­pher Bennie’s cat­a­logue essay, New Work 3, Perth Insti­tute of Con­tem­po­rary Art.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Djere­jian, M. (2010) ‘WHAT DO ARTISTS NEED? Reflections on The First Örebro Inter­na­tional Videoart Fes­ti­val’ Con­tem­po­rary Practices
  • ‘Peo­ple & events to watch in 2008’ (2007) Sun­day Mail, pp. 24–25, 30 Decem­ber 2008.
  • Vesey, G. (2007), ‘Strokes of for­tune’, Gentlemen’s Quar­terly Aus­tralia, Autumn issue, 2007, p. 149.
  • ‘Nat­ural impres­sions fea­ture of exhi­bi­tion’ (2006), South-East Adver­tiser, 3 May 2006, pp. 57,60.
  • ‘Cut­ting edge com­ment on female fash­ion’ (2006) South-East Adver­tiser, 29 Novem­ber 2006, p. 79.
  • ‘Touch­ing land­scape’ (2004), Gold Coast Sun, 14 July 2004, p. 73.

CATALOGUES

  • Smith, D. (2009), ‘With or With Drought You’ exhi­bi­tion cat­a­logue, Red­land Art Gallery, 2009.
  • Tabor, K. (2007), ‘Uncom­mon­place’ exhi­bi­tion cat­a­logue, in-Transit Gallery, Bris­bane, 2008.
  • Stan + Mau­reen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize 07, Gold Coast City Arty Gallery, 2007.
  • The Thiess Art Prize (2006), Dell Gallery, Brisbane.
  • Chi­maera (2005), Queens­land Col­lege of Art grad­u­ate exhibition.
  • Brand, S. (2004), ‘Ret­ro­spec­tive’ exhi­bi­tion cat­a­logue, 60 Merivale Street, Bris­bane, 2004.

PUBLIC + CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

  • Bund­aberg Regional Art Gallery
  • Brian Tucker CPA
  • The Casey Group
  • Great Bar­rier Reef Research Foundation
  • Metlink
  • Mir­vac
  • Medico Legal Report­ing Ser­vices of Australia
  • Peri­o­care
  • Rain­for­est Coop­er­a­tive Research Centre
  • Royal Bris­bane & Women’s Hospital
  • Toy­ota
  • Turner Gavin Human Resource Consultants

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

  • Pri­vate col­lec­tions in Aus­tralia, Eng­land, The United States of Amer­ica & New Zealand.