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Education:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017 MFA, Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (first class honours)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014 Bogong Centre for Sound Culture Masterclass, Mount Beauty, Victoria<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2013 Short course \u2013 The Expanded Field of Drawing, Slade School of Fine Art, London<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012 Graduate Certificate of Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2008 The University of Melbourne: BA (Art History)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Relevant employment:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2016-present Lecturer and teaching associate in Art History, Postgraduate research and Studio practice Monash University, Melbourne. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Solo Exhibitions and events:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2019<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/b>Heave-n, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>TCB Gallery, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hell <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>and <\/span><\/span><\/span>A night in Hell <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>(performance night), Kings ARI<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/i><\/p>\n

2018 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Give me the little book, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>(with Celeste Potter). 7UP, Melbourne. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some scenes inlaid not in wood but in speech, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>collaboration with Briony Galligan as part of John Nixon\u2019s Melbourne Art Theatre program, Gossard Theatre<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Year of the Floods, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> alongside Georgina Criddle at the Living Museum of the West<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Island: a conversation <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>at West Space<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Alexander for A&B, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Monash University Masters graduation exhibition<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2016 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Mobile Drawings, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>with Angela Brennan, The Alderman upstairs, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Feed the Birds, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Manningham Art Gallery<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Special Broadcast, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>live radio station at Testing Grounds, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Feed the birds, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Melbourne Projection Space <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Still Life with Punches, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>First Draft gallery, Sydney <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Garden City, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>a series of happenings at Testing Grounds, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2013 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Field Trip, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>an urban field trip and exhibition, The Food Court, Docklands<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Loam Party <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>and <\/span><\/span><\/span>Still life with punches<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>, Trocadero Gallery, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Rock’s Eye View,<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Vegetable Kingdom, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>The Substation, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Whole Shebang<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>, Bus Projects, Melbourne <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Signs Point To Yes<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Selected Group Exhibitions\/showcases:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2019 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Theatre curtain for heaven and hell\/angels in love with their bodies,<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> Ventriloquism (curated by Joel Stern), Gertrude Contemporary. Collaboration with Briony Galligan<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Strays, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>as part of \u2018Tracks in a Box\u2019, CLB\/Aufbau Haus, Berlin (curated by B-tours)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2018 <\/span><\/span>A-Z an aerobics lesson, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>performance<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/i>response to Belle Bassin\u2019s work <\/span><\/span><\/span>In your place, an empty space,<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> TarraWarra Museum of Art<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Still life with punches, Really great game, <\/i><\/span><\/span>In Bloom exhibition at Spring1884, Windsor Hotel<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bittersweeter, <\/i><\/span><\/span>NoPlay at TBP HQ<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Picnic, <\/i><\/span><\/span>performance as part of Avantwhatever festival<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bittersweet, <\/i><\/span><\/span>Redlands Art Prize<\/span><\/span>, Sydney<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Three cats – <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>performance lecture at TCB Art Inc (Loosen performance week)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Island: a conversation \u2013 <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Performance at Phantasmagoria festival, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2016 <\/span><\/span><\/span> ‘<\/span><\/span><\/span>Alexander for a and b\/five minutes with an eel, \u2018<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Why Listen To Animals’ \u2013 Liquid Architecture, West Space<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Five minutes with an eel, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Three’s a Crowd with Sheena Colquhoun and Olivia Koh, Longplay <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sunfish mouth, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Practical tension: with Sheena Colquhoun, Leo Zylberberg, Woah Berlin, Berlin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All the boats in the marina <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>at The Food Court closing exhibition, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Fruit-veg-play, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>RAW at the Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge UK<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dawn Chorus, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Sound and the Urban Environment exhibition, Onca Gallery Brighton UK<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lost Pigeon Service, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Runway Magazine launch, Kandos NSW<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Loam Party <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>as part of <\/span><\/span><\/span>New Host Wanted, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Bloomingdale Indiana <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Docklands Song<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> in R<\/span><\/span><\/span>adioCona:ZimaFM broadcast sound art FM and stream exhibition, Slovenia<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Strays<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> – as part of B-Tour Festival, Berlin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Docklands Song<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> in <\/span><\/span><\/span>Invisible Places Hidden Cities<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> Conference, Portugal<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Feed the birds <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>and<\/span><\/span><\/span>Views of the Docklands through cheap binoculars – <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Docklands Library opening festivities <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Organic Material: Flora and Fauna<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/i>at Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Grants, Awards and Residencies:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2020 Yellow Brick artist residency, Athens <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bundanon Trust residency, NSW<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2019 Australia Council art grant for the development of collaborative work with Briony Galligan<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2018 Redlands Art Prize <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017 Australian Archaeology Institute Athens residency, Athens Greece<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Arts Victoria Project Grant with Georgina Criddle<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2016 Bogong Centre for Sound Culture supported residency, Bogong Village Victoria<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Agora residency, Berlin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015 Cambridge Sustainability residency, Cambridge UK<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Island Interstate Residency, Testing Grounds, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014 SPACE at Ryder Farm residency, New York <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bio-Art residency, School of Visual Art New York<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Testing Grounds residency, Melbourne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2013 Australia Council ArtStart Grant<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright Agency Professional Development Grant<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Food Court residency, Docklands, Melbourne <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012 Participant in <\/span><\/span><\/span>Text Camp <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>as part of the 2012 Next Wave Festival<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Recent Writing<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>\/<\/span><\/span><\/span>publications<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2019 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Two figures,<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> for Angela Brennan monograph publication <\/span><\/span><\/span>19 desires and one belief<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2018 <\/span><\/span><\/span>One is A and one is B, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>as part of Jacqui Shelton\u2019s work <\/span><\/span><\/span>Something like dancing<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Year of the Floods \u2013 <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>publication with Georgina Criddle<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Notes from Underwater <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>in Un Magazine <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2016 Catalogue essay for Rosina Prestia’s <\/span><\/span><\/span>Turno Spell <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>exhibition<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Field Trip <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>in Antennae Journal of Nature in Contemporary Culture <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mike the Cat <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>in Kym Maxwell’s ‘Parenting is political’ project <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Pigeon Project <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>in Runway Magazine<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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