Curriculum Vitae
Born in Sydney, 1991.
EDUCATION
2014 - 2016 Master of Fine Arts, Research, UNSW Art & Design
2009 - 2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, National Art School (First Class Honours, Dux)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 A Complicating Structure, Wellington St Projects, Art Month 2019
2016 Drawn through space: Ariadne's thread, Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
This way (this way) that way, Kudos Gallery
2015 What you take away (what you leave behind), Archive_ Space
2014 Pull, Firstdraft Gallery
2013 Shifting View, Factory 49 Project Space
Shifting Space, SNO 95, SNO Contemporary Art Projects
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Parramatta Lanes, performance and banner commission, Sydney (upcoming)
Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney (upcoming)
Hidden Sculpture Award, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney (upcoming)
Plexus, curated by Kate Vassalo, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne (upcoming)
Lobster Dinner, curated by Will Hutnick, Trestle Gallery, New York
Ad Astra Per Aspera, The Wassaic Project, New York
Sculpture at Scenic World, Scenic World, Katoomba
Sculpture Otherwise, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba
PAS X Rydalmere Launch, Commissioned artwork, Rydalmere, Sydney
Ferment, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
2018
AT8, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, STACKS Projects Booth, Carriageworks, , Sydney
Kedumba Drawing Award, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
Slow brain waves, Outhouse Gallery, Eureka Projects, New York
I wanna dance with somebody, MCA Art Bar curated by Salote Tawale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Small Sculpture, Factory 49, Sydney
2017
Platform, New York Transit Museum, New York
Young Moderns, Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney
Governance, Government House, Parramatta, curated by Lizzy Marshall
The Endless and Beautiful Mobile Collapsible Labyrinth, Flux Factory, New York
I can feel my map change, site-specific installation, Not For Them Gallery, New York
2016
Parramatta Artists Studios Ideas Platform exhibition, Artspace, Sydney, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Talia Linz, and Sophia Kouyoumdjian
Movements through space and place, Coorah Contemporary, Sydney, Blue Mountains Grammar School
Blue Fields, Future Artists Club, Parramatta Artists Studios, Sydney
Still/Dynamic, 220 Creative Space, Sydney
Staedtler Yen Female Art Awards, Exhibition of finalists, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
Movers and Makers, Parramatta Artists Studios, Sydney
Home@735 Gallery Collection Show, Home@735 Gallery, , Sydney
2015
Kudos Emerging Artist & Designer Award, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
The Many, Juniper Hall, Sydney
BEAMS Festival, Chippendale , Sydney
Firstdraft Auction, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
F493D, Factory 49, Sydney
Breathing Room, Gaffa gallery, Sydney
Life Abstracted, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Melbourne
Postgraduate Research Conference, ADSpace, UNSW Art&Design, Sydney
2014
ICAA, Archive_ Space, Sydney
BEAMS Festival, Sydney
Firstdraft Auction, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
The Gold Show, Studio W, Sydney
Factory 49 Annual Group Show, Factory 49, Sydney
Chippendale New World Art Prize, Exhibition of Finalists, NG Pop-Up, Sydney
Grid Line Pattern: a serial approach, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney, Art Month 2014
2013
Lines of Inquiry, The Study Centre for Drawing, Sydney
Drunken Lustre, Artsite Gallery, Sydney
A Heap of Broken Images, Art Proper, Assemblage Gallery, Sydney
SaARTchi, Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney offices, Sydney
Chippendale New World Art Prize, Exhibition of Finalists, NG Pop-Up, Sydney
2012
Emporio Armani National Art School Post Graduate Exhibition, NAS Gallery, Sydney
Dis(Hons), Stairwell Gallery, Sydney
I Am What I Play, Cell Block Theatre, Sydney
RESIDENCIES
2019 Artist in residence, Parramatta Artists Studios, Sydney
Palazzo Monti Residency Program, Brescia, Italy
2018 Artist in residence and Education Fellowship, Wassaic Project, New York
2016 Artist in residence, Parramatta Artists Studios, Sydney
2015 Artist in residence, Cité Internationale des Arts, AGNSW Moya Dyring Memorial Studio, Paris
2014 Artist in residence, Archive Space, Sydney
2013 Artist in residence, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney
GRANTS, PRIZES and COMMISSIONS
2018
The Kedumba Drawing Award
Commission, 'Our paths (intertwined)', mural, Perry Lane Art Project
2016
Commission, 'Trajectories (yours and mine)', site-specific installation for Parramatta Artists Studios
2015
Highly Commended, Kudos Emerging Artist & Designer Award
Australian Postgraduate Award
2014
The Dyason Bequest, AGNSW
UNSW Art & Design Student Travel Grant
Arts & Design Grant, ARC@UNSW Limited
People’s Choice Award, Chippendale New World Art Prize
Australian Postgraduate Award
2013
Highly Commended, Spirit of Youth Australia awards
OYEA Cross Disciplinary Mentorship Program (Participant and grant recipient)
2012
The Academic Achievement Award, National Art School, Sydney
2011
William Fletcher Foundation Grant
Ricia Marie Prize
2010
Blank Canvas Art Prize
COLLECTIONS
Parramatta Artists Studios
Allens – Linklaters
Lost Bear Gallery
Home@735
National Art School Drawing Collection
Westmead Children’s Hospital
Private collections in Australia and New York
PRESS
Review: Sculpture at ScenicWorld 2019, Arts Hub, Mariam Arcilla, 2019
Children invited to take their imagination to art, Parramatta Adviser, Melissa Yeo, 21 Sep 2016
Blue Mountains Grammar to host exhibition by artist Nadia Odlum, Blue Mountains Gazette, 11 Aug 2016
This way (this way) that way, interview with Anna May Kirk, Arcadia, May 2016
What you take away (what you leave behind), Catalogue essay, Emma Jenkins
‘What’s an Emerging Artist?, Museums & Galleries of NSW
‘Emerging artist takes spotlight at gallery’, Blue Mountains Gazette, 20th Feb 2013
National Art School Postgraduate Catalogue, 2012
National Art School Graduate Catalogue, 2011
WRITING
Borrowed Scenery & Nevertheless, she persisted, review, Running Dog, 2019
‘The only certainty is transformation’: Emma Fielden’s changing states, review, The Art Life, 2018
Please touch: ‘tactile’ at Penrith Regional Gallery, review, The Art Life, 2018
Bronwen Williams: ‘In-audibility, in-visibility’, review, The Art Life, 2018
Chance Forms: Kate Vassallo at Wellington St Projects, review, The Art Life, 2018
Things I know my mother touched, Life in 500 Words, Radio National, 2018
'Diaspora', Catalogue essay for Yang-en Hume, MOP Projects, 2016