Orange series
Gesture 1.2015
Medium: Plaster, rubber,paint
Gesture2. 2015
Medium: Plaster and rubber
Gesture3. 2015
Medium: Plaster,rubber and designed hat
Gesture4. 2015
Medium: Foam, plaster, paint, fur
This is a series of gestural portraits exploring the private existential contemplative process.
Touching on the anxieties around failure and the absurd rituals of life.
Constructs 2013
Medium: Found objects
Constructs explores society's conditioning through its institutions and cultural representations of the individual and collective. In this installation, assemblage is used as both a model of these social formations and as a structural framework that incorporates analyses of contradictory cultural phenomena.
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Education
2012 – 2013 Master of Fine Art (with Distinction), RMIT University, Melbourne
2009 – 2011 Bachelor of Art: Painting (with Distinction), RMIT University, Melbourne
2000 – 2002 Diploma of Visual Arts, NMIT, Melbourne
Recent Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2017 The Mounds have eyes, Watch this Space Alice Springs
2016 CURTAIN CALL | FLESH EXPRESS | Diego Ramirez | Melissa Matveyeff
2015 Live performance Roundabout. Lx Portugal
2015 Artist Residency Portugal Roundabout. Lx Open studio
2015 Spirituous. The BIRDS. Selected by Abbotsford Convent Foundation Melbourne
2015 Spatiums, Zeppelin, Melbourne
2015 The Sweet Life, Blindside, Melbourne
2014 One night stand, Donkey Wheel, Melbourne
2014 HIT&MISS, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2014 Welcome to paradise, Next Wave Festival, Shebean, Melbourne
2014 Personal Plate, Blindside, Melbourne
2014 Running Sheet, Rumpueng Artspace , Chiang Mai
2013 Mapping Gertrude, Seventh Gallery, Summer Residency, Melbourne
2013 Season 4: Memory, Lightscapes Projects, Rodda Lane, RMIT University
2013 OH GOD, Hares & Hyenas, Melbourne
2013 Ascend/descend, Coalesce ARI
2013 Gender Typ(0)s, Project space, (Midsumma festival 2013), RMIT, Melbourne
2012 Interpretations of Intimacy, Open space Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Strange Essay, c3 Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Newer 12, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne
2011 100 shots of light, Obscura Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Homebody, First Sight Gallery, RMIT Melbourne
2011 Artists Live Here, First Sight Gallery, RMIT Melbourne
Collective
2013 – The Birds Ari
The Birds ARI Exhibitions
2014 GOLDEN RULZ, White Night, RMIT University, Melbourne
2014 Season 5: Porous, Lightscape Projects, Rodda Lane, RMIT University
2013 Art Boot Camp, Fringe Festival, Bluestone Arts Venue, Footscray, Melbourne
2013 Mating call, Rooftop Artspace, Curtain house, Melbourne
Awards and Grants
2014 Rumpueng Artspace Artist Residency, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2014 Award of Excellence MFA RMIT University
2014 RMIT Links Arts Funding, collective funding
2012 RMIT Links Arts Funding, individual funding
2009 – 2011 RMIT Financial Scholarship
2006 NAVA Marketing Grant
Ceramic work in response to termite mound project. 2017
Anxious Object 2013
Hullabaloo 2013
Artist Residency in Portugal.
Roundabout.LX
17th July - 30th August. 2015
This residency offered a contemplative space to investigate materiality in my practice. There is a large part of my practice that relies on the hunting and gathering of materials. I found bread or dough as a material or object culturally loaded with ritual and stories.
Form 1. 2015
Hullabaloos
Selected works from MFA RMIT 2013
Form 2. 2015
Form/object 1. 2015
Video still 1. 2015
Performance to Video
Form/object 2. 2015
Hit & Miss
Bus Projects 2014