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PhD Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2007
Master of Art, Royal College of Art, 1973.
Graduate Diploma of Education, West Australian Institute of Technology, 1983.
Diploma Art and Design, Manchester College of Art. 1969
Anne Graham – Australian artist
Anne Graham is an artist and an academic; she has exhibited in the Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne Festivals, the Biennale of Sydney, Perspecta and in many curated exhibitions nationally and internationally. In 2000 Anne Graham completed ‘Passage’ a major permanent public art work for the City of Sydney. She has created major public artworks for the Tweed River Regional Gallery, Newcastle City Council The Australian National University and Art Front Gallery in Japan. She has worked extensively in Japan exhibiting in three Echigo Tsumari Triennials and producing public artworks in Tachikawa, Iwadeyama and Tokamachi. In 2010 and 2011 she completed residencies at the Redgate Studios in Beiijing and exhibited at the 798 Art Precinct. She also completed a residency at Australia House, Echigo Tsumari, Japan in collaboration with TAMA Art University and the Australian Embassy in Tokyo. She returned to Japan in July 2012 to complete a short residency and exhibition in Niigata, in November 2012 she exhibited in Hong Kong and received the Woolmark Award for Creativity. In June 2014 she completed a residency at the Kulturcentrum, Konsthallen, Sandviken, Sweden that culminated in a Solo exhibition. She has recently undertaken a residency for The Katoomba Cultural Centre that will culminate in an exhibition in June 2015. Later in 2015 she will take up a three month residency for The Power Institute of Fine Art, Sydney University, at The Cite in Paris.
Research Interests
My research interests focus on an investigation of identity and space, this interest began in 1994 when I was awarded an Australia Council Studio Residency award for the Green Street Studio, New York. During this period I investigated the impact of the
textile industry on different communities in Manhattan with a focus on women.
I was particularly concerned with creativity and its role in the formation of
identity. I enlarged this focus to look at the mnemonic function of objects and materials as constructors of identity. I pursued this study at a local
retirement village. I interviewed many of the residents and used photographs
and text to create portraits of the women and their possessions. Most recently I was awarded a residency at the Konsthallen in Sandviken, Sweden to make portraits of creative women living in the region. These portraits were intended to embrace many aspects of the subject’s life but they were also intended to have universal applicability so that the viewer might feel that these works also resonate with their own life.
Selected Exhibitions
(numerous prior)
2017 Whispering and Rustling, the Susurrus of People, Places and Things, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, 20th May- 2nd July
2017 Feather Cloud, Systems: Air & Water, Articulate project space, Sydney 11th April – 1st May 2017
2017 House of Shade and Shadows Cementa 17, Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos 6th-9th April 2017
2016 Whispering and Rustling, the Susurrus of People, Places and Things, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 7th October – 20th November
2016, Twitches, Articulate project space, Sydney 16-31 July
2016 MAP Futurist Dinner, Woodford Academy, 28th May
2016 The Charged Object, Lane Cove Gallery, Sydney 9th March – 9th April
2016 MAPSPACE, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 11th March
2015 Shinohara’s House 111, Land and Water Festival, Niigata Japan, July
2015, Strange Embrace, The Katoomba Cultural Centre, May 29th-19th July (pending)
2015, The Stations of the Cross, The McGlade Gallery, at The Australian Catholic University. March 29th-18th April
2015, Taking Up Space, Articulate project space, Sydney 7-22 March 2015
2015, Joalah, The Lost House, Modern Art Projects at Mount Tomah, 25th January
2014, Colour, Line and Form, Articulate project space, Sydney December.
2014, Domesticated, Articulate project space, Sydney, November-December.
2014, Shifting Sands, Articulate project space, Sydney, September-October.
2014, Anne Graham, Solo Exhibition, WW Artists Projects, Sydney, August- September.
2014, Selected Works, ‘de colori’ WW Artists Projects, Sydney July.
2014, Selected Works, MAP (Modern Art Projects, modernartprojects.org) Blue Mnt. July.
2014, Entanglements, Kulturcentrum, Konsthallen, Sandviken, Sweden, June-July.
2013, Haptic Interface, for Vivid, Hong Kong House, Sydney, 27 May-June
2012, Connor, in Haptic Interface, Koo Ming Kown Gallery, Kowloon , Hong Kong, Nov-December 2012. Winner of the 2012 Woolmark Award.
2012, Chart, WW Artists Projects, Sydney, Australia, August.
Shinohara’s House 11, Land and Water Festival, Niigata Japan, July.
Shifting Time, The Chinese Museum, Melbourne, Australia. April.
2011 Forbidden City, RedGate at Nova Gallery, Beigao Artists Precinct, Beijing, China, November.
Found Lost, China Art Projects at Osage, (CAP) The Wine Factory Beijing. China, November.
A Moveable Feast, WW Artists Projects, Sydney 16th march-16th April.
2010 Constructed City Songzhuan Art Festival, Songzhuan Art Village, Beijing, in collaboration with Allan Chawner, curated by China Art Projects.(CAP)
Constructed City, ME Gallery, 798, Beijing, China, June 19thin collaboration with Allan Chawner (CAP)
The Listener, Beijing Art Fair. Beijing, April, in collaboration with Allan Chawner.(CAP)
Chill-Trailer, Momentum, Carriage Works, curated by Rachel Rits-Voller in conjunction with the Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, May.
2009-10 ‘By George’, City of Sydney Laneways,‘Chill Trailer’. Commissioned by the City of Sydney. (Performance and Installation, October-January
Shinohara house 1,The Niigata Land and Water Festival, July 2009 –April 2010. Niigata Prefecture, Japan.(+performance)
2008 Rooms of Engagement, Gosford Regional Gallery, June-August 19th July-14th September. (+ performance)
2007 In Between Space, Artspace, Sydney, July.
2006 Anne Graham Sherman Galleries, April 6th-22nd, Sydney
2005 Walking on the Moon (permanent public artwork,) Mount
Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University. (under construction)
2004 The Three Bowls, (permanent public artwork). Tweed Heads
Regional Gallery for Casuarina Development Corporation.
The North Wing Project, (permanent public artwork) Newcastle City Council.
Anne Graham. Sherman Galleries, Paddington, Sydney 12 Feb-6 March.
2003 Anne Graham – Selected Works 1983-2003 Bond University
Art Gallery, Gold Coast
The Seven Bowls, (permanent public artwork) Nakasato, Tokamachi, Nigata Prefecture Japan
The Fisherman’s Table (permanent public artwork), Nakasaro Tokamachi, Nigata Prefecture Japan
2002 Memory and Things, School of Fine Art Gallery Newcastle.
Wish Transmitter, (permanent public artwork) Art Avenue, Tachikawa, Tokyo
Tachikawa Calendar, (permanent public artwork) Art Avenue, Tachikawa, Tokyo
Hide and Seek, Art Avenue, (permanent public artwork), Tachikawa, Tokyo
Iwadeyama Station (permanent public artwork) Iwadeyama, Japan
The Cultivated Garden, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre
2001 Eating and Grooming, Sherman Galleries. Sydney. July.
Art and Food, Newcastle Region Gallery. May-July
2000 Passage, Martin Place, The City of Sydney Sculpture Walk,
Sydney City Council, Sydney Open Museum (major public artwork)
Selected Solo Performance
(several prior)
2009-10 The Niigata Land and Water Festival, July 2009 –April 2010. Niigata Prefecture, Japan. (Performance)
2005 Artists Food, Dawn Light Symposium, Gosford Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, September 23rd.
Artist’s Tree, The Nine Dragonheads Exhibition and Environmental Art Festival Daechang Lake Nature Reserve, Korea
2001 Art and Food, Artist in Residency Program, The Newcastle Regional Gallery. January.
2000 The Silk Plaza, The Echigo–Tsumari Art Triennial 2000,Tokamachi; curated by Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Selected awards and grants
2015 The Katoomba Cultural Centre Residency at The Big C Bilpin, NSW
2014 Awarded The Cite Internationale des Arts Residency Fellowship 2015, from The Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture.
2014 Shinohara’s House 11, Land and Water Festival, Niigata Japan, July. A Commendation from The Australian Government, Australian Arts in Asia Awards.
2012, The Woolmark Award for Creativity, The Woolmark Company Hong Kong, at the Koo Ming Kown Gallery, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
2010, JAAM funded by The Australian Embassy in Tokyo, The Brian and Rohma Cummins award, and The University of Newcastle. The JAAM project was held at Australia House, Niigata Prefecture Japan in August 2010 students from TAMA Art University Tokyo worked alongside students from Newcastle University and made works in response to the environment and socio-economic aspects of the Echigo Tsumari region.
2008, Safe At Home a community art project, funded by an Australia Council Grant of $35,000, in collaboration with Professor Mel Gray and Leanne Schubert. This project investigated the impact of the use of art projects on raising the awareness of domestic vilence in the Hunter Region. This project commenced in 2008 and was completed in 2011.
2005, Conference Establishment Grant, Re Framing Health, practices of art and humanities. September 2nd 2005 ($3,000)
Lawry, Graham, Watt. Moving The Royal l, Framing The Memories. RGC Collaborative with John Hunter Hospital. ($30,000).
Newcastle University Research,RGC ($8,000).
2004Holbrook, Graham and Lawry, The role of the exhibition in the doctoral assessment practice of Fine Art examination. RGC. ($11, 000)
2003 Stevenson, Graham, Markwell, Rowe, Collaborative Grant, Mayfield Cultural Heritage Study, Imaging Newcastle.
2001 Bourke, Graham, Holbrook, Lawry, RMC Grant PhD Examination in the Creative Arts, ($10,000).
Sinnott, P. Graham, A. RMC Project Grant, The Objects and Rituals of the Kitchen ($6,000).
Conference Establishment Grant, ($3000). Spatial Cultures.
RMC Project Grant, $5000. The Mnemonic function of objects, materials and spaces as constructors of identity.
Spatial Culture, Faculty Research Group funding. ($5,000)
NRAG Artist –in –Residence Program. Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Nov-Dec 2000. Award ($2000).
2000 Graham, A. Lawry, M. Vulnerable bodies- Art, Architecture and the Public Body in a Hospital Environment. RMC Project Grant ($10,000), University of Newcastle.
NAWIC Award. The National association of Women in Construction Merit Award. Awarded to Passage, Martin Place, The City of Sydney Sculpture Walk. The Open Museum, Sydney City Council.
RMC Conference Travel Scholarship. to participate in Construction and Process, The International Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland. ($2,500).
1999 The Mnemonic Function of Objects and Materials as Constructors of Identity. RMC New Staff Grant and Faculty award University of Newcastle. ($17,000).
Awarded City of Sydney Sculpture Commission, Passage in Martin Place, Sydney.($275,000 overall project budget).
1998 Awarded a Nepean Research Grant to support Faculty Publications and Visiting Fellowships ($30,000) with Melissa Chiu.
1996 Awarded funding ($10,000) to form a UWS Nepean Designated Research Group, with Dr Sue Best, Dr Jenny Barratt and Dr Dennis De Favero.
Domestic Space its Possession and the Markings of Identity. Nepean Research Grant ($11,000).
1995 The Hinode-Machi Residential Studio, Tokyo, Japan.
1994 The Australia Council Greene Street Residency, New York.
Community Interests
I have worked with communities in Australia, Poland, Japan Sweden and America to
produce community responses to their environment and to enhance the
community’s sense of ownership of a place or history. The end product of these
research processes is generally a public art works or a community parks or
playground. In 2000 I received a Merit award from the National Association of
Women in Construction (NAWIC) for permanent public artwork. Other projects have been (with Lawry) Vulnerable Bodies – Art, Architecture and the Public Body in a Hospital Environment in 2000, and Imaging Newcastle (with colleagues in
cultural studies) in 2003. Community projects have also included:
Memories and Things, a project conducted in a retirement village focussing on
objects and memory. Moving The Royal, Framing The Memories a research
project looking at the possibility of interpretive artworks alleviating stress in
times of traumatic change, and Art and the Archive examining the way we look at art
and artefacts and measuring emotive response. I have also worked collaboratively with Professor Steffen Lehman to curate, and produce work for Back to The City 2008 and The Laneways Project, Sydney 2009 projects which considered the possibility of urban art as a catalyst for collaboration between artists and architects.
From March to July2010 I completed a residency at Redgate Beijing in which I explored issues related to memory, loss and replacement with migrant occupants of Beijing. In August 2010 I collaborated with staff and students from TAMA Art University Tokyo and students from Newcastle University in order that we would have the opportunity for cross cultural communication and that we could learn from each other’s practice. In 2012 I was invited to revisit Niigata, Japan and work with the community on an art project, in 2014 I was invited to Sweden to work with women and identity in rural Sweden.
Selected citations/catalogues, essays and reviews, past nine years only)
Brett, Donna(2015) Anne Graham:Mnemonic Objects, Craft Arts International, vol. 93 p.66-67
Mckenzie, Janet (2014) Anne Graham Interview, in Studio International, Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
Marsh, Anne, (2014) Political Interventions and Relational Aesthetics, in Eyeline, P. 57-65. Pub. Eyeline Publishing Ltd.
Marsh, Anne, (2014) Propositions, Interventions,Collaborations in Relational and dialogical: An Australian context in Performance Ritual Document, p. 232-235. Pub.Macmillan Art publishing.
Barber, Bruce, (2013) Littoral Art and Communicative Action in Marking the Limit: Re-framing a Micro Economy for the Arts. P. 77-86. Pub. Common Ground , USA
Gibson, Ross, (2011) Art and Australia, Vol 49, No 1. Back and Forth: Examining a pair of artist’s books. P. 56-61.Publisher Eleanora Triguboff.
Newell, Reg , ( 2010)China Art Projects at ME Gallery 798 Art District Beijing.
Dyer, Jane. Beijing Contemporary Art Fair Catalogue, 2010
Meskimmon, Marsha. Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination. Chapter 3 Passage-transitive affects. Routledge 2010
Nicholls, Christine, (2009) Asian Art News Vol 19, Memory and Things.p.118-119
Best, Susan ( 2008) In between Performance and Participation. Column 1. ISSN 1835-3487, Artspace.Murray-Cree, L. (2006) Twenty-Sherman Galleries. Craftsmans House, Sydney.
Park, Byoung –Uk, 2005,10th International Environmental Art Symposium, Catalogue, Cheong-Ju, Korea.
Kankaku Art Museum, 2004, International Exhibition, 1000 Small Boxes, introductory essay.
Downes, Jan. 2004, The Snake Path at Nanatsugama, Ceramics Technical, No 18.
Couacaud, Sally. 2004,The Echigo Tsumari Trienial, Art and Australia, Winter No.4.
Hill, Peter. 2004 Know It Then Show It , The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum Feb 21-22.
Ingram, Terry. 2004, Smart Art, The Financial Review, Feb14-15.
The Reader, 2004, Anne Graham’s Strange Objects, Feb 13th.
Brett, Donna. (2003) The Alchemy of Becoming, Sherman Gallery Publication.
Barber, Bruce (2002) Marking the Limit: Re-Framing a Micro-Economy for the Arts Parachute 106 pp27-39 ISSN0318-7020, Pub Integria, Canada.
Best, Sue. (2001) Eating and Grooming, Sherman Galleries Publication.
Best, Sue. (2001) What is Installation, Ed. Adam Geczy and Benjamin Gennochio.
Sydney: Power Publications, University of Sydney, pp193-195 ISBN 1 86487 430 9.
Best, Sue. (2000) Public Art in The Olympic City, Architecture Australia.September p.82.
Best, Sue. (2000) Elemental Constructions: Women Artists and Sculpture in the Expanded field. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art.Vol1, No2. ISSN 1443 4318.
Dysart, Dinah.(1999) In House Intervention, Art and Australia Vol 36, No 3.
McGillick, Paul (1998) Construction and Process VI – The Bridge, Melbourne.
Monument 2, 5 Architecture/Design. Terraplane Press, Pty Ltd.
Couacaud, Sally (1998) Sculpture Walk, Architectural Review Australia. Niche Media Pty Ltd.
Green, Charles(1998) Construction in Process VI, Art and Text, August/October.
Emmett, Peter (1997) Australian Perspecta, Between Art and Nature, Harbourings: Remaking Sydney’s Industrial landscape, pub. AGNSW.
Bilson, Gay. (1996) The Beggars Banquet, Object Magazine, Winter 1996.
Neumark, Norrie (1995) A Stitch in Time, Photofile No.46.
Genocchio, Benjamin(1996)Situations, The Work of Anne Graham, Telstra Adelaide Festival.
Best, Sue (1994) Walla Mulla Park, Working in Public pub Artspace.
Moore, Catriona (1994) On Women and Sexual Identity, Allen and Unwin.
Best, Sue. (1994) Space and Sexuality, Transitions Vol 42 Autumn Ed.
Collections
Art Bank
Newcastle Regional Gallery
Broken Hill Regional Gallery
The Art Gallery of NSW
John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The University of Western Sydney
The Belgiorno-Nettis Collection
The Brisbane Art Gallery
Various private collections in Australia and internationally.
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