ANDREA TU

EDUCATION

2005 – 2007

Master of Fine Art, Monash University

1996 – 1998

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing), Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

Fold After Fold, Monash University Faculty of Art and Design, Melbourne

2005

Orange Devours Violet, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne

2002

Suite Pastiche, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2001

Tougher Than Leather, Gallery 4A, Sydney
F-1 Pageant, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2000

Auto Wreck, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Slow Motion, West Space, Melbourne

1999

Stealth, 1st Floor, Melbourne.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

Drawn Encounters, Complex Identities, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London
Folded, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, Curator: Kyla McFarlane

2007

Bird Girls, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne. Curators: Kate Daw and Vikki McInnes,
Entrace, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne

2005

A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne. Curator: Samantha Comte

2004

Southern, Home Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2003

Papercuts, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne. Curators: Natasha Bullock and Katarina Paseta,

2002

ARCO, World Fair, Gallery 4A, Madrid, Spain. Curator: Melissa Chiu,
Good Vibrations: the legacy of Op Art in Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. Curator: Zara Stanhope
Gertrude Studio Artists Show, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2001

Tougher Than Art, 1st Floor, Melbourne. Curator: Mark Feary
Best Practice, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne. Curator: Samantha Comte
Gertrude Studio Artists Show, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2000

No Noise: Life, Colour, Action, Metro Arts, Brisbane. Curator: Max Delany
Fascination, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, presented as part of the Next Wave Festival. Curator: Charlotte Day
The Pragmatics of Inscription: Walldrawings, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne

1999

System, Linden Arts Centre, Melbourne
National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria
Keith & Elizabeth Murdoch Traveling Fellowship Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

1998

Alter.Point, 1st Floor, Melbourne, presented as part of the Next Wave Festival

1997

Drawing in the Nineties, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Nil, Stripp, Melbourne

AWARDS

2005

Monash Post-Graduate Scholarship

2002

Australia Council for the Visual Arts, Barcelona Studio Residency

2001-03

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Studio Artist Residency

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kyla McFarlane ‘Folded’, ex cat, Monash Faculty Gallery, 2008

Kit Wise, ‘Biennials, Surveys and Retrospectives’, Frieze Magazine, Issue 112, February 2008

Sam Leach, ‘Bird Girls’, ArtInfo.com.au, May 2007

Penny Webb, ‘Bird Girls’, The Age, 6 May 2007

Kate Daw and Vikki McInnes ‘Bird Girls’, ex cat, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 2007

Melissa Keys ‘A Short Ride in a Fast Machine’, Un Magazine, Issue 6, Summer 2005

Robert Nelson, ‘Cut Above the Rest’, The Age, 16 July 2003

Natasha Bulloch, Papercuts, ex.Cat, Monash University Caulfield, July 2003

Alison Barclay, Optical Nerve, Herald Sun, 6 November 2002

Interview, Sunday News Program, Channel 9, 10 November 2002

Zara Stanhope, Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia, ex.Cat, Heide Museum of Modern Art

Interview, Public Hangings, Channel 31, August 2002

Robert Nelson, ‘Greater Prestige for Regional Centres’ The Age, Melbourne, 29 December 2001

Samantha Comte, ‘Best Practice’ ex.Cat, Monash University Caulfield, Melbourne 2001

Maryanne Lynch, 'No Noise', Like, art magazine, no. 12, Winter 2000

Esther Pierini, 'Room', Art Monthly Online, 2000

Peter Anderson, 'No Noise', Eyeline, no.42, Autumn/Winter 2000

Peter Anderson, 'Making Connections at the Metro' The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 19 April 2000

Max Delany, ‘No Noise: Light, Colour, Action’, ex.Cat, Metro Arts, Brisbane 2000

Charlotte Day, 'Fascination: Dreaming At Twilight’, ex.Cat, Melbourne 2000

Nicole Tomlinson, 'Conceptual Craftsmanship,' Good Thinking: Words and Pictures on Contemporary Melbourne Art, 1st Floor, Melbourne 2000

Lara Travis, 'System', Like, art magazine, no. 9, Winter 1999

Tom Nicholson, ‘System’, ex.Cat, Linden Arts Centre, Melbourne 1999

Anita Bragge, 'Doing a Runner,' Herald Sun, Melbourne, 18 December 1997

AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGUE ESSAYS

2007

Fran Van Riemsdyk, ‘The Lucky Country’, VCA Gallery.

2004

Review: Swoon at ACCA, Broadsheet

2003

Guy Benfield, Vittoria Di Steffano and Lane Cormick, 'Brazilian Wax Museum', Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2002

Nadine Christensen, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

2001

Daniel von Sturmer, ‘Material From Another Medium’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2000

'The Art of Conversation: Nicola Loder' Globe Online Magazine

1998

Kate Beynon, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

1997

Jacinta Schreuder, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

1996

Jacinta Schreuder, 1st Floor, Melbourne.
Raafat Ishak, ‘Give Me A Home’, 1st Floor, Melbourne
Kate Beynon, Primavera Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

1995

Kate Beynon, 1st Floor, Melbourne
'On Painting', group exhibition: Troy Framstad, Maria Griffin, Alex Pittendrigh, Lyndal Walker, 1st Floor, Melbourne

1994

Kate Ellis, 1st Floor, Melbourne

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