BIANCA HESTER |
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EDUCATION |
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2002 –07 |
PhD, RMIT University |
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1999 |
Bachelor of Fine Art Honours (Sculpture), Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam |
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1995–97 |
Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture), RMIT University |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2009 |
only from the perspective of a viewer situated upon the surface of the earth does day and night occur, The Narrows, Melbourne |
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accommodating spaces, materials, projects, people, videos, actions, objects, thoughts: relatively, publication commissioned by The Narrows, Melbourne |
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West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial (with OSW), large-scaled exhibition and event across five sites in West Brunswick, Melbourne |
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fashioning discontinuities, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne |
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2008 |
we learn trio a, research trip with Elizabeth Newman to New York City to learn Yvonne Rainer’s dance ‘trio a’, New York |
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projectprojects, The Showroom, London. Curator: Kirsty Ogg |
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support structures, Kris Kimpe architect studio, Antwerp, Belgium |
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2007 |
provisional devices for a propositional living space, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne |
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PhD graduate publication/exhibition, Gossard Studios, RMIT, Melbourne |
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2006 |
project projects: open and hosted, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne |
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2005 |
active air (OSW), Ocular Lab, Melbourne |
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2004 |
multipleMISCELLANEOUSalliances: a largescale curatorial project/workshop at CLUBSproject inc, Melbourne |
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2003 |
one thing another thing some things other, other things stagger +…., CLUBSproject inc, Melbourne |
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2002 |
intensive objects indeterminate events, West Space, Melbourne |
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2001 |
objects : translations, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne |
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2000 |
an example of an exhibition..... , TCB inc, Melbourne |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2009 |
imprint, Artspace, Sydney. Curator: Anneke Jaspers |
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drawing folio, BLOCK projects, Melbourne. Curators: Justin Andrews and John Nixon |
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2008 |
Line Drawing, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide. Curator: Dr Linda Marie Walker |
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Sequence Series in here today, gone tomorrow video festival, Antwerp, Belgium. Curator: Damien van Hereck |
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The Narrows Print Workshop,The Narrows, Melbourne. Curator: Warren Taylor |
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Evergreen magazine, Melbourne. Curators: Liv Barrett and James Deutscher |
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The Library Project, Frankston Library, Melbourne. Curators: Pat Foster and Jen Berean |
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International Students Exhibition, Tongji University, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai |
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Axis Bold As Love in the program 'Saisons Increase part 3' at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux. Curators: Liv Barrett, James Deutsher and ACW |
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21:100:100: One Hundred Sound Works by One Hundred Artists from the 21st Century, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Melbourne |
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advance/retreat: three experiments in transdisciplinary collaboration, West Space, Melbourne. Curators: Brad Haylock and Mark Richardson |
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2007 |
West Space East, PKW, Singapore. Curator: Mark Feary |
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Gertrude Studio Artists Exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne |
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abstraction, architecture, space, RMIT project space, Melbourne. Curators: Stephen Bram and Justin Andrews |
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workshopnonstop,, LOOSE projects, Sydney. Curator: Lisa Kelly |
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2006 |
indexing practices (projects in production), Gertrude Studio Artists exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Melbourne |
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Resistance is Futile, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne. Curator: Kim Donaldson, |
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2005 |
groundings (with OSW), Melbourne Prize, Federation Square, Melbourne. |
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Situation: artists networks and collectives from Sydney, Singapore, Berlin, MCA, Sydney. Curator: Russell Storer |
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A molecular history of everything, ACCA, Melbourne. Curator: Juliana Engberg |
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corner to corner and stretching, pagework for SLAVE 3 magazine issue 3, Melbourne and Paris |
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2004 |
The Manifesto Show, DOWNTOWN project space, Adelaide. Coordinator: Bridget Currie |
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Quiet, Aqua Space, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Coordinator: Avantika Bawa |
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Resistance Through Rituals, West Space, Melbourne . Coordinator: Lisa Kelly, |
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2003 |
fish-time (with OSW), CLUBSproject Inc, Melbourne |
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CLUBStennis (with OSW), CLUBSproject Inc, Melbourne |
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In The Making, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland. Curator: Liza Vasiliou |
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2002 |
Possible Worlds, Artspace, Auckland Curator: Juliana Engberg |
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Mixed Bag (collaboration with Masato Takasaka and Nick Mangan), Ocular Lab, Melbourne |
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2001 |
The Blindspots we sometimes see…, MCA, Sydney. Curator: Gail Hastings |
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2000 |
Longevity, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne. Curator: Bala Starr |
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Kitchen, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Picnic, Kunstvlaai 3, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
ORGANISATIONAL PROJECTS + ARTIST INITIATIVES |
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2002 - 07 |
Founding member of CLUBSproject Inc |
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2003 - current |
Member of collaborative group OSW (with Terri Bird and Scott Mitchell) |
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2005 - current |
Member of PAECES art–music collective (with Christopher Hill, Joshua Petherick and Sean Bailey) |
SCHOLARSHIPS + PRIZES |
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2008 |
City of Melbourne arts grant |
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Recipient of RMIT University Research Prize for outstanding PhD project |
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2006 |
Australia Council Visual Arts Board Skills and Development grant |
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Arts Victoria International Program – Cultural Exchange grant |
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Recipient of Siemans prize, RMIT University |
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2005 |
Recipient of The Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture with OSW |
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2004 |
Arts Victoria New Work grant |
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2001–04 |
Australian Postgraduate Award |
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1998–99 |
RMIT research grant to study at The Sandberg Institute, The Netherlands |
PUBLISHED WRITINGS |
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2009 |
‘there, there, here, now: sound-space, abstraction, embodiment’, catalogue essay for Geoff Robinson, NORTH: ‘at the junction of Inwood Hill Park New York and Jokularson Southeast Iceland, published by Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. |
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‘gathering, gathering: on the role of design as process within the practice of contemporary art’, published in Artichoke magazine. |
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2008 |
‘enabling restraints’, keynote essay for Bureau, VCA School of Art Publication, edited by Kate Daw and Vikki McInnes, The University of Melbourne. |
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2007 |
‘material adventures, spatial productions, manoeuvring sculpture towards a proliferating event’, PhD dissertation, RMIT University, Melbourne. |
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2006 |
‘CLUBSproject feedback sessions: a manual’, co-authored with Terri Bird and Andrew McQualter, Natural Selection, Issue 5, pp. 61-63, New Zealand. |
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‘notes on collectivity’, Natural Selection, Issue 6, New Zealand. |
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2005 |
‘some notes on the practice of Chris Hill’, catalogue essay, Christopher Hill Happy Hard Haunted Haus published by, CLUBSproject inc, Melbourne. |
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‘things full of people’, booklet published in conjunction with Lisa Kelly’s project in SITUATION: collaborations, collectives and artist networks from Sydney, Singapore, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
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2004 |
‘multipleMISCELLANEOUSalliances, an extrapolation’, catalogue essay, Resistance Through Rituals, published by West Space inc, Melbourne. |
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‘A lively correspondence’, co-authored with Lisa Kelly, Resistance Through Rituals, published by West Space inc, Melbourne. |
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‘a proliferating A-Z’, catalogue essay, multipleMISCELLANEOUSalliances, CLUBSproject inc, Melbourne. |
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‘prising it open, a critical reflection on the ‘sat no to nothing’ campaign’, UN-magazine, issue 2. |
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2001 |
‘expanding.compressing.fields.figures’, series of 8 interviews, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Dr Bird, Terri, ‘Material Thinking’, essay for accommodating spaces, materials, projects, people, videos, actions, thoughts: relatively, The Narrows, Melbourne, 2009. |
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Dr Parr, Adrian, ‘Partial, temporal, material events: through the work of Bianca Hester’, essay for accommodating spaces, materials, projects, people, videos, actions, thoughts: relatively, The Narrows, Melbourne, 2009. |
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Riva, Caterina and Hester, Bianca, ‘Subject: writing as a proliferating possibility’, essay for accommodating spaces, materials, projects, people, videos, actions, thoughts: relatively, The Narrows, Melbourne, 2009. |
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Thorne, Sam, ‘Bianca Hester’, Frieze magazine, Issue 115, May 2008. |
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Dr Marie Walker, Linda, ‘Line Heart Drawing, catalogue essay for Line Drawing at the South Australian School of Art Gallery, July 2008. |
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Rainforth, Dylan, ‘Dancing For Architecture’, catalogue essay for provisional devices for the production of a propositional living space, Gertrude Contemporary Artist’s Spaces, 2007. |
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Barnes, Carolyn, ‘Abstraction, Architecture, Space’, catalogue essay, Melbourne 2007. |
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Kelly, Lisa, ‘Round 2, 3 & 4’, published in conjunction with Project Projects, RMIT project space, 2006. |
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Panigirakis, Spiros, ‘no not that way, this way’, published in conjunction with Project Projects, RMIT Project Space, 2006 . |
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Kelly, Lisa, ‘Resistance through Rituals is….’, West Space inc, 2004. |
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Kelly, Lisa and Hester, Bianca, ‘A lively correspondence’, West Space inc, 2004. |
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Johnson, Helen, ‘Geikie, Hester, Huang, Fulton and Consandine’, Un magazine, Issue 3. |
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Vasiliou, Liza, ‘In the making….’, catalogue essay, Monash Museum of Art, June 2003 |
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Chapman, Chris, ‘Cool World’, Broadsheet Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture, Volume 30, no.4 December 2001 – February 2002. |
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Hastings, Gail, ‘The Blind Spots We Sometimes See’, (catalogue essay) Primavera, MCA, Sydney, 2001. |
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Starr, Bala, ‘Longevity’ (catalogue essay), Ian Potter Musuem of Art, Melbourne University, October 2000. |
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Comte, Samantha, ‘Imagination Travels Faster’, www.artmonthly.com Art Monthly On Line, June 2000 |
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Hester, Bianca, ‘A Translation’, project book of interviews with eighteen artists, November 1999. |
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Luker, Johnathon, ‘Sync’ (exhibition catalogue), May 1998. |
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McQualter, Andrew, ‘Clear’ (exhibition catalogue) May 1997. |
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WEBSITE www.biancahester.net |
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