KIT WISE |
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EDUCATION |
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2007– current |
PhD, Fine Art, Monash University |
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1997– 99 |
Master of Arts (Sculpture), Royal College of Art, London |
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1994– 97 |
Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Hons), Ruskin School Of Drawing and Fine Art, St. Anne’s College, Oxford University |
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1993– 94 |
Dip. Foundation Studies, Winchester School of Art |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2008 |
Natural Disaster, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne |
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2007 |
Rhapsodia, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne |
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2006 |
Superhappiness, Conical, Melbourne |
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2005 |
Kit Wise: New Work, Criterion Gallery, Hobart |
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Sojourner, West Space, Melbourne |
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Roarers, Ocular Lab, Melbourne |
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2003 |
Nocturne, Project Space Gallery, RMIT |
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Melbourne; Inflight Gallery, Hobart |
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2002 |
Oh, what a sweet thing is this perspective!, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne |
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2001 |
Tourist, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania |
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2000 |
Straordinari Cortili, Palazzo Montoro, Rome |
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1999 |
Kit Wise: Recent Work, British School at Rome |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2009 |
NOW 2.0, ACGA Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne |
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International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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2007 |
Urban Screens 08, Federation Square, Melbourne |
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Drawn Encounters, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, London |
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LOOP’08, Catalonia Ramblas Hotel, Barcelona |
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Tokyo: Floating World, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania |
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Stranger Geography, Palazzo Vaj, Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy |
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Shrine On! You Crazy Diamond, Platform, Melbourne |
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Dream Home, NOVAS Gallery, London |
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Strange Geography, Kingsgate Gallery, London |
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2006 |
B-side, Blindside, Melbourne |
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne |
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Pleasures and Terrors – The City, Blindside, Melbourne |
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Water, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London |
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Responding to Rome: 1995-2005, Estorick Collection, London |
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Group Action 2, Criterion Gallery, Hobart |
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2005 |
re/thinking, BUS Gallery, Melbourne |
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Charlotte Bell, Rosemary O’Rourke, Kit Wise, King’s ARI, Melbourne |
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Letitia Street Studios, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart |
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2004 |
Practice in Process, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne |
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No Harm in Looking, Blankspace, Sydney |
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Scratch Video, King’s ARI, Melbourne |
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Group Material, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart |
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2003 |
Bodybag, Inveresk Academy of the Arts, Launceston (and touring) |
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Travelling the Roundabout, Inveresk Academy of the Arts, Launceston (and touring) |
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Bold & The Beautiful: New Art from London, Project Space Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne; Carnegie Gallery, Hobart |
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Wallacespace Presents, Wallacespace Gallery, London |
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2002 |
The World More Near, Project Space Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne |
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Good Artists Bad Artists Steal, Starck Gallery, London |
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White Middle Class Men, Lewisham Library, London |
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2000 |
International Young Artists, Rialtoccupato al Sant' Ambrogio Associazione Culturale, Rome |
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Tabley, Tabley House, Knutsford, Manchester |
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Rosa, Pino Casagrande Gallery, Rome |
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Harry Pye’s Great British Art Show, Starck Gallery, London |
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It may be rubbish, but its British rubbish, Glasshouse Gallery, Paris |
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1999 |
Accademia Britannica, Rome Scholars exhibition, The British School at Rome |
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Sculpture Park, Atrium Gallery, London |
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Asylum, Milch Gallery, London |
PUBLISHED WRITINGS |
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2009 |
‘Writing on drawing: Essays on Drawing Practice and research’ book review, |
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Journal of Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education |
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‘Real Drawing, catalogue essay for I walk the line, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
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‘Greer Honeywell: Everyday Utopia’ catalogue essay for Off the Plan, |
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SPAN Gallery, Melbourne |
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2008 |
‘Future spaces in contemporary Australian art: Overexposure and the city’, conference paper, CSAA Conference, Kalgoorlie, December 2008 |
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‘Research Community’, catalogue essay for Monash Momentum 2008, Kirra Galleries, Melbourne, June 2008 |
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‘John Young’, Frieze, Issue 115, exhibition review, May 2008 |
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‘Obligate Mutualist Symbiosis’, catalogue essay for Objects in Space, Next Wave Festival 2008, Melbourne, May 2008 |
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‘Kathy Temin’, Frieze, Issue 114, exhibition review, April 2008 |
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‘Kelley Glaister: In flagrante delicto’, catalogue essay for These Endless Days, |
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Blindside, Melbourne, March 2008 |
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‘Philip Brophy’, Frieze, Issue 113, exhibition review, March 2008 |
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‘Highlights of 2007’, Frieze, Issue 112, feature article (Australian contributor), January-February 2008 |
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2007 |
‘Presencing Nature’, catalogue essay for Sighting & Stillness, NETS Touring Exhibition, curated by Martina Copley, September 2007 |
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‘Ann Holt: Still Waters’, catalogue essay for A Bend in the River: Paintings from New South Wales Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, April 2007 |
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Book chapter (10,000 words) for Marian Hosking, monograph, published by Object Gallery, Sydney, Craftsman House, Thames & Hudson |
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‘Jordan Baseman: Human Behaviour’, catalogue essay for Tape 1 Tape 2, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, February 2007 |
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2006 |
‘Louise Hubbard & John Vella: Post-op’, catalogue essay for Subpoena, Conical, Melbourne, November 2006 |
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‘Cate Consadine: Suspended Proposition’, catalogue essay for Candy Cane, Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces, Melbourne, November 2006 |
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‘Euan Heng: Conjured Constructions’, catalogue essay, Sixth Drawing Biennale, Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, ISBN: 0958156042 |
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‘Sherrie Knipe: Tongue Twister’, catalogue essay for ‘From Little Things…’, |
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Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, August 2006 |
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‘MOT Annual 2006’, Frieze, Issue 100, p.276, exhibition review, June-August 2006, ISSN 0962-0672 |
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‘Marian Hosking: Tracing Nature’ catalogue essay in Tracks: works in silver 2005-2006 |
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Marian Hosking, Monash University Press, Melbourne, 2006, ISBN: 9781876924461 |
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‘Uncertain Moments’, catalogue essay for ‘Contingency Plan’, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart, March 2006, ISBN: 0947335439 |
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‘Greer Honeywell: Proclaiming Space’, catalogue essay, January 2006 |
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‘Maria Zeiss: Path Crossing’, catalogue essay, January 2006 |
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2005 |
‘Si Sapsford: Magnificent Collapse’, catalogue essay, Faculty of Art & Design, November 2005 |
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‘Nathan Taylor: Concrete Poetics’, catalogue essay, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney, November 2005 |
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‘Contemporary Abstraction: Four Melbourne Painters’, catalogue essay, June 2005, Criterion Gallery, Hobart |
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‘Maryjeanne Hoffner: Sensuous Loci’, catalogue essay, Atrium Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, April 2005 |
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‘Living Together is Easy’, Frieze, Issue 90, p.110-113, exhibition review, April 2005, ISSN: 0962-0672 BGV |
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‘Labouring Lightly: Australian Drawing Now’, Artlink, Vol. 25 No. 1, feature article, March 2005, ISSN: 0727-1239 |
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‘Pointform’, unMagazine, Issue 3, exhibition review, February 2005, ISSN: 1449 6747 |
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2004 |
‘NEW04’, Frieze, Issue 85, p. 114-117, exhibition review, September 2004, ISSN: 0962 0672 |
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‘Chaotic Attractors: Jake Chapman Lecture Tour 04’, Artlink, Vol. 24 No. 2, feature article, May 2004, ISSN: 0727-1239 |
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‘James Lynch: Let me be your fantasy’, Frieze, Issue 79, exhibition review, January 2004, ISSN: 0962-0672 |
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2003 |
‘Marginalia’, catalogue essay, City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall, November 2003 |
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‘Drawing Dangerously’, May 2003, catalogue essay, Wren Gallery, Sydney |
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‘Quarantine’, ‘The Bold & The Beautiful’ catalogue essay, Project Space, Melbourne; Carnegie Gallery, Hobart; April 2003 |
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2002 |
‘John Vella: Product Lines’; Inveresk Centre for the Arts; catalogue essay, September 2002, ISBN: 1-86295-053-9 |
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‘Matt Warren: On the Run’; CAST; catalogue essay, June 2002; |
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‘The Shape of Air’; Artlink Vol.22 No. 2, exhibition review, ISSN: 0727-1239 |
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‘Carnophilia’; Artlink Vol. 22 No. 1, feature article p. 52; May 2002, ISSN: 0727-1239 |
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‘Sally Rees’, Artlink Vol. 22 No. 1, exhibition review p. 83; May 2002, ISSN: 0727-1239 |
CURATORIAL PRACTICE |
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2007 |
Curator, Stranger Geography, Palazzo Vaj, Monash University Prato Centre, Italy |
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Co-curator, Strange Geography, Kingsgate Gallery, London |
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Curator, Jordan Baseman: Tape 1 Tape 2, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne |
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2005 |
Contributing curator, Extra-Aesthetic, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne |
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Curator, Contemporary Abstraction: Four Melbourne Painters, Criterion Gallery, Hobart |
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2004 |
Curator, Academici: Answering the Other Question, Faculty Gallery, Monash University & BSR Gallery, British School at Rome, Italy |
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2003 |
Curator, Marginalia, City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall; |
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Co-curator, The Bold & The Beautiful: New London Art, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne; Carnegie Gallery, Hobart; |
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COMMISSIONS |
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2008 |
Experimenta, EXPERIMENTOPIA: 2009 International Biennial of Media Arts |
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2003 |
ArtsTasmania, Wapping Sculpture Walk, Hobart [Design abstract] |
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ArtsTasmania, Hagley Farm Primary School |
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2001 |
Centenary Commission, British School at Rome, Rome; |
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1999 |
Millennium Commission, Wallace Cititraining, London |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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‘Artist Profile: Kit Wise’, p.8, NAVA Quarterly, edited by Cassandra Parkinson, June 2008, ISBN: 10329617 |
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‘Art connections going beyond a cringe’, review by Robert Nelson, The Age, 26 December 2007 |
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‘Kit Wise, Rhapsodia’, review by Robert Nelson, The Age, November 7 2007 |
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‘Rhapsodia’, review by Megan Backhouse, The Age Melbourne Magazine, November 2007 |
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‘Human pinballs’, Lisa Byrne, catalogue essay for Rhapsodia, CCP, Melbourne, November 2007 |
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‘On landscape and utopia’, Dr. Rhiannon Evans, catalogue essay for Rhapsodia, CCP, Melbourne, November 2007 |
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‘Bside’, review by Megan Backhouse, The Age Melbourne Magazine, December 2006 |
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‘The B Side’, catalogue interview, Olivia Poloni & Jessie Borrell, December 2006, ISBN: 0980307414 |
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‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum’, catalogue essay by Christine Morrow for ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, August 2006 |
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‘Rome in Fragments’, catalogue essay by Jacopo Benci for ‘Responding to Rome: British Artists in Rome 1995 – 2005’, Estorick Collection, London, January 2006 |
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‘Wise Guy’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 34, October-December 2005, p.108–113; by Edward Colless |
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‘Flying to a Higher Artistic Plane’, The Age, 22 October 2005, p.8 Review, by Peter Hill |
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‘City Highlights’, The Mercury, 22 October 2005, by Joerg Andersch |
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‘Sojourner: Kit Wise’, unMagazine, Issue 5, October 2005, p.44-45; by Kirsten Rann |
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‘Nocturne’ Artlink Vol. 23 No. 3, 2003, p.90, by Briony Lee Downes |
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‘Feral fetishes to the fore’, The Age, 19 May 2003, by Robert Nelson |
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‘Body Bag: Contemporary Tasmanian Art’, catalogue essay, August 2003 |
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‘Travelling the Roundabout’, catalogue essay, May 2003 |
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‘How Sweet’, catalogue essay by Dr. Ross Moore for ‘Oh, what a sweet thing is this perspective!’; Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield, Melbourne |
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‘Exploring a female panorama’, by Jane Rankin-Reid; Sunday Tasmanian; 16.09.01, p.48 |
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‘Fine Arts 1999 – 2000’, catalogue edited by Jacopo Benci, The British School at Rome, 2000 |
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‘Rosa’, catalogue essay by Valentina Bruschi for ‘Rosa’, Galleria Pino Casagande |
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‘Accademia Britannica’, by Angelo Capasso; Rome Time Out Roma; 12.10.99, p.53 |
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‘Something to declare’, catalogue essay by David Hansen for ‘Tourist’, CAST, Hobart |
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‘Asylum’, by Mike Curran, Time Out London; 16.06.99, p.42 |
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SELECTED PRIZES, GRANTS AND AWARDS |
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2008–09 |
Monash University International Strategic Initiative, ‘Drawn Encounters, Complex Identities’ & ‘Archive / Counter-archive’ conferences |
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2007 |
Australia Council Visual Arts Board, New Work grant |
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2006 |
Monash University Small Research Grant, ‘Mapping the Invisible City’ |
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2005 |
Monash University Small Research Grant, ‘Tracing the Invisible City’ |
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2004 |
Australia Council Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Skills Development grant, Tokyo studio residency |
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2004 |
Monash University Research Travel Grant, Visiting academic, British School at Rome |
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2001 |
Boise Travel Scholarship |
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1999 |
Wingate Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome |
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1998 |
Royal College of Art, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris |
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Serenella Ciclitira Scholarship, Royal College of Art |
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Winner, Alternative Turner Prize, Frank Organisation, London |