SIMONE SLEE |
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EDUCATION |
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2007– current |
PhD, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne. |
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2004– 06 |
Staatliche Hochshule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, |
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2002 |
Masters in Fine Art (Research), RMIT University, Melbourne |
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1995 |
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2006 |
Help a Sculpture, Gallerie Wildwechsel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. |
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2003 |
On, Melbourne International Arts Festival, 6 Billboard Sites around Melbourne. |
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2002 |
On, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne. |
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2001 |
Activities, Mass Gallery, Melbourne. |
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2000 |
Form connotes action (2), West Space, Melbourne. |
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1999 |
Fig 2., Spare Room, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne. |
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1997 |
Fig. 1. 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne. |
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1996 |
Simone Slee, 1st Floor Artists’ and Writers’ Space, Melbourne. |
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Spill, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2009 |
Thesis:, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney. Curator: Chantal Faust |
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2008 |
Common Space, Private Space, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne. Curator: Rebecca Coates. |
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2007 |
Bird Girls, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne |
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Folded, Musueum of Modern Art, Monash University, Melbourne. Curator: Kyla McFarlane |
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It takes something to make something, Sammlung Rausch, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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2006 |
Before the body – matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne |
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David Harley and Simone Slee, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney |
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Europaaffekt, (Guy Benfield, David Harley, Simone Slee), Atelier Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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Städelschule Rundgang, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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2005 |
Made in Frankfurt, Portikus and Städelschule at the Museum Giersch, Frankfurt am Main |
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Yoko Ono, Dream Universe, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. Germany |
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Klasse of Ayse Erkmen, Gelsen Kircken Kunstverien, Gelsen Kirchen, Germany |
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Ninjas and Turtles, Pankow Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany |
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Städelschule Rundgang, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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2004 |
Before Night – After Nature, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne. Curator: Geraldine Barlow |
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2003 |
Gertrude Studio’s 2003 Exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne. |
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Orifice, Melbourne International Festival, ACCA, Melbourne. Curator: Juliana Engberg |
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Paper Cuts, Monash University, Melbourne. Curators: Katarina Paseta and Natasha Bullock |
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X Melbourne, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney. Curator: Gary Willis |
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2002 |
Fold, Craft Victoria, Melbourne. Curator: Robyn Phelan |
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Pause, Id Space, Melbourne. Curator: Asim Memishi |
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2001 |
low-down, Recent Aquisitions, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne. Curator: Jenepher Duncan |
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Transtitions, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne. Curator: Joy Hirst |
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Old Landscape, New Garden, Mt. Martha, Melbourne. Curator: Ken Scarlett |
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2000 |
Pulp, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne. Curator: Sophie Knezic |
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Blink, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Travelled to Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart. Curators: Stuart Koop and Vikki McInnes. |
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A Compost History of the St Kilda Botanical Conservatory, St Kilda Botanical Gardens, Melbourne. Curator; Annette Douglass |
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1997 |
Nil, Stripp, Melbourne |
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Station Proforma, Fringe Festival, Stop 22, Melbourne. Curator: Amanda Johnston |
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1996 |
Working in Collaboration: Annette Douglass, Josie Dujmovic, Fiona Harrisson, Simone Slee, The Next Wave Festival, West Space, Melbourne |
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Secret Archives, Platform 2, Melbourne. Curator: Rozalind Drummond |
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1995 |
Steam, Fringe Festival Salon, The Ballroom, Melbourne. Curator: Rozalind Drummond |
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Fringe Festival Press Release, The Ballroom, Melbourne, Australia |
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Amanda Ahmed, Megan Marshall, Simone Slee, 1st Floor, Melbourne |
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Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne. Curators: Amanda Ahmed and Andrew McQualter, |
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1994 |
B.F.A. Graduate Exhibition, VCA School of Art, Melbourne. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Catalogue Essays/Entries: |
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Coates, R. ‘Common Space, Private Space’, Bureau, ed. Daw, K. & McInnes, V. VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne, 2008, p. 150-156. |
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Dietrich, N., Birnbaum, D., ‘Island Recordings’, Portikus 2004-2007, Book of a Sleeping Village, Portikus, Walter Koenig, 2008, p. 64. |
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Die Sammlung Rausch, The Rausch Collection, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2007, Walter Koenig, p. 221. |
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McFarlane, K. Folded, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2008. |
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Barlow, G. Before the body – Matter, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2006. |
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room W12/raum, W12, Städelschule, isbn 3-928071-76-9, Frankfurt am Main, 2005. |
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Bolton, K., ‘New Brew: Export Quality Six-Pack’, The Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships, 2004, Samstag Program, University of South Australia. |
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‘Portraits of the Artist, Meanjin, Vol 64 1-2, 2005. |
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Otto, A. K.T, The Review, Nov/05. |
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Barlow, Geraldine, 2004, Before night, after dark, Monash University Museum of Art. |
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Day, Charlotte (ed.), A Short Ride in a Fast Machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985 – 2005, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, p.82. |
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Frichot, Helene, ‘Simone Slee, On’, Melbourne Visual arts Festival, Visual Arts Program 2003, p. 28-31. |
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Bullock, N. 2003, ‘Papercuts’, Monash University Museum of Art. |
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Willis, G., X Melbourne; Guy Benfield, Lyndal Brown, Karen Casey, Peter Churcher, Stpphen Cox, Craig Easton, Juan Ford, Charles Green, David Harley, Kristen Headlam, Tony Lloyd, Sioborn Ryan, Gareth Sansom, Simone Slee, Alex Zubryn, Gulag Publishing, Melbourne. |
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Engberg, J. 2001, ‘Overview’ from Low-Down recent acquisitions Monash University Collection exhibition Catalogue Monash 2002. |
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Delany, M., 2002, ‘Skeletons in the closet: from the monumental to the model - sculpture in the Collection’, Monash University Collection, Four Decades of Collecting, Monash University Museum of Art, p. 49. |
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Hirst, J., Transitions, Project Space, RMIT. |
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Holt, R., 2000, ‘The Greenhouse Effect: Contemplating Compost’, A Compost History of the St Kilda Conservatory. |
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Tomlinson, N., 1997, Fig. 1., Catalogue, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia. |
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Marshall, M, 1996, Simone Slee, 1st Floor, Catalogue, June 26-July 7, Melbourne, Australia. |
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Ahmed, A., Marshall, M, Slee, S., 1995, Amanda Ahmed, Simone Slee, Megan Marshall, 1st Floor Catalogue Essay, Aug 2 – Aug 13, Melbourne, Australia. |
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Reviews/Articles: |
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Schütte, Christoph, ‘Wo die Maus den Pinsel verdrängt, Australische Künstler stellen im “Atleierfrankfurt”aus’, Frankfurter Allgemeine, 23/2/06 |
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Austellungen, Benfield/Harley/Slee, Europaaffekt, Journal Frankfurt, 03.06, p.63. |
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Hierholzer , Michael, ‘Genußescheine’, Frankfurter Allgemeine, 27.7.05, p. 45. |
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Danicke , Sandra, Sinn und Salatgurke, Frankfurter Rundschau, 25.7.05, p. 14. |
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Hohmann, Silke, ‘Was felht und was da ist’, Frankfurter Rundschau 1.6.05, p. 17. |
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Nelson, R. ‘The art of darkness’, The Age, December 15, 2004 |
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Palmer, D. ‘Orifice’, Broadsheet, vol 32, No. 4, p.30-31. |
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Porus, M., ‘X Melbourne’, Eyeline Autumn Winter 2003. p55. |
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Neyon, J., ‘Samstag Scholarship 2004 Awards’. The Adelaide Review, December 2003 Edition. |
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Melbourne Festival 9-25 October 2003. Independent Arts Review, Edition 7, August 2003. |
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Selenitsch, A., ‘Fold’, Craft Culture, Craft Victoria, www.craftculture.org/review/selenitsch2.htm |
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Grishin, S.,, ‘A grab bag of very good Melbourne artists’, The Canberra Times, Tuesday March 4th, 2003. |
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Elliott, L. 1996, ‘Amanda Ahmed, Megan Marshall, Simone Slee’, GLOBE E Journal of Australian Visual Arts, No. 2, Visual Arts Department, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/visarts/globe.html. |
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Galbally, Ann, ‘Melbourne and the 1956 Olympiad’, Art and Australia, Quarterly Journal, Vol 34, No. 4, p.462. |
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Raxworthy, J. 2000, ‘A Compost History’, Monument Architecture/Design 36, p.109. |
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Raxworthy, J. 1998, ‘Fig. 1. Simone Slee, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, 7-29 November, 1997.’, Monument Architecture/Design 22, pp. 99-100. |
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Stuckey, H. 1997, ‘1956 Melbourne Modernity and the XVI Olympiad, Museum of Modern Art at Heide’, Transition, Issue 54-55, p. 98-99. |
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AWARDS |
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2007 |
Anthony Ganim Postgraduate Award |
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Australian Postgraduate Award |
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2005 |
Short listed Szpilman Award, Germany. |
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2004 |
Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. |
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1993 |
Friends of the V.C.A. Encouragement Award. |
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1992 |
National Gallery Women’s Association Award. |
RESIDENCIES |
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2003 |
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Residency. |
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2001 |
Cove Park, Scotland Residency. |