SPIROS PANIGIRAKIS

EDUCATION

2009

PhD candidate (by research) Fine Arts Monash University

2001

Graduate Diploma in Education, The University of Melbourne.

2000

Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, Sculpture: First Class Honours, RMIT.

1999

Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, Painting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

Studio Conditions, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery. Melbourne

2006

WITHOUT, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2005

WITH, CLUBSproject Inc, Melbourne

2003

Hedgeworks, TCB Artist Space, Melbourne

 

Handling, West Space, Melbourne

2001

The girl and the gardener, (with Starlie Geikie) 1st Floor Artist and Writers' Space, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009

west Brunswick Sculpture Triennial, 135 Union Street Brunswick and Ocular Lab, Melbourne. Curators: OSW.

 

Instructional Models, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand. Curators: Terri Bird and Julie Davies

2008

Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, Federation Square, Melbourne

 

redrawing, RMIT Project Space and touring to Contemporary Art Services Tasmania Hobart. Curator: Fiona Macdonald

 

Everybody’s Free, Billboards nightclub, Melbourne. Curator: Ulanda Blair

 

Informal Rituals, TCB art inc, Melbourne. Curators: Alex Vivian and Helen Johnson.

 

Y-2K Biennale, TCB art inc, Melbourne. Curators: Chris Hill, Liv Barrett and James Deutcher

2007

workshop.non.stop, LOOSEprojects, Sydney. Curator Lisa Kelly

 

Shrine on, Platform artist spaces, Melbourne. Curators: Olivia Poloni and Jessie Borrell

 

Omnipresents, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne. Initiating artist: Christopher LG Hill,

2006

Five Minutes to Midnight, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne. Curator: Meredith Turnbull

 

Collaborative commission with Christopher LG Hill for SLAVE 4, Adelaide Biennale for Australian Art, Gallery of South Australia.

 

actual, transformational [winters end], Occupation, Carlton residence. Initiating artist: Bianca Hester

 

SCAPE, Christchurch, New Zealand .Initiating artist: Chris LG Hill

 

Greetings, Ocular Lab, Melbourne. Curator: Nicholas Selenitsch

 

Paper chain, Joint Hassles, Melbourne. Curator: Helen Johnson

2005

SLAVE 3, VCA Gallery, Melbourne. Curators: Christopher Hill, Kain Picken and Rob McKenzie

2004

Smash Your own Window, (with Starlie Geikie) CLUBSproject Inc, Melbourne

 

multipleMISCELLANEOUSalliances, CLUBSproject Inc, Melbourne. Curator: Bianca Hester

 

CLUBS at the Pines, incorporating 24 hr Love, Gippsland Centre for Art/Design Switchback Gallery, Victoria

 

White Hot – New Art from Different Places, City Lights Hosier Lane, Melbourne, Curator: Christian Thompson

2002

IQ, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne. Curator: Colin Duncan

 

OCCUPY, Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne. Curator: Angela Bailey

2001

Hanging Tough, Waikato Polytechnic Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand. Curator: Oliver Wearne

 

Eat My Art, TCB art inc, Melbourne. Curator: Michelle Ussher

2000

Concrete Living Room, 1st Floor Artist and Writers' Space, Melbourne. Curator: Bridget Crone

 

Fascination, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne. Curator: Charlotte Day

1999

Truck, Queen Victoria Market, Curator: Callum Morton

1997

Transparency, Platform 2, Flinders Street Station, Melbourne. Curator: Jo Scicluna

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2006

Collaborative curatorial project with Nadine Christenson, Lizzy Newman and Laressa Kosloff (CLUBSpoject Inc.), Ocular Lab, Brunswick 2004 SMASH YOUR OWN WINDOWS, CLUBSproject Inc. THERE’S A HOLE IN THE BUCKET, CLUBSproject Inc.

CRITICAL WRITING

2008

It And Then Some, An critical response to Fiona Macdonald’s practice in ‘Gratuitous Intent.’

 

Tentative Typology of Alternatives, in ‘Critical Publics’ an Enjoy (Wellington NZ) journal.

 

Fags and Flags, Utopian Slumps catalogue essay for Marcus Keating.

 

CRACKS, a creative response in the ‘Objects in Space catalogue.’

2007

MORE HONEY www.more-honey.blogspot.com;

 

The Posture Repeats. A catalogue essay for Alex Martinis Roe’s exhibition - Habitat. Midsumma;

 

Baubles, blood and bushes. Natural Selection for the Documenta 12 ‘magazines of magazines’ www.naturalselection.org.nz

2006

Projecting on the Project 3 times, A response in Bianca Hester’s ‘Project Projects’ catalogue.

 

Outside 200 Gertrude Street published via www.with-out.blogspot.com as an appendant to WITHOUT at GCAS

2005

The Hole Volume; ACCA online magazine ‘There’s a Hole in the Bucket.

2003

Published in Natural Selection. An online art magazine that reviews art and culture in the Australasian region. Oliver Wearne sits on a fence www.naturalselection.org.nz/ archive/2/2.0.1_editorial.pdf

2002

Catalogue essay for Arting Around - a George Paton Gallery exhibition for Carly Fischer and Geneine Honey.

GRANTS

2009

Asialink/Australian Council funded Singapore post-museum Residency

2008

Presentation grant from Arts Victoria for Studio Conditions

2006

New Work Grant (for emerging artists) Australia Council for the Arts; Australian Postgraduate Scholarship

2003

Next Wave Festival and NAVA

PUBLICATIONS

2009

Bianca Hester gathering gathering Artichoke Magazine February

2008

Bianca Hester Enabling Restraints VCA Gallery Research Publication.

 

OSW (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, Scott Mitchell) Studio Conditions VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery exhibition catalogue

 

Fiona Macdonald Redrawing, May 2008 RMIT Project Space exhibition catalogue

2005

Bianca Hester http://www.squatspace.com/situation/index.php?s=bianca+hester Bianca Hester Things Full of People, published and distributed during the exhibition SITUATION; Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney

2004

Robert Nelson, The Age - A3 section, Fixing the Hole in the Bucket, 04/6/04

2001

Timothy Moore, Like Art Magazine, review of whitewall_10, published by RMIT.

2000

Charlotte Day, Making it Up in the Next Wave Festival catalogue

 

Bridget Crone, Concrete Living Room catalogue, published 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space.

 

Robert Nelson, ‘The Grass is Always Greener’, The Age, 23/4/2000.

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