SUSAN FEREDAY

EDUCATION

2006-09

PhD, Monash University, Melbourne

1990-92

Master of Arts (Fine Art) by Research, Deakin University, Victoria College, Prahran Campus, Melbourne

1984-86

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Victoria College, Prahran Campus, Melbourne

1981-82

Technician’s Certificate in Photography, Elizabeth College of TAFE, Adelaide

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

Under a Steel Sky, West Space, Melbourne

2005

Ilsley Green Road and Latent Image, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

2002

Sally, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

 

Hole Thing, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane

2001-02

Remember Me, six installations changing fortnightly, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

2000

Parallel Lives, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

1999

A Fleet of Fancies, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

1998

Visible Things, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

1996

On Paper, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

 

The Object of Photography, Artspace, Sydney

1995

The Object of Photography, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

 

Untitled Found Objects, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane

1994

The Object of Photography, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

1993

Object a, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

1992

Ascendant, Anxious Objects, Astonish Me, Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne

1991

If You Can’t Take the Heat Get Out of the Kitchen, Room 4, Melbourne

1990

Win, Store 5, Melbourne

 

Value, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

 

I Am Never Sure of My Place, Platform, Spencer Street Underpass, Melbourne

1989

Art Fades (1,2,3,4....), Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

1988

A Moment’s Hesitation Before She Changes the Expression

 

On Her Face, Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009

Light Years (curator Maggie Finch), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2006

Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund (curator Isobel Crombie), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

 

Recent Acquisitions (curator Jane Scott), Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

2004

Urban/ExUrban (curator Vikki McInnes), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne

2001

City Square Xmas Boxes (curator Lyndal Jone), Melbourne City Council

 

Desire (curator Rachel Young), RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

2000

The Retrieved Object (curator Elizabeth Gower), Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne

1999

What John Berger Saw (curator Merryn Gates), Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra. Touring to Orange Regional Gallery; Monash University Gallery; University of SA Art Museum; John Curtin Gallery, Perth; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

1998

City of Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart

1996

Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography! (curator Linda Michael), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

 

The Power to Move: Aspects of Australian Photography, (curator Anne Kirker), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

1995

Lovers (curator Juliana Engberg), Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

 

Suitcase Melbourne City Plaza

 

Palais Lights public slide projections, St. Kilda Festival

 

Postcard Show, Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne

1994

Projection: Filming the Body (curator Natalie King), The Basement, Melbourne

 

Don’t Stop (curators Susan Fereday and Shiralee Saul), Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne; Geelong Art Gallery

 

The Aberrant Object: Women Dada and Surrealism (curator Juliana Engberg), Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

 

Read My Lips (curator Shiralee Saul), Ascent Gallery, Melbourne & Union Gallery, Adelaide

 

Group, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

1993

Reflex (curator Stuart Koop), Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, touring to University of Tasmania, Launceston; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

 

Luminaries (curators Jenepher Duncan and Natalie King), Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

 

Pure Cinema (curators Rozalind Drummond and Paul Morgan), Charles Williams Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne

 

City Screens projections onto city buildings (curator Stuart Koop), Melbourne International Festival and Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

 

Vitae: An Installation Publication #7 (curators Shiralee Saul and James Harley), RMIT Faculty Gallery, Melbourne

 

Parcel Post Show Room 4, Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne

 

Margaret Stuart Endowment National Gallery of Victoria
Group Show, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

1992

5 x 8, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

 

Public Spaces: Public Art Personal Vision (curator Kevin Wilson), Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne

 

Allure, Slide at 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

 

Tongue, Platform, Spencer Street Underpass, Melbourne

 

SupermArt (curator Shiralee Saul), Blaxland Gallery, Melbourne

 

Food in Art (curator Debra Tucker), Gallery at Tolarno, Melbourne

1991

Christmas Tree Forest, Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne

 

Artists Portraits of Artists, Victorian Centre for Photography
Support Women Image Makers Fundraiser Linden Gallery, Melbourne

 

Cite, Sight, Site (curator Linda Sproul), Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne

 

Body Without Organs, First Draft West, Sydney

 

Postcard Show, Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne

1990

Amoré with Jeff Gibson and Rosemary Laing (curator Sally Couacaud), Artspace, Sydney

 

Palimpsest (curator Kaye Moorhouse), University of Tasmania, Hobart

1989

Upfront, Blaxland Gallery, Melbourne

 

Photoaccess, Benefit Link Gallery, Canberra

1988

St. Kilda Arts Festival, Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne

1987

Beatrice Faust Curates: From Boubat to Fereday, Photographers Gallery, Melbourne

1986

Colour Me Gone, Lighthouse Gallery, Melbourne

 

Prahran Fine Art Graduate Show, Victoria College Gallery, Melbourne

 

St. Kilda Arts Festival, Linden–St. Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne

1985

Women 150 Linden Gallery

1984

Lady Fairfax Selection Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

1982

Women’s Art Movement Group Show, WAM, Adelaide

PUBLICATIONS

2008

Under a Steel Sky, self-published, 60 pages; with writing by Susan Fereday and Maureyn Brees

2006

Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund, essay by Isobel Crombie, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2004

Urban/ExUrban, essay by Vikki McInnes, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne

2001

Remember Me, essays by Chris Handran, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

2000

I Fall in Love With a Beautiful Newcomer Hiding a Deadly Secret, self-published, 100 pages

 

Postcard (A Fleet of Fancies), self-published

 

The Retrieved Object, curator Elizabeth Gower, essay by Stuart Koop, Linden Gallery

1996

Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography!, essays by Linda Michael, George Alexander, Martyn Jolly, Museum of ContemporaryArt, Sydney

 

On Paper, self-published

 

The Object of Photography, essay by Robert Schubert, Artspace, Sydney

 

Book cover and artist's pages, (‘Mother/Nature’), Motherlode, Sybilla Feminist Press, p.118

1995

The Power to Move: Aspects of Australian Photography, essay by Anne Kirker, Queensland Art Gallery

1995

Samstag, University of South Australia

 

Postcard (Work), Linden Gallery

1994

The Object of Photography, essay Jeffrey Fereday, self-published

 

Postcard Pleasure, Museum of Modern Art at Heide

1993

Art Right Now: 45 Australian Artists, Discovery Media, Sydney

 

The Aberrant Object: Women, Dada and Surrealism, essays Juliana Engberg, Robyn McKenzie, Kenneth Wach, Anne Marsh, Museum of Modern Art at Heide

 

Postcard (Pleasure), Museum of Modern Art at Heide

 

Reflex, essays Stuart Koop and Geoffrey Batchen, Centre for Contemporary Photography

 

Luminaries, essays Kevin Murray, Donald Brook, Jenepher Duncan, Natalie King, Monash University Gallery

 

City Screens, text Stuart Koop, Centre for Contemporary Photography

 

Illustration (from Object a), Art and Australia, Winter, p.528

 

Object a, essay Jeffrey Fereday, self-published

1992

Illustration (Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue), Art and Australia, Winter, p.492

 

Illustration (Last Painting tissues boxes), Next Wave Festival Visual Arts Catalogue, p.75

 

Illustration (Last Painting tissues boxes), Robert Rooney,

 

‘Talent in Store to Beat Blues’ The Weekend Australian, 30 May, p.13

 

Illustration (SupermArt) Rebecca Lancashire, ‘A Consumer Approach That Challenges Art’, The Age, 15 May, p.12

 

Ascendant, Anxious Objects, Astonish Me, essays Jeffrey Fereday and Carolyn Barnes, published by the artist

1991

Cite, Sight, Site, Linden Gallery

 

Magazine cover, ‘Think’, Agenda #18

 

Four Postcards, (Art is a Special Way of Thinking, Another Masterpiece, Ask Me About the Meaning, Art is Safe), self-published

1990

Amoré, essay Ted Colless, Artspace, Sydney, Palimpsest, University of Tasmania Gallery

 

Artist’s Page Set Sub Set, An Installation Publication, Issue #1
Wallpaper page, Agenda #13/14, p.29

 

Artist’s pages, Rebus #2, pp.20-23

 

Artist’s pages, Art & Text #36, pp.74-75

 

Illustration Value, Art and Australia, Winter, p.614

 

Value, with text Brenda Ludeman, 200 Gertrude Street

1989

Art Fades (1,2,3,4....), Australian Centre for Photography

REVIEWS

2008

Ella Mudie ‘Double exposure for faded images,’ The Age A2, 30 August, p.17-18

 

Robert Nelson ‘Memories lie beyond the surface,’ The Age, 25 June, p.16

2005

Penny Webb, ‘Following the Customs of the Country’, The Age, 1 March, p.17

2002

Ihor Holubisky, 'Susan Fereday at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art', Art + Australia, Summer 2002, pp 234-235

 

Sandra McLean, 'Luxury of a little space', feature article, Brisbane Courier Mail, 8 March, p.15

1999

Robert Nelson, 'Art of meaning and bafflement', The Age, 15 September, p.16

1998

Anna Clabburn 'Restoring our faith in those ordinary things', The Age, 22 July, p.17

1997

Christopher Chapman ‘Sculpture, snapshots’, Photofile, April, p.31-32

1996

Margaret Morgan ‘Photography is dead! Long live photography!’, Art + Text #55, pp.91-92

 

Jacqueline Millner ‘Photography is dead! Long live photography!’, Globe e journal, issue #4

 

Freda Freiberg ‘On Paper’, The Age, 26 June, p.21

 

Anne Marsh ‘Works shed new light’, Herald Sun, 12 June, p.54

1995

Robert Schubert ‘Susan Fereday: Sutton Gallery’, Art + Text #52, p.91-82

 

Robert Rooney, ‘Stenopaeics, Susan Fereday’, The Australian, 26 May, p.48

 

Robert Nelson, ‘Installation poking at hole in halo’, The Age, 17 May, p.21

 

Anne Marsh, ‘Pinhole shows focus on narrow views’, Herald Sun, 17 May, p.60

 


George Petelin, ‘Welcome, That’s Women All Over’, The Australian, 28 April, p.9

1994

Denise Robinson, ‘The Aberrant Object’, Agenda, #37, July, pp.23-25

 

Anna Clabburn, ‘The Aberrant Object’, World Art, Vol.1 #2, p.100

 

Susan McCulloch, ‘Objects of desire’, Herald-Sun, 4 May, p.63

 

Stephanie Bunbury, ‘The Monstrous Feminine’, The Age, Saturday Extra, 2 April, p.10

 

Tom Nicholson, ‘Window (The Aberrant Object)’, Farrago April/May, p.12-13

 

Linda Williams, ‘The Aberrant Object’, Art + Text #48, p.74

 

Barbara Creed, ‘The Aberrant Object: Women Dada and Surrealism’, Art Monthly #69, pp.10-12

 

Zara Stanhope, ‘Reflex’, Art + Text #48, p.75

 

May Lam, Ann Howie, Andrea McLaughlin, Andrew James Conquest ‘Reflex’, Artfan #2, p.27

 

Rohan Storey, ‘The City Screen’, Monument: Architecture magazine, #2, April, pp.61-67

 

Robert Schubert, ‘City Screens’, Art + Text #47, pp.79-80

1993

Greg Neville, ‘Conditioned reflex, but students lively’, The Age, 15 December, p.17

 

Greg Neville, ‘Two views at odds’, The Age, 25 June, p.15

 

Susan McCulloch, ‘Works of women on show around town’, Herald-Sun, 11 June, p.63

1992

Stuart Koop, ‘Review: Susan Fereday’, Art & Text #43, pp.78-79

 

Robert Nelson, ‘Installations: Ascendant, Anxious Objects, Astonish Me’, Agenda #24, p.22

 

Jeffrey Fereday, ‘SupermArt’, Agenda #24, pp.24-25

1991

Alex Selenitsch, ‘Susan Fereday, Lyndall Milani, Marie Sierra-Hughes, Agenda #20/21, p.42

 

Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey, ‘Cite, Sight, Site’, Eyeline #16, p.41

 

Christopher Heathcote, ‘Battlers can learn from Whisson’’ The Age, 6 March, p.14

 

1990 Rex Butler, ‘A love that cannot speak its name’, Agenda #15, p.19

 

Catherine Lumby, ‘Dino puts his finger on it’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 November, p.12

 

Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey, ‘Value, Eyeline #12, pp.43-44

 

Carolyn Barnes, ‘Value’, Agenda #10, pp.22-23

 

Beatrice Faust, ‘Intimacy of best mates’’ The Age, 13 February, p.14

 

Campbell Thomson, ‘Seeing is deceiving’, The Herald, 6 February, p.13

1989

Janet Shanks, ‘Young, Lethbridge, Fereday’, Photofile, Winter, pp.28-29

1988

Carolyn Barnes, ‘Vacant/Possession’, Photofile, Autumn, pp.22-23

 

Terry Smith, ‘Chicago plays the game she denies’ Times On Sunday, 24 January, p.31

COLLECTIONS

 

Australian National Gallery

 

National Gallery of Victoria

 

Queensland Art Gallery

 

Monash Gallery of Art

 

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

AWARDS/GRANTS

2007

Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Board, New Work Grant

2007

Studio residency for two months, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

2006-09

Australian Postgraduate Allowance Scholarship

2002

Australia Council, VACB, New Work Grant

 

Arts Victoria, Arts Development, New Work Grant

 

Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Equipment Grant

2001-02

Studio residency for three months, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

1999

Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Artist Development Grant

 

Artist in residence, Noosa Regional Gallery

1996

Studio residency for six months, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

1995

Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship, University of South Australia

1992

Australia Council, VACB, Artist Project Grant

WRITING BY THE ARTIST

2008

‘Under a Steel Sky’ poetic text, for book launched with exhibition at West Space

2006

‘Wired World’ catalogue essay, Simon Maidment and Paul Shepherd, Conical Gallery

1996

‘Ruins in Reverse’ catalogue essay, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall

1995


‘Likeness’ catalogue essay, CCP

1994

‘Ipso Photo’ catalogue essay, with Stuart Koop, CCP

 

‘Don’t Stop’ mail-order catalogue, Linden Gallery

 

‘Jemmy’, group exhibition, Adelaide, Agenda #36

1993

‘Mathew Jones: Poof! Review’, Art Fan #1, p.22

 

‘Portraits of Pleasure’, Kent Morris exhibition, Agenda #33, p.8

 

‘Arranging Nature’, catalogue essay, CCP

 

‘Immortality’, catalogue essay, CCP

1992

‘After the Fact’, catalogue essay, VCP

 

‘Elvis Lives!’ Polixeni Papapetrou exhibition, Agenda, #20/21, p.41

 

‘Claim’, June Savage exhibition’, Eyeline #16, pp.34-35

 

‘Ills Caused By Love and Desire’, Chris Koller exhibition, Agenda, #18, p.10

1990

‘Photography in the art museum’, Agenda, #13/14, p.3

 

‘Looking’, catalogue essay for Graeme Hare Exhibition at ACCA

1989

‘Witness’, Linda Jullyan exhibition, Agenda, #9, p.26

 

‘Stuck in the approximate’, Sue Ford exhibition, Agenda #5, pp.26-27

1988

‘The Moment of Sainthood’, Rose Farrell & George Parkin exhibition, Agenda, #3, pp.20-21

 

‘Before the winter gardens’, Chris Koller exhibition, Photofile, Autumn, pp.20-21

CURATED BY THE ARTIST

1996

Ruins in Reverse. Lauren Berkowitz, Adam Boyd, Colin Duncan, Hewson/Walker, Shaun Kirby, Christopher Langton, Callum Morton, Rose Nolan, Deborah Ostrow, Kathy Temin, Chris Ulbrick, Chris White, Constanze Zikos. 14 artists employ unorthodox and prosaic materials in works which reference and undermine historical moments of aesthetic purity and interact with RMIT Gallery’s radically renovated interior. RMIT Gallery at Storey Hall, Melbourne

REVIEWS

 

Anne Marsh, ‘Gallery of ruins’, Herald Sun, 17 April, p.56

 

Lawrence Money, ‘They’re flat out trying to help’, The Sunday Age, 21 April, p.20

 

Anna Long, ‘Irreverent trip to creative ruins’, Business Review Weekly, 22 April, p.130

 

Robert Rooney, ‘Ruins in Reverse’, The Australian, 10 May, p.

 

Colin Simpson, ‘Youth, energy, and a “Victorian” relic’ The Bulletin, 14 May, p.76

 

Robert Nelson, ‘No logic, no feeling’, The Age, 18 May, p.10

 

Peter Timms, ‘Similarity breeds contempt’, Herald Sun, 22 May, p.

 

Peter Hill, ‘The Next Wave, nightclubs, and surrounding islands’, Art Monthly Australia, July, p.12

 

Lewis Ryan, ‘MDF I Luv You’, Broadsheet, Vol.25 No.3, Spring, pp.22-23

 

Robert Schubert. ‘Ruins in Reverse’, Art + Text, #55, pp.93-94

1995

Likeness 46 photographs selected from the Waverley City Gallery, Monash City Council collection assembled around similarities in composition and subject matter. Most of the photographs are by men, most of the subjects are men, streets, sports, buildings, deserts, rocks. Is visual concord the archive’s refrain? Centre for Contemporary Photography

Reviews

Freda Freiberg, ‘Life in the likeness of the Australian male’, The Age, 25 April

 

Victoria Harrison, ‘Likeness’, Melbourne Weekly, 25 April, p.11

 

Anne Marsh, ‘Real life images go snap, Daryl, and pop’, Herald Sun, 5 April, p.65

 

A Small History of Photography: Lectures
Juliana Engberg, Robert Nelson, Charles Green, Martyn Jolly, Anne Marsh, Freda Freiberg, Destiny Deacon, Adrian Martin, Geoff Lowe, Gael Newton,Bill Kelly, Hewson/Walker, Elizabeth Gertsakis, Paul Fox, Paul Carter, Jody Zellan, Deb Verhoeven, Peter Tyndall. A series of lectures challenging the idea of an overarching or definitive history of photography. Eighteen artists, writers, and theorists are invited to choose ten slides around which to talk about their own private and professional fascination with photography. Centre for Contemporary Photography

1994

Ipso-Photo (co-curated with Stuart Koop). Margaret Roberts, Chris Fortescue, Marie Sierra-Hughes, Phillip Watkins. The influence of the camera’s privileging vision on recent sculptural works. Four installations critique photography’s relationship with subjectivity and power. Centre for Contemporary Photography

Review

Scott McGuire, ‘Ipso photo’, Agenda, #41, March, p.13

 

Don’t Stop (co-curated with Shiralee Saul). Exhibition and mail-order catalogue. Thirty artists contribute art multiples displayed in an environment resembling an upmarket boutique to stimulate discussion on art as commodity. Linden-St. Kilda Arts Centre; touring to Geelong Art Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery. Mail-order catalogue circulating throughout Australia.

Reviews

Jenny Zimmer, ‘Crafts advance in leaps and bounds’, The Age, 28 December, p.17

 

G.Tresoldi, M.Morgan, N.Good, C.Forsey, M.McInnes, D.Frei, S.Forsey, T.Andreatta, S.Kinnear, Art Fan, #3/4, November, pp.38-39

 

Jenny Zimmer ‘Objects bizarre that became objects with a function’, The Age, 19 July, p.19

 

S.Fereday & S.Saul, ‘Multiples for Sale’, Artlink ,Vol 14 #2, Winter, pp.13-14

 

Photography Post Photography: Lectures
Edward Colless, George Alexander, Anne Marsh, Pamela Hansford, William Routt, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Tim Mathieson, Kevin Murray. Eight key Australian theorists present lectures that consider the notion of ’post-photography’. CCP

1993

Arranging Nature. June Savage, Liz Butler, Gillian Dallwitz, James Packer, Tony Nott, Naomi Kumar, Donna Larcom. Sculptural and installational works using photographic imagery to explore nature as visual construct. Centre for Contemporary Photography; touring to University of Tasmania, Launceston; Warrnambool Art Gallery; Mildura Art Centre; Shepparton Art Gallery, Sale Regional Arts Centre; Albury Regional Arts Centre, Waverley City Gallery

Review

Anne Marsh, ‘Waverley in picture’, Herald Sun, 29 November, p.47

 

Immortality Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Jeff Gibson, Chris Tabecki, Polixeni Papapetrou, Heather Fernon, Kevin Wilson. Borrowing its title from Milan Kundera’s novel, 'Immortality' looks at masculine desire and the status of hero in popular culture. Centre for Contemporary Photography

Reviews

Tim Mathieson, ‘Immortality’, Agenda, #32, July, p.30

 

Greg Neville, ‘Drab images fail to speak on male identity’, The Age, 29 April, p.16

1992

After the Fact Photographs from the Melbourne police forensic archive depicting the vacant scenes of crimes. Photography as a tool of detection, fascination and disputed truth. Victorian Centre for Photography; touring to Union Gallery, University of Adelaide; University of Tasmania Gallery, Launceston

Reviews

Peter Timms, ‘It beats Sydney by a mile’, Art and Australia, Winter, p.32

 

John Neylon, ‘Discursive torture’, The Adelaide Review, March

 

Richard Grayson, ‘After the Fact’, Photofile, #38, p.4

 

Robert Rooney, ‘Following in Piero’s footsteps’, The Weekend Australian, 7-8 November, p.13

 

Greg Neville, ‘Blowing up the myth of truth’, The Age, 9 October, p.14

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