QUALIFICATIONS
2022 Master of Therapeutic Arts Practise (Community Arts and Health) THE MIECAT INSTITUTE Fitzroy
2019 Bachelor of Visual Art (BVA) Majoring 3D studio performance installation (embodied narratives) SCU Lismore
2009 CERT IV. Screen & Media, TAFE Lismore
2008 CERT IV. Screen & Media, Lismore Conservatorium Of Music
2005 DIPLOMA. Fine Art, TAFE West Wollongong
2003 CERT ii Photographic Practice & Process, National Photo Training College, Sydney
RECENT ARTS/RELATED WORK
2024-Current Sessional Academic (Therapeutic Arts Practise) teacher with The MIECAT Institute
2023-Current Collage Club Facilitator weekly@Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre
2022-Current Creative Arts Therapist Resident Therapist@ Bridge Darebin
2020-Current Co-covenor/host of Radio Laria, Womens Live Poetry and Storytelling Event Melbourne
2022-24 Arts workshop facilitator; studio arts, ceramics, drawing, paint, movement and creative writing.
2021-25 Diversity and Inclusion Lead/Volunteer Coordinator, The Village Festival
BODYWORK & MOVEMENT TRAINING
Current; Regular ongoing creative dance/ movement practise and group training
April 2025 Deep Listening Masterclass training with Playback Theatre.
Feb 2025 Body/Landscape, 4 day intensive training with Frank Van Der Ven
September 2024 Bangarra Dance Theatre ChoreoLab, Movement Educators Training Session
Feb 2024 Body Landscape, 4 day intensive training with Frank Van Der Ven
October 2021 The Phenomenal Body Embodiment in Research (3 CPD points cat A), Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australia
PRE 2020
2018-21 Butoh ongoing training and performance with ButohOUT ensemble and Yumi Umiumare
2019-20 Vipassana Meditation, 10 day intensive training, Dhamma Bhumi +4 day intensive (2020) Dhamma Aloka
2019 Theatre As Medicine, 2 day intensive workshopping with Betty Grumble
2019 Action Theatre, 5 day intensive workshopping with Danielle Cresp
2017-2020 Womens Physical Theatre Troupe, 2 years of regular weekly training with The Womens Circus Footscray
May 2021 Butoh Performer, ODD HOURS as part of the Butohout Festival, Abbotsford Convent
January 2021 Published Sugar and Bones anthology of poetry and imagery. Girls On Key Press
2019 Mask Making Workshop and Movement Workshop Facilitator, The Village Festival
2015-2016 Committee president, events co-ordinator, Project Contemporary Arts-space
2014 RETROSPECT Assistant gallery curator, Retrospect Gallery Byron Bay
2012 STAR COURT THEATRE, Lismore –Front of House/Visitor Experience and Assistant to the Manager
2008-2011 SERPENTINE COMMUNITY GALLERY, Lismore. Elected President 2010, Active committee member 2008-2011, Event coordination and curation
2011 THE BOAT ARTS CENTRE, Lismore –Gallery manager, event coordination and workshop facilitation. Three month residency, public arts project through the Art in the Heart initiative supported by Lismore City Council.
2010 TEAHOUSE ARTHOUSE, Lismore -Workshop and events coordinator and facilitator, gallery management and curation. Three month residency through the Art in the Heart initiative supported by Lismore City Council.
2008- 2010 TABOO CABARET Stage Manager/event production team working with diverse artists of varying abilities on three productions Beltane Burlesque, Risqué Business and Big Love, Lismore
2007 ROCK YOUR BOX NIMFM -Radio presenter, program development, on air host for community arts, culture and music program
2007 Kids Arts Workshop Facilitator -Peats Ridge Sustainable Arts and Music Festival, Peats Ridge
2004 GALWAY ARTS CENTRE, Galway City, Ireland- Kids Art Workshop facilitator.
2004 COLOURS STREET THEATRE Galway City council performance, props/costume/set design & building, workshop host with marginalised community groups Galway, Ireland.
2000 2VOXFM – On air host, Little Lunch & Australian Independent Music Show
1997 BLACK SHEEP THEATRE COMPANY – co-developed and performed 2 theatre productions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 THE IMPERMANENCE OF THINGS Multimodal Installation of works in video, paint and photography, Moving Mountains Gallery Wollongong
2016 MOTHERTONGUE Lismore Regional Gallery
2009 FISH PUNCH & FOX BONES Gallery 5 Crown Lane Wollongong
2008 FOTOGRAFFIKA Photographic exhibition, Serpentine Gallery Lismore
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2023 A1 DAREBIN ART SALON, Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead
2023 I BELONG, International Womens Day exhibition at Ivanhoe Cultural Hub
2021 WITHOUT WALLS, Photographic exhibition, The Queen Victoria Womens Centre, Melbourne
2019 A HUNDRED EYES Photographic exhibition, Incube8r Gallery Prahan
2018 SMALL WORKS PRIZE Painting, Brunswick Street Gallery Fitzroy, Melbourne
2016 WELCOME TO THE GONGCRETE JUNGLE Painting, group exhibition, Moving Mountains Gallery, Wollongong
2016 POLAROID ANDROID Photographic exhibition, Black Gold Gallery Thirroul, Wollongong
2016 VICIOUS, DELICIOUS AND AMBITIOUS Short film screening, co-curator, Project Contemporary Artspace Wollongong
2016 WELCOME TO TRANSLATIA Collaborative Installation with Chuck D’Spose & Rebecca O’Shea, Project Contemporary Artspace Wollongong with
2015 OCCUPY PROJECT -Project Contemporary Artspace Wollongong, short film projection screening
2015 THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCREAM Short film screening at Murwillumbah Theatre, as part of Murwillumbah Arts Trail, NSW
2015 GASP Six screen interactive multimedia installation as part of Transit, Southern Cross Universities BVA Graduate Exhibition
2011-2012 The Creative Exchange Creative Director and Workshop Programmer, North Coast National Show, Lismore Showground
2010 WORN ART Wearable Arts Fashion Show, Serpentine Gallery Lismore
2010 2010 AD Window installation of print works, Serpentine Gallery Lismore
2010 GRAFFIKKA Serpentine Gallery, Curator/Exhibition coordinator, exhibiting works in painting and photography
2009 WOMEN OF THE WORLD drawing & installation,Serpentine Gallery Lismore
2009 OPEN DOORS Members show, painting, Serpentine Gallery
2009 TOY Workshop host and exhibiting artist, Serpentine Gallery Lismore
2008 PRESENCE Exhibiting drawings, Serpentine Gallery Lismore
2008 THE BEEHIVE Collaborative show with Tamara Elkins, The Old Courthouse Belmore Basin, Wollongong
2008 SCARLET Erotic arts exhibition and The Scarlet Ball performance event, Serpentine Gallery Lismore
2006 TEN TEMPERS Group show TAFE graduates, Project Contemporary Artspace Wollongong
CURATORIAL
2019 A HUNDRED EYES Curator- Photography exhibition, Incub8r, Prahan
2016 VICIOUS DELICIOUS AMBITIOUS Co-curated Womens exhibition featuring Kathryn Longhurst and Liz Ham, Project Contemporary Artspace Wollongong
2016 LIVING LINES Curator- Live drawing select group show, Project Contemporary Artspace Wollongong
2016 FOREVER CHANGES Curator- Summer Members Show, Project Contemporary Artspace Wollongong
2014 RETROSPECT SHOP Shop curator, Retrospect Gallery Byron Bay
2012 OUT OF SITE Curator and event coordinator- Third year printmaking students presentation, The Boat, Lismore
2011 SALON DES REFUSES Curator, in association with LRG, unaccepted submissions from Lismore portrait prize, Serpentine Gallery Lismore
2011 TRASH Curator, Concept and delivery of found/repurposed/recycled materials members show, Serpentine Gallery Lismore
2010 CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE Curatorial team- Collaboration with Zeb Schultz, James Smythe, Bec Newman, Tamara Elkins and Nina Kourea, exhibition and interactive installation, Serpentine Gallery Lismore
2007 THE BEEHIVE Co-curated with Tamara Elkins, The Old Courthouse, Belmore Basin Wollongong
2007 GET SEDUCED Co-curated with Tamara Elkins, The Old Court House Belmore Basin, Wollongong,
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2016 The Kitchen Realisation Project (installation), Southern Phones Grant recipient for $10,000
2011 Art In the Heart, Three month initial studio residency
2010 A Paper Trail, facilitating a series of workshops/exhibition of works on paper, Arts Northern Rivers grant recipient $3000.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2023 Current Professional Registration with ANZACATA
2021 The Village Festival Board Member
REFEREES
Zeb Schultz collaborator/Real Art Works founder 0411 716 144
Leah Crossman Director Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre leahcrossman@darebin.vic.gov.au
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