ANNE GRAHAM

Dip.AD, Manchester Polytechnic

MA, Royal College of Art

Grad. Dip. Ed., Western Australian Institute of Technology

PhD Candidate, RMIT, Melbourne

Head of School, School of Humanities, University of Newcastle, NSW
Currently lives in Sydney, NSW

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Anne Graham: Selected Works 1983-2003, project manager John Walsh, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Bond University Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD

Memory and Things, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney; Memory and Things, School of Fine Art Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW; The Cultivated Garden, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney

Grooming and Eating, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, NSW
Food & Art, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 5 May–1 July

The Silk Plaza, The Echigo – Tsumari Art Triennial
Passage, permanent public art work in Martin Place for the City of Sydney Open Museum and Sculpture Walk, Sydney, NSW

People in Glass Houses, Royal Botanic Gardens, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, NSW

Timepiece, Sculpture Forum, Canberra, ACT
Tunnel Vision, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT

The Cooling Tower, Museum of Sydney, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, NSW
The Macleay Women, Elizabeth Bay House, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, NSW
Transitions, Melbourne Festival, VIC

The Chain of Chambers, for Volt at the Brisbane Festival,Queensland
Off the Rails, Adelaide Festival, curated by Erica Green for the University of Adelaide and Adelaide Festival, SA

Sweat, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Sarashi, The Hinode-Machi residency exhibition at Hinode Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Steriliser, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA

Sweat, street performance, July–September, Manhattan, NY, USA

Through the Glass, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Lap, Artspace, The Gunnery, Woolloomooloo, NSW
Toll, Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Penrith, NSW

Noemata, Performance Space, Sydney, NSW

Anne Graham, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW

So What, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW

Selected Group Exhibitions

Life Stocking, Museum of Art, BYU University, Utah, USA;
Memory and Things V, Library Gallery, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW;
Tenth Anniversary Japan Cultural Centre Sydney, Celebrating Cross-Cultural Transformations, Archive project, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney;
Objects and Rituals of the Kitchen, School of Fine Art Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW;
Waltzing with Whitlam, Sydney Opera House Studio, Sydney;
Memory and Things IV, Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Palliative Care and Community Arts Progam, NSW;
Memory and Things III, John Hunter Hospital, Arts for Health, in conjunction with Synergy Arts for Health Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Festivus, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2002, Sherman Galleries, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne;
Group Exhibition, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney;
Dressing and Dreaming, curator Dr Gene Sherman, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney

Inaugural Exhibition, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW;
The Cultivated Garden, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney;
Patricia Wilson Adams and Anne Graham, School of Fine Art Gallery,
University of Newcastle, NSW, 15 Aug–9 Sept
Relative Values: Common Ground, School of Fine Art Gallery,
University of Newcastle, NSW, 9 May–3 June
Group Exhibition, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, 28 Feb–17 March
7th NICAF: International Contemporary Art Festival, Tokyo
International Forum, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 28 March–1 April

Patricia Wilson Adams and Anne Graham, School of Fine Art Gallery,
University of Newcastle, NSW, 15 Aug–9 Sept
Relative Values: Common Ground, School of Fine Art Gallery,
University of Newcastle, NSW, 9 May–3 June
Group Exhibition, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, 28 Feb–17 March
7th NICAF: International Contemporary Art Festival, Tokyo
International Forum, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 28 March–1 April

Olympic Theme – Pathways, Maitland City Art Gallery, Maitland
Call & Response, School of Fine Art Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW
Soft House 1, Installation for the Newcastle Botanical Gardens, Newcastle, NSW
Soft House 2 - Construction and Process, International Artists Museum, Poland

Carburetta Parking, Casula Power House, Liverpool Regional Gallery, Liverpool, NSW
Doing Time, Tamworth Fibre Biennale, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth, NSW
A Sense of Place, Bede Gallery for Northern Arts, Newcastle, UK
Flagging The Republic, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, NSW
The Beggars Banquet, A Progressive Dinner, Performance Space, Sydney, NSW

Doing Time, Seven Histories of Australia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Doing Time, Casula Power House, Liverpool, NSW
Compound Time, Canberra National Sculpture Forum, Canberra, ACT
The Nuns Pool, Viewers and Audiences, Wollongong Regional Gallery, Wollongong, NSW

Working with the Wall, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

Hypothetically Public, Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Penrith, NSW
Black, Regional Galleries Touring Exhibition
Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne, VIC

Working in Public, Public Art Project, Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Transgressions, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT

Dissonance: Aspects of Feminism and Art, The Wharf, Sydney, NSW

The Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

Biennale of Sydney, Pier 2, Sydney, NSW

Wardrobe, Mad Love Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Thin Skin, Performance Space, Sydney, NSW

Selected Awards and Grants

Mayfield Cultural Heritage Study, Collaborative Grant, Imaging Newcastle

PhD Examination in the Creative Arts, RMC Grant, University of Newcastle;
Objects and Rituals of the Kitchen RMC Project Grant, University of Newcastle
2000 NRAG Artist-in-Residence Program, Newcastle Region Art Gallery

NAWIC Award, National Association of Women in Construction Merit Award, awarded to Passage, Martin Place, Sydney, NSW
RMC Conference Travel Scholarship, International Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland

RMC New Staff Grant, for The Mnemonic Function of Objects and Materials as Constructors of Identity, University of Newcastle
Sydney City Sculpture Commission, Passage

Nepean Research Grant to Support Faculty Publications and Visiting Fellowships

Public Commissions

The North Wing Project, collaboration with Alexander Tzannes and Associates, 21 Pacific Street, Newcastle; Snake Path, permanent public artwork, Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan; The Three Bowls, permanent public artwork, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Casuarina Development, NSW

Wish Transmitter, Art Avenue, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan; Tachikawa Calendar, Art Avenue, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan; Hide and Seek, Art Avenue, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan; Iwadeyama Station, permanent public artwork, Iwadeyama, Japan

Passage, Martin Place, for the City of Sydney Open Museum and Sculpture Walk

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Brisbane City Gallery, QLD
John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, WA
University of Western Sydney
The Belgiorno-Nettis Collection
Corporate and private collections worldwide

Selected Bibliography

Jill Stowell, 'Healing hands ever soothing', Newcastle Herald, 5 May 2003

Jill Stowell, 'Domesticity in the extreme', Newcastle Herald, 25 October 2003

Bruce Barber, 'Marking the limit: Re-framing a micro-economy for the arts', Parachute 106, Pub Integria, Canada, 2002

Anne Susskind, 'Wear in the world', Bulletin, 16 April 2002

Susan Best, 'Elemental constructions: Women artists and sculpture in the expanded field', in Adam Geczy & Benjamin Genocchio (eds), What is Installation? An Anthology of Writings on Australian Installation, Power Publications, University of Sydney, 2001, pp. 193-95

Susan Best, 'Anne Graham's Passing Through: Between performance and the object', Eating and Grooming, Sherman Galleries, exhibition catalogue, 2001

Anne Graham, 'Soft architecture', in Elizabeth Mossop & Paul Walton (eds), City Spaces, Art and Design, Fine Art Publishing, Sydney, 2001, pp. 78-87 Tony Bond, Food and Art at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 2001

Victoria Hynes, Critic's Picks, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 2-8 November 2001 Anne Loxley, 'Nature's theme from garden to bush can only grow on you', Sydney Morning Herald, 10 October 2001

Victoria Hynes, 'Rites stuff', Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July - 2 August 2001

Courtney Kidd, 'The casual look, going on nonchalance', Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July 2001

Elizabeth Farrelly, 'A walk on the short-sighted side', Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 2001

Thomas, Martin, ‘The Cooling Tower’, Uncertain Ground: Essays Between Art and Nature, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000

Engberg, Julian, ‘Breadline’, Artlink, vol. 19, no. 4, 2000

Dauth, Louise, Site. Parliament House Construction Photography Project, Parliament House, Canberra, 2000

O’Brien, Geraldine, ‘Ghostly Walk in a Misty Metaphor’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 March 2000

Thomas, Richard, ‘The Bridge, Construction in Progress V1’, International
Artists Museum, Melbourne

Best, Susan, ‘Elemental Constructions: Women Artists and Sculpture in The Expanded Field’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, September 2000

Coucaud, Sally. ‘New Look Martin Place’, City of Sydney Quarterly, Public Affairs Unit, City of Sydney, Town Hall, 2000

Dysart, Dinah, ‘In House Intervention’, Art and Australia, vol. 36, no. 3, 1999

Best, Susan, ‘Art in Other Spaces’, Watch This Space: A Conference on
Public Art, ed. Debra Malor and Heather Johnson, Australian Journal of Art, Sydney, p. 73, 1999

Best, Susan, ‘Public Art in the Olympic City’, Architecture Australia, September/October, p. 82

Best, Susan, ‘Elemental Constructions: Women and Sculpture in the Expanded Field’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol. 1, no. 2