ZOMBIE PAINTING. ARTISTS
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Kate Fraser, actor, will introduce
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Kate FraserNamed after the bonny Kate of Kate Hall, this Kate, London-born and Adelaide-raised, grew up with a love of dancing and acting, but wondered whether she was destined to play men after attending an all-girls school. On leaving, she promptly grew her hair long, formed a production company with some friends and performed her first female lead as ‘Vicki’ in Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls (Adelaide Fringe). Following a successful season in Steve Martin’s Underpants (thankfully he wasn’t in them at the time), Kate was lucky enough to win a Simon Slade Memorial Award for emerging talent. At ACA, Kate has enjoyed exploring gutsy female characters, including ‘Natasha’ in Three Sisters and ‘Lady Macbeth’.
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Dr Mark ShorterMark Shorter (lives and works in Melbourne) is a lecturer in Sculpture and Spatial Practice at the Victoria College of the Arts. He studied at the National Art School, Sydney and the Sydney College of the Arts where he completed a PhD in Visual Arts.
Shorter works across sculpture, painting and performance. His practice draws on a grotesque and unsettling humour to unpick established conventions and social mores. He has developed and performed identities such as the bawdy country music singer Renny Kodgers, the quixotic journeyman Tino La Bamba, and the time-travelling landscape painting critic Schleimgurgeln. These performance investigations express a unique contemporary grotesquerie and propose a criticality in art that is guttural, visceral and funny. Shorter regularly presents and enacts work in atypical venues to reflect a core concern of his practice, which is to consider the function of art both inside and outside conventional modes of display. Shorter has exhibited internationally and throughout Australia. Significant exhibitions and performances include: The Groker, Plato’s Cave, EIDEA House, New York; 50 Ways to Kill Renny Kodgers, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart, 2014, presented as a part of the Dark MOFO festival; Acts of Exposure, a survey of his Schleimgurgeln performance and video series, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 2013; and Renny Kodgers LIVE with Pee Pee, presented as part of the Biennale of Sydney’s Superdeluxe@Artspace, 2010. From 2010 to 2012 he was the host of The Renny Kodgers Quiz Hour on FBi 94.5FM and in early 2014 he published Quixotic Visions: Tino La Bamba’s Great Australian Adventure. |
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Dr Sean Lowry
Sean Lowry is a Melbourne-based artist. He holds a PhD in Visual Arts from the University of Sydney and is currently Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies in Art at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Lowry is also Founder and Executive Director of Project Anywhere (www.projectanywhere.net), and one half (with Ilmar Taimre) of
The Ghosts of Nothing (www.ghostsofnothing.com). |
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Dr Mark Titmarsh
Mark Titmarsh (born 1955, Ingham, Australia, PhD, UTS, 2009) is a visual artist working in painting, video and writing. His paintings and screen work are currently held in public collections across Australia, including the NGA, NGV, AGNSW, QAGOMA, AGWA, MUMA, NFSA, and in private collections in Europe and the United States.
In the1980s he established an international reputation as an experimental filmmaker exhibiting in Europe, North America and South America winning awards at Ann Arbor and Montreal International Festivals. In Australia he was a significant contributor to the development of the postmodern debate in the visual arts in his role as co-editor of the Visual Arts magazine, On the Beach, and as a new image painter. In the 1990s he co-founded the Sydney based artists group Art Hotline that exhibited ephemeral works in non-gallery everyday sites. His current work executed under the rubric of ‘expanded painting’ is painting about painting, or painting that dissimulates into objects, videos, performances and texts. His book Expanded Painting is to be published by Bloomsbury in 2017. He is currently a tenured, part time lecturer in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, where he teaches Interdisciplinary Studies. |
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Dr Andre Brody
Andre Brodyk is a Sydney based Bio artist and practice–based researcher. Brodyk’s PhD (UNSW 2009) instantiated expanded painting transacted through synthetic genetic processes. Dr Brodyk is publicly recognized as the first Australian artist to make and exhibit transgenic material as art agency within GMOs, (July 2002 Biennale of Electronic Art Perth Australia). Since his first residency in 2001 at SymbioticA UWA, Brodyk held invitational artist-in-residency positions at various molecular or microbiology labs in universities throughout Australia until 2017.
The artist has shown synthetic Bioart as repurposed painting iterations within curated invitational exhibitions throughout Australia, in the USA and Ireland. Brodyk has published peer reviewed book and journal articles and conference papers on Bioart, Expanded painting and Experimental drawing. As of December 31st 2017 Brodyk retired from UoN where he was a tenured academic in fine art. KPIs 1-4 debuts in Zombie Painting and is the artist’s obligatory point of creative departure in this rum aberrancy, as amelioration of the painting condition. Having satisfied the efficacy of his substantive art practice, Brodyk will retire after this show to pursue his interests in ‘la dolce far niente’ |
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Dr Tom Loveday
Dr Tom Loveday is a contemporary artist and academic working in Sydney. He has also been a senior lecturer at Sydney College of the Art, University of Sydney Australia where he supervised postgraduate research students and has taught undergraduate art theory. Dr Loveday exhibits artwork regularly both in commercial and independent galleries. Dr Loveday has artworks in both national and international collections. Dr Loveday has also practiced and taught art and architecture, lectured in art history and theory and maintains a research profile in art theory and contemporary art practice.
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