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RECENT EXHIBITIONS

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ART PRACTICE – SOLO PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS

 

2024:  SIGNIFICANT TREES                  Barrett House, Randwick Council 

2015:  COSMIC LOVE WONDERLUST with Imperial Slacks Collective, Campbelltown Regional Gallery & SCA

2012:  22° HALO                                   Gallery 9

2011:  GREENWASH                             Eastern Bloc

2010:  AFTER THE DUST STORM         Gallery 9

2010:  EVERYTHING MUST GO            MOP Projects

2009: SALAD DAYS                                National Art School Gallery

2008: IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING         Platform China Studios (Beijing)

2006: SOFT OPENING                          Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces with Vanila Netto

2004: WORK, REST, PLAY (ESCAPE)    Artspace with Imperial Slacks Collective

2003: NOW OR NEVER                         Gallery Barry Keldoulis

2003: ARCADIA                                      Kudos Gallery

2002: GOLDEN DREAM                       Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

2001: VENEER                                        Imperial Slacks Gallery

AWARDS

2024 BARRETT HOUSE Art Studio Residency, Randwick Council

2012/2013 Undergraduate Scholar Award, Landscape Architecture, UNSW

2008 ASIALINK Visual Arts Residency, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, BEIJING
2008 Visiting Artist, Drawing Department, National Art School Darlinghurst
2006 NSW Ministry for the Arts Gunnery Studio (Artspace)
2004 Highly Commended, Helen Lempriere Scholarship
2004 NAVA Marketing Grant
2002 Freedman Foundation Scholarship, 2 month residency, construction experience at experimental architectural project ARCOSANTI, Arizona.
2001 & 2002 Australia Council Artist Run Initiative Grant (for Imperial Slacks)
1999 – 2001 Australian Postgraduate Award (for Master of Fine Arts, UNSW)

1998 The William Fletcher Trust Grant

SOCIAL PROJECTS

2005 – 2009: “SYDNEY” with Mickie Quick, Hana Shimada and Jim Singline, Surry Hills, Sydney. Formerly a restaurant in the Lebanese quarter of Cleveland St, Surry Hills, SYDNEY was established as a venue for art events and music.

2002: ARCOSANTI Arizona, USA. A residential workshop at Paolo Soleri’s prototype architectural experiment in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona.  I stayed at Arcosanti and worked full-time on the construction site. 

2000 – 2002: IMPERIAL SLACKS GALLERY & COLLECTIVE, Surry Hills. Gallery and artist collective with residential studios.

COLLECTIONS

I have work in the following art collections as well as private collections:

MACQUARIE BANK COLLECTION

ARTBANK

CASULA POWERHOUSE COLLECTION

REFERENCES

A super piece of writing from artist Anthony Springford:

Melody Willis

COSMIC LOVE WONDER LUST – THE IMPERIAL SLACKS PROJECT

Campbelltown Regional Gallery & Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, 2015

Melody Willis – artist interview

Andrew Frost – Guardian review

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2015:   COSMIC LOVE WONDER LUST – THE IMPERIAL SLACKS PROJECT

curated by Nick Tsoutas and Michael Dagostino

Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2015:   BLACK PARROT EDITIONS POP UP, The Rocks, curated by Anthony Springford

2013:   SHE LED HER, Sydney, curate by mural artist Aki Siew

2011:    Group Show, Gallery 9

2008:    LOVE³ 733 Art Factory, Chengdu
           888 China Heights, curated by Mark Gerada

2007:    I, ME, MINE, Horus and Deloris, curated by Koji Ryui and Shane Haseman

2005:    THE DECEMBER GROUP, Gallery Barry Keldoulis,
           CHEWING THE PHAT video night with Imperial Slacks, Phatspace

2001, 2002, 2004: Artspace, Helen Lempriere Exhibition (2004 highly commended)

2003:    Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Freedman Foundation Scholarship Exhibition
           THE STONEVILLA INC. Chrissie Cotter  Stonevilla artists in residence

2002:    HISTORY OF THINGS TO COME Casula Powerhouse curated by Michael Dagostino
           SLACKING OFF Forever Changes installation with Gustavo Böke, Imperial Slacks
           CHILDHOOD, First Draft curated by Jessie Cacchillo
           DESKJOB, Mori Gallery curated by Fiona Lowry & Piers Greville.
           POSITIVE OVERKILL, Imperial Slacks, Imperial Slacks Collective

2001:    BOX, Wren curated by Robert Wellington and Nick Kelly
           PERIOD, Blaugrau Imperial Slacks Collective
           IMPERIAL ALLIANCE, Imperial Slacks Gallery

2000:    AUSTRALIAN PAINTERS AT THE MILLENNIUM, Imperial Slacks Gallery collaborative painting & video project with Shaun Gladwell, David Griggs & Oscar Yanez.
           THE PALACE OF EXAGGERATION… Grey Matter curated by Ian Geraghty
           EIGHTEEN IS ENOUGH Herringbone Gallery Artists in Residence, group show.
           DEPARTURE LOUNGE Kudos Gallery curated by Fiona Greenway

1999:   LUMEN National Solar Architecture Research Lab curated Katrina Pym, Allan Giddy, Rob Largent
AL EISEN & FRIENDS, curated Michael Dagostino & Michael Lindemann, Herringbone Gallery

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