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Solo and group exhibitions, awards and prizes, grants and commissions, residencies, collections, education, research and curatorial positions, panels and public speaking, professional affiliations.
AWARDS, PRIZES, GRANTS, COMMISSIONS, RESIDENCIES
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2023: Feminist Art Conference (FAC) // International Feminist Art Residency // Gibraltar Point Art Centre // Toronto
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2021: City of Yarra Community Award // Contributions to the Arts
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2021: City of Yarra Arts Grants // Small Projects Grant
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2020: National Assistance Program for the Arts // Artist Grant
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2020: Feminist Art Conference (FAC) // International Feminist Art Residency (Florence) // Postponed due to COVID-19
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2020: Petite Residency // Factory 49 (Paris) // Postponed due to COVID-19
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2017: NARS Foundation // International Artist Residency (Brooklyn, US)
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2015: Feminist Art Conference (FAC) // International Feminist Art Residency // Gibraltar Point Art Centre // Toronto
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2015: NAVA // Australian Artists’ Grant
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2015: University of Melbourne Student Union // Arts Grant
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2015: University of Melbourne // POTS Award (Prestigious Overseas Travelling Scholarship)
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2014: Creative Victoria // VicArts Grant
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2014: Victorian Women’s Trust // Sponsorship Grant
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2014: Australian Tapestry Workshop // Artist in Residence
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2014: Melbourne Social Equity Institute // Doctoral Academy Grant
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2014: University of Melbourne // Faculty Small Grant Scheme
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2013: Melbourne Social Equity Institute // Seed Funding Grant
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2012–2013: Australian Postgraduate Award for PhD Research
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2012: Art Gallery of New South Wales // Moya Dyring Studio Residency // Cité International des Arts // Paris
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2012: City of Melbourne // Arts Project Grant
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2011: Copyright Agency Limited // Creative Industries Career Fund Grant
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2011: NAVA // The Janet Holmes á Court Artists’ Grant
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2010–2011: Australian Postgraduate Award for Masters Research
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2010: University of Melbourne Conference and Creative Research Activity Fund
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2010: University of Melbourne Student Union // Arts Grant
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2009: University Melbourne Student Union // Sculpture Commission
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2009: Winner George Paton Gallery Proud Award
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COLLECTIONS
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Melbourne University Student Union Art Collection // University of Melbourne // Australia
Hotel Sofitel Emerging Artists Collection // Melbourne // Australia
Byron Bay Community Health Centre // NSW // Australia
Private Collections
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EDUCATION​
2017: PhD (Fine Art) // University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts
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2012: Master of Fine Art (Research) // University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts
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2009: Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Art // University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts
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1993: Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) // Phillip Institute of Technology (Melbourne)
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RESEARCH AND CURATORIAL POSITIONS
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2022: Curator // Women's Art Register, Setting up shop at the GPG // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne
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2021/21: Researcher // This Is W.A.R! // Women’s Art Register // Melbourne
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2019: Curator // From the W.A.R Files // City Library // Melbourne
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2018-20: Research Assistant // Care: Feminism, art and ethics in neo-liberal times // LaTrobe University // Victoria
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2018: Curator // Conspicuous Presence // Trocadero Artspace // Melbourne
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2017: Assistant Curator // Doing Feminism/Sharing the World // Norma Redpath House // Melbourne
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2016: Research Assistant // Women, Art and Feminism in Australia since 1970 // Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2016-18 // Victorian College of the Arts // University of Melbourne
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2015: Co-curator // f generation: feminism, art, progressions, with Juliette Peers and Veronica Caven Aldous // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne
2015: Co-curator // As If: Echoes of the Women’s Art Register, with Juliette Peers and Stephanie Leigh // West Space // Melbourne
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2014: Co-curator // Topologies of Sexual Difference, with Louise Burchill // George Paton Gallery // for Topologies of Sexual Difference Luce Irigaray Circle Conference // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: Curator// The f Word // Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale and Ararat Art Gallery, Ararat // Victoria
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2014: Curator // Imagining Social Equity, perspectives on migration, gender and community // Museo Italiano // Melbourne
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2014: Co-curator // The Technopia Tours Feminist Art Bus, with Kim Donaldson // Melbourne
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2013–2015: Co-founding member //Matters of the Body Research Cluster // Victorian College of the Arts // University of Melbourne
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2013–2018: Member // Melbourne Social Equity Institute Gender Research Network
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2012: Co-curator // A Dinner Party: setting the table // West Space // Melbourne
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2012: Curator // Wild vs Man // Goodtime Studios // Melbourne
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2011: Curator // Interior Architecture // LaTrobe University VAC // Bendigo // Victoria
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PANELS & PUBLIC SPEAKING, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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2025-: Member // Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) // Spain
2024: Panel moderator // A Story named Joy // Palais de Tokyo // Paris // NEST network for empowerment, solidarity and transregionality
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2024: Forum participant // NEST network for empowerment, solidarity and transregionality // Villa Vassilief // Paris // AWARE Archives of women artists, research and exhibitions
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2024: Conference panellist // CAA Annual conference // Chicago // Panel - Radical archiving for radical art histories: against a positivist rhetoric of discovery // Paper - The Women’s Art
Register: Archiving feminist community // Panel Chair Prof. Hilary Robinson
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2023–2024: Convenor, Grants & Development Coordinator // Women’s Art Register // Australia​
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2017-2023: Secretary, Archive Coordinator, Volunteer Coordinator // Women’s Art Register // Australia
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​2022: Panellist // The Adrianne Wadewitz Panel WOW 2022 Keynote // Diversity, Diasporas and Digitality: The Worlds of Wikimedia™ and beyond conference // University of Sydney // Australia
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2022: Organiser & Presenter // Leaving Your Legacy, A Guide for Australian Artists // Women’s Art Register Forum // Siteworks // Melbourne​
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2022: Panellist // Distribution series #2: Alternative Collections // Who’s Afraid of Public Space? // Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) // Melbourne
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2022: Panellist // NICE TO MEET YOU #8: Creating Databases of Women Artists // SALOON Network // Berlin
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2020-21: Regional Ambassador (Oceania Region) // Art+Feminism
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2021: Panellist // Women artists and abstraction // West End Art Space // Melbourne
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2020: Launch speaker // HER – Stories 2020 // Chapman & Bailey IWD Exhibition // Melbourne
2019: Launch Speaker // Women’s Work // Backspace Gallery // Ballarat, Victoria
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2019: Launch Speaker // Re:Register, Australian Women Sculptors from the Women’s Art Register // Richmond Town Hall // Melbourne
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2018: Host and panellist // The Great Divide: feminist art practice across generations and geography // #MEL/NYC // Richmond Theatrette // Melbourne
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2018: Panellist // In Conversation, Natalie Thomas and the Women's Art Register // True Estate // Melbourne
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2018: Panellist // Material Matters // Town Hall Gallery // Melbourne​
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2017: Facilitator and panellist // The Round Table: W.A.R Stories, The Women’s Art Register // Australian Centre for Contemporary Art // Melbourne​
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2015: Launch speaker // A Crafted History People and Place // ArtSpace Realm // Melbourne​
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2014: Panel moderator // Sexuate Art in the Making // Topologies of Sexual Difference, 7th Luce Irigaray Circle Conference // Melbourne // Australia
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2014: Panellist // Topologies of Sexual Difference, 7th Luce Irigaray Circle Conference // Melbourne // Australia // Panel - Aesthetics of the Interval // Paper - Relatedness as a Methodology, an Aesthetics of the Interval // Moderator Louise Burchill
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​2012–2014: Heide Museum of Modern Art // volunteer Visitor Services Officer // Melbourne
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2013: Convenor // Regional Feminist Art Forum // Latrobe University VAC // Bendigo // Victoria
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2013: Panellist // Thinking Life, 6th Luce Irigaray Circle Conference // Bergen // Norway // Panel - Irigaray & Art // Paper - A Loosely Woven fabric // Moderator Per Buvik​​​
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2010: Co-curator // The Feminist Salon Group: The Envelope // The West Wing // Melbourne
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2008–2012: Member // UNAP // Union Nicaraguense de Artistas Plasticos // Nicaragua
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1992–ongoing: Member // National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) // Australia
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020: Deme // Factory 49 (Paris) // Postponed due to COVID-19
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2019–ongoing: #imawomanartist, durational online performance work
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2019: Totem and Taboo // Feltspace (Adelaide)
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2018: there’s something happening here… (extended remix) // Boxcopy (Brisbane)
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2017: there’s something happening here… // NARS presents @ Anese Projects (NYC)
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2016: Materialising Feminism // Margaret Lawrence Gallery (Melbourne)
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2014: Hang Ups // Factory 49 (Sydney)
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2013: Enmeshed // Craft Victoria (Melbourne)
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2012: Open Studio // Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris)
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2012: Barely Breathing // Factory 49 Project Space (Sydney)
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2012: Easement // BLINDSIDE (Melbourne)
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2011: Bunker // NoNo Gallery (Melbourne)
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2010: Holding Pattern // George Paton Gallery (Melbourne)
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GROUP + COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
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2023: Feminist Art Collective (FAC) International Residency Open Studio Exhibition // Artscape Gibraltar Point // Toronto // Canada
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2023: UMSU Art Collection: New acquisitions and selected works // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne
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2023: SHE of Mind and Body // Walker St. Gallery // Melbourne // Curated by Alojz Babic
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2022: Of Colour and Light, Women Abstract Artists Biennial // West End Art Space // Melbourne // Curated by Anna Prifti
2022: Boobing (with Karryn Argus & Stephania Windholz Leigh) // ACU Gallery // Melbourne
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2022: When you think about feminism, what do you think? George Paton Gallery, Feminisms 1975-2022 // George Paton Gallery // Melbourne // Curated by Sandra Bridie and Emma Shaw
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2022: Women's Art Register: Setting up shop in the GPG. George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
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2022: 30works30days // online project // 12ø collective // UK
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2022: Banyule Works on Paper Award (with Claire Field) // Melbourne // Australia
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2021: Kate Derum and Irene Davies Award for Small Tapestries // Australian Tapestry Workshop // Melbourne
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2021: Factory 49 Annual Group 2021 // Factory 49 // Sydney
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2021: Of Colour and Light, Women Abstract Artists Biennial, West End Art Space, Melbourne
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2020: I’ve Never Seen The Sky Like This Before // Southwest Contemporary (Adelaide) // Curated by Bronia IwaÅ„czak
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2020: A1 Darebin Art Salon 2020 // Online exhibition // Bundoora Homestead (Melbourne)
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2020: BOOBOO with Karryn Argus and Stephania Leigh // Assembly Point (Melbourne)
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2020: @Covid-19 Global Quilt online project // Curated by Tal Fitzpatrick and Kate Just
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2020: MCA International Women’s Day // Favour Economy Installation // Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney)
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2019: Care: Feminism, art and ethics in neo-liberal times—symposium week with Claire Field // George Paton Gallery (Melbourne)
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2019: Crafting Resistance—Six Moments in Kingston // Kingston Arts Centre (Melbourne) // Curated by Tal Fitzpatrick
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2019: Love Letters to Feminisms // Trocadero Artspace (Melbourne) // Curated by Margaret Mayhew and Nilmini Fernando
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2019: Women’s Work with Laurene Dietrich // Backspace Gallery (Ballarat)
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2019: MCA ARTBAR Things We Do Together // Favour Economy Installation // Curated by Lara Merrett // Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney)
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2018: Hutchins Australia Contemporary Art Prize (Hobart)
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2018: Hiraeth // Tacit Gallery (Abbotsford) // Curated by WAC (Women’s Art Collective)
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2018: AbstractionTwentyEighteen // Langford 120 (Melbourne) // Curated by Wilma Tabacco and Stephen Wickham
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2017: Various Existential Angsts // NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, US) // Curated by Eriola Pira
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2017: Free Love Hurts // Mailbox Art Space (Melbourne) // Curated by Andree Ruggeri and Rachel Pearce
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2017: 9 X 5 NOW // Margaret Lawrence Gallery (Melbourne) // Curated by Elizabeth Gower
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2017: Favour Economy Vol 2. 2016–2017 // Co-leaders Claire Field and Bronwyn Treacy
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2017: Selvedge // Space on Collins (Melbourne) // Curated by Alozj Babic
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2016: F49 3D // Factory 49 (Sydney)
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2016: BOOB—Bias Objects, Objective Bodies with Karryn Argus and Stephanie Leigh // KINGS Artist Run (Melbourne)
2016: Cut: garments without patterns // Backspace (Ballarat) // Curated by Laurene Dietrich
2015: Looking forward, looking back // OCAD University Great Hall (Toronto)
2015: Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Prize // Deakin University (Melbourne)
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2015: f generation: feminism, art, progressions // George Paton Gallery (Melbourne)
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2015: AS IF: Echoes of the Women’s Art Register // West Space (Melbourne)
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2015: Feminist Art Conference (FAC) International Residency Exhibition // Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto)
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2015: Relatedness with Cathy Johnstone // Living Museum of the West (Melbourne)
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2015: Fertile Ground // Australian Tapestry Workshop (Melbourne)
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2015: Notes Towards a Future Feminist Archive // Affiliated Text (Sydney) // Curated by Bronia Iwańczak and Lynne Barwick
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2014: Topologies of Sexual Difference // George Paton Gallery (Melbourne)
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2014: THE f WORD // Ararat Regional Art Gallery (Ararat)
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2014: quietNOISE // Chapman and Bailey (Melbourne) // Curated by Filomena Coppola
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2014: Annual Group 2014 // Factory 49 (Sydney)
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2013: Curtain Call // BLINDSIDE (Melbourne) // Curated by Kali Michailidis
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2013: Bird Hide and Bunker with Catherine Evans // M16 (Canberra)
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2013: Regimes of Value // Margaret Lawrence Gallery (Melbourne) // Curated by Elizabeth Gower
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2013: Luminescence // The Hotel Windsor (Melbourne)
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2012: Bird Hide and Bunker with Catherine Evans // Seventh (Melbourne)
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2012: A Dinner Party: setting the table // West Space (Melbourne)
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2012: Wild vs Man // Goodtime Studios (Melbourne)
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2012: The Art of Collecting // George Paton Gallery (Melbourne)
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2011: Masters Exhibition // Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne)
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2011: Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award // Deakin University Gallery (Melbourne)
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2011: The Substation Contemporary Art Prize // The Substation (Melbourne)
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2011: Travelling Scholarship 2011 // Noosa Regional Gallery (QLD)
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2011: Interior Architecture // La Trobe University Visual Art Centre (Bendigo)
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2010: Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics // The Slade School of Art Research Centre (London)
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2010: Travelling Scholarship 2010 // Noosa Regional Gallery (QLD) // Curated by Claire Mitchell
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2010: The Feminist Salon Group—The Envelope // The West Wing (Melbourne)
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2010: aRtECYCLE // Incinerator Gallery (Melbourne)
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2010: Hide and Seek // Red Gallery (Melbourne)
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2010: SafARI 2010 // Firstdraft (Sydney)
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2010: Current Sculpture Biennial // Rural City of Wangaratta(Victoria)
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2009: Graduate Exhibition // Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne)
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2009: Albury Art Prize // Albury Art Gallery (NSW)
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2009: UNAP Group Show // Galleria Praxis (Managua, Nicaragua)
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