Martina Copley is an artist, curator, educator and writer working across different modalities of practice in the annotative space.
A vagabond investigation. There are some principles. Letting the work speak how it is made. Uncertainty in a dynamic puts everything at attention. Attention. Looking at the change of things, what takes place, notated and not. Vantage includes the way in which objects come into question even as they come into view. Stutter and stumble are descriptions of flow that have their own flow. Reading and writing are engaged as a collective and embodied practice – as a way to textualise experience. Beginning in the middle, what happens in the middle is itself, and new. All motion is equivalent. All things are equal to world.
An apprehension of contingent orders, the work doesn’t have a set form. Sound, idea, object and modality are collated to set up a structural space for something to exist, a space in which the work moves towards an opening and at the same time asks questions about itself.
Martina has exhibited with Bus Projects, RMIT Project Space, Seventh, WestSpace, City & Docklands Libraries, Melbourne Festival and Liquid Architecture. Collaborating with other artists and writers Martina has published work with the Expanded Writers Collective, Runway Journal, no more poetry and Bloomsbury Academic. Martina is Artistic Director Chair at Blindside Art Space. and lectures at RMIT University, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne and LaTrobe College of Art + Design, Melbourne.
Her doctoral research project at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2019, The movement of the aside considered the transposition of the rhetorical figure of the aside as a poetic strategy in art.
Recent exhibition projects and publications include H–Love Letters and Other Correspondences, 2024; RePost, Mailbox Art Space, 2024; Protected: Archipelagos of grief: crises partially digested, Expanded Writers Collective, Sydney Review of Books, 2023; these pages, dear friend, Bookworks #4, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne; Chorality, A to Z of Creative Writing Methods, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022; The General Public, 99% 2022; Writing the Virus, Expanded Writers Collective, Runway Journal #45 Asemic 2022; Lowline, Love Outdoors, Moreland City Council, 2022; these pages, NO NO NO MAG Issue 2, no more poetry, 2022; Strange Alchemies [Heavy Breathing], with Bridie Lunney and James Carey, RMIT Project Space, 2022; Offering: A Fragmentary Index, with Josephine Mead, Liquid Architecture live Mono-poly, 2022; Pant and doorbell thump is wants wants, with Lou Hubbard, BUS Projects, Melbourne; The other writing, Seventh, Melbourne, 2020; Doubting Writing/Writing Doubt, ACCA + RMIT non-fiction Lab, 2019; No Notes (This is writing), with Francesca Rendle-Short, 2017; Unhidden, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity, Melbourne Festival, 2016; FM[X] What would a feminist methodology sound like? WestSpace, Melbourne, 2015; A Listener’s guide to bowing, Melbourne School of Architecture & Design, 2015; Black Painting, seventh, Melbourne, 2014; New Ancestors, City & Docklands Libraries, Melbourne, 2014; At dawn the image rings a dissonant tune that is inaudible to our ears and cannot be recalled, with Michaela Bruton, BUS Projects, 2014.
Martina works with contemporary artists and creative organisations as an independent curator of contemporary art and gallery manager in public, commercial and artist-run contexts. Selected curatorial projects include; As If Writing, MILK Reads #3, 2022: the humbleness and the cut away, Blindside Mobile 2022; Blindside Solo Residency Series 2020, Melbourne; Blindside Regional Art + Research Residencies, Mooramong, Victoria, 2020; Ego as Echo ii, Makiko Yamamoto, 2020, Blindside Satellite public screens; Works<30s No.46-55 – With Lou Hubbard, Nathan Gray, 2016, Blindside Play, Melbourne; I always read by listening to the text, 2014, Platform, Melbourne; Bridie Lunney: The place where the fire is kept, 2014, Phoenix Foyer Commission, Melbourne; Self Species, 2012, LaTrobe University VAC Gallery, Bendigo & Maroondah Gallery, Victoria; The Five Obstructions, 2011, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, University of Melbourne; WALK, national touring exhibition, 2009; The Time It Takes, 2009, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria.
I live and create on the unceded sovereign land of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
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Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment qualification
TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Workplace Dimensions, Melbourne
Master of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
Studio Development, LaTrobe College of Art and Design, Melbourne
Art Curatorship & Museum Management, Post Graduate Diploma (Honours), University of Melbourne
Italian Language Studies, Dante Alighieri Language School, Rome & Centre for Italian Studies, Melbourne
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Photography, Victoria College, Melbourne
Photography Studies College, Melbourne
Diploma in Educational Psychology, Monash University
Bachelor of Arts – Philosophy, Psychology, Fine Art, University of Melbourne
Workshops
Colour workshop 1 & 2 with Dr. Robin Kingston, Melbourne.
Monoprint workshop with Martin King, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne.
The Voice workshop with Archie Barry, Body Politics, Season Two, Bus Projects, Melbourne. Curated by Zoë Bastin.
Solo Exhibitions
pant and doorbell thump_is wants wants, BUS Projects, Melbourne. With Lou Hubbard. catalogue
Aside, Artspace, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
Blind Task of Sleep (mere listening), Blindside Play, Melbourne
Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity. Commissioned as a response to The Home Within by Chiharu Shiota, Meat Market, Melbourne Festival 2016. Curators: Anabelle Lacroix + Anais Lellouche
A Listener’s guide to… bowing, This Building Absorbs People, Melbourne School of Architecture & Design. Curators: Liquid Architecture for Nite Art Melbourne
At dawn the image rings a dissonant tune that is inaudible to our ears and cannot be recalled, BUS Projects, Melbourne, with Michaela Bruton
New Ancestors, Docklands Library, Melbourne
Black Painting, Seventh, Melbourne. dark lens black painting, Lynette Smith
An element of blank, Drawing Space, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
New Ancestors, City Library, Melbourne
Elsewhere, Flinders Way Arcade, Melbourne
Eidetic - sometimes there is a tendency to shade those parts that gather in the light, Linden Art Centre & Gallery, Melbourne
rome, Linacre Café, Sandringham, Melbourne
Skar T.V.; Fringe Festival, Melbourne - Experimental Video
Brunswick Film Circus, Melbourne - Super 8 film
Group Exhibitions
RePost, Mailbox Art Space, Melbourne. With Glenn Barkley, John Brooks, Ara Dolatian, Louise Meuwissen, Vittoria Di Stephano, Jake Treacy. Curators Alice Dickins, Eliza Jung and Shell Odgers.
These pages, dear friend Bookworks #4, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne. Curated by Sandra Bridie and Channon Goodwin.
The General Public, 99%, Melbourne.
Lowline, Love Outdoors, Moreland City Council, Saturday 9 April 2022 12-3pm. Improvised/performance along the newly formed civic space at Coburg Station by Light and Air and Space and Time (LAST) Collective - Beth Arnold, Melanie Irwin, Katie Lee, Clare Rae, Hanna Tai - and guest artists Ashlee Barton, Martina Copley, Arabella Belle Frahn-Starkie, Jondi Keane, Olivia Millard, David Prescott-Stead, Sarah Rudledge, Lynette Smith, Camille Thomas, David Well, Sorcha Wilcox. Curated by Emily Cormack.
Verities, 2022. some alchemies [heavy breathing], Project Space Spare Room, RMIT Intersect. Bridie Lunney and James Carey with Rosie Westbrook, Lilian Steiner, Torie Nimmervoll, Leslie Eastman, Martina Copley and Joseph Beuys. Part of Melbourne Design Week 2022, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV.
I'm nearly there and then I'll stop. Offering: A Fragmentary Index, Liquid Architecture live Mono-poly event, Collingwood Yards. With Deanne Butterworth, Merina Dias-Jayasinha, Justin Malvaso, Josephine Mead, Harrison Ritchie-Jones.
Reading Space: The Common Room, designed by Nicola Cortese, Lauren Crockett and Stephanie Pahnis. In Who’s Afraid of Public Space?, ACCA and Melbourne Art Library.
pant and doorbell thump_is wants wants, BUS Projects, Melbourne. With Lou Hubbard. catalogue
HELL ‘N’ BACK, Caves, Melbourne
NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair, BUS Projects, Melbourne
ATW AIR18, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
B-SIDE, Blindside, Melbourne. With Camilla Gough
B-SIDE, Blindside, Melbourne. With Francesca Rendle-Short
POETRY: a text and word based exhibition, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne. Curator Sandra Bridie
Unhidden, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne. Curator Kali Michailidis
FM [X]: What would a feminist methodology sound like? Erotics of Silence, Liquid Architecture Festival, West Space, Melbourne. Curator, Danni Zuvela
Unintended Refrains, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne. Curator Sandra Bridie
Shooting the Breeze, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne - Improvised reading for Catherine Clover
Artist’s Books (reprised), George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne. Curators Sandra Bridie, Alice Mathieu and Craig Burgess
I always read by listening to the text, Platform, Melbourne. Curator Martina Copley
Marvel, finalist, award exhibition Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
Luminescence, finalist, award exhibition Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
The Sketchbook Project: Australia, Brooklyn Art Library, New York and international tour, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Non, First Site Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne. With Laurene Vaughan. Curator Martina Copley
what lies beneath, Substation, Melbourne. Curator Ashlee Laing
notation-movement, with Zac Jones, Bracks hallway, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
The Grid Show: A reprised space with Articulations, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne. Curators Sandra Bridie and Craig Burgess
return to sender, Blindside, Melbourne
25%, postgraduate gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
ARTECYCLE Sculpture Award, finalist, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Valley City Council
The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, New York and international tour
The Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
The Undergraduate, finalist, Toyota Spirit Community Gallery, Melbourne
The Dog Show, artroom5, Henley Beach, South Australia. Curator Vivonne Thwaites
PLAYTIME: Amusing Melbourne Through the Ages, City Museum, Melbourne
[the space in between], VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne + Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
LEXICON, Gallery@City Library, Melbourne
Compendium, ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University +Platform, Melbourne. Curator Martina Copley
Microcosmos, P.B. Art Gallery, Melbourne
Animal Magnetism, Platform, Melbourne. Curator Anne Harris
Stop 22’s Greatest Hits, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
Momenta 99 Arts, Old Post Office, Geelong, Victoria
Luna Park and the Art of Mass Delirium, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne. Curators Julia Murray & Stephanie Holt
Overview ’98, Linden - Arts Centre & Gallery, Melbourne
The A4 Show, West Space, Footscray
The Grotesque, Platform, Melbourne. Curator Martina Copley
Autoritratto Al Femminile, Centro Culturale Dell’Immagine, Il Fotogramma, Rome, Italy
The Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne
Sebastiano Oschmann Gradenigo Photography Award Exhibition, finalist, Istituto Nazareno, Rome, Italy
Passionate Womyn, Mechanics Institute Gallery, Brunswick
Carousel, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Victoria College Graduate Show, Artists Space, North Fitzroy, Melbourne
Photo Access, Link Gallery, Canberra
Artist Publications + Pages
we are making a boat, love, TEXT Special Issue: Creative Critical Writing Now. Curators Francesca Rendle-Short and Quinn Eades.
H. In Love Letters and Other Correspondences. Curator Roseanne Bartley. With Penelope Aitken, Manon van Kouswijk, Rose Michael, Yang Yeung, Alex Selenitsch, Dominic White, Ceri Hann, Martina Copley, Julieanna Preston, Mattie Sempert, Stephen Banham, Justin Clemens, Meredith Turnbull, Jennifer Bartholomew, Pia Ednie-Brown, Prue Venables, Shauna Laurel Jones, Kate Rhodes, Johanna Hällsten, Sue deGennaro, Bronwyn Lloyd, Peta Murray, Jondi Keane, Catherine Clover, Benjamin Lignel and Susan Pike. Book Design: Yanni Florence and Roseanne Bartley.
Contributing editor. Erratum, F.R. DAVID: Spring 2024. KW Institute for Contemporary Art uh books, Berlin. Edited by Will Holder, Paul Abott, After 8, Alma Sarif, Phil Baber. With contributions by Daniel Blumberg, Thomas Boutoux, Kristien Van den Brande, Chloe Chignell, Martina Copley, Anthony Elms, Chris Evans, Carolina Festa, Kasper Feyrer, Richard Finlay Fletcher, Ben Green, Mariëtte Groot, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Léa Guillon, Sarah Handley, Gloria Hasnay, Loes Jacobs, Michel Khleifi, Willis Kingery, gerlach en koop, James Goggin, Keira Greene, Léa Guillon, Jacob Lindgren, Kobe Matthijs, Martino Morandi, Zen Nguyen, Alice Notley, Robert M. Ochshorn, Oscar the dog, Willem Oorebeek, David Reinfurt, Scott Rogers, Andrés de Santiago Areizaga, Rosa Sarholz, Clara Schulmann, Andrea di Serego Alighieri, Sabrina Tarasoff, Kristy Trinier, Seymour Wright and Unknown.
Protected: Archipelagos of grief: crises partially digested, Expanded Writers Collective Sydney Review of Books, July. With Yoko Akama, Martina Copley, Linda Dement, Pia Ednie-Brown, Anna Farago, Maria Griffin, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Lucinda Strahan.
These pages, dear friend Annotated list of remarked pages. Bookworks, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne.
Chorality. In A to Z of Creative Writing Methods, Bloomsbury Academic, Sydney, Australia. Editors: David Carlin, Peta Murray, Francesca Rendle-Short, Stayci Taylor, Julienne van Loon, Deborah Wardle.
Writing the Virus. Expanded Writers Collective. Runway Journal, Issue 45 Asemic. Guest editor Nancy Mauro-Flude. With Lucinda Strahan, Yoko Akama, Maria Griffin, Anna Farrargo, Cleo Farrago, Pia Ednie-Brown. Coded by Linda Dement.
these pages, NO NO NO MAG Issue, 2, no more poetry, Melbourne.
The movement of the aside Doctoral thesis, Victorian College of the Arts, Univeristy of Melbourne.
They refused to play, out of fear no doubt. In Doubting Writing/Writing Doubt, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Presented in partnership with RMIT University non/fictionLab.
Unworded Sound Poem, in Body of Sound, Cordite 89: Domestic. Curator Yasmin Heisler. Editor Kent MacCarter
Across Speak and/or Waywardness, collaborative text with Francesca Rendle-Short, in Materiality, Creativity, Material Poetics, Axon: Creative Explorations 8.1, May
No Notes (This is writing), artist publication with Francesca Rendle-Short. Composed directly onto an iPhone 5S Notes app. using keyboard and fingers, 152 page, colour, 150 x 80mm closed
Artist Pages, Liquid Architecture
Artist Pages (as footnotes), Journal of Arts Writing by Students (JAWS), 1.1. 25-30
At dawn the image rings a dissonant tune that is inaudible to our ears and cannot be recalled, artist publication with Michaela Bruton. Colour, 283 pages, Ed. of 12, open 19 x 22cm, closed 19 x 11 x 2cm.
Artist Readings
Live participatory reading 22 June, 7pm. Writing the Virus. Expanded Writers Collective, Runway Journal Issue 45 Asemic. Guest editor Nancy Mauro-Flude. With Lucinda Stahan, Yoko Akama, Maria Griffin, Anna Farrargo, Cleo Farrago, Pia Ednie-Brown. Coded by Linda Dement.
Lowline, Love Outdoors, Moreland City Council, Saturday 9 April 2022 12-3pm. Improvised rant along the newly formed civic space at Coburg Station with Light and Air and Space and Time (LAST) Collective - Beth Arnold, Melanie Irwin, Katie Lee, Clare Rae, Hanna Tai - and guest artists Ashlee Barton, Martina Copley, Arabella Belle Frahn-Starkie, Jondi Keane, Olivia Millard, David Prescott-Stead, Sarah Rudledge, Lynette Smith, Camille Thomas, David Well, Sorcha Wilcox. Curated by Emily Cormack.
no more poetry Bridie Lunney, Sucking my Tongue to Keep the Salt of You Close, book launch, Angel Bar, Melbourne
the other writing, Seventh, Melbourne
Doubting Writing/Writing Doubt, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Presented in partnership with RMIT University non/fictionLab.
five of one and six of the other talkin’ bout a revolution, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
M meets Monograph, MPavillion, Melbourne
No Notes: this is writing, with Francesca Rendle-Short, communal reading, Dialogues and Atmospheres: Enquiries into knowing and making through creative arts research, creative arts research workshop/symposium, nonfictionLab (RMIT) + Creative Ecologies Lab (Macquarie University), R.M.I.T., Melbourne
No Notes: this is writing, with Francesca Rendle-Short, artists’ reading, Hares and Hyenas, Melbourne
No Notes: this is writing, with Francesca Rendle-Short, publication launch + communal reading, West Space, Melbourne
Erotics of Silence:FM [X]: What would a feminist methodology sound like?, Liquid Architecture Festival, West Space, Melbourne. Curator Danni Zuvela
Artist Talks + Interviews
Co- Discourse A Symposium, Co-Publishing and Composite Moving Image Agency & Media Bank, Melbourne.
Pant and doorbell thump_is wants wants, artist talk with Lou Hubbard, Bus Projects, Melbourne
AIR Artist Talk, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Artist in Residence Program.
Artist talk, LaTrobe College of Art and Design, Melbourne
All Our Stories, Interview with Evelyn Morris & Martina Copley about Liquid Architecture's What Would Feminist Methodology Sound Like?, with Jess Fairfax & Leah Avene, PBS FM Radio, Monday 24 August
Collectives
Expanded Writers Collective. With Lucinda Stahan, Yoko Akama, Maria Griffin, Anna Farrargo, Cleo Farrago, Pia Ednie-Brown, Linda Dement, Nancy Mauro-Flude.
Pond. With Lou Hubbard, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Josephine Mead, Francesca Rendle-Short.
M(mostly), With Mira Gojak, Melanie Irwin, Manon Van Kouswick, Lynnette Smith, Meredith Turnbull
Residencies
Self-directed residency in Athens and Crete, Greece.
Bayside Artists Studio Program, Melbourne
Enter Text Residency, Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland. (Invited + unable to attend due to travel restrictions)
Australian Tapestry Workshop Artist in Residence, Melbourne.
Self-directed residency, Kyoto and surrounds, Japan
Grants and Awards
Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, Doctor of Philosophy, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
NAVA Australian Artist Grant.
Faculty Small Grant Scheme 2015, University of Melbourne
NAVA Future/Forward Travel Bursary
Australian Postgraduate Award, Masters of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
Jim Marks Postgraduate Scholarship, University of Melbourne
NETS Victoria Exhibition Development Fund Grant
Arts Victoria Arts Development Presentation Grant
Visions Australia Touring Grant
NAVA Visual & Craft Artists’ Grant
Pat Corrigan Artist’s Grant
Sebastiano Oschman Gradenigo Photography Prize, Rome
Employment
Chair, Artistic Director, Blindside Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
Sessional teacher, Photography Studio Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
Coordinator and Artistic Director, Blindside Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
Supervisor, Master of Fine Art (Coursework), RMIT University, Melbourne.
Lecturer and Tutor, Professional Creative Practice, Masters of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
Tutor, Critical Sessions, Master of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
Lecturer, Studio Exhibtion Practice + Art Practice and Theory, LaTrobe College of Art and Design, Melbourne
Lecturer and Tutor, Critical Frameworks, Coursework Masters, RMIT University, Melbourne
Project Manager and Editor, Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Catalogue, University of Melbourne
Curator, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
Gallery Assistant, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Arts Ambassador, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy
Gallery Manager, Gallery 101, Melbourne
Arts Assistant, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, City of Port Phillip
Acting Coordinator, Linden Arts Centre & Gallery, City of Port Phillip
Second Arts Assistant, Linkages Project, Linden Arts Centre & Gallery, City of Port Phillip
Curatorial Intern, National Gallery of Victoria, Photography. Curators Kelly Gellatly and Isobel Crombie
Curatorial projects
As If Writing. Curated reading list, MILK Reads #3, 2022.
the humbleness and the cut away, Francis Plagne, Anna Schwann, Jacqui Shelton, Bixiao Zhang, Blindside Mobile online.
Regional Art + Research Residencies, Pia Johnson, Bonny Cassidy, Zoe Barry, Blindside + National Trust, Victoria
Blindside Solo Residency Series, Anna Dunnill, Jess Gall, Mira Ooseterweghel, Simone Nelson, Amaara Raheem, Sarah Rudledge, Ella Sowinska, Elke Varga, Ivey Wawn, Benjamin Woods, Yusi Zang, Sydney + Melbourne.
Ego as Echo ii, Makiko Yamamoto, Blindside Satellite
Make Your Best Work Move, Blindside Play
Works<30s No.46-55 — With Lou Hubbard, Nathan Gray, Blindside Play
I always read by listening to the text, Martina Copley, Renee Cosgrave, Anna Finlayson, Stephen Giblett, Heidi Holmes, Lou Hubbard, Bridie Lunney, Andrew McQualter, Sanne Mestrom, Viv Miller, Lynette Smith, Elke Varga,Platform, Melbourne
Bridie Lunney: The place where the fire is kept, Phoenix Foyer Commission, Melbourne
non, NonfictioNow conference exhibition, Francesca Rendle-Short, Hephzibah Rendle-Short, Laurene Vaughan, Jen Webb, Gosia Wlodarczack, First Site Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne
Self Species, Ruth Johnstone, Josephine Kuperholz, Heather Shimmen, LaTrobe University VAC Gallery, Bendigo & Maroondah Gallery, Victoria
Phoenix Art Sheets, offset prints of original artwork, ed. 100, Nathan Gray, Robin Kingston, Vin Ryan, Masato Takasaka, Justin Trendall. With R-co Design
The Five Obstructions-someonehastodosomethingbeforeanyonecandoanything, Louisa Bufardeci, Starlie Geikie, Nathan Gray, Alasdair McLuckie, Francesca Rendle-Short,Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
Uncertainty (drawing), Lynette Smith, Vin Ryan, Elke Varga, City Library, Melbourne
Something in the Air, Colin Batrouney & Johannes C Pennings, Rhett D’Costa & Fran van Riemsdyk, Kate Derum Estate & Sarah Tomasetti, Robin Kingston & Peter Ellis, Deborah Walker & Salote Tawale, Karen Ward & Claire Mooney, 27 Gipps Street, Melbourne
Wall Works & Other Projects, Colin Batrouney, Rhett D’Costa, Heather Shimmen, Judy Holding, Peter James Smith, Karen Ward, Gallery 101, Melbourne
Line (drawing), Jan Berg, Fergus Binns, Starlie Geikie, Nathan Gray, Christopher LG Hill, Angela Leech, Brandt McCook, Annee Miron, Claire Mooney, Michael Peck, Vin Ryan, Elissa Sadgrove, Lynette Smith, Elke Varga, Irene Wellm, Stephen Wickham, Mailbox 141, Melbourne
Plays and Wins: The Time It Takes, Rhett D’Costa, Robin Kingston, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
WALK, National Touring Exhibition (NETS Victoria), John Wolseley, Nicky Hepburn, Carmel Wallace, Ilka White, Peter Corbett, Brian Laurence, Vicki Couzens, Jan Learmonth, Portland Art Gallery, VIC; Horsham Art Gallery, VIC; Hamilton Art Gallery, VIC; Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, VIC; Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC; Burnie Regional Gallery, TAS; Riddoch Art Gallery, SA; Flinders University Art Museum, SA; Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, WA; Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Clearings, Colin Batrouney, Josephine Kuperholz, Dena Lester, Danielle Thompson, Lisa Tomasetti, Gallery 101, Melbourne
LEXICON, Small works on dictionary pages by fifty-seven artists, Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne
translation, Elizabeth Boyce, Anna Finlayson, Natasha Frisch, Jess MacNeil, Rob McHaffie, Claire Mooney, Pandarosa, Alex Pittendrigh, Gallery 101, Melbourne. review, Olivia Poloni
An Architecture of Hope, Cassandra Laing, Steven Rendall, Louise Rippert, Lynette Smith, Masato Takasaka, Shaun Wilson, Gallery 101, Melbourne
Compendium, touring exhibition, ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University & Platform, Melbourne
The Museum Aesthetic, Damiano Bertoli, Chris Bond, Craig Easton, Anthony Hunt, Nicholas Jones, Selina Ou, Vin Ryan, Louiseann Zahra, Gallery 101, Melbourne.
Passage: Sculpture in the St Kilda Botanic Gardens, with Sue Boucher, St Kilda, Melbourne
CSA Sculpture @ St Kilda Botanic Gardens, with Sue Boucher, Melbourne
Anne Marie Graham, A Commitment To Art: Survey Exhibition Spanning 70 Years, Gallery 101, Melbourne
The Post-Postcard Show, Linden – Arts Centre & Gallery, Melbourne
Roundness, Robert Bridgewater, Louise Rippert, Maria Lunney, Michael Bullock, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne
The Grotesque, Naomi Kumar, Simone LeAmon, Martina Copley, Elke Varga, Platform, Spencer Street Underpass, Melbourne
Red, Louisa Bufardeci, Cassandra Laing, Fiona Abicare, West Space Gallery, Melbourne
Founder & co-curator, Mailbox 141 Artspace, 141 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Teaching
Tutor, Critical Frameworks, Master of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne.
Course Coordinator, Week 1-3, Fine Art Studio 1, Master of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne.
Lecturer, Professional Practice, Studio Studies, Bachelor of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
Sessional teacher, Photography Studio Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
Professional Practice Artist Workshop, Photography, Victorian College of the Arts.
Course Coordinator, Professional Creative Practice, Master of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne. Professional Creative Practice, Masters of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
Supervisor and Tutor Critical Sessions, Master of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
Lecturer, Studio Exhibition Practice, Art Practice and Theory, LaTrobe College of Art and Design (LCAD), Melbourne
Artist Talk, Professional Practice, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
Course Coordinator, Professional Creative Practice, Master of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne. Critical Frameworks, Coursework Masters, RMIT University, Melbourne
Creative Project Proposal Writing Workshop, First Site, R.M.I.T University, Melbourne
Sessional Tutor and Visiting artist, Photography Department, Faculty of VCA & MCM, University of Melbourne
Academic Assistantship, Faculty of VCA & MCM, University of Melbourne
Visiting Speaker, Professional Development, graduating students, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Course Coordinator and Tour Leader, LCAD Intensive Course New York City Art Tour, New York, USA
Course Coordinator and Tour Leader, LCAD Intensive Course Venice Biennale Art Tour, Venice, Italy
Visiting artist, LCAD, Melbourne
Guest lecturer, Photography Studies College, Melbourne
Lecturer, Trial Hang Curatorial Project, Fine Art (Painting), School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
Guest lecturer, Contemporary Curatorial Practice, Diploma Visual Arts, Council for Adult Education, Melbourne
Guest lecturer, Curatorial Practice, RMIT Art & Design, Melbourne
Guest lecturer, Professional Development, Chisholm Institute, Melbourne
Guest lecturer, Professional Development, Box Hill T.A.F.E. & Frankston T.A.F.E
Guest lecturer, Professional Development & International Venice Biennale, Box Hill T.A.F.E.
Guest lecturer, Curatorial Perspectives, Photography Studies College, Melbourne
Sessional Tutor, Photography, Koori Performing Arts, Swinburne, Melbourne
English Language Teacher, Intercoop Language School, Rome, Italy
Mentorship
Curatorial advisor. Every(n)one, Five Walls, Footscray. Artists: Michele Fountain, Rebecca George, Hubert, Juliet Jones, Elissa Sadgrove.
Professional mentor, Blindside Gallery Internship Program, Melbourne
Variations Blindside Creative Victoria Mentorship Program with Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
Art Stream, Photography Studies College, Melbourne.
art.speak, Melbourne
Blindside Curator Mentorship with University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Curator Mentorship, Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
Independent Advisor - Assessor
Chair, Artistic Directors, Blindside, Melbourne.
External Assessor, Fine Art (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
Invited Industry Expert, Studio 4, Master of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne.
Industry Advisor, Regional Arts Victoria Sustaining Creative Workers program
Selection and advisory panel member. Artists In Spaces + Big Art Small Halls, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Selection and advisory panel member. Great Southern Bale Trail, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria
Peer review panel, Axon: Creative Explorations, Axon Journal, Canberra, Australia
Artistic Director, Programming Committee, Blindside, Melbourne
External Assessor, Honours by Project & Exegesis, Bachelor of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne
External Assessor, Photography Studies College, Advanced Diploma of Photography, Art Specialisation, Melbourne
Judge, MoreArt, Moreland City Council
Selection Committee, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne
External Assessor, Council for Adult Education, Second Year Visual Arts Diploma, Melbourne
Selection Committee, Siemens RMIT Fine Art Scholarship, Melbourne
Judge, Books… beyond words, Artist’s Books Award Exhibition, East Gippsland Regional Gallery, Victoria
Judge, The Little Archie, Bold Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington, Victoria
Judge, Bonanza, Contemporary Sculptors Association, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
Judge, Graduart, Contemporary Visual Arts & Ceramics, Final Year Diploma, Chisholm Institute of TAFE, Melbourne
Judge, Arts Blitz, Kingston Arts Centre
Judge, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Exhibition Selection Committee, Helen Schutt Access Gallery, Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Speaking
Essentials of opening an ARI Quoted in article by Celina Lei, Arts Hub, 24 April.
It’s 2023: when will ARIs get their due? Quoted in article by Celina Lei, Arts Hub, 17 April.
Smart Arts 3RRR, radio interview with Richard Watts and Michael Camakaris, curator of Variations, Blindside Artist Mentorship Initiative
Artist Talk, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
Smart Arts 3RRR, radio interview with Richard Watts, 1 July
Artist Talk with Lou Hubbard, Pant and doorbell thump_is wants wants, Bus Projects, Melbourne.
Artist Talk, Australian Tapestry Workshop, AIR Program.
Panel Discussion, M meets Monograph, MPavillion, Melbourne. With Rachel Ang, John Brooks and Eugenia Flynn, Sophia Cai, Charlotte Watson
Panel Discussion, Fiction Q&A with artist Sandra Bridie and writer Dr. Melody Ellis, Blindside Melbourne
Radio interview Nite Art 17, SYN radio, Melbourne. With Todd Beavis
Roundtable moderator, An Act of Showing – Rethinking Artist Run Initiatives Through Place, Testing Grounds, Melbourne.
Panel discussion, Iconoclasm, Fever and Anxiety, with Dr Antonio González Zarandona and Azza Zein, Blindside, Melbourne
Artist talk, LaTrobe College of Art and Design, Melbourne
All Our Stories, Interview with Evelyn Morris & Martina Copley about Liquid Architecture's What Would Feminist Methodology Sound Like?*, with Jess Fairfax & Leah Avene, PBS FM Radio, Monday 24 August
Panel Discussion, Manon Van Kouswijk with Alex Selenitsch and Martina Copley, The Other Side, Level 10, 221 Queen Street, Melbourne, 9 Sept
Opening Speaker, Petrus Spronk, LaTrobe University VAC Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Floor Talk, Self Species, Maroondah Art Gallery, Victoria
Opening Speaker, Self Species, LaTrobe University VAC Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Opening speaker, Dane Trower, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
In Conversation with artist Irene Wellm, collingwoodartsprecinct, Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne
Opening speaker, Mandy Gunn and Leanne Cole, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Chairperson, panel discussion, WALK, national touring exhibition, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Opening speaker, WALK, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Radio Interview, WALK with Alice Pryor, ABC 774am, Melbourne
Floor Talk, WALK, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
Floor Talk, Plays and Wins, Gippsland Art Gallery Sale, Victoria
Radio Interview, WALK with Alan Richardson, Mt Gambia, Victoria
Curatorial Floor Talks, WALK, Gippsland Gallery, Sale, Victoria; Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
Public Floor Talk, Compendium, ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
Radio Interview, The Museum Aesthetic, 3RRR High & Low with Roger Taylor
Panelist, Public Art: Who Needs It? Local Knowledge Public Forum, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art
Radio Interviews, CSA Sculpture, 3PBS Art & Rave Today with Hugo Leschen & Mark Williams + 3RRR High & Low with Roger Taylor
Academic Arts Writing
The movement of the aside (Abstract). Practice-led, Doctoral research that considers the transposition of the rhetorical figure of the aside as a poetic strategy in art. Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2019.
Commissioned Arts Writing
Little poem, underway if only for a moment. Text for The Turning, Tara Denny, Nicholas Burridge, Sadhbha Cockburn, Luis Gregory, Jacqueline Bradley and Bridie Lunney. Curators Jacqueline Bradley and Bridie Lunney. Blindside x Lilac City Studio ARI Exchange, Schmick Contemporary, Sydney.
Blindside Regional Art + Research Residencies, National Trust of Australia Victoria Magazine, Issue 20, Autumn 2021, 17
Foyer, focus, fire, Bridie Lunney, Pheonix Foyer Commission, 82 Flinders Street, Melbourne
Gloria Stern, The Viewer, exhibition catalogue, Artman Gallery, Melbourne
Anna Caione, Process/Presence, Processo Presenza, exhibition catalogue, Words for Art, Museo Italiano, Melbourne.
Self Species, Ruth Johnstone, Josephine Kuperholz, Heather Shimmen, IMPRINT Magazine, Vol. 47, No.3, Sept/Oct, 2012, 24
Onlooker, Jarek Wojcik, exhibition catalogue, Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne + The Melbourne Review, Visual Arts, o8, June, 42
Un:Sighted, exhibition catalogue, Louise Blyton, Tim Gresham, Emma Langridge, Troy Mendham, Lynette Smith, Peter Summers, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
…time and place, Melanie Fitzmaurice, Jarek Wojcik, Kate Briscoe, exhibition catalogue, Catherine Asquith Gallery at Korean Art Fair 2011, Korea
Anna Caione, Coperta, exhibition catalogue, Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne
A Silver Lining: FRAMED – The Darwin Gallery*, Interview with Director Anne Phelan, Art Monthly Australia, November
Irene Wellm, The gold in the shadow, exhibition catalogue, Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne
The Sprawling Mechanism of Millieu, Something in the Air, 27 Gipps Street, Melbourne
cadence, metre, measure, Tim Cracker
An Unshaped World, Judy Holding, exhibition catalogue, Framed Gallery, Darwin + fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
Beginning in the middle… a conversation between curator, Martina Copley and artists, Rhett D’Costa and Robin Kingston, exhibition catalogue, Plays and Wins: The Time It Takes, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
Books… beyond words, Artist’s Books Award exhibition catalogue, East Gippsland Regional Gallery, Victoria
The Walk Project, Insite Magazine, May-June, 7-8
Judy Holding, exhibition catalogue, Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Education Kit, Plays and Wins: The Time It Takes, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
Cadence, WALK, National touring exhibition catalogue. Peter Corbett, Vicki Couzens, Brian Laurence, Jan Learmonth, Carmel Wallace, John Wolseley, Ilka White
Noise, exhibition catalogue, Artefact, City Museum at Old Treasury, Melbourne
Clearings, Colin Batrouney, Josephine Kuperholz, Dena Lester, Danielle Thompson, Lisa Tomasetti, exhibition catalogue, Gallery 101, Melbourne
It doesn’t matter where they come from… Rhett D’Costa & Robin Kingston, exhibition catalogue, Possible Words, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria
Clearsoundings, Titania Henderson, exhibition catalogue, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Translation, exhibition catalogue, Gallery 101, Melbourne
Veneer, exhibition review, un Magazine, February, Melbourne
Not a Review, a Reminiscence, essay in Formation and Form: West Space 1993-2003, West Space, Melbourne
Compendium, exhibition catalogue, ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
A photograph, Kim Lawler, profile essay, Adelaide Festival, South Australia
The Museum Aesthetic, exhibition catalogue, Gallery 101, Melbourne
A spectral blush, Cassandra Laing, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne University Gallery + Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne
An Architecture of Skin, Robert Bridgewater, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Gallery + Melbourne ArtFair
Keeping Rooms: Ideas in Space, Contemporary Sculptor’s Association Newsletter, July
Louise Harper Recent Sculpture, review, Monument, 48, June/July, 109
The Verge, CSA Sculpture @ St Kilda Botanic Gardens, exhibition catalogue, St Kilda, Melbourne
The Ship’s Wake, Peter James Smith, Underlapping Science, exhibition catalogue, Gallery 101, Melbourne + Michael Nagy Fine Art; Sydney, Australia
Terrain, Peter James Smith, The Cinematic Trace, exhibition catalogue, Auckland, New Zealand
49th International Biennale of Venice, review, Contemporary Sculptors Association News, No.4, Sept
Melbourne Biennial, review, MESH, Experimenta Media Art, Melbourne
Roundness, exhibition catalogue, Stop 22, St Kilda, Melbourne
Red, exhibition catalogue, West Space, Footscray, Melbourne