Peta Clancy
is currently a Photomedia Lecturer in the Department of Multimedia
and Digital Arts, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University.
Education
PhD Candidate
Monash University (Current)
Bachelor
of Fine Arts & Master of Arts (Media Arts) RMIT University
Bachelor
of Fine Arts (Honours) University of Tasmania
Exhibitions
2007 ‘Elixir’, thirtyseven degrees - Contemporary
Fine Art Gallery, Sydney *Solo
‘Visible
Human Bodies’, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney,
*Solo (Curator Bec Dean)
‘U
Turn’, Glendale College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, US (Curators
Kate Shaw & Larissa Hjorth)
Josephine
Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City
Art Gallery, Short-listed
ABN AMRO
Emerging Artist Award, Sydney, Short-listed
2006 ‘genetic
genie’, Sala Terrena, Mozart 2006 Festival, Salzburg,
Austria
‘Interior
Design’, Alliance Française Gallery, Melbourne
(Curator Marie Jeanne Hoffner)
2005 ‘Visible
Human Bodies’, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, UK,
*Solo (Curator Helen Mears)
‘The
Latent Image: New Life Drawings’, RMIT Project Space,
*Solo
‘Expiration’,
RMIT Project Space (Curator Louiseann Zahra)
‘A
Short Ride in a Fast Machine’, Gertrude Contemporary Art
Spaces
‘Suck’,
Geelong Art Gallery & Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
‘Art
for Science’, Nellie Castan Gallery
2003 ‘X-T
Xenobiotic_Art’, International Congress of Genetics, Melbourne
Convention Centre
‘Global
Contact’, Soho In Ottakring Arts Festival, Vienna, Austria
2002 ‘body
manufacture™’, Next Wave Festival, RMIT Project
Space
‘About
Face’, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, (Curator
Reuben Keehan)
2001 ‘This
Skin I’m In’, Platform Spencer Street Station *Solo
‘Our
Perfect Dream’, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
‘Blind
Spot’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space (Curator Lisa Byrne)
2000 ‘Remember
Who You Are’, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, (Co-Curator)
‘Our
Perfect Dream’, First Floor Artists and Writers Space,
Melbourne
1997 ‘From
Ice To Water’, Mary Aitkenhead Gallery, St Vincent’s
Hospital (Curators Kate Shaw & Charlotte Day), *Solo
‘Fluid’,
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, *Solo
1996 ‘Dermartology’,
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
1995 ‘1031
Kilograms’, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
‘Beneath
The Surface’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, *Solo
Grants/Awards/Residencies
2007 New
Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2004-07
Monash Graduate Scholarship to fund Phd Candidature at Monash
University
2005 Arts
Victoria, International Presentation and Promotion Grant for
exhibition ‘Visible Human Bodies’ at Brighton Museum
& Art Gallery
2004 Australia
Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Board, London Studio and stipend
2003 Australia
Council for the Arts, New Media Arts, Research and Development
& Arts Victoria, Arts and Professional Development, Creation
Grants to fund artist in residence at Cell &
Gene Therapy
Laboratory, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s
Hospital, Melbourne
2002 ANAT
Conference and Workshop Fund Grant to present paper at The Aesthetics
of care? Forum during BEAP at Perth Institute of Contemporary
Art
Film Victoria
Project Grant for development and presentation of gene discovery
– body manufacture™ during Next Wave Festival, Project
Space, RMIT
2001 Ian
Potter Travelling and Arts Victoria, International Presentation
and Promotion Grants for travel to Salzburg to exhibit in ‘Our
Perfect Dream’ at Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
1995-97
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Artist Tenancy
Curatorial
Projects
2003 X-T
Xenobiotic_Art, XIX International Congress of Genetics Genomes-The
Linkage to Life, Melbourne Convention Centre
2002 gene
discovery – body manufacture™, RMIT Project Space,
Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
2000 Remember
Who You Are, 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne
Collections
St Vincent’s Hospital, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute,
National Museum of Australia & Private
Artist
Talks
2006 Genetic Genie, Off Mozart Festival, Sala Terrena,
Salzburg, Austria
2005 Visible
Human Bodies, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, United Kingdom
2004 Suck,
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
2002 About
Face, Australian Centre for Photography
2001 Our
Perfect Dream, Gallery 5020, Salzburg, Austria
2000 Remember
Who You Are, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
Conference Papers Presented
2003 AAANZ
Conference program at Australian National Gallery
2002 Bienniale
of Electronic Art Perth Aesthetics of Care
Professional Affiliations and Committees
1997 Gertrude
Contemporary Art Spaces ‘Dermartology’ Studio Artists
Exhibition organisation committee
1996 Studio
Artist Representation Studio Selection Committee Gertrude Contemporary
Art Spaces
1994 CCP
Fundraising committee for Annual Auction
Bibliography
Byrne, Lisa (ed.), ‘Blind Spot’, exh. cat., Canberra
Contemporary Art Space, 2001
Catts, O.,
(Ed), The Aesthetics of Care?, BEAP, Perth, SymbioticA Press,
2002
Clancy,
Peta, ‘Visible Human Bodies’, exh. cat, Brighton
Museum & Art Gallery, 2005
Clancy,
Peta and Alison Weaver, ‘Remember Who You Are’,
exh. cat., Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2000
Day, Charlotte
& Shaw, Kate, ‘Just Looking’, exh. cat. Gertrude
Contemporary Art Spaces, 1997
Foster,
Alasdair, About Face, room notes, Australian Centre for Photography,
2002
Gallash,
Keith, ‘Inside Info from the Gene’, Real Time, cited
February, 2006, http://www.realtimearts.net/nextwave/kg_body.html
Grishin,
Sasha, ‘Curator attempts a herding of cats’,The
Canberra Times, Tuesday 7 August 2001
Hoffner,
Marie-Jeanne, ‘Interior Design’, exh. cat., Alliance
Francaise Gallery, 2006-10-20
Keaney,
Magda, ‘Blind Spot’ review, Like ArtMagazine 16,
(Spring 2001), p.68-70
Lewis, Julianne,
‘Just Looking’ review, Art Fan 7, (Autumn 1998),
p.13
Ioannou,
Panos, exh. cat., ‘Visible Human Bodies’, Brighton
Museum & Art Gallery, 2005
Mangold,
Jessica, ‘Yes, it’s a dish full of bacteria but
is it art?’, The Argus, United Kingdom, Thursday April
21, 2005
Marsh, Anne,
‘Four in Focus Gives An Insight To The Mind’, The
Herald Sun, Saturday 12 July 1995
Mears, Helen,
‘Visible Human Bodies’, exh. cat., Brighton Museum
& Art Gallery, 2005
Miles, Melissa,
‘Peta Clancy: Skin and the Supple Boundaries of Self’,
Eyeline Contemporary Art Magazine No.61, Spring 2006
O’Connell,
Stephen, ‘Dermartology’, exh. cat., Gertrude Contemporary
Art Spaces, Melbourne, 1996
‘Our
Perfect Dream’, exh. cat., Melbourne, 1st Floor Artists
and Writers Space and Galerie 5020, 2000/2001
Park, S.,
The Aesthetic Microbe, Microbiology Today, July 2007
Perez, Ingrid,
Cover & Feature article, Australian Art Collector, Issue,
42, 2007
Timms, Peter,
‘Remembrance of Things Past’, The Age, Wednesday
21 June 2000
Timms, Peter,
‘Hide-and-seek art’, The Herald Sun, Monday 22 September
1997
Troup, Cynthia,
‘The Latent Image: New Life Drawings’, exh. cat.,
RMIT Project Space/Spare Room, Melbourne, 2005
Warhurst,
Myfanwy, The Art of Just Looking, EG, The Age
Xeros-Constandinides,
Sophia (ed.), Suck: Voices from the Interior, Melbourne, Template
Publishing, 2004
Zagala,
Stephen, When Sight Moves Slowly Through Striae, ‘Blind
Spot’, exh. cat., Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 2001
Zahra, Louiseann,
Expiration, exh. cat., RMIT Project Space/Spare Room, Melbourne,
2005
