Alison Clouston

visual artist curriculum vitae

aclouston@burragorang.org www.burragorang.org

Selected education and employment

2006            Lecturer in Sculpture, TAFE Illawarra, Moss Vale, NSW

2004            Master of Fine Arts, (Research), University of New South Wales, Sydney

2003                        Coordinator, Burragorang International Artists Workshop, NSW

1990’s, 2003            Lecturer in Sculpture, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney

1988-95 Lecturer in Sculpture, East Sydney Technical College, Sydney

1979                        Diploma of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Selected exhibitions

2007            “World Tree (part two)”, Goulburn Regional Gallery

2006            “Adrift” collaborative installation with composer/musician Boyd, for Murray Darling Palimpsest, Mittagong

2005            “The Trap; Recent Drawings by Alison Clouston”, Bowen Galleries, New Zealand

2004-5            “Ossature”. Installation with composer/musician Boyd, Space3 Gallery, Sydney, & Bowen Galleries, New Zealand & Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney

2000-01            “Magical Golland”. Artist & curator, installation for Historic Houses Trust, sound by Boyd, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney

1998                        “Tracking”. Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand
1997                        “The Land”. Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand
                         “Grounding”. The Museum of Sydney
1995                        “The World Tree”. Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
1994                        “Fruits of the Earth”. Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
                         “Routes Canoe”. N.Z. International Festival of the Arts, New Zealand
1992                        “The Birds and the Bees”. Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1991                        “Familiar Beasts”. Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1990                        “The Archaeology of Beekeeping”. Arthouse, Launceston, Tasmania

1988            “Something Short of a Picnic”. Adelaide Festival, Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide & Mori Gallery, Sydney

1986, 84, 83            Mori Gallery, Sydney

Recent group exhibitions

2007            “Grounded; art, activism, environment”. Collaborative installation with composer/musician Boyd “Adrift”, Campbelltown Arts Centre

2006            Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Sydney

2006            “Post-It”. Peloton Gallery, Sydney

2005            “The 9^th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition”, University of Hawaii Gallery, and touring USA

2005            “Dawn Light International Contemporary Art Symposium”, collaboration with Boyd installation Wake, Gosford, Sydney

2005            “Hong Kong International Artists Workshop & Exhibition”, installation “Learning to Fly Again”, Hong Kong

2005            “Small Offerings: Sri Lankan & Australian Artists”. The Cross Art Projects, Sydney

2004            “Conversion”, installation “Books to Burn”, Public Library, Goulburn Regional Gallery

2004            “[Out of Gallery] Guerrilla Art in Western Sydney”, Sydney

2004                        “Masters of COFA”. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

2003                        “Prima materia”, Spirit Level, Sydney

2003                        “environmenta”, site-specific exhibition, Bowral, NSW

2002            “Strange Futures”, installation “Catchment”, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney

2001            “The Cultivated Garden”, site-specific work, Homeground, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney

                        Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney

                        “Over The Back Fence”. Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand

“Grass-feathers and Phone-wires – sculpture from the town camps, communities and outstations around Tennant Creek, N. T.” Curator & artist, Northern Territory

2000            “Essential Truths, Readily to Hand”. Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide

Recent Awards and Artist-in-Residencies

2005            Wingecarribee Shire Council, Arts and Culture Grant

2003            NSW Ministry for the Arts Grant, for Co-ordination of Burragorang International Artists’ Workshop

2001, 2000 & 1998            Artist-in-Residence, Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation,  Northern Territory.

Selected public sculpture commissions

1999            “Creekline”. An environmental public sculpture, Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station, Western NSW

1998 “Banksia”, ephemeral public sculpture, in collaboration with Joris Everaerts and the public, Sydney Fringe Festival, Bondi Beach

1997 “Bondi Points”, ephemeral public sculpture, in collaboration with Joris Everaerts and the public Sydney Fringe Festival, Bondi Beach

1994 “Roots Canoe”. Creation and installation of works, New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, Civic Square, Wellington, New Zealand

Short-listed for “The Edge of the Trees”, Museum of Sydney, and The Irish Famine Memorial Sculpture, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney

Public collections

Australian National Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Wollongong City Gallery, New England Regional Art Museum, University of NSW, Broken Hill City Gallery

Selected Bibliography

‘Two Up; Alison Clouston & Boyd’, Australian Art Review, issue 14 July – October 2007 pp. 58 – 60

James Hancock, ‘Space3; An Australian Independent Creative Network 2000 – 2005’, Space3 Gallery, Sydney 2005 pp. 146 – 151 

‘Bone Up – Best Ribs’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 Jan 2005, Summer Spectrum p. 32

Tracey Clement, Exhibitions, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 – 30 December 2004, Metro p.19

‘Bony Art’ Capital Times, NZ, 14 April 2004, p. 12

Vanessa Wilson, The Planner, ‘Ossature’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 – 21 March 2004, Forty-eight hours p. 8 

Anne Loxley, ‘Nature’s theme can only grow on you’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 Oct 2001

Chelsea Clark, The Daily Telegraph, 25 Nov 2000,

Beth Hise, ‘Magical Golland’, The World of Antiques and Art, No 60, Dec 2000 – June 2001, pp. 118-119

Claire O’Rourke, ‘Kathleen’s Kingdom Comes to Life’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 Nov 2000, Metropolitan p.19 

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