Alison Clouston

visual artist curriculum vitae

aclouston@burragorang.org            www.burragorang.org

Ph. + 61 2 4888 9266

 

Education

2004               Master of Fine Arts, (Research), Sculpture, Installation and Performance, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney

1979               Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting), University of Canterbury, New Zealand

 

Arts employment & training

2009              Guest lecture, ANU and Canberra University

2008              Sessional lecturer, Sculpture, Performance and Installation, CoFA, UNSW, Sydney

2007               Sessional lecturer, Sculpture, COFA, University of NSW

2006               Teacher, Sculpture, Illawarra TAFE, Moss Vale

2005               Guest lecturer, Ourimbah Fine Arts Dept, Newcastle University, Central Coast

2003               Coordinator, Burragorang International Artists Workshop, NSW

2000 -01        Project management and construction of a green dwelling in rural NSW

1990 – 2005 Sessional lecturer, Sculpture, Installation and Performance, COFA, University of NSW, Sydney

1990               Beekeeping Certificate, Sheet Metal Journeyman, TAFE NSW

1988-95         Sessional lecturer, Sculpture, East Sydney Technical College, TAFE, Sydney

           

Selected installations with musician/composer Boyd

2009               “Beaming” for “Wandering the Wollondilly” Goulburn NSW; “Adrift” The Muse, TAFE Institute, Sydney; BIRD CRY from the Grassy Box Woodlands Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney

2008               BIRD CRY from the Grassy Box Woodlands, Goulburn Regional Gallery

2007               The World Tree for “Climate Changing Climate”, Goulburn Regional Gallery

                        & University of Sydney

2007               Adrift for “Grounded: Arts, Activism, Environment” Campbelltown Arts Centre

and Murray Darling Palimpsest, Mittagong

2005               Dawn Light International Artists Exhibition and Symposium (Installations Wake and Potamology) Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW

2004-5           Ossature, Space3 Gallery, Sydney, & Bowen Galleries, New Zealand & Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney

2002               Backburn. Radio broadcast commissioned by ABC Radio National

 

Selected solo exhibitions

2007              Hide, Bowen Galleries, New Zealand

2005               The Trap; Recent Drawings. Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand

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               Mori Gallery, Sydney
1984               Mori Gallery, Sydney
1983               Mori Gallery, Sydney

 

 

Selected public commissions

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

2000-01         Magical Golland. Artist & curator, installation for Historic Houses Trust, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney

1999               CreekLine. 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

 

Selected group exhibitions

2009               Creature Discomforts Suter Gallery New Zealand

2008               Moving Towards a Balanced Earth; kick the carbon habit for the United Nations Environment Program and the Natural World Museum, Te Papa, New Zealand

2005               Hong Kong International Artists Workshop & Exhibition, The Ninth Shoebox Sculpture Show, University of Hawaii and touring USA

2004               Conversion, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW. (Books to Burn installation for Goulburn Public Library), NSW

2004               Masters of COFA. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of NSW, Sydney

2003               environmenta. Site-specific work, Bowral, NSW

2002               Strange Futures, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney

2001               The Cultivated Garden, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney

2001               Hazelhurst Art Award. Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney

2001               Over The Back Fence, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand

2001               Grass-feathers and Phone-wires. Curator & artist, Northern Territory, Australia

2000               Essential Truths, Readily to Hand. Adelaide Festival Centre & Regional South Australia

1999              The 30th Alice Prize. Aruluen Centre, Alice Springs

1999              Silver; 25th Anniversary Exhibition. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

                       Persuasive Humours. Mosman Region Gallery, Sydney

1996              In Process. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.

1994              Out Of The Box, Lanyan Gallery, Canberra, and Regional Gallery tour, NSW

                       Drawing On Inspiration. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

1992              Pastels from the Australian Drawings Collection. National Gallery of Australia

1991              Green Art. S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

1989              Makers Choice. Adelaide Festival Centre, Regional Gallery tour, Australia

1988              Selected Affinities, Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide

                       A Horse Show. Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne

1987              The Third Australian Sculpture Triennial. La Trobe University, Melbourne

1986              Hugh Williamson Invitation Exhibition. Ballarat

                       On Site II. Tasmanian Centre for the Arts, Hobart

1986              Gravity's Angel. Wangaratta Regional Art Gallery & Regional tour, Australia

1985               Ninth Mildura Sculpture Triennial. Mildura

                        Australian Perspecta. Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

1984              Hugh Williamson Invitation Prize Exhibition. Ballarat Regional Gallery, Ballarat

                       New Sculptors, New Directions. University of Melbourne Gallery, Melbourne

1981              First Australian Sculpture Triennial. Melbourne

 

Selected performance and theatre work

1996-7           Kelly's Republic. Design co-coordinator with Director Nigel Jamieson, Sydney
                        Festival, Sydney Opera House Forecourt

 

Selected Awards and Artist-in-Residencies

2009               Artist-in-Residence, Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Pitjatjantjara Lands, Central Australia

2008               London Studio Residency, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts

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

2001               Artist-in-Residence, Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation, Northern Territory

2000              Artist-in-Residence, Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation, Northern Territory          

1998              Artist-in-Residence, Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation, Northern Territory

1997              Artist in Residence, Artspace Exchange, Artists' Foundation of W.A., Fremantle

1991              Artist-in-Residence / drawing lecturer, Canberra Institute for the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra

1990              Artist in Residence, Arthouse, Launceston

1987-88        Artist in Residence, Jam Factory, Adelaide

1984             Hugh Williamson Prize: Emerging Female Artist

1986              Artist in Residence, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart

 

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

Tracey Clement “Sounds of Extinction” Sydney Morning Herald Metro, 28 Aug 2009

Tracey Clement “Profit and Loss” catalogue essay, Goulburn Regional Gallery, 2008

Clare Lewis “World Tree: sounds of a bigger picture” Alison Clouston and Boyd interviewed, Artlink, “Fuel for Thought” Volume 28, no. 1, 2008

‘Two Up, Alison Clouston and Boyd’, Australian Art Review, 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

Exhibition, Tennant and District Times, 29 June 2001, p. 10

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

Joan Kerr, ‘Choosing the Artists‘ in ‘Edge of the Trees’, ed. Dinah Dysart, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 2000, pp. 42, 47

David Famularo, 'Animal Tracks Tell Their Story', The Dominion, 10 July 1998

Mark Amery, 'Tracking wallabies, pigs, wombats and a 4WD', The Evening Post, July 1998

David Hansen, 'Some Notes Towards a 'Slippery' Definition', Object No.1 1997

Who Says the Beach Can't be Creative? Photo Steven Siewert, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 Jan 1997

Pauline Swan, Art, The Dominion, 14 June 1997, p. 24

Ian Hamilton, Fish, Sunraysia Daily, 18 May 1996, p.5

Artnotes, Art Monthly, October 1995

John Mc Donald, 'No Place for Quick Viewing', The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 August 1994

Bronwyn Watson, 'Grounded in Rubbery Figures', The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 August 1994

Christopher Chapman, 'Cross-Pollination-Alison Clouston's Bee scroll,' Australian National Gallery News, January 1991

Elwyn Lynn, 'Make A Bee -Line For Honest Avant-Garde,' The Australian, Weekend Review, November 7-8, 1992

Joanna Mendelssohn, 'Alison Clouston - Mori Gallery', Art Network, Winter, 1983, p.52

Christopher Allen, 'Gulf War & John Angry Penguin,' Sydney Morning Herald, February, 1991

Jacques Delaruelle, 'In The Beginning Was Drawing,' The Sydney Review, August 1991

John McDonald, 'Ambiguity Without Angst,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 September 1988.

Jennifer Phipps, 'Sculpture Triennial,' Art & Australia, Autumn Issue, 1988, p.328

Russell Baker, 'Portrait of the Artist,' David Chivers - Photos, Follow Me, May 1987, p.121-128.

Juliana Engberg, 'The Third Sculpture Triennial,' Melbourne, 1987, p.9

Pamela Zeplin, 'Flying High,' Adelaide Review, No 40, July 1987.

Lynn Collins, 'Streetwise,' Broadsheet, Adelaide Festival Issue, 1988.

Anne Brennan, 'Too Palpable Designs,' Broadsheet, Adelaide Festival Issue, 1988.

Lynn Collins, 'Flyer An Intriguing Remnant,' The Advertiser, June 24, 1987.

Elwyn Lynn, 'Favourites, Censors & Other Monsters', The Australian, November 2-3, 1985.

Anne Marsh, 'Women Artists at the Triennial', Art Network, Issue 3 & 4, 1981, p.25

Neil Rowe, 'Lively exhibition opens in Capital', The Evening Post, NZ, 21 August 1980