Anne Graham
Anne
Graham is an artist, Head of School and Dean of Students, School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle, and chairs its Postgraduate Research
Committee. Her sculptural installations
respond to the histories of place and are presented in gallery exhibitions and
in public spaces in cities and communities, nationally and internationally.
Graham’s work reveals her humanity and a fascination with objects that unlock
personal and cultural memories. Graham
participated in the 2003 Echigo-Tsumari project organised by Art Front Gallery
in Tokyo. She received a merit award for her
work, Passage, located in Martin Place, Sydney, as part of the City of Sydney Sculpture Walk.
A N N E G R A H A M
WISH TRANSMITTER 2002
Art Avenue, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
Project manager
Toshio Kondo
Photograph courtesy
Art Front Gallery, Japan
Photograph
?S. Anzai
SNAKE PATH 2003
ceramic tiles 150 metres
long, installation views
Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan
Project manager
Sakura Iso
Photographs courtesy
Art Front Gallery, Japan
Photograph ?S.
Anzai
PIGGY 2003 (with Roman Rees)
leather,
polystyrene, calico, dimensions variable
Museum of Art,
BYU University,
Utah, USA Photograph Andy Von Harten
courtesy Anastasia Rees
THE THREE BOWLS 2003
rocks, white concrete, marble
dust
Casuarina Development
project manager Gary Corbett
Photograph
courtesy
Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
New South Wales
BIOGRAPHY
1969 Diploma
of Art and Design, Manchester
Metropolitan University, UK
1973 Master
of Arts, Royal College
of Art, UK
1983
Graduate Diploma
of Education, Curtin
University, WA
1999
PhD Candidate,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, VIC
2003
Head of School
and Dean of Students, School of Humanities, University of
Newcastle,
NSW
Currently
lives in Sydney, NSW
SELECTED
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 Anne Graham, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2003 Anne Graham: Selected Works 1983–2003,
project manager John Walsh, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Bond University
Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2002 Memory
and Things, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
Memory
and Things, School of Fine
Art Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW
The Cultivated
Garden, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts
Centre, Sydney
2001 Eating
and Grooming, Sherman Galleries
Goodhope, Sydney
Food and Art, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
2000 The
Silk Plaza, Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan
1999
People in Glass Houses,
Royal Botanic Gardens, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney
1998
Timepiece, Sculpture
Forum, Canberra
Tunnel
Vision, Canberra School of Art Gallery, ACT
1997 The Cooling Tower, Museum of Sydney,
Historic Houses Trust, Sydney
The Macleay Women, Elizabeth Bay House, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney
Transitions, Melbourne Festival, VIC
1996 The Chain of Chambers, for Volt,
Brisbane Festival, QLD
Off the Rails, Adelaide Festival,
curator Erica Green, University of South Australia, Adelaide
1995 Sweat, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Sarashi, Hinode-Machi residency
exhibition, Hinode Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Steriliser, Experimental Art Foundation,
Adelaide
1994 Sweat,
street performance, Manhattan, New York, USA
1993 Through the Glass, Roslyn Oxley9
Gallery, Sydney
Lap, Artspace, The Gunnery, Sydney
Toll, Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest, Sydney
1992
Noemata, Performance Space, Sydney
1991
Anne Graham, Roslyn
Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1988 Sew
What, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003–04 Life
Stocking, Museum of Art, BYU University, Utah, USA
Memory and Things V, Library Gallery, University of Newcastle,
Ourimbah, NSW
Tenth Anniversary
Japan Cultural Centre Sydney, Celebrating Cross-Cultural Transformations,
Archive project, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
2003 Festivus,
Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Objects and
Rituals of the Kitchen, School of Fine
Art Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW
Waltzing with Whitlam, Sydney Opera House Studio, Sydney
Memory and Things IV, Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Palliative Care
and Community Arts Progam, NSW
Memory and Things
III, John Hunter Hospital, Arts for
Health, in conjunction with Synergy Arts for Health Conference, University of
New South Wales, Sydney
2002 Festivus, Sherman Galleries Goodhope,
Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2002, Sherman Galleries, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Group Exhibition, Sherman
Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Dressing and Dreaming, curator Dr Gene Sherman, Sherman Galleries Hargrave,
Sydney
2001 Inaugural
Exhibition, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
The Cultivated Garden, Hazelhurst
Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney
Patricia Wilson
Adams and Anne Graham, School of Fine
Art Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW
Relative Values: Common Ground, School
of Fine Art Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW
Space: Moons, Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest, Sydney
7th NICAF: International Contemporary Art Festival,
Tokyo International Forum, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition, Sherman
Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
2000 Olympic Theme –
Pathways, Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW
Call and Response, School of Fine Art
Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW
Soft House 1, installation, Newcastle
Botanical Gardens, NSW
Soft House 2: Construction
and Process, International Artists Museum, Poland
1999
Outbreak: Moon, School of Fine Art
Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW
Ten Faces of Australian Contemporary Art, Czech–Australian Cultural Alliance, Prague
1998
Something,
Sherman Galleries, Sydney
After the Bell, Penrith Regional Gallery
and The Lewers Bequest, Sydney
Construction in Process: The Hide, International Artists Museum, Melbourne
Wardrobe, Perth
Institute of Contemporary Art, WA; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane;
Performance Space, Sydney; Mad Love Gallery, Adelaide
Thin Skin, Performance Space, Sydney
1996 Parking: Caburetta, Casula Powerhouse
Arts Centre and Liverpool Regional Museum, Sydney
The Tamworth Fibre Biennale: Doing Time, Tamworth Regional Gallery,
NSW
A Sense of Place, Bede Gallery for Northern Arts, Newcastle, UK
Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
The Beggars Banquet, A Progressive
Dinner, Performance Space, Sydney
1995 Seven
Histories of Australia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Doing Time, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
and Liverpool Regional Museum, Sydney
Compound Time, Canberra National Sculpture Forum, Canberra
The Nuns Pool, Viewers and Audiences, Wollongong Regional Gallery, NSW
1994 Working with the Wall, Ivan
Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney
1993
Hypothetically Public,
Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest, Sydney
Black, Regional Galleries Touring Exhibition
Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial,
Melbourne
1992 Working
in Public, Public Art Project, Artspace, Sydney
Transgressions, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1991
Dissonance: Aspects of Feminism and Art, The Wharf, Sydney
1987 The Third Australian Sculpture Triennial,
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1986 Biennale
of Sydney, Pier 2, Sydney
SELECTED
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2003
Mayfield Cultural
Heritage Study, Collaborative Grant, Imaging Newcastle
2001 PhD Examination in the Creative
Arts, RMC Grant, University of Newcastle
Objects
and Rituals of the Kitchen, RMC Project
Grant, University of Newcastle
Conference
Establishment Grant, University of Newcastle
Mnemonic Function of Objects, Materials and Spaces as Constructors of
Identity, RMC Project Grant, University of Newcastle
Spatial Culture, Faculty Research Group,
University of Newcastle
Artist-in-Residence
Program, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
2000 National
Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Merit Award (for Passage)
RMC
Conference Travel Scholarship, International Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland
1999 Mnemonic Function of Objects and Materials
as Constructors of Identity, RMC New Staff Grant, University of Newcastle
1998
Nepean
Research Grant to Support Faculty Publications and Visiting Fellowships
1996 Funding
to establish UWS Nepean Designated Research Group
Domestic Space: Its
Possession and the Markings of Identity,
Nepean Research Grant
1995 Hinode-Machi Residential Studio,
Tokyo, Japan
PUBLIC
COMMISSIONS
2003
The North Wing Project,
collaboration with Alexander Tzannes and Associates, 21 Pacific Street,
Newcastle
Snake
Path, permanent public artwork, Echigo-Tsumari
Triennale, Japan
The Three Bowls, permanent public artwork, Tweed River Regional Art
Gallery, Casuarina Development, NSW
2002 Wish Transmitter, Art Avenue, Tachikawa,
Tokyo, Japan
Tachikawa
Calendar, Art Avenue, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
Hide and Seek, Art Avenue, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
Iwadeyama Station, permanent public artwork, Iwadeyama, Japan
2000 Passage, Martin Place, for the City of
Sydney Open Museum and Sculpture Walk
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Brisbane City Gallery, QLD
John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University,
WA
University of Western Sydney
The Belgiorno-Nettis Collection
Corporate
and private collections worldwide
SELECTED
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Graham, ‘Soft architecture’, in Elizabeth Mossop & Paul Walton (eds), City Spaces, Art and Design, Fine Art Publishing, Sydney, 2001, pp.
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City’, Architecture Australia,
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pp. 350–59
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in Deborah Malor & Heather Johnson
(eds), Australian Journal of Art,
Sydney, 1999, p. 73
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no. 5, 1998
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– October 1998
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no. 5, 1998
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1997
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Best, ‘Space and sexuality’, Transitions,
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