Efstathia (Effie) Vourie

Ph +61 2 4782 35 64

Mob  +61 407 178 671

Email   eye_art_effie@yahoo.com.au

Academic qualifications

 

1999-2000 Bachelor of Arts (Contemporary Fine Arts), UWS Nepean, NSW Australia

1994-1996 Diploma of Art and Design (Fine Art) CMC of TAFE  Perth, WAustralia

Performance Live and Video Installation in Group Exhibitions.

2003 Feb Attending THUPELO International Artists Workshop in South Africa Exhibiting @ South African National Art Gallery Feb 23rd

2003 Jan ¡°Beckett on Vinyl¡± @ Mortuary station NSW Australia

2002 Dec  ¡°In- danger¡Šed II¡±, softharddanger @Artspace NSW

2002 Nov ¡°In- danger¡Šed¡±    IX @ UWS Nepean, Honours show NSW

2002 Oct ¡°Counting Eggs¡± Moment Forever 2 @ Penrith Regional Gallery Australia

2002 Oct  ¡°Broody¡± I Lash @ Tries Ellies restaurant and Nightclub, Katoomba

2002 Oct  ¡°Deadalivenumb¡± Performance Week @Drive>in Gallery

2002 ¡°Where Rotten Eggs Float¡±  @ SIGNAL UWS honours students

2000 ¡°Embracing the words of Stones¡± performance in Foxipend @ UWS Nepean, NSW

2000 ¡°Trela¡± Performance@ Fish Bowl café UWS Nepean, NSW

1997 Performance @ Red Ball, Fringe Arts Festival, Broome, WA

1997 Performance @ ¡°Buccaneer A Rock Story¡± Opening night, Fringe Arts Festival, WA

 

Group Exhibitions

Interdisciplinary work Installation, Painting, and sculpture.

2002 ¡°Stories from the Brink¡±, parakeet café, Katoomba, NSW

2001 Art Street, Window Installation, Sal-On, Katoomba, NSW

2001 ¡°Apostasis¡± Kudos Gallery, Paddington, NSW

2000 ¡°A Woman¡¯s Work Is Never Done¡± Sweet Foray, Katoomba, NSW

1999 ¡°Erotica¡± Sweet Foray, Katoomba, NSW

1999 ¡°Alternative Spaces¡±, Katoomba NSW

1999 ¡°Twicked¡± Sweet Foray, Katoomba NSW

1999¡°From Small Things¡± Lewers Bequest, Penrith Regional, NSW

1997 52nd Annual Art Exhibition, Cairns Regional Art Gallery, Cairns, QLD

1996 ¡°Grad Girls Garage Sale¡±, Arts House Gallery, Perth, WA

1996¡°Under Glass¡± Pica, Northbridge WA

 

Solo Exhibitions

2001 ¡°Kathothos & Anothos¡± (Descending & Ascending) Parakeet Café, Katoomba NSW

 

Awards & Prizes

1999 School Union Art Prize, 4D, UWS, Nepean, NSW

2000 Best Performance Embracing the Words of Stones shared with Ben Denim

 

 Floxipend Exhibition, UWS Nepean

 

Community-Work/commissions

2003 ¡°Wall Of Peace¡± 16mx2m Mural YHA Katoomba Australia

2003 Coordinator for ¡°Smashed Clay¡± Mosaic and Tile project, with Youth, Funded by Artstart

 

2002 Songlines festival designed and made a weaved snake approx  24 metres long

2002 August -September Youth workshops @ Winmalee Youth centre for exhibition @ Braemar Gallery Springwood

2002 Jan-August Art Workshops for People with mental disabilities, - Exhibition @

The Parakeet Café, Katoomba. With Katoomba neighbourhood Centre funded by WSAAS

 

Teacher for Mosaic classes for Day & Evening college. Workshops on Modern Mosaic

 

2002 April-June Coordinator, for Weaving With Weeds project, for the Women and Earth Conference, Katoomba

2002 Coordinator, community window art display @ Food co-op Katoomba

2002 Youth week, Glenbrook Park teaching young people age¡¯s 4-16 sculptural Mosaic making

2001-02 Coordinator, ¡®Mosaic Dreaming¡¯ Community Mural Sponsored by Artstart

2001 Poster design for mental disabilities project  (member of working committee).

2001 Documented Aerosol Youth Art, Lawson Tunnel project

 2000&2001 Sculpture & Painting, Children¡¯s Gala Day, Lawson, NSW

1997 (Banners) Setting up, Broome Fringe Festival

1998 Window Installation Co-ordinator, Kuranda, Arts Co-operative QLD