Curriculm Vitae

Occupation: Artist and Lecturer:
Artworkshop, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney

Qualifications:
2007:  PhD Candidate, Contemporary Centre for Art and Politics, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
1997: Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
1989: Postgraduate Diploma of Fine Art
Sydney College of the Arts
1987: Guest student, Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
1984: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Tasmanian School of the Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Blue Jay Way, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Penrith Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2002 Sound of Lotus, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2002 Sound of Bamboo, Artspace, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
2001 Sound of Nelum, (lotus) ,Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2001 Sound of Nelum,Vibhavi Academy of Fine Art, Colombo
2000 Quarrying Memory, Gallery 4A, Sydney
1999 round and round the garden, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
1997 Listening to Clara Ethel and Ada,Australian Perspecta1997, Sydney
1996 under the pier, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1996 under the pier, Artspace, Sydney
1995 humidity, Pendulum, Sydney
1994 stains frescoes 111 riverbed, IMA, Brisbane
1993 frescoes 111assay, aGOG, Canberra
1993 frescoes 111 assay, Glare, Artspace window, Sydney
1992 tide, First Draft West, Sydney
1992 frescoes, Photospace, Canberra
1991 the intertidal zone, 200 Gertrude st, Melbourne
the intertidal zone, The Performance Space, Sydney
1989 the element orange, Performance Space, Sydney
1986 Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Wasch Salon, Frankfurt, Germany
1985 Handmark Gallery, Hobart

Selected group exhibitions and projects:

2008
5th International Sculpture Symposium2008, Hue, Vietnam
Sound of the Night Sky, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
Spare Room, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney

2007
Walking and Art Residency,
The Banff Centre, Canada

2006
Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2006
, Japan
Light Sensitive, Contemporary Australian Photography, National Gallery of Victoria,
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Contemporary Award winner, Campbelltown Regional Gallery
We are Australian Too, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney
Procession, Mai Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2005
Australian Photographic Portrait Prize,
Art Gallery of NSW
Intray, two cubes, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Works from Sri Lanka, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra

2004
Blake Prize
, The Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney
A Matter of Time 16th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial
National Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Municipal Council, Sydney

2003
First Impressions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Lunugunga, Comfort Zone, ABC Radio National
Reverb, Mai’s Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2002
7 Photographers
, Stills Gallery, Sydney
Hue, with Boyd, Gallery4A, Sydney
2000 Techne, UTS Gallery, Sydney
The Convict and the Jew, 24HR Art, Darwin

1999
The Convict and the Jew, Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Schaufenster in die Welt, Kassel, Germany

1998
International Sculpture Symposium
, Hue, Vietnam
Shields, National Sculpture Forum, Canberra

1997
Listening to Clara, Ethel and Ada, Australian Perspecta, Sydney

1991
Reef of the night sky, Open City's Production, Museum of Accidents, Performance Space, Sydney

1990
Combing, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney

Grants and awards:

2008  Skills and Development Grant, Australia Council
2008  Walking and Art Residency, The Banff Centre, Canada
2006 Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, International Visual Arts Strategy, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council,
2005 New Work, Visual Arts & Crafts Project Grant, Australia Council
2001 New Work, Visual Arts & Craft Project Grant, Australia Council
2000 Asia Link Residency, Sri Lanka
1998 Travel Grant, Vietnamese Sculpture Symposium, New South Wales Ministry for the Arts
1997 Project Grant, Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Australia Council
1995 Artist in Residence, London, Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Australia Council
1990 Project Grant, Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Australia Council
1986 Guest Student, Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
1985 Travel Grant, Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Australia Council

Selected bibliography:

Isobel Crombie, Light Sensitive, Contemporary Australian Photography, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2006

Sasha Grishin, Work from Sri Lanka, Canberra Times, March 10, 2005

Suzie Attwil, A Matter of Time, 16th Tamworth Fibre Biennial 2004

Jacqueline Millner, Sound of Bamboo and Sound of Lotus, Sue Pedley,Artspace Publication 2003

Margaret Roberts, Sound of Bamboo, Haiku Review HR 2 2002

Jacqueline Millner, Sound of Bamboo, exh. cat., Artspace, Sydney, 2002

Isabella Reich, ‘The Convict and the Jew, Eyeline, vol 44, Summer 2000

Jacqueline Millner, ‘Quarrying Memory’, like, issue 44/45, November 2000

Jacqueline Millner in Martin Thomas (ed.), Uncertain Ground, Essays Between Art and Nature, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999

Suzanne Lecht, ‘Sculpturing Impressions of Hue’, Sculpture News, issue 4, Spring 1999

Anne Ferran, ‘Listening to Clara, Ethel and Ada’, Eyeline, vol 35, Summer 1998

Kevin Murray, Jaqueline Millner, Real Time, August 1997

Virginia Ross, ‘Under the Pier’, Eyeline,, February 1997

Jaqueline Millner, ‘Humidity’, Agenda, ivol 38, September 1996

Jacqueline Millner, Under the Pier, exh. cat., Artspace, Sydney, 1996

Christine Morrow, ‘stains frescoes 111 riverbed’, Eyeline, vol 50, January 1995

Abby Mellich, ‘Broken Circle’, catalogue essay, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1994

Abby Mellich ‘tide’, Agenda, issue 29, June 1993

Tess Horwitz, the intertidal zone, exh. cat., 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, 1992

Sue Pedley

Sue Pedley is an artist whose concerns are to develop a processed based approach; to explore alternative ways to experiment with different materials and their relationship to place; and to reformulate basic elements of time/light and space.

She works as a lecturer in image making and drawing at UTS and the University of Sydney. She has a Master of Visual Art having studied at Tasmanian School of Art, Sydney College of the Arts, College of Fine Art and Stadelschule, Franfurt, Germany. Sue has had studio/residencies in London, France, Germany and Sri Lanka funded by the Australia Council and Asialink. The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired cyanotypes which were included in the exhibition, First Impressions, curated by Dr Isobel Crombie. Installations include Perspecta, Between Art and Nature, 1997, Gertrude Street, Melbourne1991; IMA, Brisbane,1994; EAF, Adelaide,1996, Gallery4a, 2000,2002, Artspace,1996 and Royal Botanical Gardens, 2002. Exhibitions of works on paper include Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo,2001; Mori Gallery, 2002; Stills Gallery, 2002; Mai's Gallery, Saigon, New York, 2003.

To contact Sue Pedley;

phone/fax: 612 95193164,
mobile: 0404 376 050

email: sjpedley@ozemail.com.au