Selected Curriculum Vitae

  Sanné Mestrom
   
  Studies/Professional
11 RMIT University, Graduate Certificate in Public Art
08 RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, PhD, Fine Art
00 RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art (Hons)
   
  Selected solo exhibitions and projects
11 The Reclining Nude, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
10 Shaker Peg; Chalk Horse, Sydney, October Link
09 Things fall down. Sometimes we look up. Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia
08 Certain Sacrifices (PhD Presentation); RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
07 A history of space is the history of wars; Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
07 Passing through; Rm103, ARI, Auckland, New Zealand
07 Slump; Dep-art-ment, ARI, Auckland, New Zealand
06 A history of space is the history of wars; Spacement Gallery, Melbourne
06 What keeps us this side of that dark line?; Counter Point Project Space, Hardware Lane, Melbourne, Australia
05 A man's name; TCB Inc., Melbourne, Australia
04 The Myth of a Political Vision; Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
04 At the Foot of Justice; Conical, Melbourne, Australia Link
03 Critical Feedback; ClubsProject, Melbourne, Austraila Link
03 Site of Cultural Negotiation; Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
   
  Curated group exhibitions and collaborations
11 OCTOPUS 11:The Matter of Air;curated by Jacqueline Doughty, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (also with Michaela Gleave, Joao Maria Gusmao + Pedro Paiva, Zilvinas Kempinas, Sanne Mestrom, Dane Mitchell)
11 OOO, curated by Anusha Kenny, Daine Singer Gallery, Melbourne (with artists Brooke Babington, Hedwig Houben, ReneeJaeger, Sanne Mestrom,Ilia Rosli)
11 Social Sculpture, curated by Charlotte Day, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, (with artists Agatha Gothe-Snape, Sanné Mestrom, Stuart Ringholt, Kate Mitchell, Joshua Petherick, Lauren Brincat, Laresa Kosloff)
11 John Fries Memorial Prize 2011 (winner), curated by Venita Poblocki, Sydney (with artists yrus Tang, Erica Molesworth, Eva Hampel, Heath Franco, Jennifer O'Brien, Karl Khoe & Tessa Zettel, Keiko Matsui, Kristel Britcher, Kurt Sorensen, Nathan Taylor, Pauletta Kerinauia, Sanne Mestrom, Susie Nelson, Wade Marynowsky and Walter Brecely)
11 Nothing is true, everything is permitted, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney (with artits David Capra, Yvette Coppersmith, John A Douglas, Sanne Mestrom, Kate Mitchell, Christian Thompson and Gregory & Watts) Curated by Clementine Blackman and Kat Sapera
10 GERTRUDE STUDIOS 2010; (with artists Belle Bassin, Damp, Emily Ferretti, Nathan Gray, Matt Hinkley, Susan Jacobs, Ash Keating, Silvana Mangano And Gabriella Mangano, Sanné Mestrom, Moya Mckenna, Rob Mcleish, Geoff Newton, Selina Ou, Kate Smith, Alex Vivian, Nicki Wynnychuk)
10 Eight Artists, Eight Editions, curator, West Space, Melbourne (with artists Nathan Gray, Brad Haylock, Alasdair McLuckie, Sanné Mestrom, Natalie Ryan, Kiron Robinson, Bill Sampson, Matthew Shannon
10 Things I wish I'd known; A West Space project (with artists Ross Coulter, Melody Ellis, Brad Haylock, Veronica Kent, Sanné Mestrom, Lillian O’Neil, Patrick Pound, Ben Sheppard, Utako Shindo, Tai Snaith, Kieran Stewart and Dominic Redfern, with essays by Phip Murray and Kelly Fliedner.)
10 Not Fair (in conjunction with the Melbourne Art Fair), curated by Ashley Crawford, Tony Lloyd, Sam Leach
10 The Nothing, curated by Kelly Fliedner, West Space Melbourne & Chalk Horse Sydney (with artists Damiano Bertoli, Lou Hubbard, Sanné Mestrom, Deborah Ostrow, Daniel Price, Matthew Shannon & Jackson Slattery)
10 Carry On Stow Away, Gambia Castle, Auckland (with artists marcelaygina, Eduardo Abaroa, Fiona Connor, Tania Perez Cordova, Adriana Lara, Louise Menzies, Sanné Mestrom, Joaquin Segura & Sofia Taboas)
10 A quarter turn on every screw, curated by Kel Glaister and Tamsin Green, Kings ARI, Melbourne (with artists Brad Haylock, Anthony Johnson, Yvette King, Sanné Mestrom, Sanja Pahoki, Kiron Robinson, Jackson Slattery, Nedko Solakov, Lee Walton)
09 Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, curated by Olivia Polini, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne (also with James and Eleanor Avery, Laresa Kosloff, Dorota Mytych, Izabela Pluta,Amélie Scalercio)
09 De Architectura, curated by Kirsten Rann, MARS Gallery, Melbourne (also with artists Daniel Argyle, Savatore Panatteri, Meredith Turnbull) link
09 De Architectura, curated by Kirsten Rann, Level 17 Artspace, Victoria University, Melbourne (also with artists Daniel Argyle, Savatore Panatteri, Meredith Turnbull) link
08 Spaghetti Junction, Gallery 64Zero, Christchurch, New Zealand (also with artists Martin Basher (NZ/NY), Paul Johns, Eileen Leung, Peter Madden and Seung Yul Oh
08 An ideal for living, curated by Simon Gregg, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia link
08 Rembrandts: Nine Installations, public art and urban architecture project, coordinated by Simon Whibley (RMIT Architecture, Urban Architecture Laboratory) and Anthony McInneny (RMIT School of Art, RMIT Public Art) (with Antarctica, Jillian Allan, Greg Creek, Herbert + Mason, Sean Loughery, Sally Mannall, Sanne Mestrom, Vin Ryan, Workshop Architecture)
07 Life is Sweet: Contemporary Australian Watercolour, Curated by Bryony Nainby, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia (also with artists Patrick Hartigan, Noel McKenna, Michelle Ussher, Pat Waters, John Wolseley)
07 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (with Kate Newby), Munster, Germany link
06 Siemens Scholarship exhibition, RMIT Storey Hall, Melbourne, (Recipient of Siemens Fine Art Award)
06 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
06 Portrait of Salote, in collaboration with Maxine De Feaux, curated by Salote Twale, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Link
06 Text Me, Spacement Gallery, curated by Glen Walls (also with artists Gabrielle De Vietri, Pandorosa, Danielle Freakley, Glen Walls, Rose Nolan)
06 Selekta, WestSpace, Melbourne, Australia
05 "I'm travellin' light', curated by Deborah Ostrow, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
(also with artists Hany Armanious, Thomas Bernstein, Natalie Davey, Domenico DeClario, Deej Fabyc, Nicola Loder, Tracy Nakayama, Jonathan Nichols, Rob McHaffie, Deborah Ostrow, Tere Recarens, Peter Robertson, Gareth Sansom, David M Thomas, Jeremy Yoder)
05

One anothers other world, Curated by Peter Westwood, Alliance Francaise, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia(also with artists Laetitia Bourget, Philippe Charles, Steve Cox, Dominic Redfern, Philip Samartzis, Ania Walwitz, Louiseann Zahra)

05 KISSS, Conical Inc., Curated by London based Australian artists Joanna Callaghan and Deej Fabyc, Melbourne, Australia
04 The Time Image, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Curated by Phe Rawnsly, Melbourne, Australia Link
04 Sensoria, Conical, Fitzroy, Melbourne (part of the Sensoria Conference, hosted by RMIT)
04 Multiple Miscellaneous Alliances, CLUBSProject, curated by Bianca Hester, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia
04 The Conceptual Reconstruction of Brunswick, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Curated by Alex Daglish, Melbourne
02 Trope, Honours graduate exhibition, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
02 My Blues Book, curated and self-published by Kate Newby, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
02 Take it Away - (curator) Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
   
  Awards/Residencies
11 Winner, John Fries Memorial Prize, Sydney
10 Studio Residency, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
10 Artist Residency, SOMA, Mexico City
10 Chartwell Trust Independent Funding, New Zealand
09 Arts Victoria Creation Grant
09 Arts Victoria International Grant
08 Shortlisted Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship
07 Arts Victoria Creation Grant
07 Shortlisted for Rijksakademie artist residency, Amsterdam
07 NAVA Janet Holmes Artist Grant07 NAVA Janet Holmes Artist Grant
06 Siemens Post Graduate Fine Art Scholarship Award
06 Shortlisted for Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery
05 Australian Federation of University Women, Daphne Elliott Research Award
04 Australian Postgraduate Research Award
03 RMIT Union Arts, Cultural Arts Grant
01 Artist in residence, Sangmyong University, Seoul, South Korea
   

Bibliography/Reviews

Backhouse, Megan. 'The Journey: Under construction', The Age, 6 February 2002
Bartlem, Edwina. 'The Time Image', exhibition review, Un Magazine, Issue 4, page 32, 2005
Blackman, Clemintine. 'Shaker Peg', exhibition review fro Shaker Peg, Chalk Horse Gallery, 2010
Boyce, Elizabeth. 'Miscellaneous documents Interview project', May – July 2004 in conjunction with multipleMISCELLANEOUSalliances (mMa) Edited transcript of a conversation between Mestrom and Boyce regarding participation in mMa
Coates, Rebecca. 'Of Mice and Men', exh. cat. July 2007
Clements, Sally P. 'The time axis: a stretch between two weeks of sunshine', exh. cat., September 2007
Crawford, Ashley. 'Un/Discovered Artists.' The Australian Art Collector, April 2005
Dawson, Bradley. 'Yesterdays News', White Ant (political activist publication), March 03
 
Eskly, Linda. 'Bureaucrats One, Art Nil', The Metro News, 3 May 2000
Gregg, Simon. 'An Ideal for living', catalogue essay, 2008
Glaister, Kel, A quarter turn on every screw. exh. cat. 2010
Eskly, Linda. 'Bureaucrats One, Art Nil', The Metro News, 3 May 2000
Fliedner, Kelly. 'Things fall down. Sometimes we look up.' Exhibition review, Runway Magazine, 2009
Judd, Rachel. 'Taken Away', Interview on 3CR Independent Radio, 01 March 2002
McFarlane, Kyla. 'A history of space is the history of wars', exh. cat, September 2006
Miller, Toby. 'The Policy, Contract and Title of a Work of Art: On Sanne Mestroms recent paintings', 2004
E-maj (Electronic Melbourne Art Journal)

Morrow, Christine. 'Text Me', exhibition review, Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 61, Spring 2006, p.52-53
Morrow, Christine. 'A man's name', exhibition review, Un Magazine, Issue 7, p23, 2006
Nainby, Bryony. 'Life is Sweet', exh.cat for Contemporary Australian Watercolours, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, 2007
Pawlikowski, Kasia , 'An appearance, uncertain', exh. cat. for The Nothing, West Space, 2010
Parkinson, Jaenine. 'In-between', Enjoy Public Art Gallery, gallery essay, Wellington, 2007
Rann, Kirsten. 'What keeps us this side of that dark line?', exhibition essay for Counterpoint 2006
Rann, Kirten. 'Will judgement hurt when it falls on you?', exh. cat., Sept 2004
Shaw, Kate. 'Drawing blood from a stone', exh.cat. 2006
Starr, Bala. 'I'm travellin light', exh. cat, 2005
Turnbull, Meredith. 'Out of the Fry Pan, Into the Fire', exh. cat. for Things Fall Down, Sometimes We Look Up, 2009
Webb, Penny. 'A year in review: Many hands make light work of tough matter / some of the years most interesting work', The Age 20/12/06, p.16
Whibley, Simon. and McInneny, Anthony. 'Rembrandt’s: 9 Installations', exh. cat, 2008
Webb, Penny. 'Intimate Survey' (From 'I'm travelin' light, Spacement), Sightlines Critical Guide, The Age 9/12/05, p.17
Westwood, Peter. 'One Anothers Otherworld' (Alliance Francaise), exh. cat. October 2005
The Art Show, Channel 31, with Helen Johnson, 28 Feb 2002 (‘Take It Away’)


Catalogue

What keeps us this side of that dark line?
Paperback, 1800mm x 2500mm
ISBN 978-0-646-47797-8

Thanks to NAVA and the Arts Victoria International grant.