Selected Curriculum Vitae

Sanné Mestrom

Studies/Professional
08 RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, PhD, Fine Art
00 RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art (Hons)

Selected solo exhibitions and projects
10 (forthcoming) Solo exhibition Chalk Horse, Sydney, October
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
10(forthcoming) Not Fair (in conjunction with the Melbourne Art Fair)
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)
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
08 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 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
05 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
10 Studio Residency, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
09 Artist Residency, SOMA, Mexico City
09 Chartwell Trust Independent Funding, New Zealand
09 Arts Victoria Creation Grant
07 Arts Victoria International Grant
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
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 view PDF
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 view PDF
Coates, Rebecca. Of Mice and Men, exh. cat. July 2007
Clements, Sally P. The time axis: a stretch between two weeks of sunshine, exh. essay, September 2007
Crawford, Ashley. Un/Discovered Artists. The Australian Art Collector, April 2005 view PDF
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 essate, 2008
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 view
Miller, Toby. The Policy, Contract and Title of a Work of Art: On Sanne Mestroms recent paintings, 2004
E-maj (Electronic Melbourne Art Journal) view PDF view HTML
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,view PDF view html
Nainby, Bryony. Life is Sweet, exh.cat 2007 link
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 view
Rann, Kirten. Will judgement hurt when it falls on you?, Catalogue essay, Sept 2004 view PDF
Shaw, Kate. 'Drawing blood from a stone', exh.cat. view
Waters, Paula'The bleeding edge: what keeps us this side of that dark line?, exhibition essay for Spacement: Text Me 2006
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
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), Catalogue text by , October 2005 view PDF
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.