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Working predominantly in photography and video, Penelope Hunt’s images are interested in how we navigate the world and out transitory existence within it. Her work ranges from portraiture to landscapes involving complex durational studies. She won the 2019 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize and has been a Finalist in numerous prizes including The Olive Cotton Award, City of Hobart Art Prize, Maggie Diaz Prize for Women & The Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award. She has exhibited widely and been acquired into both Public and Private Collections. She is Sessional Lecturer in Photography at Deakin University and is undertaking a PhD at Monash University. Artists Talk : Australian Tapestry Workshop, 2016 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJNithhIXCY |
PENELOPE HUNT
www.penelopehunt.net
Inst:www.instagram.com/penelope_hunt_photos/
Insta: @penelopehunt47
EDUCATION
2021- Current PhD Candidate Monash University, Melbourne
2014 Masters of Contemporary Art Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (First Class Honours)
2010 Graduate Certificate Visual Arts Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (First Class Honours)
2005 Diploma of Visual Arts R.M.I.T Melbourne
1990 Diploma of Photography Fine Art Australian College of Photography, Art and Communication (ACPAC), Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Love and Loss, Venezia Contemporanea - La Sorta Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy
2023 Open for Introspection, 72 Studley Park Rd, Naarm
2022 Under the Nylex Clock, Wellington Street, 1988 Richmond Town Hall
2019 The Exhibition Project, City Recital Hall, Sydney
2018 I see myself in you, St.Heliers Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2015 Remains to be seen, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2015 Night Games, Chin Chin Wall of Art, Melbourne
2014 Night Games, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2006 quiet works, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Self, Red Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Crazy, Hazy Days of Someone, West Space, Melbourne
1997 As Safe as Houses, West Space, Melbourne
AWARDS
2023 Study Away Travel Grant, Monash University
2022 RTP Scholarship, Monash University
2019 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, WINNER, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat
2014 National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Award - Masters Graduation Exhibition, VCA
2013 2013 Creative Scholarship – Faculty of VCA & MCM
2013 Melbourne Graduate Access Bursary – University of Melbourne, VCA & MCM
1997 Third Annual Working Art Visual Arts Prize, WINNER, Steps Gallery, Melbourne
RESIDENCIES
2023 David Campany Workshop - Photography Between Exhibition and Publication, (5 days)Santorini, Greece
www.thepalmtreeworkshops.com/workshop/david-campany/
2023 The Museum of Loss and Renewal, (3 weeks) Collemacchia, Italy themuseumoflossandrenewal.life/
2023 Venezia Contemporanea - La Sorta Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy
2017 Clarendon House Estate, Nile, Tasmania
2016 Berlin, Germany, Month long collaborating with photographer/architect Ross T. Smith.
2016 Australian Tapestry Workshop Artist in Residence, 3 months, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, HONORABLE MENTION, Fine Art Series, FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Art School Confidential, curated by James Lynch, Deakin University Gallery
2023 Genealogies, curated by Belinda Scerri and Elyssia Bugg, Memory Conference 2021, CoVA, University of Melbourne
2020 Loud and Luminous, Contact Sheet, Sydney
2020 Common Thread, St.Heliers Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2019 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, WINNER, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat
2019 Milburn Art Prize, FINALIST, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane
2019 Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin Germany
2019 Loud and Luminous, Contact Sheet, Sydney
2018 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA
2018 Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin Germany
2017 BLINDSIDE B-Side, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne
2017 Clarendon Spring Art Show, Clarendon House Estate, Nile, Tasmania
2017 The Olive Cotton Award, FINALIST, Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah
2017 The Australian Tapestry Workshop A.I.R 40th Birthday Exhibition, ATW Melbourne
2017 FLOW (CLIMARTE), Counihan Gallery, Melbourne Curated Heather Hesterman,
2017 Alternative Destinations, Newstead Arts Centre, Castlemaine Festival Program
2016 Verdant Garden, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne. Curated by Claire Watson
2016 A wallaby once sat here, small acts of celebration and concern, ecology and the feminine, The Avoca Project Inc. Avoca. Curated by Lyndal Jones
2015 Quarter Acre, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne. Curated by Adriane &Verity Hayward
2015 M Collection Art Award, RUNNER UP, Gallery Smith, Melbourne
2015 Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women, FINALIST, Bright Space, Melbourne
2015 Place and Space, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Masters Graduation Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2014 Screen, Lincoln Arts Centre, Melbourne
2014 Marvel, FINALIST, The Windsor Prize, Melbourne
2014 Invisible Ink, C3 Contemporary Artspace, Melbourne
2013 Luminescence, FINALIST, The Windsor Prize, Melbourne
2013 Envisioning Gods, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2013 First Quarter, Victorian College of the Arts Student Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Extra Extra, J Studios, Melbourne
2010 Graduate Show, VCA Student Gallery
2008 <the Space In Between>Book Project, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2008 <the Space In Between>Book Project, Latrobe Gallery, Victoria
2008 <the Space In Between>Book Project, Wagga Wagga Gallery, NSW
2008 <the Space In Between>Book Project, Artspace, Townsville, QLD
2007 <the Space In Between>Book Project, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2007 City of Hobart Art Prize, FINALIST, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
2007 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, FINALIST, Gold Coast City Gallery, QLD
2007 Julie Millowick Acquisitive Photog Award, FINALIST, Castlemaine Festival, Victoria
2006 Detail, R.M.I.T Graduates Show, Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne
2005 do i have to repeat myself…, Allan’s Walk Artists Space, Bendigo, Victoria
2001 <the Space In Between>, Platform, Spencer St Underpass, Melbourne
2001 National Photographic Purchase Award, FINALIST, Albury Regional Gallery, Victoria
1997 Third Annual Working Art Visual Arts Prize, WINNER, Steps Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Second Annual Working Art Visual Arts Prize, FINALIST, Steps Gallery, Melbourne
1990 New Dimensions, Next Wave Festival, Photographers Gallery, Melbourne
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Loud and Luminous- A Celebration of Australian Women Photographers, 2020 p.74-75. Curated and published by Melissa Anderson & Hilary Wardhaugh
2019 Loud and Luminous- A Celebration of Australian Women Photographers, 2019 p.72-73. Curated and published by Melissa Anderson & Hilary Wardhaugh
2017 Kate Gorringe-Smith, FLOW: Counihan Gallery, imprint Magazine, June 8th, 2017
http://imprint.org.au/printmaking/flow-counihan-gallery/
2016 Maria Miranda, The Avoca Project 2005 – 2016, Art+Australia Online, 2017
http://www.artandaustralia.com/online/discussions/avoca-project-2005-—-2016
2015 Ray Edgar, ‘Suburbia - Does the Great Australian Dream have life in it yet?’
Sydney Morning Herald, 9th December 2015
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/suburbia-does-the-great-australian-dream-have-life-in-it-yet-20151207-glgu2r.html
2015 Dylan Rainforth, ‘The Remains of Art and War’, The Age & The Sydney Morning Herald, 16th June 2015
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/photos-from-studio-of-official-war-artist-alan moore-on-display-20150616-ghow42.html
2008 Simon Gregg, ‘(The Space In Between) Book Project’, Artlink Vol.28
https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/3089/5Bthe-space-in-between5D-book-project/
2005 Metro Arts – 11/05/05
1998 ‘As Safe As Houses’ – Penelope Hunt, West Space handbook
1997 Myf Warhurst, ‘Strange Things Happening’ The Age, pg69, 5th September 1997
1990 ‘New Dimensions’, The Age pg14, 1st June 1990
CONFERENCES
2022 The Archival Ruin, Silences of the Archive symposium, Deakin University
2021 Genealogies, curated by Belinda Scerri and Elyssia Bugg, Memory Conference 2021, CoVA, University of Melbourne
TALKS/INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES
2017 Clarendon Estate – The Spring Art Show, Filmed and Produced by Andrew Walton
https://vimeo.com/240761036
2017 The Other Art Fair Melbourne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1HlDxzo9_7A
2016 Artist in Residence Talk, The Australian Tapestry Workshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJNithhIXCY
2015 Penelope Hunt, ‘The Pool’, Quarter Acre Catalogue, Pg 14-15, 2015
2014 Alan Moore: WW11 artist turns 100
Produced and Directed by Emily Bissland, Project: Unsung, ABC Open
https://open.abc.net.au/explore/80563
2005 Penelope Hunt, ‘Nice, Nicer, Nicely, Nicest’, Allans Walk Artists Space Catalogue
COLLECTIONS
Australian Catholic University Art Collection
Australian War Memorial Contemporary Art Collection
Australian Tapestry Workshop Collection
Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation
Private Collections
CURATORIAL
2019 The world around us, CLIMARTE, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2017 Home: the fabric of the familiar, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2015 After…, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2014 Arts Project Space, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne (co-curated)
2013 Repeat, Restate …Reiterate, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2012 A Stitch in Time, Terry Williams Solo, Substation, Melbourne
2012 Arts Project Space, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne (co-curated)
2010 Captured, Roof Top Cinema, Melbourne,
2010 Human Nature, Warrnambool Regional Gallery, Warnambool (co-curated)
2009 Small Works, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne(co-curated)
www.penelopehunt.net
Inst:www.instagram.com/penelope_hunt_photos/
Insta: @penelopehunt47
EDUCATION
2021- Current PhD Candidate Monash University, Melbourne
2014 Masters of Contemporary Art Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (First Class Honours)
2010 Graduate Certificate Visual Arts Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (First Class Honours)
2005 Diploma of Visual Arts R.M.I.T Melbourne
1990 Diploma of Photography Fine Art Australian College of Photography, Art and Communication (ACPAC), Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Love and Loss, Venezia Contemporanea - La Sorta Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy
2023 Open for Introspection, 72 Studley Park Rd, Naarm
2022 Under the Nylex Clock, Wellington Street, 1988 Richmond Town Hall
2019 The Exhibition Project, City Recital Hall, Sydney
2018 I see myself in you, St.Heliers Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2015 Remains to be seen, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2015 Night Games, Chin Chin Wall of Art, Melbourne
2014 Night Games, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
2006 quiet works, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Self, Red Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Crazy, Hazy Days of Someone, West Space, Melbourne
1997 As Safe as Houses, West Space, Melbourne
AWARDS
2023 Study Away Travel Grant, Monash University
2022 RTP Scholarship, Monash University
2019 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, WINNER, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat
2014 National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Award - Masters Graduation Exhibition, VCA
2013 2013 Creative Scholarship – Faculty of VCA & MCM
2013 Melbourne Graduate Access Bursary – University of Melbourne, VCA & MCM
1997 Third Annual Working Art Visual Arts Prize, WINNER, Steps Gallery, Melbourne
RESIDENCIES
2023 David Campany Workshop - Photography Between Exhibition and Publication, (5 days)Santorini, Greece
www.thepalmtreeworkshops.com/workshop/david-campany/
2023 The Museum of Loss and Renewal, (3 weeks) Collemacchia, Italy themuseumoflossandrenewal.life/
2023 Venezia Contemporanea - La Sorta Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy
2017 Clarendon House Estate, Nile, Tasmania
2016 Berlin, Germany, Month long collaborating with photographer/architect Ross T. Smith.
2016 Australian Tapestry Workshop Artist in Residence, 3 months, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, HONORABLE MENTION, Fine Art Series, FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Art School Confidential, curated by James Lynch, Deakin University Gallery
2023 Genealogies, curated by Belinda Scerri and Elyssia Bugg, Memory Conference 2021, CoVA, University of Melbourne
2020 Loud and Luminous, Contact Sheet, Sydney
2020 Common Thread, St.Heliers Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2019 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, WINNER, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat
2019 Milburn Art Prize, FINALIST, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane
2019 Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin Germany
2019 Loud and Luminous, Contact Sheet, Sydney
2018 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA
2018 Postcard Salon, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin Germany
2017 BLINDSIDE B-Side, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne
2017 Clarendon Spring Art Show, Clarendon House Estate, Nile, Tasmania
2017 The Olive Cotton Award, FINALIST, Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah
2017 The Australian Tapestry Workshop A.I.R 40th Birthday Exhibition, ATW Melbourne
2017 FLOW (CLIMARTE), Counihan Gallery, Melbourne Curated Heather Hesterman,
2017 Alternative Destinations, Newstead Arts Centre, Castlemaine Festival Program
2016 Verdant Garden, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne. Curated by Claire Watson
2016 A wallaby once sat here, small acts of celebration and concern, ecology and the feminine, The Avoca Project Inc. Avoca. Curated by Lyndal Jones
2015 Quarter Acre, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne. Curated by Adriane &Verity Hayward
2015 M Collection Art Award, RUNNER UP, Gallery Smith, Melbourne
2015 Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women, FINALIST, Bright Space, Melbourne
2015 Place and Space, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Masters Graduation Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2014 Screen, Lincoln Arts Centre, Melbourne
2014 Marvel, FINALIST, The Windsor Prize, Melbourne
2014 Invisible Ink, C3 Contemporary Artspace, Melbourne
2013 Luminescence, FINALIST, The Windsor Prize, Melbourne
2013 Envisioning Gods, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2013 First Quarter, Victorian College of the Arts Student Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Extra Extra, J Studios, Melbourne
2010 Graduate Show, VCA Student Gallery
2008 <the Space In Between>Book Project, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2008 <the Space In Between>Book Project, Latrobe Gallery, Victoria
2008 <the Space In Between>Book Project, Wagga Wagga Gallery, NSW
2008 <the Space In Between>Book Project, Artspace, Townsville, QLD
2007 <the Space In Between>Book Project, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2007 City of Hobart Art Prize, FINALIST, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
2007 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, FINALIST, Gold Coast City Gallery, QLD
2007 Julie Millowick Acquisitive Photog Award, FINALIST, Castlemaine Festival, Victoria
2006 Detail, R.M.I.T Graduates Show, Fitzroy Gallery, Melbourne
2005 do i have to repeat myself…, Allan’s Walk Artists Space, Bendigo, Victoria
2001 <the Space In Between>, Platform, Spencer St Underpass, Melbourne
2001 National Photographic Purchase Award, FINALIST, Albury Regional Gallery, Victoria
1997 Third Annual Working Art Visual Arts Prize, WINNER, Steps Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Second Annual Working Art Visual Arts Prize, FINALIST, Steps Gallery, Melbourne
1990 New Dimensions, Next Wave Festival, Photographers Gallery, Melbourne
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Loud and Luminous- A Celebration of Australian Women Photographers, 2020 p.74-75. Curated and published by Melissa Anderson & Hilary Wardhaugh
2019 Loud and Luminous- A Celebration of Australian Women Photographers, 2019 p.72-73. Curated and published by Melissa Anderson & Hilary Wardhaugh
2017 Kate Gorringe-Smith, FLOW: Counihan Gallery, imprint Magazine, June 8th, 2017
http://imprint.org.au/printmaking/flow-counihan-gallery/
2016 Maria Miranda, The Avoca Project 2005 – 2016, Art+Australia Online, 2017
http://www.artandaustralia.com/online/discussions/avoca-project-2005-—-2016
2015 Ray Edgar, ‘Suburbia - Does the Great Australian Dream have life in it yet?’
Sydney Morning Herald, 9th December 2015
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/suburbia-does-the-great-australian-dream-have-life-in-it-yet-20151207-glgu2r.html
2015 Dylan Rainforth, ‘The Remains of Art and War’, The Age & The Sydney Morning Herald, 16th June 2015
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/photos-from-studio-of-official-war-artist-alan moore-on-display-20150616-ghow42.html
2008 Simon Gregg, ‘(The Space In Between) Book Project’, Artlink Vol.28
https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/3089/5Bthe-space-in-between5D-book-project/
2005 Metro Arts – 11/05/05
1998 ‘As Safe As Houses’ – Penelope Hunt, West Space handbook
1997 Myf Warhurst, ‘Strange Things Happening’ The Age, pg69, 5th September 1997
1990 ‘New Dimensions’, The Age pg14, 1st June 1990
CONFERENCES
2022 The Archival Ruin, Silences of the Archive symposium, Deakin University
2021 Genealogies, curated by Belinda Scerri and Elyssia Bugg, Memory Conference 2021, CoVA, University of Melbourne
TALKS/INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES
2017 Clarendon Estate – The Spring Art Show, Filmed and Produced by Andrew Walton
https://vimeo.com/240761036
2017 The Other Art Fair Melbourne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1HlDxzo9_7A
2016 Artist in Residence Talk, The Australian Tapestry Workshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJNithhIXCY
2015 Penelope Hunt, ‘The Pool’, Quarter Acre Catalogue, Pg 14-15, 2015
2014 Alan Moore: WW11 artist turns 100
Produced and Directed by Emily Bissland, Project: Unsung, ABC Open
https://open.abc.net.au/explore/80563
2005 Penelope Hunt, ‘Nice, Nicer, Nicely, Nicest’, Allans Walk Artists Space Catalogue
COLLECTIONS
Australian Catholic University Art Collection
Australian War Memorial Contemporary Art Collection
Australian Tapestry Workshop Collection
Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation
Private Collections
CURATORIAL
2019 The world around us, CLIMARTE, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2017 Home: the fabric of the familiar, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2015 After…, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2014 Arts Project Space, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne (co-curated)
2013 Repeat, Restate …Reiterate, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2012 A Stitch in Time, Terry Williams Solo, Substation, Melbourne
2012 Arts Project Space, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne (co-curated)
2010 Captured, Roof Top Cinema, Melbourne,
2010 Human Nature, Warrnambool Regional Gallery, Warnambool (co-curated)
2009 Small Works, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne(co-curated)