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education
2007-10 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Southern Cross University
1995-96 Diploma Graphic Design, Sydney Graphics College
work experience
2000-present director/designer, dolores cupcake
1998-2000 freelance graphic designer, utopia creative
1997 graphic design internship, Powerhouse Museum
residencies / scholarships
2011 School of Visual Arts Summer Resdiency Program, New York
2010 The Art Students League of New York Vytlacil Campus Artist-in-Residence Program |
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awards
2011 Australia Council ArtStart grant
2011 The John and Shelagh Kaske Memorial Fellowship
publications
2009 inRetrospect, published by Retrospect Galleries
2009 Australian Art Journal, published by True Art + Media
2009 Byron Bay Artists Diary 2010, published by True Art + Media
2007 Byron Bay Artists Diary 2008, published by True Art + Media
solo exhibitions
2007 i love you... forever, Dolores Cupcake Studio Gallery, Byron Bay NSW
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selected group exhibitions
2011 SVA Summer Residency Open Studio Show, SVA, Chelsea, NY
2011 About Face, No Longer Empty, NY, NY (exhibiting as artist collaboration paperJAM)
2011 Art Melbourne, Retrospect Galleries, Melbourne VIC
2010 Vytlacil Holiday Show, Elizabeth Sullivan Gallery, The Art Students League of New York, NY
2010 Resident Open Studio Exhibit, The Art Students League of New York, Sparkill NY
2010 petits travaux, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, NSW
2010 The Magic Faraway Tree, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, NSW
2010 Eastcoasters : Vegas Spray Cross City Experience, Bleeding Heart Gallery, Brisbane QLD
2010 Tandem 10, Space Gallery, North Coast Institute of TAFE Lismore, NSW
2010 Art Melbourne, Retrospect Galleries, Melbourne VIC
2009 petits travaux, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW
2009 Art Sydney, Retrospect Galleries, Sydney NSW |
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2009 Transit 09, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW
2009 Unknown Landscapes, Next Gallery, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW
2009 Revolution of Art - Urban Art Exhibition, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW
2009 2010 Byron Bay Art Diary Launch Exhibition, Byron Bay NSW
2008 12x12 art for the tree, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW
2008 Where Mighty Giants Dwell - Urban Art Exhibition, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW
2008 Altered Books, Southern Cross University Library, Lismore NSW
2008 Marine Visions, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW
2007 Flash In The Pan, Waywood Gallery, Byron Bay NSW
2006 Form & The Formless, XO Gallery, Tweed Heads NSW
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artist biography
dolores cupcake is an artist, graphic designer, word-nerd, and occasional pirate based in byron bay. she began her career as a graphic designer, graduating from Sydney Graphics College, followed by an internship at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. Originally a self-taught painter, she has just completed a degree in Visual Arts at Southern Cross University. Recent explorations have seen her moving away from her signature graphic and illustrative narrative style of painting, and into a more process driven multimedia practice.
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artist statement
i have begun to use video as a central point in my work, as a tool for documenting, making work and as a medium itself... i am inspired by the beauty and the mundane nature of everyday sorts of objects and activities, and have lately been quite taken with the notion of making art whilst doing such activities, in a way that captures something of an experience without impacting the nature of it too much; walking, driving, reading... i have made whole bodies of work whilst doing these things...
i’ve been attempting to film everything on my video camera, or my phone... walking. talking. catching buses. trains. driving. dancing. eating. waiting. grocery shopping… everything.
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my latest work sees me projecting this video onto surfaces upon which i paint and draw... creating abstract multimedia works using the haptic footage that i have collected on my travels as my source material. i am interested in the collision of digital media and the hand made mark, and using this to create my own pathway into abstraction. i am also experimenting with creating video pieces or what i call slow moving paintings out of some of my collected video footage, and these are dream-like video versions of the paintings i’ve been making...
december 2010.
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