ARTIST + CURATOR
amy@amymarjoram.com
EXHIBITIONS
2015 Romance Died Romatically, Strange Neighbour, (participated in and curated exhibition)
2014 Shrines, Federation Square Big Screen, (participated in and co-curated exhibition)
2012 CCP Declares: On the Nature of Things, Centre for Contemporary Photography, curated by Dr Kyla McFarlane
2011 Better Than Art, Kings ARI flashnight (participated in and curated exhibition)
2009 Mod Off, St Ignatius Community Hall (participated in and co-curated exhibition with Yvette King)
2009 Slightly Permanent, Shifted gallery (with Keith Wong)
2008 Confessions, Kings ARI
2008 Signage, Kings ARI
2008 Untitled, Trocadero Gallery, part of Objects in Space group project, Next Wave Festival 2008
2007 Girls Say No To White Gloves, Blindside Gallery
2007 Things in a room, Kings ARI (one night group exhibition as part of the Objects in Space project, Next Wave 2008)
2007 Nothing rhymes with failure, Victoria Park Gallery (with Kel Glaister, Stephen Palmer & Kiron Robinson)
2007 Snakes & Ladders, TCB.art.inc gallery (with Michael Iwasiw)
2005 VCA Graduate Exhibition
2004 Hush-Hush, Performance/Installation, Black Hole, VCA Art School
2004 Proud Annual, Acquisitive Exhibition, VCA Gallery
2004 Q&A, Performance/installation, Remedy Night, VCA Gallery
2003 Timing, Group exhibition, George Paton Gallery (Co-ordinated exhibition)
2002 After Taste, Graduate Exhibition, Faculty Gallery, RMIT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 Robert Nelson, 'Pondering live in legs and dead birds' The Age, 6.10.2015
2012 Naomi Cass, 'Silver Lining' in CCP Declares
2008 Daniel Palmer, ‘What are you looking for?’ Catalogue essay in Objects in Space publication
2008 Tamsin Green, ‘Nothing Rhymes With Failure exhibition review’, Runway, Iss 10. 86-87
2007 Claire Richardson, Catalogue essay for Girls Say No To White Gloves, Blindside gallery
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2017 Warp, Fremantle Arts Centre, Revelation Perth International Film Festival
2015
Romance Died Romantically, Strange Neighbour
2014 Shrines (co-curated with Michael Meneghetti), Federation Square Big Screen, Artbox & Excerpt
2013 Embedded (co-curated with Michael Meneghetti), Strange Neighbour
2012 I'm With Stupid, Mark McGowan & Jimmy Kuehnle, Screen Space
2011 Better Than Art, Kings ARI flashnight
2009 Mod Off (co-curated with Yvette King), single night art event at St Ignatius Community Hall
with collaborative blog
2009 Shifted, Lou Hubbard & Yvette King, Shifted gallery
EDITORIAL PROJECTS
2011-15 Editor of Excerpt Magazine (Issues 1-6 & special issue Common Ground)
PUBLISHED WRITING
Selected Reviews, Profiles & Articles
2014 Preview of Play Me, Art Guide Australia website
2014 Inez de Vega Interview, Georges Mora Foundation website
2014 Art Radar #1 Photography (Izabela Pluta, Chris Round, Ian Tippett), Art Guide Australia website
2014 Review of Witness, (group exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art), Art Guide Australia website
2013 Kings of Video, Kings ARI
2013 'Nadege Meriau', Excerpt Magazine, Issue 5, 2013, 52.
2012 'An Intimate Discussion' & text for 'Peter Nitsch's Function Follows Form', Excerpt Magazine, Issue 3, 2012, 37, 58.
2012 Guest posts for Lost At E Minor website
2011 'Where's the Fuck You Art?' Excerpt Magazine, Issue 1, 2011, 26-27.
2009 ‘New and Improved’ New 09 at ACCA review, Artworker, 4, 2009, 50-51.
2009 Preview of Lackness, (Lou Hubbard, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces) Photofile, 86, Mar-June 2009, 12.
2008 ‘Engagingly awkward proximities’ (on Julie Traitsis & Michael Meneghetti) Real Time, 86, August-September 2008, 46.
2008 ‘The dimensions of perception’ (group exhibition Beyond the Window, Bus Gallery) Real Time, 85, June-July 2008, 30-31.
2007 'Between heaven and hell' (Sonia Leber & David Chesworth installation Almost Always Everywhere Apparent, ACCA) Real Time, 81, October-November 2007, 54.
2007 'Making space: the freedom to mess' (Group Exhibition Floats like a brick doesn't, Bus Gallery) Real Time, 80, August-September 2007, 53.
2007 'Flattened Sculptures: The Photomediations of Daniel Von Sturmer'. Eyeline, 63, 2007, 52-53.
2007 'Art on the Ball' (Louise Paramor, Rod Laver Show Court 3) Real Time, 79, June-July 2007, 44.
Catalogue Essays
2017 Warp, Fremantle Arts Centre
2015
Romance Died Romantically, Strange Neighbour
2013 Embedded, Strange Neighbour
2012 Between a rock and a pineapple, Ellinor Forsberg & Yvette King, Seventh Gallery
2012 I'm With Stupid, Mark McGowan & Jimmy Kuehnle, Screen Space
2009 Mod Off, catalogue essay co-written with Kel Glaister
2009 A Bike Ride with Melissa, Ka-yin Kwok, Kings ARI
2009 It’s a wonderful life, Yvette King, Kings ARI
2008 A hole in the roof, Kevin Chin, TCB gallery
2008 The Void, Natalie Ryan, Kings ARI
2007 Nonchalantly Unimpressed, Group Exhibition, Victoria Park Gallery
Excerpt reprinted in ‘I try to help them give form to the many options available’exhibition catalogue, A Centre for Art, Auckland
2006 The Space in Between, Pip and Natalie Ryan, MIR 11
Poetry Publications
2011 Selling My Tears
ARTIST TALKS & INTERVIEWS
2016 Light Geist exhibition opening speaker, Fremantle Arts Centre
2016 Panel discussion 'Video and Place' Revelation, Perth International Film Festival
2013 Interviewed by Lucida Magazine
2012 www.getaddictedto.com/interview-amy-marjoram-thoughtful-photography-insights
2012 Victorian College of the Arts, Art Forum Series
2011 Victoria University, Visual Art Department
EDUCATION
2009 Eat Your Words writing project, Artworkers (QLD) with the support of the Australia Council and Arts Queensland
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Photomedia, Monash
Received First Class Honours
2006 Scope Publishing Project for emerging art writers, Monash
2006 Photomedia in Modern and Contemporary Art,
single unit taught by Daniel Palmer, Monash.
2005 Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts
2002 Diploma of Visual Art, Sculpture Major, RMIT
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2007 Centre For Contemporary Photography Kodak Salon, Best Use of Print Technology
2005 St Kilda Art Supplies Award
2005 John Vickery Scholarship
2004 Winner of ‘Proud - VCA Annual Acquisitive Exhibition’
ROLES
2016-19 Owner and Manager, Only Good Vintage
2014 Client Services Manager, Deutscher and Hackett, March 2014 - March 2016
2014 Exibition Advisory Committee Member 2014 & 2015, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2013 Advisory Panel Member, Strange Neighbour, May 2013 - November 2015
(Provision of curatorial & general gallery support)
2013 Board Member, Georges Mora Foundation, October 2013 - December 2014
(Provision of general practical & administrative support & redevelopment of foundation website)
2012 Administrative Support Officer, Registration Department, National Gallery of Victoria, full-time contract March 2012 - June 2013
2010 Gallery Assistant, Shifted Gallery (1 day a week)
2009 Library Services Officer, Baillieu Library, The University of Melbourne, March 2009 - August 2011