Zoe Kirkwood

C.V.

ZOE KIRKWOOD

 b. 1983 Adelaide, South Australia

Currently lives and works Glasgow, United Kingdom

Education

2017/19  Master of Fine Art (Current) Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK

2013       Bachelor of Visual Arts Honours (First Class), University of South Australia (UniSA), Adelaide, AU

2010       Bachelor of Visual Arts – Painting, University of South Australia (UniSA), Adelaide, AU

2006      Bachelor of International Studies, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AU

Selected Solo Exhibitions/Projects

2016     The Collections Project, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia

2016      In-The-Round, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia

2015     The Bel Remix, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

2015     The Screen Set, CCAS (Canberra Contemporary Art Space), Canberra, ACT

2014     Space Invaders, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia

2014     White Out, FELT Space, Adelaide, South Australia

2014     Enter Excess: Space Invaders, CACSA (Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia) Project Space, Adelaide, South Australia

2012     Neon M, Paper, String, Plastic Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018     LAST FUTURES, Tramway, Glasgow, UK

2018     MFA Interim Show, Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK

2018     Exercises for Lazy Eyes, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, South Australia     

2017     Mix Tape, PALMER, Sydney, New South Wales

2016     Rheology, GAFFA Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales  

2016     Recent Matters, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia

2016     Untitled 17-08-2016, Home@735, Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales

2016     Project 16: The Agency of Things, (curated by Kent Wilson) Anna Pappas Gallery, Prahan, Melbourne, Victoria

2015     Chromo-Spatial (with Emma Coulter), CHASM Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2015     One Night with 25 Sculptors, Private residence, Prahran Melbourne, Victoria

2015     Colour Me, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, South Australia

2015     CACSA Contemporary 2015, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia

2015     Epic Narratives, PICA Salon, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Western Australia

2015     Paintings for a Hotel Lobby, Level One Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia

2014    Young Collectors, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia

2014     Hatched: National Graduate Exhibition, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Western Australia

2014     Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Drill Hall, Adelaide, South Australia

2014     Enigma 23, Arts SA, Adelaide, South Australia

2013     Full Circle, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia

2013     Work in Progress (with Tom Borgas), The Mill, Adelaide, South Australia

2011      Clifton’s Art Prize, Clifton’s Training Venue, Adelaide, South Australia

2010     Youthscape, RSASA Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia

Awards/Prizes/Grants

2017     Sir Arthur Sims Travelling Scholarship

2016     Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship 2017 Recipient

2016     Arts South Australia Independent Makers and Presenters Project Grant

2015     Helpmann Academy Grant

2015     NAVA Australian Artists’ Grant

2014     Doctor Harold Schenberg Art Prize

2014     Hill Smith Gallery/ Helpmann Academy Friends Travel Award

2014     Adelaide City Council Exhibition Award

2013     Australian Decorative and Fine Art’s Society Adelaide Inc Award

2013     Helpmann Academy Major Grant

2010     RSASA Award, Youthscape Art Competition

Selected Bibliography

2017     LLewllyn Jane, 30. Zoe Kirkwood, Art Collector Magazine Jan 2017 (50 things collectors need to know issue) 

2016     Borgas, Tom, ‘Zoe Kirkwood’ YEWTH Magazine article and cover image  issue #7 summer 2016/2017

2016     Goode ,Adrienne ‘Zoe Kirkwood’s The Collections Project’ This is Radelaide

2016     Farnworth, Amy, ‘Zoe Kirkwood’, The Eye Creative, Issue #8 July 2016

2015     Llewellyn, Jane, ‘CACSA Contemporary: Showcasing the New’, The Adelaide Review, July 30

2015     Syfret, Wendy, ‘Interview – Art Class: Emma Coulter and Zoe Kirkwood’, Good Good Girl, February 15

2014     Reid, Chris, ‘Abstraction re-engaged’, Real Time, Issue #121 June-July 2014

2014     Llewellyn, Jane, ‘Artist Profile: Zoe Kirkwood’, The Adelaide Review, Issue 412, June 2014

2014     Coleman, Sheridan, ‘Hatched – Review’, Art Guide Australia, May 10

2014     Bevis, Steven, ‘The success of excess at Hatched 2014’, The West Australian, May 9,

2014     SA Weekend- The Art Issue – Front cover image, August 2 (one of six covers)

2014     Llewellyn, Jane, ‘Helpmann’s Anniversary Class’, The Adelaide Review, March 5

2013     Kirkwood, Zoe, ‘Contemporary Cross-disciplinary art practices and the “aesth-ethical” revision of the baroque spectacle’,

Presented at Strange Baroque Ecologies conference at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

Commissioned Projects/ Teaching
 

2017                 Casual Academic Tutor/ Supervisor University of South Australia (UniSA), Adelaide, South Australia

2016                 Lead Artist – redesign of  CARCLEW’s Pom Pom Art Space (Youth/Community Engagement Project)

2016                 Art Tutor, Onkaparinga City Council (Youth Engagement Project)

2013-15             Art Tutor CARCLEW’s Pom Pom Project (Youth/Community Engagement Project)