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Zoe Kirkwood

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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)