Simon Terrill
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EDUCATION
2008- 09 Graduate Affiliate, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
2005    Master of Fine Art (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
1998    Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008    Closer, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne
              Crowd Theory-Port of Melbourne, Mission to Seafarers: Flying Angel Club, Melbourne
2007    Crowd Theory-Southbank, ANZ Pavilion, Victorian Arts Centre, St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
2006    Crowd Theory, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney; Lismore City Hall, Lismore
2005    4Hz, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
             Orbit, West Space Gallery, Melbourne
             Crowd Theory, Gabriel Gallery, Footscray Arts Centre
2002   H>M>L, 45 Downstairs, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
             7 Lonely Drivers, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2001    Four Photographs and A Sculpture, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1999    Horizon Line of a Room, TCB inc. ART, Melbourne
1998    Bucket of Blood Hotel, Next Wave Festival, 238 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
             Machine Primate, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010    Selected works from the UniSA Samstag Collection, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, UniSA, Adelaide Festival Artists’ Week, SA
             The Audience is the Art, touring with the Big Day Out;
Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth
2009   William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art
(honorable mention)
             Photo-ID, Contemporary Art Norwich 09, The Forum, Norwich
             Slade Graduate Exhibition, Gower Street, London
             
Double Orbit, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London
             History of the National Photography Prize Exhibition, Albury Regional Gallery
          
Vertigo, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
             KP 11, Rover Thomas Auditorium, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney; Freight Gallery, DADAA Inc, Fremantle WA;
             Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, WA;  The Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, SA; QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD;
             Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra, ACT; Academy Gallery, UTAS, Launceston, TAS 
2008  FX in Contemporary Photography, McClelland Gallery
            The Truth of the Matter, Monash Gallery of Art
2007  Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre, National Photography Prize, Albury Regional Gallery, finalist and keynote lecture
            Everyday I Make My Way, Sutton Gallery, curated by Jon Cattapan
            Perfect For Every Occasion: Photography Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, curated by Zara Stanhope
2006 City Of Perth Photomedia Award, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (finalist)
           The William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art (finalist)
           Crowd Theory, Alliance Française de Paris, France
2005  ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award, 380 Collins Street, Melbourne (finalist)
            Next Wave Festival 21st Birthday, alumni exhibition / website, Bus Gallery
2003  Living Rooms, Transfigure, Australian Centre for The Moving Image, Federation Square, Public Imaging Project
2002  Casual Menace, Deep Space: Sensation & Immersion, Australian Centre for The Moving Image, Federation Square,
            Public Imaging Project
           Casual Menace, Australian Centre for The Moving Image collection, Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane    
           Truckstop, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Beijing; Vidarte Mexico City

AWARDS /
GRANTS / COMMISSIONS
2010   Australia Council skills and development grant
2009   William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, finalist / honorable mention
2008   Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
2006    City of Melbourne project funding
2005    KPMG Tutorship Prize, Victorian College of the Arts
2003    Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Public Imaging Project Commission, Living Rooms
2002    Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Public Imaging Project Commission, Casual Menace
2002    Australia Council New Media Arts Fund Grant
2001    Besen Family Foundation Grant
1998    Australia Council New Media Arts Fund Grant
             Besen Family Foundation Grant
1997    National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Award

TEACHING
Lecturer, Art History and Theory Department, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2005- 2008
Lecturer, Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2003 – 2008

SELECTED LECTURES/TALKS/OTHER
2008    Judge, Kodak Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
              Artist talk, VCA Art Auditorium, University of Melbourne
2007    Keynote speaker, National Photography Prize, Albury Regional Gallery
              Artist talk, Heide Museum of Modern Art
              Panellist, Crowd Theory Forum, ANZ Pavilion, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne

1992-95 Co-Founder of Snuff Puppets Inc. writer, performer, designer, producer; toured nationally

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gavin Findlay,  Canberra performance, part 2: Where to now?, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/94/9662
Kit Wise, Future spaces in contemporary Australian art: Overexposure and the City, http://www.kitwise.com/?id=5:4
Kirsten Rann, Muscular Memories: Simon Terrill by Kirsten Rann, Photofile, Dec 2008, no 85, pp 50 - 55 (pdf)
Urszula Dawkins, Imagining the ritualised hour, RealTime issue #87 Oct-Nov 2008 pg. 49 and cover  http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue87/9199
Suzy Freeman-Greene, Looking at the big picture, The Age, 16th August 2008, pp 21-22
Jo Roberts, Crowd mentality precious cargo in theory, The Age, 27th July 2008, p 19
Derrick Gill, interview, 774, ABC radio Melbourne, July 2008
Penny Teale, FX in Contemporary Photography, McClelland Gallery exhibition catalogue, 2008
Louise Martin-Chew, Alternative Realities, Samstag catalogue http://www.unisa.edu.au/samstag/scholars/scholars08/terrill.asp
Daniel Palmer, Crowded Space, Inside: Australian Design Review, No 49,2007, pp 38-40
ABC TV Stateline, Melbourne's Crowd Theory Project, Broadcast 27th April 2007
Harbant Gill, Close to the Madding Crowd, Herald Sun, 20th June 2007, p 63
Jeff Makin, The Photo’s Synthesis, Herald Sun, 30th April 2007, p 89
Penny Web, Every Day I Make My Way, The Age, 8th April 2007
Zara Stanhope, ‘Coming back for more’, Perfect for Every Occasion, Photography Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2007, pp 132-145
Chris Healy, Crowd - or Community?, Meanjin, vol. 65, no. 2, 2006, pp 167-172 (pdf)
Daniel Palmer, Crowd Theory, catalogue essay, 2006 (pdf)
Alex McDonald, Crowd Theory, State of the Arts, April/June 2006, p 40-41
Dr Kyla McFarlane, Landscape and the Renewal of Social Space, Photofile, no. 76, Summer 2006, pp 28-31 (pdf)
Andrea Bell, Orbit, UN.magazine, issue 4, 2005, p 55
Jaye Early, Existential Hitchhiking, Realtime, no. 49, June – July 2002, p 4
Keith Gallasch, Snuff Puppets Rule, Realtime, no. 50, August/September 2002, p 38
Andrew Mackenzie, Lost Highways on Flinders Lane, Broadsheet, vol. 31, no. 3, 2002, p 30 (pdf)
Vikki Riley, Some Place Like Sarajevo, Realtime no 26, Aug/Sep 1998, pp 7-8


COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria
Samstag Museum of Art
Albury Regional Gallery
Monash Gallery of Art
Artbank Sydney
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
KPMG Melbourne
Macquarie Bank Sydney
City of Melbourne
Maribyrnong City Council
McClelland Gallery