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 |