Education
2009 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
2011 Bow Cross, a commission with Acme Studios London
Phantom,
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Balfron Project, Nunnery
Gallery, London
Hospital Field, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London
2010 Crowd Theory - Southbank, Sutton
Gallery, Melbourne
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 Center, 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,
Bootstrap's 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
2011 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2010 Contemporary Encounters, National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Waiter Waiter, with Bruce McLean, Bernard Jacobson Gallery,
Mayfair, London
Photo-ID, Hereford, UK
Photo-ID, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK
BAT Pack, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
Vision, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
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
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
Center, 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
2006 City Of Perth
Photomedia Award, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
The William and Winifred Bowness
Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art
Crowd Theory, Alliance Francaise 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 Center for The Moving
Image,
Federation Square, Public Imaging Project
2002
Casual Menace,
Deep Space: Sensation & Immersion,
ACMI Public Imaging
Project
Casual Menace, ACMI collection, Asia Pacific Triennial,
Brisbane
Truckstop, Multimedia Art Asia
Pacific, Beijing; Vidarte Mexico City
Awards / Grants / Commissions
2010 Acme Studios, Bow Cross Residency, London
Arts Council England
Bow Arts Heritage Studio Residency, Balfron Tower, London
2009 Australia Council skills and development grant
2009 William and Winifred Bowness Photography
Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, 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
2005 - 2008 Lecturer, Art History and Theory
Department, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2003 - 2008 Lecturer, Centre for Ideas, Victorian
College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
Selected Lectures/Talks/Other
2010 Artist talk , Hereford Photography Festival
2009 Artist talk, Norwich University of the Arts,
Norwich
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
Robert Nelson, Seeing Life in Bricks
and Mortar, The Age 27th April 2011, (link)
Dan Rule, Simon Terrill: Phantom,
The Age 5th May
2011,(link)
Anna Newbold, http://inkblotreview.blogspot.com
David Plaisant, Re-inventing the council flat, Phaidon, 21st March 2011 http://www.phaidon.co.uk/agenda/
Block Party, The Big Issue London, Jan 10 -16, 2011
Jessica Furseth, Brutalist dreams: The Balfron Project, www.ameliasmagazine.com
Malcom Hopkins & Nick Hamilton, Lost
Steps, Resonance FM, London, Lost Steps
Natre Wannathepsakul, A Portrait of
the Balfron, Blueprint
Magazine
Anne Marsh, Look: Contemporary
Australian Photography since 1980, Macmillan Art Publishing
Urszula Dawkins, A promiscuous,
fleeting moment: Simon Terrill’s Crowd Theory,
Art Monthly
Australia, Issue 230, June 2010, pp 43-45
Gavin Findlay, Canberra
performance, part 2: Where to now?, Dec 2009
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
Public Collections
National Gallery of Victoria
State Library 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 and Sculpture Park |