CV Simon Crosbie
Education and qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts/History): University of Melbourne
Master of Fine Arts – RMIT 2015
Doctor of Philosophy – School of Art, RMIT commenced 2017
Recent Work
2015 Reveal and Conceal (group show) Kings ARI, Melbourne
2015 700s Arts Festival (group show) RMIT Swanston Street Library
2015 Homage (group show) Food Court Gallery, Docklands
2015 Trauma Series #2 (solo show) Tacit Gallery, Collingwood
2016 P(art)icipate Collaborative Art Event, Allpress Studio, Collingwood
2016 Movements Melbourne Fashion Festival, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Linden Art Prize (finalist) Linden New Art, St Kilda
2016 Private Life (solo show) A.C. Art Space, Windsor
2016 Belong In (group show) A.C. Art Space, Windsor
2017 Museum of Lost Public Notices (group show) George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University
2018 Artland (group show) RMIT Brunswick campus
2018 Trauma/Pre-Trauma (solo show) Dark Horse Experiment Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Stigma: Dismantled, Revealed (group show) The Dax Centre, University of Melbourne
2020 The New (ab)Normal (group show) RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Old Work
1988: Call of the Wild (libretto) with David Chesworth, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Experimenta
1991: Domepiece, ‘Sound in the Dome’ event, State Library of Victoria
1991: St Stephens Piece, Sound Culture 1991, St Stephen’s Church, Sydney
1991: Teresa Piece, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
1992: Century Endings: Sound Performance Event, Great Hall, NGV
1993: Domepiece 2 (with the Astra Choir), State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Festival
1994: Gaol Piece: the Architecture of Silence, Old Melbourne Gaol, Experimenta
1995: Artspace Piece, Silence: Sound in Space. Artspace, Sydney
1995: Gaol Piece: the Architecture of Silence, Listening Room, ABC Radio National
1997: Happening, National Gallery of Victoria
Awards
2015: Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (ADFAS) prize: RMIT
2015: Vice-Chancellor’s List Award: RMIT
2016: Linden New Art Prize: Board Encouragement Award
Publications: Books
Jessica’s Skateboard, Simon Crosbie, Sydney, Pearson Education Australia, 2000 (re-published 2004 in the USA and 2007 in South Korea)
Publications: Selected Journal Articles
Degrees of Compliance: Continuously Retitled by Warren Burt, Chris Mann and Csaba Szamosy, Agenda May 1993
A Zine of One’s Own, Like Art Magazine, Winter 1997
Sound Installation: A Garden for Percy’s Delight by Ros Bandt Like Art Magazine 1997/98
Conference Papers
2017: Visual Language in the Art of Trauma: Freud, Louise Bourgeois, and the Cells Series, 34th International Conference on Psychology and the Arts, Pontificia Facoltà Teologica di Sicilia, Palermo
2018: The House of Horror: Images of Sites of Child Abuse in Contemporary Media, Don’t Look: Representations of Horror in the 21st Century. University of Edinburgh
2018: Harebells and Double Rainbows: Subtext in John Everett Millais’ The Blind Girl, 35th International Conference on Psychology and the Arts, the Dubrovnik Centre for Advanced Academic Studies., University of Zagreb.
Bibliography
‘Simon Crosbie and Joyce Hinterding’ by Peter Morse, Agenda, March 1995. pp 49-50
Arias, Recent Australian Music Theatre, by John Jenkins and Rainer Linz, Red House Editions: Melbourne, 1997 pp 90-91
Sound Sculpture, Intersections in Sound and Sculpture in Australian Artworks, by Ros Bandt, Sydney: Craftsman House, 2001 pp 24-25
Loading the silence : Australian sound art in the post-digital age, by Linda Ioanna Kouvaras, England: Ashgate, 2013 pp 136-137