Andrea Bell
Andrea Bell
Curatorial, Art writing, Project Coordination
2009 Master of Arts, Art Curatorship, University of Melbourne
2005 Graduate Certificate, Art History, University of Melbourne, Australia
2004 Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
2009 Project Officer, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; Administrative Officer, Kultour, Melbourne
2008 Residencies and Network Coordinator, The South Project, Melbourne; Magazine co-ordinator, un Magazine (since 2005), Melbourne
2007 Project Officer, The South Project; Visual Arts Program Assistant, Asialink, Melbourne; Production Assistant, the Avoca Project co-ordinated by artist Lyndal Jones, Melbourne
2006 Curatorial Intern and volunteer for Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington; Tour Guide, City Gallery Wellington; Weekend Supervisor, Gallery Host, City Gallery Wellington; Research Assistant+Gallery Host, Pataka Museum of Art and Culture, Porirua
2005 Production Assistant for artist Lily Hibberd's exhibition, 'Dangerous Liasons' Linden-St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne; Volunteer, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne; Volunteer, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; Volunteer, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Publicity Manager, Melbourne University Play '5/27 Pandora Lane'; Museum Host, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt (since 2003); Visual Tourist Weekend Assistant Coordinator; Wellington Fringe Festival, (2004 & 2005)
2004 Publicity Coordinator, Young and Hungry Play Festival, Bats Theatre, Wellington
2003 Sound Designer, Young and Hungry Play Festival, Bats Theatre, Wellington
Memberships
2009 Member of 'The Association of Collaboration' (2006-2009); un Magazine editorial committee (since 2005)
2008 ‘Living the Arts For Love & Money’ Panel member, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Awards
2007 Gertrude Emerging Writers Programme recipient, Melbourne (mentored by Senior Curator NGV, Kelly Gellatly)
Curated Projects/Exhibitions
2009 After Anarchic Subjectivism (curated spread) Hue and Cry Journal, # 3, Artists: Amit Charan, Kate Newby and KerryAnn Lee
2008 Collective Conscience (curated with Romy Sedman, Melbourne Human Rights Art and Film Festival) The Carlton Studios, Melbourne. Artists: pvi collective, Alex Martinis Roe, Panther, Helen Johnson, Christian Thompson, MHUL Collective, Fiona Jack, Richard Bell, Burmese Freedom Artists, Gembel, Taring Padi, Culture Kitchen, Jiang Zhi, Chen Quilin, Yang Shaobin (The Long March Project)
2008 Nonsites/Image Worlds, tcb art inc, Melbourne. Artist: Kate Woods
2007 two-fold (curated with Angela Bailey) George Paton Gallery, Melbourne. Artists: Stephanie Han, Caleb Shea, Zoe Evershed, Miriam Ross, Jasmine Watterson, Cate Massola
2007 Failed Leisure, Blindside, Melbourne. Artists: Heather Lighton, Adam Rozsa, Clare Redenbach
Group Exhibitions
2007 Telecom Prospect: New New Zealand Art (curated by Heather Galbraith), City Gallery Wellington (as member of The Association of Collaboration)
2006 Every Now, and Then (curated by Melanie Oliver), Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington (as a member of The Association of Collaboration
2009 'One more with feeling' Ann Shelton, (with Jaenine Parkinson), Hocken Collections, Eyeline, (upcoming)
2008 ‘Foto-Ography’, Evergreen Terrace, James Deutsher, Liv Barrett, Chris Kraus & Christopher LG Hill, Centre for Contemporary Photography, un Magazine 2.2, p.60
2007 ‘The Rules of Engagement’, Westspace, Artlink 27/3, p.87
2006 ‘Yuk King Tan: Overflow’, City Gallery Wellington, un Magazine, #7, pp.68-69.2006
2005 'Still Present' Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, Artists: Jono Rotman, Anne Ferran and Chien Chiang, un Magazine, # 5, p.62; 'Orbit', Simon Terrill, Westpace, Melbourne, un Magazine #4, p.55
Catalogue Essays
2008 'Curatorial Foreword' (with Romy Sedman) Collective Conscience, The Carlton Studios and Melbourne Human Rights Art and Film Festival
2007 ‘Constellations’ Catalogue essay for Christian Thompson,
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
2006 ‘Locating Space’, Catalogue essay
for Kate Woods’ exhibition SPACED, Michael
Hirschfeld Gallery (Wellington) & High Street Project
(Christchurch);
‘Treading the
Boards’, Enjoy Public Art Gallery Annual Catalogue;
'Habitat' exhibition catalogue, Brydee Rood, sponsored by the North Shore City Council - Waste Wise Fund;
'Sister City' exhibition catalogue, curated by Jessie Borrelle, Blindside, Melbourne, Artists:Liz Allan, Marina
Cains, Louise Menzies, Kim Paton and Marnie Slater;
'collaboration 17', curated by Mikala Tai, George Paton
Gallery, Melbourne
Articles:
2007 ‘The Association Collaboration’, (Discussion Transcript) Hue and Cry Journal, #1
Other writing:
2004 Minor Briefs and editing, Staple Magazine, # 4
Bibliography:
2008 Haslem, Wendy 'A Report on the 2nd Human Rights Art and Film Festival' Sense of Cinema http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/festivals/09/50/human-rights-aff-2008.html
On The Association of Collaboration:
2008 Bacharach, Sondra; & Tollefsen, Deborah, ‘From Co-Authorship
to Group Authorship’ Paper (Victoria University, Wellington, NZ) and
(University of Memphis, TN)
2007 Brown, Amy, ‘Review: Hue and Cry Journal,’ The Lumiere Reader, 27 November 2007, http://www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/1411
2007 Borrelle, Jessica, ‘Together is the new alone: the necessity of
collaboration’, Two-fold exhibition catalogue, George Paton Gallery
2007 O’Neill, Rachel ‘Attention Artword/Audience’, NZ Live.com, 27 April
2007, http://www.nzlive.com/blog/2007/04/27/attention-art-world-audience/
2007 Bell, Andrea, ‘The Association of Collaboration’ (Discussion Transcript) Hue and Cry, # 1
2007 Amery, Mark, ‘An Embarrasment of Riches’, The Dominion Post, Friday 2
March 2007, http://lumiere.net.nz/reader/arts.php/item/861
2007 Grieves, Harold & Montgomery, Kate, ‘Yeah Totally: Harold Grieves
& Kate Montgomery talk selectively about the art on show at
Prospect 2007’ Telecom Prospect Exhibition Catalogue, pp.35-42
2007 Hurrell, John, ‘Fight Club’, Telecom Prospect Exhibition Catalogue, pp.29-34
2007 Galbraith, Heather, ‘Prospect 2007: A Rendezvous’, Telecom Prospect Exhibition Catalogue, pp.11-28
2006 Amery, Mark, ‘Limited amount to relate to’ The Dominion Post, December 8 2006
Websites
http://www.telecomprospect2007.org.nz/artis/TheAssociationofCollaboration.shtml
http://www.theassociationofcollaboration.blogspot.com/
Available on request
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