Saturday August 7 @ 2pm
Mimi Kelly
Giles Alexander
Carrie Miller
Sunday August 8 @ 2pm
Briele Hansen
Shannon Smiley
Simon Gregg
Mimi Kelly
Mimi Kelly studied at the South Australian School of Art completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) in 2004, and in 2005 undertook Masters of Arts Management through the International School of Business, University of South Australia. She has exhibited at galleries nationally including the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Queensland Centre for Photography and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and will exhibit this year at GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, Sydney and 24HR Art, Darwin.
Giles Alexander
Alexander is currently completing his Masters in Painting at the National Art School (NAS), where he previously earned first class honours in Painting in 2006. Alexander won a five-year art scholarship to Bishop’s Stortford College in 1988 and subsequently went on to study art at Central Saint Martins in London. Alexander rapidly engaged with the Sydney art scene when he immigrated to Australia in 2000, enrolling at NAS with advanced standing in 2003. In 2005, while completing his final year of his Painting degree, he won the inaugural MCQ International art prize at the MCA and the Murray Sime prize for painting at the National Art School. The year after completing his honours year, Alexander won the 2007 Metro 5 art prize in Melbourne.
Carrie Miller
Carrie has been an arts writer, researcher and social commentator for 15 years. She has an academic background in Philosophy and Fine Arts and is currently doing a PhD on criminal responsibility .
Carrie has written on topics as varied as the ethics of collecting Indigenous art to the etiquette of begging as a contributor and columnist to publications such as Australian Art Collector, The Art Life, New Matilda, The Punch and the Spectator.
Carrie is also a member of NOTFAIR’s curatorial advisory board. Her talk is titled: 'Fuck Me Dead': Folk Modernism and the return of Grunge
Briele Hansen
Briele Hansen’s practice explores relationships between the environment and perceptual processes. Hansen studied at RMIT and received a Master of Art by research in 2004. In 2007 she was selected for Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Other recent exhibitions include the 2007 McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award, Untitled at Westspace, A Lane Away for the City of Melbourne Laneway Commissions, and Sensing Experience at Project Space. In 2007 Hansen was the recipient of the Australia Council New York, Greene St Residency Grant. In 2009 she received an Australia Council New Work Funding Grant for a major new work. She is also a finalist for the 2010 McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award.
Shannon Smiley
Shannon Smiley’s paintings are deliriously dark affairs. He renders a world in which nature, in particularly that brooding, listless nature of Australian flora, has retaken control.
Smiley holds a Diploma of Art, Visual Art, Victoria University TAFE and a Bachelor of Art, Fine Art (honours), Victorian College of the Arts. He has exhibited at Lindberg Contemporary Art, Level 17 Art Space, Victoria University and Brunswick Arts ARI, Melbourne. He was the recipient of the 2006 Roger Kemp Memorial Art Prize.
Simon Gregg
Simon Gregg is the Curator at Gippsland Art Gallery Sale. Simon has curated numerous exhibitons including, Lost Highways, a ten year survey of the work of Tony Lloyd at Gippsland Art Gallery, and A Design for Living at Linden Gallery,
Simon Gregg is also a member of NOTFAIR’s curatorial advisory board.
