simonpericich

WORKS AND SHOWS-SIMON PERICICH

< SIMON PERICICH. M # 0405439769. ABN # 36393408638. TFN # 350 795 168. >

EDUCATION:

2006 Masters at the VICTORIA COLLEGE of the ARTS, Sculpture.
2003-4 SLADE SCHOOL OF FINE ART. Graduate Diploma / Honors in Sculpture.
2003 Honors in design (incomplete) CURTIN University of Technology.
1999-2002 CURTIN Uni. Of Technology. Bachelor of Fine Arts with High Distinction.
1998 T.A.F.E. Advanced Certificate in Fine Arts. Geraldton.

PRIZES & SCHOLARSHIPS OR AWARDS::

2010 Shortlist for the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize.
2010 Qantas Foundation travelling award of 10 thousand bucks in flights and 4 in cashola.
2010 Australia Council Funding to participate in a show in Manila.
2009 shortlisted for the SOYA Award.
2008 OZCO funding.
2008 NAVA funding.
2007 shortlisted for the Melbourne Laneways Project.
2006 VCA Masters Award.
2003 Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship.$80,000.
2003 Awesome Project Funding.
2003 ArtsWa Quick Response Grant.
2002 ArtsWa Quick Response Grant.
2002 Perth International Arts Festival Solo Show.
2002 Golden Key International Honour Society for Academic Excellence.
2001 la Vivante Award, Curtin University of Technology. Nagle Catholic College Art Prizes.

SOLO SHOWS::

2009 ©ARING IS THE NEW $ARCASM. Block Projects, Melbourne.
2009 Fremantle Arts Centre. MUCH MUCH MORE
2008 ‘when they come, we will be ready ...’ Platform Arts Space, Melbourne.
2008 'A Better Place' The Library ARTSPACE North Fitzroy. (*in collaboration with Nikki Wynnychuk.)
2008 'PROGRESS IN AN AGE OF DECADENCE' Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.
2007 'your gunna wish you were (dead) me'.Solo Show.Shifted Gallery, Albert St, Richmond.
2006 ‘All Together Now’. ALL TOGETHER NOW!, MIR11, Melbourne.
2005 ‘ABRAXUS’ Loreal Fashion Festival, Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
2005 ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY’ site specific intervention behind the Nike outlet on Smith Street, Melbourne.

EXHIBITIONS:

2010 Body Language (Getting Lost in Translation), Bus Projects Gallery. (featuring Lane Cormick, Ross Coulter and Hannah Raisin)
2010 Platform 20th Anniversary Exhibition and Publication Launch, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces Degraves Street Subway.(featuring,Kate Cotching, Adam Cruickshank, DAMP, AND (Phil Edwards/Peter Ellis), Michael Graeve, Brad Haylock, Richard Holt, Ash Keating, Simone LeAmon, Bridie Lunney & Meredith Turnbull, Simon Pericich, Tape Projects, Andrew Seward.)
2010 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council Chambers, Sydney. (featuring artists such as John Nicholson, Julie deVille, Archie Moore, Nike Savaas, Kathy Temin and
Christopher Hodges)
2010 IMMEMORIAL: REACHING BACK BEYOND MEMORY. Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila; funded by the Australia Council. (featuring; Simon Cooper, Julie Gough, Rhys Lee, Pip Mcmanus, Yason Banal + Enzo Camacho, Victor Balanon + Ferdz Valencia, Jed Escueta, Lyra Garcellano, Gary-Ross Pastrana)
2010 A4 Art 2010: West Space Annual Fundraising Exhibition.
2010 Rendezvous in WRONGTOWN. Toorak. (with The Agents, Tom Civil, Hotham Street Ladies, Andy Hutson, Ash Keating, Bonnie Lane, Jonathan Leahy and Vexta, Matt Morrow, Kiron Robinson, Robbie Rowlands, Neale Stratford, Hiroyasu ‘TWOONE’ Tsuri, Urban Village Melbourne, Danae Valenza, Theresa Harrison (curator), Tai Snaith (curator), Vexta (curator)
2010 NotFair10. Richmond, Melbourne.
2010 ADDITION AND ERASURE: Margret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne.
(Featuring: Luke Beasley, Michael Farrell, Doug Heslop, Helen Johnson, Margret Mahem, Sebastian Moody, Peter O'Mara, Nicki Wynnychuk)
2009 The Aesthetics of Joy – The Infinite International of Poetics
Curated by Bernhard Sachs and Brad Haylock. West Space Gallery, Melbourne(Featuring: Kel Glaister, Brad Haylock, Hit & Miss, Veronica Kent, Lizzy Newman, Paul Quinn, Bernhard Sachs, David Simpkin, Brie Trenerry, Kellie Wells, Nicki Wynnychuk )
2009 A4 Art 2009: West Space Annual Fundraising Exhibition
2009 OMFG!. C3 at the Abbotsford Convent. (Featuring: Adam Cruichshank, Kotoe Ishii, Rob McLiesh, Simon Pericich, Tai Snaith & Narinda Reeders, Dell Stewart)
2009 ‘Don’t Trust The Artist’ Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of NSW, Sydney.
2009 Dark Liasons.24hr Art, Darwin.(Featuring; Belle Bassin, Irene Hanenbergh, Tony Garifalakis, Simon Pericich, curated by Ashley Crawford.)
2009 I’m Worse at What I Do Best. Parramatta Artists Studios.(curated by Tom Polo & supported by NSW Government. Featuring; Anastasia Klose, Andrew Frost, Charlie Sofo, Emma White, Jake Walker, Joan Ross, Judith Blackall, Kate Smith, Michael Lindeman, Parramatta, Parramatta Artist Studios, Sarah Goffman, Tom Polo)
2009 Head Quarters, 55 High Street. Northcote. The End of the World souvenir Shop. (as part of State of Design Festival 2009; curated by Doug Heslop)
2009 'The Secret Life of Plants' Fremantle Arts Centre.(Featuring; Jane Burton, Luke Pither, Paul Gazzola, Rewi Lyall, Richard Giblett, Sally Ross, Starlie Geikie, and selected Victorian botanic artists.)
2009 'And the Difference is…' 200 Gertrude Street. (Featuring; A Constructed World, Gabrielle de Vietri, Danielle Freakley, Simon Pericich, Kiron Robinson and Lani Seligman, Justin Clemens, Charles Lim, Ming Wong, Matthew Ngui, Noor Effendy Ibrahim, Heman Chong and Alfian Sa’at, CURATED BY: Heman Chong, Emily Cormack, Jacqueline Doughty, Alexie Glass, Qinyi Lim and Ahmad Mashadi)
2009 'MUCH MUCH MORE' (solo show) Fremantle Arts Centre.
2009 ‘the secret life of plants’, Linden.(curated by Andrew Gaynor)
2008 ‘And The Difference Is...’ NUS Museum, Singapore.
2008 ‘A4 Art Show’ WestSpace.
2008 ‘1968’ Linden, Saint Kilda.
2008 ‘Gertrude Artists’ Group Show 08.
2008 the ‘Silver’ exhibition, PICA .
2008 ‘when they come, we will be ready’. (solo show) Platform Arts Space, Melbourne.
2008 'A Better Place' The Library ARTSPACE North Fitzroy. (*in collaboration with Nikki Wynnychuk.)
2008 The Art of the Bicycle.(*) Don't Come Gallery, Melbourne. 
2008 'PROGRESS IN AN AGE OF DECADENCE' Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. 
2008 'Hockey Plot' touring West Space, Gibbsland Gallery and Cower Arts Space. 
2008 'Objects is Space' Kings ARI, Melbourne. 
2008 'Worlds End' Carlton Hotel,Melbourne.
2008 'a better place' (*) supported by the Frankston City Council and White Street Projects,Frankston. 
2007-8 'Electromagneticimaginary' Spectrum Gallery, Perth. 
2007 'Gertrude Artists' Group Show 07. 
2007 'your gunna wish you were (dead) me'.Solo Show.Shifted Gallery, Albert St,Richmond. 
2007 'The Best of Mudfest10' Lithuanian Club, North Melbourne. 
2007 'Open Studio- during the Melbourne International Arts Festival'. studio 17, 200 Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces. 
2007 'Inches per Second'. i love you more than you love me, forever.Loop bar, Melbourne City Library and also the big TV in Federation Square. 
2007 'POVO' ( Revisiting Art Povera.pdf) George Paton Gallery,Melbourne. 
2007 ‘Squat’. Spectrum Gallery, Perth. 
2007 ‘Sad Little Prick’. Pains in the Artist. Blindside, Melbourne. 
2007 ‘Electromagnetic Imaginary’. Area Gallery, Melbourne. 
2006 ‘Looker’. Dark Portraiture. Perth Centre for Photography. 
2006 ‘Empty Orchestra’. VCA graduate show, VCA Gallery. Melbourne. 
2006 ‘Teen Spirit’. Moving Love, VCA student Gallery. Melbourne. 
2006 'Dooom Island’ The Residency Print Show. Project Space, RMIT. 
2006 ‘All Together Now’. ALL TOGETHER NOW. MIR11 also known as ARM, Melbourne. 
2006 ‘Your Life is Grand Video Project’. PAPER, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. 
2006 ‘Lost Garden Found’ as part of the Next Wave Festival. Above Honky Tonks bar in Flinders Lane. 
2005 ‘ABRAXUS’ Loreal Fashion Festival, Australian Centre for the Moving Image. 
2005 ‘Paradise’ Meyers Place, Melbourne. 
2005 ‘Dirty Rotten Cabaret’. Dirty Rotten Cabaret , Bakery Complex, Perth. 
2005 ‘Lost Dogs’ West Space Gallery, Melbourne. 
2005 ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY’ site specific intervention behind the Nike factory on Smith Street, Melbourne. 
2004 ‘Stolen Wishes’ Slade School of Fine Art Masters Graduation Show. London. 
2004 ‘Super-glued pennies’ intervention at the T.A.T.E Modern. London. 
2004 ‘Can I Help You?’ Plastique Factory, Poznan, Poland. 
2004 ‘I love you more than you love me, forever’ the main car park of the Bloomsburg Library, over a two day period. London. 
2004 ‘Lost Dogs’ intervention in the streets of Soho. London. 
2004 ‘When you were not home, guess what I did?’ Woburn Square Gallery, Bloomsbury, London. 
2003 ‘I’m in love with everyone and everyone is in love with me’ Wild Frontier, Downtown Contemporary Arts Space, Adelaide. (And also) The Bank, Midland. Australia. 
2003 ‘Paradise’ Artwalk, Amsterdam. 
2003 ‘FREE BEER!’ Artfair03, Fremantle Passenger Terminal (and also) Verge Gallery, Northbridge. Perth. Australia. With Ben Waters. 
2003 ‘Cake Stall’ Living Room, Breadbox Gallery, Perth, Australia. With thanks to the old people from the home down the road. 
2003 ‘You will wish you never said that to me’ Mirage, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. With Sohan-Ariel Hayes and Tony Nathan. 
2003 ‘Gun and Balaclava for the office’ Collared, Verge Gallery Inc., Northbridge, Perth. 
2002 ‘Holiday of my lifetime (brochure for my parents house)’Xmas Survival Kits, Kurb Gallery, Perth. 
2002 ‘Vend-O-Friend’. Peep in Death, Risqué Sex Boutique. Perth. 
2002 ‘Paradise –WISH YOU WERE HERE.’ HOTEL_6156, at the hotel formally known as the Rhodes Hotel, South Perth. 
2002 ‘Ravens Greatest Hits!’ Girl 6156, Goddard de Fiddes. Perth. 
2002 ‘Porn Stars’ When we were There, International Arts Space Kellerberrin, Western Australia. 
2002 ‘Artshed’, Forrest Place, Awesome Arts Australia. (With Poppy van Oorde-Grainger)
 (AND THE FOLLOWING, In collaboration with Thea Costantino…).* 
2002 ‘Replica’ Polo at Laundry, Polo Laundry-Mat, Northbridge, Perth.* 
2002 ‘If only you could see how much I need you’ Hatched 02, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.* 
2002 ‘minus monsters…’ (Solo show) as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. Mandurah Performing Arts Centre.* 
2001 ‘My Burning Desire’ Zero one, Graduate Exhibition of Curtin University.* 
2001 ‘Tactical Intervention Strategies’, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.* 
2001 ‘T.I.L.T’ Festival, Sydney 2001 This is Not Art, Newcastle.* 
2001 ‘Piano Grand’ .National Youth Conference, Sheraton Hotel Foyer, Perth.* 
2001 ‘Canvas Blind’. More Than Ping Pong, Artshouse Gallery, Perth. 
2000 ‘Bunny Made Me Do It’, short films at John Curtin Gallery.* 
2000 ‘Boxed’, Corridor Gallery, Curtin Uni. 
2000 ‘Gomboc Sculpture Survey’, Gomboc Sculpture Park and Gallery.* 
1999 ‘Perspectives’, Art Gallery of Western Australia and touring. 
1999 ‘QV1’ , T.A.F.E. show. Geraldton

EXPERIENCE:

2010 guest lecturer at VU, Melbourne. + 2008-present curator for FIRST SITE GALLERY RMIT Melbourne. + 2010 guest lecturer at VU, Melbourne. + 2007-8 200 Gertrude Contemporary Art Space Studio Artist. +2008 Invited Forum Presentation at the Victoria College of the Arts. + 2008 Invited lecturer at Prahan TAFE. + 2007 Artist assistant for Brook Andrew. + 2007 Invited lecturer at Moorabin TAFE. + 2007 Art Technician and Artist in residence at Caufield Grammar, Wheelers Hill Campus. + 2006 Production management, design and manufacture of the 10th year anniversary of the Geelong Courthouse Youth Arts Centre + 2005 Volunteer at ACCA, front of house and invigilation. + 2005 Production management, design and manufacture of elements in the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival including Gratlan Park ‘red market’ and the Gala event at ACMI. + 2005 Production management, design and manufacture of the Dirty Rotten Cabaret Lounge held in the Artrage Bakery Complex for the Northbridge Festival, Perth. + 2003 Co-writer for the animation ‘will’ in collaboration with Sohan Ariel-Hayes. + Front desk, invigilation, installation and gallery guide for the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. + 2003 Curation of the show ‘Living Room’. Breadbox Gallery. + 2003-4 member of the board of Breadbox Gallery.+ 2003 Working for the ‘Summer Program’, Art Gallery of Western Australia. + 2003 Invited artist at the Rockingham Senior High school, residency. Awesome International Children’s Arts Festival. + 2002 Artist residency at International Arts Space, Kelliberrin. + 2002 Co-direction and participation in ID-TAGS Children’s Festival, Museum of Western Australia, Awesome Arts. + 2001 Invited to talk at the University of Sydney College of the Arts. + 2001 Invited participant of a panel discussion at the Art Gallery of Newcastle for part of the ‘This is Not Art’ festival. + 2001 working in ‘Art shed’, Awesome Arts. + 2001 working in ‘Matrix Project’, Forrest Chase, Awesome Arts. + 2001 Invigilation, Art Gallery of Western Australia for the ‘home show’.

REPRESENTED BY:

NOBODY (- this is not the name of a cool gallery but if you are a cool gallery....im currently not represented)

SELECT PUBLICATION:

Art Guide AUSTRALIA; JAN/FEB 2011. Time Immemorial, by Gina Fairley. pp55-59 with image.
Big Trouble Magazine;DEC/JAN2011 pp50
Vogue Living Magazine; NOV/DEC 2010. 'wordplay' pp107-8 with image.
We Love Artists: Artists In Residencies Around The World
; Someone's Garden (Eds) ISBN:9784861006692. (hardcover)
ART COLLECTOR AUSTRALIA . cover of issue 45. 2008
ART COLLECTOR AUSTRALIA. issue 40; april-june 2007. p 178-9.
Dazed AND CONFUSED MAGAZINE. vol 1 #5. p 120.
Australian Art Monthly, #223 September 2009 pp 17 – 19.Crawford, Ashley. 2009. West Coast Rules: Perth out-exhibiting Melbourne
PAPER. John Mateer. 2006. ISBN 1 875386 66 1
http://www.shifted.net.au/SHIFTED%20-%20Simon%20Pericich.pdf
Art Nation ABC (notfair) 5 Sep 2010.
Art Nation ABC (wrong-town) 29 Aug 2010
ABC Sunday Arts (feature) 11 Sep 2007.
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s2995455.htm

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