CV - Tahlia Palmer / amby downs

Exhibitions and Residencies

2026
- solo exhibition - Occupation Studies: They Tried to Tame Birrarung, Koori Heritage Trust, VIC
https://nit.com.au/27-01-2026/22336/new-audiovisual-installation-examines-colonial-impacts-on-the-birrarung
-  artist residency - BodyPlaceProject CONFLUENCE at Coranderrk

2024
- group exhibition - Not Natural - Science Gallery, University of Melbourne, VIC
- audiovisual work
melbourne.sciencegallery.com/not-natural-exhibits/murnong-all-times

2024
- solo exhibition: "Occupation Studies" at the Archives Centre Gallery, Public Records Office of Victoria, Melbourne,  VIC
- Inaugural Creative in Residence at the State Archives
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/-gXBef74DApzmg

2023
- solo exhibition: "Nuclear Waste Dump" exhibited on outdoor billboard gallery, The Substation, VIC
thesubstation.org.au/program/nuclear-waste-dump

2023
- artist residency, placemakers* INCUBATE*, QLD

2022  - 2023
- artist residency, Centre for Projection Art, VIC
centreforprojectionart.com.au/residencies/tahlia-palmer

2019
- solo exhibition: "Kinjarling Studies” Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany, WA

2017
- finalist, Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women, VIC

Commissions and Grants

2025
- received City of Melbourne quick response grant for "Occupation Studies: They Tried to Tame Birrarung" project

2024
Sydney Opera House, Unwrapped: Shortwave
- commissioned to make new video work: "Look Intruder"
stream.sydneyoperahouse.com/shortwave-new-screen-commissions-2024/videos/shortwave-tahlia-palmer-look-intruder-2024

2024
Volume Festival, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- commissioned by AGNSW/Longform Editions to compose a sound work played in gallery walkway spaces: "garrawang + biderap: black field cricket mating song" July 6 - 21
volume.sydney/event/threshold/

2023
There Exists - Studio ANRK
- musical composition for VR animation, in collaboration with Penelope Trappes (AUS/UK)
studioanrk.com/work/thereexists/

2023
Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne
- video projection "Murnong (Digging for Yam Daisy) Peel St Park, Collingwood
- soundscape composition for projections by Victorian Aboriginal Health Service

2022
Room 2 / BLEED Festival, VIC
- commissioned audiovisual work - "ngunmal" - in collaboration with Joel Spring (AUS)

2022
Liquid Architexture x Light @ ACMI, VIC
- commisioned audiovisual work - "I Am Holding My Breath"
acmi.net.au/whats-on/light-works-from-tates-collection-exhibition/liquid-architecture-light/

2022
Art Gallery of NSW / Kaldor Projects
- commissioned musical work - "Looming change / Building fabric" - in collaboration with Steve Gunn (USA)
artgallery.nsw.gov.au/art/watch-listen-read/read/sol-lewitt-resonances/

2021-2022
Art Gallery of NSW
- playlist curation for “The Family album”, a digital music extension to the exhibition Family:  Visions of a Shared Humanity
artgallery.nsw.gov.au/art/watch-listen-read/family-album/amby-downs/

2021
Creative Victoria Music Industry Recovery Program
- for “amby downs” album, liminal, to be self-released on vinyl

Live Performance

2026
-  opened for SUMAC (USA) on three dates of their Australian tour

2025
- APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards Ceremony, City Recital hall, NSW
with group "grndwater"
https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about/supporting-the-industry/awards/2025-art-music-awards

2025
- live set at  "Music for Libraries 2" at Relit Festival, Sydney, curated by Lawrence English
https://events.humanitix.com/music-for-libraries-curated-by-lawrence-english-room40

2023
Volume Festival, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- film projections
- live music performance

Published Writing

2026
- "Responsibility for the Brave", Debris Magazine (France/Australia) Issue 7

2025
- "Emerging from the Shadow of Unmarked Graves", Chutney Magazine (London, UK) Issue 4,
https://chutneymag.com/

Music Releases

ambydowns.bandcamp.com/
room40.bandcamp.com/album/ngunmal
longformeditions.bandcamp.com/track/garrawang-biderap-black-field-cricket-mating-song