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Nina Sellars

Biographical Notes


Sellars' practice-led research works across the disciplines of art, science and humanities and is focused on exploring the ways in which anatomy has shaped our understanding of the body, identity and subjectivity over the centuries. Classically trained in drawing and analogue photography her artwork now extends into multimedia light installations and biological arts, as her interest in anatomy has taken her from working in art studios and wet anatomy labs to working in physics labs and medical imaging facilitieshere she explores the cultural implications of anatomy.



Selected Curriculum Vitae

Education

2008 - 2013
Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Melbourne
Doctorate of Philosophy, funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award.
Thesis title: 'The Optics of Anatomy and Light: A Studio-based Investigation
of the Construction of Anatomical Images'
(Drawing/Multimedia Research)
2000 - 2001Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney
(Classical Drawing/Anatomy)
1994 - 1999Australian National University, Canberra School of Art
Bachelor of Arts (Visual), Honours — First Class (Photomedia)
1996 - 1997
Akademie Vytvarnych Umění, Prague, Czech Republic
Intermedia Studies, The School of Conceptual Tendencies, Studio of Miloš Šejn.
Additional units in Anatomy Studies, Sculpture, Cast & Life Drawing, and Czech.
Funded byWestende IOF Travelling Scholarship
 


Internships

1997National Gallery of Australia Curatorial Internship
Australian Photography (Gael Newton)
1996National Gallery of Australia Curatorial Internship
International Photography (Kate Davidson)
1995 - 1998National Gallery of Australia Photography Internship
Photographic Department (darkroom and studio)


Solo Exhibitions

2012
Fehily Contemporary, MelbourneThe Optics of Anatomy and Light
2010
Online interactive exhibition Anatomy of Optics and Light
2008Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne Oblique
2002PhotoAccess Arts Centre, Canberra Pendulum
1997Australian National University, Photospace Gallery Silent Figures


Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Beijing Minsheng Art Museum Beijing Media Arts Biennale (postponed due to COVID-19)
2019Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada IOTA: BETA Bio Art project. Joint exhibition with Jennifer Willet, Director, Incubator Art Lab: Hybrid Laboratory of Art, Science, and Technology, University of Windsor

Cake industries, Scarsdale, Victoria, Australia
Mecha: Festival of Experimental Art
2018Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, WA HyperPrometheus: The Legacy of Frankenstein

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome Human+: The future of our species
2017ArtScience Museum, Singapore Human+: The future of our species
2016Gemälde Galerie of the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna NATURE GONE ASTRAY?: Hybrids, Gnomes and Monsters (not only) in the work of Hieronymus Bosch

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
New Romance: Art and the posthuman

Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, New Zealand Alter: Between human and non-human
2015Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain Human+: The future of our species

Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal
Just 40

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia Demonstrable

Strains Museum of the History of Medicine, Riga, Latvia Fabrica Vitae

Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal i/Material: una exposição de arte experimental

Free Range Gallery, Perth Staff Room
2014Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea Project Daejeon 2014: The Brain

Zakynthos Cultural Centre, Greece Fabrica Vitae (touring exhibition)

GV Art, London Encyclopedia Galatica

2013
GV Art, London Art and Science

Festival of New Media Art and Video in Mexico City Biomediations: Transito_MX05

Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester Brains: The mind as matter

Washington State Convention Centre, Seattle Subjective Resonance Imaging

Photomediations Machine (curated online space) Scan
2012
GV Art, London Graphite

Wellcome Trust, London Brains: The mind as matter

GV Art, London Polymath

Melbourne University, Ian Potter Museum of Art A Body of Knowledge: The anatomy lesson
2011GV Art, London Art and Science (curated by Robert Devcic and Professor Arthur I. Miller)

Trinity College, Science Gallery, Dublin Human +: The future of our species(in collaboration with The Long Room Hub and the School Of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, and supported by the Wellcome Trust)

University of Otago, Dunedin A Medical Perspective
(hosted by the Dunedin School of Art at the Otago Polytechnic and the Dunedin School of Medicine)
2010Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Duetto

Palazzo Vaj, Prato Between Bodies
2009 Shifted Gallery, Melbourne Solid States/Liquid Objects (joint exhibition with Joanna Zylinska)
2008Pilchuck Glass School Gallery, Seattle Artists in Residence/Staff Exhibition

Shifted Gallery, Melbourne Convergence
2007Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Gallery 111, New York In the Presence of the Body

Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona Días De Bioarte '07

Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne The Postcard Show
2005TekniKunst 05 Contemporary Technology Festival,Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne Blender — bioart installation
(collaboration with Stelarc)

Curtin University, John Curtin Gallery Perth International Arts Festival: BEAPworks


2003University of Western Australia, Anatomy and Human Biology Department Bodyscapes

Church Gallery, Perth On the Line: Drawings
2002Art Gallery of New South Wales Dobell Prize for Drawing (Finalist)

PhotoAccess Arts Centre, Canberra Encapsulate
2001Australian National University, CSA Gallery Wild Sheep Chase

Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Nikon Summer Salon
2000Merchant House, The Rocks, Sydney Julian Ashton Art School Exhibition

ANCA Gallery, Canberra 168 Hours: EASS Award Exhibition

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Hatched
1999Australian National University, Canberra School of Art Nineteen Ninety Nine
1997Australian National University, CSA Foyer Gallery CSA Drawing Prize (First prize)

Performances

2013 Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico Biomediations: Transito_MX05

SAE Institute, Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico Biomediations: Transito_MX05

Centro Nacional De Las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico Biomediations: Transito_MX05

Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK Dark Matter

Advisory Roles and Honorary Positions

2013 - cont.Photomediations Machine Advisory Board Member

Curated by Professor Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London), and established in 2013, Photomediations Machine is an online space in which the dynamic relations of mediation as performed in photography and other media can be encountered, experienced and engaged. Photomediations Machine is a sister project to the online open access journal Culture Machine, established in 1999

Monash University, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology Adjunct Lecturer
2009Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture , Melbourne Convenor of one-day international symposium 'Solid States/Liquid Objects: Discourse of Mediation'

Curatorial Projects

2020

Anatomy & Beyond Co-organiser of conference and exhibition – Paul Stradins Museum, Riga, Latvia (postponed due to COVID-19, rescheduled for 2021)

Conferences/Presentations

2020School of Art & Design, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Guest speaker for art history course 'Art & Science in the Digital Age
2019China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Art and Technology conference. Paper presented – The Cut of the Artist: Anatomy Theatres of a Critical Posthumanist

Science Gallery Melbourne / Testing Grounds
FAT – in conversation with UK artist, Mike Thompson, co-creator of the Fat Berg installation for SGM exhibition – Disposable
2018Situate Arts Lab, Tasmania, Australia Early career artists and creative practitioners mentoring program. Guest speaker and mentor
2017

Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Canberra keynote speaker and respondent to papers for the international medical humanities conference – Fluid Matter(s): A cross cultural examination of bodily fluids and drugs that act upon them. Paper presented – Fat Matters: The Fluid Interventions in Western Anatomy. Conference organizers: Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard), Lena Springer (Charité), Natalie Köhle (ANU)

Cultivamos Cultura & Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology international conference. Paper presented – Fluid Interventions in the History of Anatomy


Melville High School, Perth, WA Presentation for TECHTRAILS: Women in Technology WA. (Volunteer work for the promotion of women in technology)


Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University Canberra public lecture, Blood, Phlegm, Bile, and Qi: Bodily Fluids in Chinese and European Medicine, with Prof. Shigehisa Kuriyama, Dr.Lena Springer, Stephen Clavey, Prof. Brooke Holmes, Dr. Nina Sellars

The University of Western Australia / Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Conference – Art and its Directions. Panel session – Directions of Biological Arts, convened by Ionat Zurr, SymbioticA, UWA Conference paper – Fat Culture: The Art of Adipose

Wellcome Collection / GV Art London #postARTandSCIENCE one-day international symposium. Paper presented – Posthumanist Approach to Art+Science (symposium co-funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and European Digital Art and Science Network)

Victoria and Albert Museum, London Virtual Futures Salon: Alternative Anatomies. Stelarc & Nina Sellars in discussion with Luke Robert Mason (A collaboration of V&A and VFS for the V&A Digital Design Weekend, for London Design Week)

Gordon Museum, Kings College London Ceroplastics: international Congress on Wax Modelling. Paper presented – Fat Venus

Utrecht University, The Netherlands Rosi Braidotti Summer School Posthuman Ethics in the Anthropocene. Plenary panel – Introduction to the Posthuman Predicament in the Anthropocene, chaired by Rosi Braidotti. Paper presented – Fat: A critical organ of posthumanism

Utrecht University, The Netherlands Rosi Braidotti Summer School Posthuman Ethics in the Anthropocene. Plenary panel – The Ethics of Art Practice in the Anthropocene, chaired by Linda Dement. Paper presented – Working with Anatomy

2016Museum of Contemporary Art Artist talk for MCA members 'Fat in (Critical) Posthumanism'

International Federation of Adipose Therapeutics and Science San Diego conference ⏤ 'Invisible Fat: Seeing fat anew in the the history of anatomy'
2015University of Western Australia, Perth NeoLife, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, international conference ⏤ 'Re-imaging Fat'

Wellcome Trust, London, UK On Light event

SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA Artist's talk

Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory (ISML), School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia — Artist's talk — 'Fat Venus: Imaging Adipose Tissue'

Melville Senior High School, Perth WiTWA's (Women in Technology, Western Australia) Techtrails presentation. The Techtrails program is designed to encourage youth in regional WA to consider careers in technology
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth Artist's floor talk for 'DeMonstrable' exhibition
2014Australian National University, School of Art Driving Forces: The Role of Artists and Designers in Interdisciplinary Research — one-day conference

Zakynthos Cultural Centre, Greece Vesalius Continuum — three-day, international conference

Melbourne University, Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology Anatomy/Drawing workshop for Melbourne Nite Art event
2013 Festival of New Media Art and Video in Mexico City Biomediations: Transito_MX05 — invited panel speaker "Living Media and Creative Ontologies"Centro Nacional De Las Artes

Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UKinvited speaker, artist's talk — Brains: The Mind as Matter, Wellcome Trust (touring exhibition)
2012Melbourne University, Ian Potter Museum A Body of Knowledge: The Anatomy Lesson — invited guest speaker for gallery floor talk

Wellcome Trust, London Brains: The Mind as Matter — invited guest speaker for 'Perspective' gallery floor talk

Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE Creative Forum — invited speaker
2011 Whitechapel Gallery, London Performing Medicine: Screening The Body — invited panel speaker. Mediator: Dr Roberta McGrath; invited speakers, Christina Lammer, Dr Richard Wingate, Nina Sellars

GV Art, London
Art and Science
invited panel speaker
Mediator: Professor Arthur I. Miller, invited speakers: Stelarc, Oron Catts, Nina Sellars

University of Otago, Dunedin Art and Medicine symposium (hosted by the Dunedin School of Art at the Otago Polytechnic and the Dunedin School of Medicine) presenting
'Lumen: Bodies Constructed From Light'
2009 Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Melbourne Solid States/Liquid Objects: Discourses of Mediationone-day international symposium; symposium convenor and speaker, presentingAlmost Seeing: the Anatomical Body Between Light and Shadow

Swinburne University, Melbourne Respondent to Darren Tofts paper
you can tie me up if you wish, but there is nothing more useless than an organ
2008
Coventry University Photographic Mediations symposium —invited speaker presenting —Recording the Anatomical

Trinity College, Science Gallery, Dublin Lightwave Festival, invited speaker presentingAnatomy and Light

Bellevue Arts Centre, Seattle In Translation lecture series, invited speaker presentingAnatomy and Pathology in Glass

Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle
Artist's talk

Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle
Demonstration class
Life Drawing/Anatomy for Artists
2007Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture 'Women in Research' Honorary Research Fellow — Artist's talk
2005Incinerator Arts Complex, Melbourne, AustraliaTekniKunst '05 Contemporary Technology Festival Artist's talk

Curtin University,
John Curtin Gallery, Perth Exhibition floor talk, for BEAPWORKS

Centre of Living and Electronic Arts Research (CLEAR), Perth, Australia Presentation for Siggraph and BEAPWORKS

Publications (authored)

2020Routledge, Taylor & Francis Sellars, Nina. "Robert Hooke’s Micrographia: a historical guide to navigating contemporary Images.” In Routledge International Handbook of Arts, Science and Technology Studies. Edited by Hannah Rogers, Megan Halpern, Dehlia Hannah and Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone

IOTA Institute Interview with Nina Sellars by Mollie Cronin (co-authored)

ANU Press Sellars, Nina. "Fat Matters: Fluid Interventions in Western Anatomy." In Fluid Matter(s). Edited by Natalie Köehle and Shigehisa Kuriyama
2018UWA Publishing Sellars, Nina. “Sentinels.” HyperPrometheus. Edited by Catts, Oron, Robert Cook, and Laetitia Wilson, 100-103
2017Sellars, Nina. “The Life and Death of Anatomy.” In Bridging Open Boundaries, as part of the V&A Digital Design Weekend 2017, edited by Papadimitriou, Irini, Andrew Prescott, and Jon Rogers, 40-43. London: Uniform Communications, 2017. Archived online, DigiTranGlasgow, AHRC Digital Transformations, University of Glasgow.
2015Sellars, Nina. "The Optics of Anatomy and Light: A Studio Investigation of Anatomical Images." Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology 48, no. 5 (2015): 481
2014
Sellars, Nina. "Lucida." Interalia Magazine, no. 8 (December 2014)

Sellars, Nina. "The Optics of Anatomy and Light." Vesalius: Official Journal of the International Society for the History of Medicine 20, no. 1. (Summer 2014): 41
2013
Sellars, Nina. "Scan."Photomediations Machine, no. 1 (30 April 2013)
2010
Sellars, Nina."Anatomy of Optics and Light." In ‘Creative Media’ edited by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska, 53-66. Special issue, Culture Machine 11 (29 Jan 2010)

Selected Media, Reviews and Citations

2020IOTA Institute Interview with Nina Sellars by Mollie Cronin
2019ABC iview short documentary, ArtBites Biogenesis: Nina Sellars – Sentinels. Produced by Blue Forest Media,10th August 2019
2018 
2017 
2016Reaction Books Fats: A Global History — Michelle Phillips

CLOT magazine interview with artist — Lula Criado — www.clotmag.com/nina-sellars
Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition catalogue, New Romance: Art and the posthuman

The Mix: ABC Arts Interview for New Romance: art and the posthuman exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2015Museum of Contemporary Art, City of Daejeon, South Korea The Brain: Daejeon Project exhibition catalogue — Ed. Gim Jungi

Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain Human+ exhibition catalogue — Michael John Gorman, Catherine Kramer et al.
2014W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Colliding Worlds: How Cutting Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art — Arthur I. Miller
2013MEDinART an online initiate of TED MED Live, Athens 2013, curated by Vasia Hatzi
2012
MIT Press Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska, pp 86 - 95

ABC Radio National Body Sphere with Amanda Smith (interview with artist)
23 September 2012

USA Today Brains: London exhibit looks inside skull
29 March 2012

BBC News, UK Brain exhibition explores thinking about grey matter
27 March

Sunday Times, UK
Soul Searching
Bryan Appleyard 18 March 2012

The Urban Times, UK Polymath Exhibition, Ruth Garde
2nd March 2012

Exhibition catalogue Wellcome Trust, Brains: The Mind as Matter pp 158 - 159
2011New Scientist Culture Lab: Escape Artists: Breaking Out of the Lab, Tiffany O'Callaghan

Wired magazine 3D-Printed Brain Scan Just One Exhibit At London Bio-art' Show, Olivia Solon

Guardian newspaper HUMAN + Explores The Technologically Enhanced Future Of Our Species, Michael John Gorman

Nature Art: Body work, Anthony King, Volume 473, p 451— 26 May 2011

Trinity College, Science Gallery, Dublin Human +: The Future Of Our Species (in collaboration with The Long Room Hub and the School Of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, and supported by the Wellcome Trust) exhibition catalogue p 30 - 31

Trinity College, Science Gallery, Dublin Human+: The Future of the Species, exhibition website

GV Art, London 'Art and Science: Merging Art and Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Form' online catalogue,pp 27 - 31
2010Thames and Hudson: London Art + Science Now: How scientific research and technological innovation are becoming key to 21st-century aesthetics- Stephen Wilson, p 78

Ashgate, Surrey Art Practice in a Digital Culture- eds. Hazel Gardiner & Charlie Gere, pp 113 and plate 6.3

Australian Experimental Art Foundation Duetto, exhibition catalogue, p 40
2009
Independently produced exhibition catalogue Solid States/Liquid Objects, catalogue essay by Dr Melissa Miles.

Litteraria Pragensia: Prague Pornatopias: Image, Desire, Apocalypse - eds. Andrew Mitchel, Jane Lewty & Louis Armand. Book chapter by Darren Tofts, p 4 - 23
2008Photofile: Journal of Photography, Issue 85 Oblique Strategies: Nina Sellars article - Ashley Crawford, pp 20-25

Independently produced exhibition catalogue The Cut of the Artist: Sellars' Anatomy Lesson,
catalogue essay by Dr Joanna Zylinska.

Routledge: New York 'The Digital Musician' by Andrew Hugill, 2008 (anatomical illustrations)

Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand edited by Art and Australia,
Dott Publishing: Australia,
pp 302 - 303
2007Stelarc website — Blender; Extra Ear on Arm

Stelarc: Extra Ear portrait - photographic portrait of the Australian performance artist Stelarc, which has been printed in over one hundred publications worldwide, including on the cover of 'Inside: Art and Science' Agency Ciência Viva: Lisbon, 2008 and in 'Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love' Mori Art Museum: Tokyo, 2009
2006Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology Corporeal Melange: Aesthetics and Ethics of Biomaterials in Stelarc and Nina Sellars Blender — Julie Clarke, pp 410 - 416
2005ABC Radio, The Deep End Interview with Stelarc and Nina Sellars

Teknikunst 05 Contemporary Technology Festival Flesh vs Machine Festival, festival poster and catalogue (front cover image, pp 3, 4, 5, 26)
2002The Canberra Times review by Myra McIntyre, June 21

PhotoAccess Arts Centre, Canberra Encapsulate, exhibition catalogue, pp 8 - 12
2000Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Hatched, exhibition catalogue, pp 6 - 7
1999Australian National University, Canberra School of Art Nineteen Ninety Nine, exhibition catalogue, p 53
1997National Library of Australia News Journal, Canberra Arts Supplement, March issue, pp 38 - 39


Awards and Residencies

2020 
2017Australia Council Experimental Arts Research and Development grant SymbioticA residency for R&D of adipose tissue culture techniques
2016
University of Western Australia, SymbioticA, Biological Arts Lab, Artist in Residence tissue culture research

Perth Centre of Photography, Studio Residency
2015 Leonardo: International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology PhD abstract, The Optics of Anatomy and Light: a studio-based investigation of the construction of anatomical images , selected as one of the top-ranked thesis abstracts submitted on the subject of arts, sciences, and technology, for 2014
2010
Monash University, Commercialisation Training Scheme Award to undertake a Graduate Certificate in Commercialising Research, Faculty of Business and Economics
2009
Monash University, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology Travel Sponsorship; to travel to Italy as Arts Tutor for 'anARTomy 09'
2008
Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle Artist in Residence

Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture Australian Postgraduate Award
2007Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture 'Women in Research' Honorary Research Fellow
2006Australia Council for the Arts Skills and Arts Development (Out of Time) Grant
2004ArtsWA BEAPworks grant for research and development of electronic arts
2003University of Western Australia, Department of Anatomy and Human Biology Artist in Residence
2002Art Gallery of New South Wales Dobell Prize for Drawing — Finalist

ArtsACT Emerging Artist Grant

PhotoAccess, Canberra Artist in Residence
2001 ArtsACT Development Fund Grant
2000Julian Ashton Art School David Wilson Award for Drawing — First prize

Emerging Artists Support Scheme Leichhardt Street, 3-Month Residency Award
1998Australian National University, Canberra School of Art CSA Drawing Prize — First prize
1996University of Canberra Photographic Award — First prize

Australian National University, Canberra School of Art Westende IOF Travelling Scholarship (to study as an exchange student at the Akademie Vytvarnych Umění, Prague, Czech Republic)


Selected Arts Employment

2019 - current University of Melbourne, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science – Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology Curator (exhibitions and events)
2014 - 2015Curtin University, School of Design and Art, Alternate Anatomies Lab
Research Fellow

Working collaboratively as part of the 'Alternate Anatomies Lab' team and undertaking independent research of the aesthetic and conceptual possibilities of the posthuman. The Alternate Anatomies Lab is an arts initiative led by the world-renowned performance artist Stelarc. The AAL focuses on interrogating the aesthetics, ethics and engineering possibilities of human and machine interfaces. The lab is interdisciplinary in approach and engages artists, engineers and philosophers in trans-disciplinary projects
2013Curtin University, School of Design & Art
Technical Officer Immersive Environments Project Manager

Research and development of the blending of real world teaching spaces at the School Of Design & Art with 3D multi-user virtual environments; the aim of the project being to actively engage students in both realms, synchronously. The outcomes of the research presented alternatives and practical options for the implementation of a blended, mixed reality, teaching space uniquely defined and informed by arts practice.


Monash University, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology
Adjunct Lecturer
2010Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture
Associate Lecturer

Unit Coordinator: undergraduate unit 'Anatomical Drawing' (Monash University Prato Centre)

Monash University, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology
Sessional Advisor Co-organizer: undergraduate unit 'anARTomy 2010' (Prato, Italy)

The anARTomy program aims to explore the interrelationship between art and anatomy by investigating their shared history. The students research collections held in various Art and Anatomy museums throughout Florence, Bologna, Padua, Arezzo, Siena, Rome and Venice as well as participate in practical drawing classes and attend art history and anatomy lectures. The unit is a collaboration between the Faculty of Art & Design and the Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, Monash University and is led by Adina Kleiner (anatomist), Bernard Hoffert (art historian) and Nina Sellars (artist)


Preparing, coordinating and presenting lectures for undergraduate medical and art students at the Monash University Prato Centre in Italy. The lectures focus on the history of anatomical illustration, the depiction of anatomy in art (historical and contemporary), perspective (techniques and history) and Renaissance art

Conducting practical classes in figurative and anatomical drawing, as well as linear perspective

Advisor for medical students for SPC (Special Project Case) essays and presentations conducted as part of the anARTomy program, Prato, Italy

Assessing and grading student's work for the 'Anatomical Drawing' unit

Curating exhibition of 'Anatomical Drawing' students work at the MUPC

Promoting and coordinating a visiting artist talk by the performance artist Stelarc at the MUPC
2009 - 2010Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, Monash University
Sessional Lecturer
Physiotherapy (Drawing, Art History & Anatomical Illustration)

Preparing and presenting a series of practical drawing lectures for Physiotherapy students as part of Anatomy classes conducted by Adina Kleiner (anatomy lecturer), Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology. The lectures focus on the history of anatomy/illustration/art, physiology of visual perception, drawing techniques & life drawing
2009Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, Monash University
Arts Tutor
anARTomy 2009, (Prato, Italy)

Accompanying medical students
along with Adina Kleiner, Lecturer in Anatomy, to Monash Prato as arts tutor for 'anARTomy 2009'. An initiative of Adina Kleiner the anARTomy program aims to explore the interrelationship between art and anatomy; students research collections held in various Art and Anatomy museums throughout Florence, Bologna, Padua, Arezzo, Siena, Rome and Venice
2008 - 2010Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture
Sessional Lecturer
Anatomical Drawing

Preparing, presenting and assessing an undergraduate degree course, which focuses on drawing the anatomy of the human body, with instruction in anatomy/physiology, life drawing, physiology of visual perception and drawing techniques. Classes are held at the Faculty of Art and Design, Caulfield campus, and Monash Medical School, Clayton campus. The lectures are presented in collaboration with Ms Adina Kleiner (anatomist)
2006 / 2009Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
Guest Lecturer
Corporeal Constructions

Preparing, presenting and assessing an undergraduate degree course, in collaboration with the performance artist Stelarc. The course incorporates aspects of both performance and drawing. The seminars and practical sessions are centred on an anatomical, philosophical and performative examination of the body exploring issues of awareness, identity, intentionality and action and investigate how the boundaries of the body contract and expand depending on social, cultural and technological influences
2006October Films, London
Videographer

Melbourne filming for the Discovery Channel documentary 'Medical Mavericks', featuring the performance artist Stelarc and the surgical construction of his 'Extra Ear' project. An ear was surgically constructed on Stelarc's left forearm and a microphone implanted with the intention of making it blue-tooth enabled to allow for Internet connection
2003 - 2005Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
Drawing Lecturer general drawing, life drawing, illustration for costume and design

Preparing and developing a drawing program for the Costume, Production and Design and Lighting Departments and being responsible for teaching and assessing Advanced Diploma and Degree students.
2002 - 2004University of Western Australia, Department of Anatomy and Human Biology
Prosector/Artist
human dissection for anatomy lectures, illustrator and anatomical model maker

Preparing detailed human cadaver dissections for the University's Anatomy classes; as part of my training I attended the 2003 2nd year medical lectures
designing and planning the construction of display cases for a human biology display with a view to designing the exhibit; this involved liaising with different groups from museum curators to the fabricators and joiners Making anatomical models and teaching displays as well as anatomical illustrations for publications

CTEC Centre for Surgical Skills

Prosector human dissection for surgical lectures

Preparing detailed human cadaver dissections suitable for surgical training courses
1999Australian National University
Guest Curator, Hedda Morrison Photographs, Exhibition on loan from Powerhouse Museum

Liaising with the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and overseeing the exhibition installation at the Menzies Library, ANU
1997 - 1998National Gallery of Australia
Personal Assistant to Gael Newton, Senior Curator, Australian Photography

Assisting with curating exhibitions, proofreading, editing and publication layout. Creating 4" x 5" diapositives of selected exhibition photographs in preparation for NGA exhibition catalogues. Creating B/W hand-printed photographic prints from 300 NGA collection glass plate negatives
1992 - 1995Adam Visser Photography
Photographer's assistant and Darkroom Technician

To assist with wedding and formal photography
shooting medium format B/W film and hand-printing from film negatives preparing and packaging wedding photos and preparing invoices



1991 - 1992Art Neon: Fyshwick Canberra
Apprentice
Neon Sign Maker

Glass blowing and bombarding of neon signs