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| Biographical NotesNina Sellars is a Melbourne based artist, who resides part-time in London. In her arts practice Sellars focuses on human anatomy and its symbiotic history with arts and technology. Sellars' particular interest lies in exploring the internal architecture and perceptual awareness and abilities of the acculturated body as embedded in the world and mediated by technology. Her current research is an extension of this practice, and investigates how light affects what we see and experience in relation to the anatomical body, and how these experiences are articulated through image. The research explores the idea that, with the advent of new technologies which are able to emanate, record and capture light, our perception of the anatomical body alters and a new body is imagined. 2013 GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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| 2009 | Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Melbourne Convenor of one-day international symposium 'Solid States/Liquid Objects: Discourses of Mediation' |
| 1997 | National Gallery of Australia Curatorial Internship Australian Photography (Gael Newton) National Gallery of Australia Curatorial Internship International Photography (Kate Davidson) |
| 1995 - 1998 | National Gallery of Australia Volunteer: photographer and darkroom technician Photographic Department |
| 2013 | GV Art, London The Optics of Anatomy and Light |
| 2012 | Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne The Optics of Anatomy and Light |
| 2011 | Australian National University, Laser Physics Centre Lumen |
| 2010 | Online interactive exhibition Anatomy of Optics and Light |
| 2008 | Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne Oblique |
| 2002 | PhotoAccess Arts Centre, Canberra Pendulum |
| 1997 | Australian National University, Photospace Gallery Silent Figures |
| 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 |
| 2011 | GV 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) |
| 2010 | Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Duetto Palazzo Vaj, Prato Between Bodies |
| 2009 | Shifted Gallery, Melbourne Solid States/Liquid Objects(joint exhibition with Joanna Zylinska) |
| 2008 | Pilchuck Glass School Gallery, Seattle Artists in Residence/Staff Exhibition Shifted Gallery, Melbourne Convergence |
| 2007 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Gallery 111, New York In the Presence of the Body Centre d'Art Santa Mςnica, Barcelona Dνas De Bioarte '07 Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne The Postcard Show |
| 2005 | TekniKunst 05 Contemporary Technology Festival,Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne Blender bioart installation (collaboration with Stelarc) Curtin University, John Curtin Gallery Perth International Arts Festival: BEAPworks |
| 2003 | University of Western Australia, Anatomy and Human Biology Department Bodyscapes Church Gallery, Perth On the Line: Drawings |
| 2002 | Art Gallery of New South Wales Dobell Prize for Drawing (Finalist) PhotoAccess Arts Centre, Canberra Encapsulate |
| 2001 | Australian National University, CSA Gallery Wild Sheep Chase Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Nikon Summer Salon |
| 2000 | Merchant House, The Rocks, Sydney Julian Ashton Art School Exhibition ANCA Gallery, Canberra 168 Hours: EASS Award Exhibition Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Hatched |
| 1999 | Australian National University, Canberra School of Art Nineteen Ninety Nine |
| 1997 | Australian National University, Canberra School of Art, Foyer Gallery CSA Drawing Prize (First prize) University of Canberra Photographic Award (First prize) |
| 2013 | Festival of New Media Art and Video in Mexico City Biomediations: Transito-MX05 invited panel speaker |
| 2012 | Melbourne University, Ian Potter Museum A Body of Knowledge: the Anatomy 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 Mediation one-day international symposium; symposium convenor and speaker, presenting Almost 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 presenting Anatomy and Light Bellevue Arts Centre, Seattle In Translation lecture series, invited speaker presenting Anatomy and Pathology in Glass Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle Artist's talk Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle Demonstration class Life Drawing/Anatomy for Artists |
| 2007 | Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture 'Women in Research' Honorary Research Fellow Artist's talk |
| 2005 | Incinerator Arts Complex, Melbourne, Australia TekniKunst '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 |
| 2013 | Photomediations Machine Scan (curated online space) |
| 2010 | Culture Machine Volume 11. Creative Media -Anatomy of Optics and Light |
| 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 |
| 2011 | New 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 |
| 2010 | Thames 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 |
| 2008 | Photofile: 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 |
| 2007 | Stelarc 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 Ciκncia Viva: Lisbon, 2008 and in 'Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love' Mori Art Museum: Tokyo, 2009 |
| 2006 | Leonardo: 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 |
| 2005 | ABC 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) |
| 2002 | The Canberra Times review by Myra McIntyre, June 21 PhotoAccess Arts Centre, Canberra Encapsulate, exhibition catalogue, pp 8 - 12 |
| 2000 | Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Hatched, exhibition catalogue, pp 6 - 7 |
| 1999 | Australian National University, Canberra School of Art Nineteen Ninety Nine, exhibition catalogue, p 53 |
| 1997 | National Library of Australia News Journal, Canberra Arts Supplement, March issue, pp 38 - 39 |
| 2008 | Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle (Vitrography print) |
| 2003 | Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney (Drawing Studies) |
| 2011 | Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture Postgraduate Research Travel Grant (to undertake research at the Wellcome Trust library, London and to participate in the panel debate 'Art & Science: Merging Art and Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Form' at GV Art gallery, London) Australian National University, Solid-State Spectroscopy Laboratory Artist in Residence |
| 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 |
| 2007 | Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture 'Women in Research' Honorary Research Fellow |
| 2006 | Australia Council for the Arts Skills and Arts Development (Out of Time) Grant |
| 2004 | ArtsWA BEAPworks grant for research and development of electronic arts |
| 2003 | University of Western Australia, Department of Anatomy and Human Biology Artist in Residence |
| 2002 | Art Gallery of New South Wales Dobell Prize for Drawing Finalist ArtsACT Emerging Artist Grant PhotoAccess, Canberra Artist in Residence |
| 2001 | ArtsACT Development Fund Grant |
| 2000 | Julian Ashton Art School David Wilson Award for Drawing Emerging Artists Support Scheme Leichhardt Street, 3-Month Residency Award |
| 1998 | Australian National University, Canberra School of Art CSA Drawing Prize First prize |
| 1996 | University 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 Vύtvarnύch Uměnν, Prague, Czech Republic) |
| 2010 | Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture Associate Lecturer (5 week fixed term contract) 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) DUTIES IN PRATO 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 - 2010 | Department 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 |
| 2009 | Department 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 - 2010 | Monash 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 / 2009 | Centre 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 |
| 2006 | October Films, London Videographer Melbourne filming for the Discovery USA 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 - 2005 | Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University Sessional Lecturer Life Drawing, General 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 - 2004 | School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia Prosector/Artist Human Dissection for Anatomy Lectures; Anatomical Illustrator and 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 at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA Making anatomical models and teaching displays, and creating anatomical illustrations for publication Designing and overseeing the construction of display cases for a human evolution display with a view to designing the exhibit; this involved liaising with different groups including UWA lecturers and technicians, WA museum curators and the contracted fabricators |
| 2002 - 2004 | CTEC Centre for Surgical Skills Prosector Human dissection for surgical lectures Preparing detailed human cadaver dissections suitable for surgical training courses |
| 1999 | Australian National University, Menzies Library Guest Curator Hedda Morrison photographs, exhibition on loan from Powerhouse Museum Liaising with the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and overseeing the exhibition installation |
| 1997 - 1998 | National Gallery of Australia Personal Assistant Australian Photography (Gael Newton) Assisting with curating exhibitions, proofreading, editing and publication layout. Creating 4" x5" 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 - 1995 | Adam Visser Photography Photographers assistant and darkroom technician Assisting 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- 1992 | Art Neon, Canberra Apprentice Neon Sign Maker Glass blowing and bombarding of neon signs |
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