IMAGECOMMENTBIOGRAPHY

Elizabeth Presa



BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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Hampton, Vic. – Australia/ *Australia 1956

Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne

1977 Diploma of Fine Art (Sculpture), Victorian College of the Arts
1980 Post-Graduate (Sculpture), Phillip Institute
1989 B.A. (Hons), Fine Arts, University of Melbourne
1993 M.A. Critical Theory, Monash University
Currently a Ph.D. candidate, Monash University

visiting artists lecture, Purchase College, State Univ. of New York (1999), Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, Singapore (2000), Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY and Purchase College SUNY, NY (2001); Lasalle SIA, Singapore (2002); artist in residence, Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, Singapore (2002). Elizabeth Presa is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Conflict Resolution Centre, the University of Melbourne.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2002
"Transit Narratives," Villa Letizia, Italy

2001
"Grounds for Sculpture," McClelland Gallery, Australia
"This Ocean Floor," Goya Galleries, Melbourne
"On the Cross," Linden Gallery, Melbourne

2000
"Oblique Shadows," Sculpture Square, Singapore
"Exquisite Corpse," Bendigo Art Gallery, Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
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2002
"A Small Penance," performance at Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, Singapore

2001
"The Book of Refused Words," Conservatory, St. Kilda Botanical Gardens, Melbourne

2000
"The Four Horizons of the Page," Linden Gallery, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS
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PUBLIC: Bayside City Council, Melbourne - McClelland Regional Gallery, Australia - The Myer Foundation, Melbourne - VCA, Univ. of Melbourne; Monash University - Landmark Corporate Centre, Australia - Wesley College, Melbourne - Wyndham City Council, Melbourne - Colac City Council, Vic., Australia - PRIVAT: Alexander Garcia Duttmann, London - Jacques Derrida, Paris - Sylvia Schwartz, NY - Idelle and Julian Weber, NY.

COMMISSIONS
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Wyndham City Council, Entertainment Complex, "Oasis" (bronze) 1999
Bayside City Council, Napier Thomas Mantesso Allen, Architects, "Halfmoon Bay" (bronze) 1996
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Sculpture Foundation, "Manendo Manet" (bronze) 1996
Wesley College, Daryl Jackson, Architect, "Almanac" (bronze) 1994
Colac City Council, Sculpture Park, "Isaac's View" (cement fondue) 1989

PUBLICATIONS
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2001
Jacques Derrida, La Connaissance des Textes, Galilée, pp. 155-156
"World Sculpture News", vol. 7, no. 2, p. 63

2000
"World Sculpture News", vol. 6, no. 2, p. 10
Peter Timms, Visual Arts Review, "The Age" newspaper, Melbourne
Catalogue "CSA Sculpture @stkilda botanical gardens"
Kevin Hart, ontretemps: an online journal of philosophy, "Horizons and Folds" - www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps
Sian E. Jay, Catalogue "Oblique Shadows"
Sian E. Jay, "The Straits Times" newspaper, Singapore, "Arts", Nov. 22, 2000
Robert Nelson, "Paper Trail", "The Age" newspaper, Melbourne, Aug. 2, 2000