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BRONWYN PLATTEN
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
1984
Bachelor of Fine Arts, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide, South Australia
1987-95 Studies in Psychology, Gender, Anthropology BA (Social Science) p-time, Flinders University,
South Australia
2008
Commenced post-doctoral studies, Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre
HaCIRIC, School of the Built Environment, The University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2011
Mouths and Meaning, with co-collaborator Sarah Coggrave, Chapman Gallery, The University of
Salford, United Kingdom
2003
Love Maps and Shadow Play, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2001
The Museum of Love and Romance presents: The Big Horse and other stories...
with video by Alison Main, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide
1998
from The Museum of Love and Romance, stripp, Melbourne, Australia
1998
A monument to wolf children, Caravan, Adelaide
1996
“How deep is the lake?” Garage, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1995
“Aire de la Noche” (The Night Air), Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide
1994
Telepathy, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
1993
Possible Clouds, with Cecilia Clarke, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Poetry & the Visual Arts, Meantime, Cheltenham, UK
2008-09 Figuring Landscapes, exhibition of international artists’ moving image, touring UK and Australia
including: TATE Modern London; FACT Liverpool; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland;
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008
Progressive Transformations, Limousine Bull, Aberdeen, Scotland
2006
Body Parts, Festival of Performance Art, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2006
Found Word, Aberdeen International Word Festival, foyer Gallery, Aberdeen
2005
Catterline Arts Festival, Catterline, Scotland
2004
Full View, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
2004
XX1V, Limousine Bull, Aberdeen
2003
New York Calling, Australia Studio, P.S.I Contemporary Art Center, New York
2003
Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen, Scotland
2002
Installation Stills, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2002
Apartment, Schoolhill, Aberdeen
2002
Installation Stills, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide
2001
Defiling the Object, the Substation, Singapore
2000
Chemistry, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2000
In Search of Experience - reconsidering the readymade, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
ARTIST PROJECTS AND RESIDENCIES
2009
Established Mouths and Meaning – a collaborative, multi-sensory creative art project exploring
experiences of embodiment with people who have been affected by an eating disorder
2003
Artist in residence, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide
2003
Artist in residence, working and collaborating with patients who have had brain damage or a stroke,
Woodend Hospital, Grampian NHS Trust, Aberdeen
2000
About Love - a collaborative soundscape with Mike Ladd, and eight people with an intellectual
disability, The Listening Room, Australian National Radio, 10 July
2000
travel/speak: a cross-cultural art project with artist Niki Vouis and people with disabilities for
Nexus Multicultural Art Centre, March - July
1997
Founded The Museum of Love and Romance, an ongoing project exploring love and desire
1997
Established The Building Art Project, a collaborative project with artist, John Foubister and
people with an intellectual disability funded by Australia Council and Community Bridging Services.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2006
‘Lead me to a canvas and I will paint you a picture’, The Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester
2006
Anita Hutchison, Winnie Hendry/ Matt Edgar, The Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
2005
Wordwork, The Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, group exhibition of work by Emma
Anderson, Finola Jones, Chad McCail, Arthur Watson
2003
Imagination’s Chamber, exhibition of 17 Scottish artists, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
2000
Travelspeak, four artists with a disability, Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre, Adelaide
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
David Berridge, Figuring Landscapes, RSA Arts and Ecology Journal
http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/features/dave-berridge--figuring-landscapes
Elwes, C & Ball S (eds) Figuring Landscapes – artists’ moving image from Australia and the UK,
London: ICFAR, Camberwell College of the Art, University of the Arts, London (catalogue)
2006
Phillips, Roddy, ‘Written word provides food for thought’, The Press and Journal, Aberdeen
2004
Bolton, Ken, ‘Australian Women Artists’, Jamini, Vol2 No 6, Nov, Bangladesh
Bolton, Ken, Bronwyn Platten: Love Maps and Shadow Play, Eyeline 53, Summer 2003-04
Brisbane, Queensland
2003
Newall, Micheal, ‘Bronwyn Platten – Love Maps and Shadow Play’, Adelaide: Broadsheet 2003
Biggs, Iain, ‘An ambiguous tenderness – mapping of the unspoken’ in Love Maps and Shadow Play
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide (catalogue)
2001
Walker, Wendy, ‘Erotic look’, The Advertiser, 25 Oct
Ward, Peter, “Beastly display toys with taboos’, The Australian, 12 Oct
The Museum of Love and Romance presents: “The Big Horse and other stories”, Contemporary Art
Centre, Adelaide (catalogue) text by Lindy Warrell
Walker, Wendy, 'Bronwyn Platten: Unlocking the Silence', Broadsheet Vol 30, No 3 Sep-Nov
2000
Speck, Catherine, 'Chemistry: Art in South Australia 1990-2000', Art Monthly on line, October
Dunne, Aidan, 'Titles turn art objects into guessing games', The Irish Times, 2 February
Hartigan, Marianne, 'Ready-made collection', The Sunday Tribune, 30 January
PUBLISHED WRITING, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLISHED RESEARCH
2010
‘How to Read a Mouth: eating and talking at the same time’, Australian Gender and Women’s
Studies Association (AGWSA) Conference, University of South Australia, Adelaide
2010
Codinhoto, R, Platten B, Tsortzopoulos P & Kagioglou M, Supporting Evidence-Based Design, in
Improving Healthcare Through Built Environment Infrastructure (2010) Eds Wiley-Blackwell
2009
B. Platten, K. Yates and M. Kagioglou (2009), ‘Pathways: an innovative approach to the use of
participatory art practice in Primary Care’, in UNESCO Observatory E-Journal (peer reviewed)
http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/unesco/ejournal
2007
‘Desire and Embodiment in Arts and Health contexts – the work of Jo Spence and Bob Flanagan’
Sexual Histories, Bodies and Desires Uncovered, University of Exeter (Conference Paper)
2006
‘Remembering to Remember – To Dream’ in Anita Hutchison, Winnie Hendry/Matt Edgar, The Art
Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (catalogue)
2006
Project Dialogue Transdisciplinary Landscapes Dialogues Between Art and Science – Invited
Paper, The University Of West of England http://www.projectdialogue.uwe.ac.uk/bronwyn.htm
2005
‘Minding Body – Embodying Mind’ in Imaginal Regions, Gray’s School of Art, The Robert Gordon
University, Aberdeen www.imaginalregions.co.uk
2005
‘Words of Selves (Word (For) Word)’, in wordwork, exhibition of Chad McCail, Emma Anderson,
Arthur Watson, Finola Jones, The Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (catalogue)
2005
‘Minding Body- Embodying Mind’, Predicaments in Visual Culture: Mediated Pleasures in (Post)
Feminist Contexts Symposium, University of West of England, Bristol
2004
‘New Antennae’, in: Full View, Adelaide Festival Centre (catalogue)
2002
‘Animal Love’, in: Artlink, Vol 22 No1
AWARDS
2008
Awarded EPSRC Doctoral Scholarship
2004
Awarded grant, Arts and Humanities Research Council, for Imaginal Regions
2003
Awarded Development Grant, Arts South Australia
2000
Awarded Development Grant, through the Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council
EMPLOYMENT
2007-2008
Researcher, Arts in Healthcare, Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation
Centre (HaCIRIC), Dept of the Built and Human Environment, University of Salford
2006-2008
Arts Project Manager, Lime, St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester
2004-2006
Curator, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
2001-2004
Part time Lecturer, in Contextual and Critical Studies and Sculpture Workshop, Gray’s
School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
1990-2000
Lecturer, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia.
1987-2000
Artist/Facilitator, Community Bridging Services and Strathmont Centre with people with an
intellectual disability
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