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Graduating with Honours from the VCA in 2002, Tai has recently exhibited her site-specific illustration, sculpture and collage at a range of various commercial and artist run spaces including West space, Kings, TCB, Bus, Brunswick Bound Gallery, Helen Gory Gallerie, Greenwood Gallery, No Vacancy Gallery, Hosier Lane and VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery. Tai has also worked as a Visual Arts Producer for the Next Wave Festival (06-08), Emerging Writers Festival (07) and the Melbourne Fringe (05). Tai has also worked as a curator for project spaces at the Rotterdam Project(OR) Art Fair (08) and the Melbourne Art Fair (08).
Tai was recently awarded the Australian Council Tokyo residency (June- September 09) and in the past her collaborative projects have been the recipient of the Australia Council Skills and development grant (05), City of Melbourne Arts project grant (06) and Arts Victoria Presentation grants (06,09).
Tai regularly conducts a critical arts review on 102.7 Triple R FM and writes for a variety of publications including Artichoke and Un magazine.
Tai is also one half of performance collaboration Hit&Miss
Education
2006 - RMIT Certificate IV in Business management
1999 - 2002 Victorian College of the Arts – Bachelor of Fine Art with first class Honors
Awards, grants and residencies
2009 -Arts Victoria Presentation grant for the Living Room project (October)
- Australia Council Tokyo residency (June – September 2009)
2005 - City of Melbourne Arts Project grant.
2005 - Australia Council Skills and Development grant, mentorship with Marcus Westbury.
2005 - Australia Council Run Way Grant, Awarded in 2004 to attend Transmediale, Berlin.
2004- City of Melbourne Young Artist’s grant.
2004 - NAVA Presentation and Promotion grant.
2004 - Board of Education grant for Demented By Excess.
2002 - Jacques Derrida exhibition prize, highly commended. VCA Gallery.
Solo exhibitions
2010- Wild Chorus, Helen Gory Galerie.
2009- Leading 100 horses to water, Kings artist run initiative, Melbourne.
- 20x30 installation project, TwentybyThirty space, Melbourne (September 2009)
- Fight or Flight, West Space, Melbourne (April).
2007- Heads or Tales- Brunswick Bound, Brunswick.
Selected Group exhibitions and collaborations
2010
- DAY SPA. No-No gallery, curated by Roger Nelson and Lisa Warbrick.
- Constellations, a large number of small drawings. RMIT Storey Hall, curated by Vanessa Gerard.
- The High Life, Madame Brussels, collaboration with Carl Scrase for the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, curated by West Space.
- Drawing Blood. Greenwood Gallery, South Melbourne.
2009
- The Aesthetics of Joy, West Space, curated by Bernhard Sachs and Brad Haylock.
-OMFG! C3 artspace, curated by Adam Cruickshank and Dell Stewart.
- The Living Room, Blindside gallery.
- Post. Place gallery Richmond, curated by Anusha Kenny.
- Maiden Voyage- No Vacancy launch for A Thousand Shipwrecks book.
- Apocalypse Ahoy, curated by Arlene Texta Queen.
- Firstdraft Poster Show, Firstdraft Surry Hills, Sydney.
2008
- Thankgod we died together- TCB, curated by Eleni Kaponis, Anusha Kenny & Ilana Russell.
- The Drawing Machine- Greenwood Gallery. Curated by Miso and Ghostpatrol.
- Project (OR) Art Fair, Coolsingl, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
-The Forty Thieves, Gorker Gallery, Fitzroy.
- No Vacancy inaugural group show.
2007
- Curvy presented wall painting collaboration with FAFI (France). Until Never/ City Lights.
- The Motor Show Mk 2, Yarra Sculpure Gallery, curated by Jason Waterhouse
- Endgame - Collaboration with Narinda Reeders, curated by Bernhard Sachs, VCA gallery.
- Secret Shelf Life of Us- Platform2 group show, curated by Simon Ewenson.
2006
- Broken Windows Theory – Bus Gallery group show, curated by Charity Bramwell.
2005
- ‘Mega Bust Sale’-Leith, UK. Performance with Narinda Reeders for Emerged ARI, Edinburgh.
- Next Wave 21st Birthday Exhibition at Bus Gallery, Melbourne.
- Retali8, Hush Hush gallery, Hosier Lane, Melbourne.
2004
- Texta Nudes, collaboration with Narinda Reeders, Fitzroy. Curated by Arlene Texta Queen.
2003
- Faites de Lumiere, p with Narinda Reeders, Bus gallery. Curated by BKK architects.
- Be Mine 69, 69 Smith St, Fitzroy. Curated by Sarah Lynch.
2002
- Woolara Traveling Scholarship, VCA Gallery, Melbourne.
- Site, group show. Conical Gallery, Fitzroy. curated by Janet Burchill
- Sculpture Now, VCA Gallery, Melbourne.
- Round The Tan, performance, Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne.
Curated and Produced Projects
2009
- The Living Room (12 artists, October 2009) Blindside gallery.
- Feasting Vignettes- concept and production of 6 site specific performances on the street for the 2009 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (with Anna Lumb and collaborating artists).
2008
- Curated project space presenting House Proud project at 2008 Melbourne Art Fair.
- House Proud, 7 artists in 7 residential homes over 2 weeks, Next Wave Festival
2008.
- UNDERDOGS- for Project(OR) Art Fair, Coolsingl, Rotterdam.- Rich Text, emerging artists and the written word
- Emerging Writers Festival, Storey Hall.
- New Ruins- Melbourne Commonwealth Games Cultural festival and 2006 Next Wave Festival, involving 7 Melbourne artists and 7 Scottish artists working in the City Watch House.
- 100 Points of Light- street based installations, Melbourne Commonwealth Games cultural festival, Next Wave Festival.
2004
- Matchbox Temporary Art Spaces, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne. 2004 Next Wave Festival.
- Demented By Excess, street based visual art performance and print project as part of 2004 Next Wave Festival.
- Surface subject to change, working with 15 graffiti and street artists, Shed 14, Docklands, Melbourne. 2004 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Published work
2010
- Street Studio, curated and produced by Miso and Ghostpatrol, published by Thames and Hudson.
- Yen Magazine artist profile, interviewed by Mikolai Napieralski.
-Centre for Cosmic Wonder (review) Artichoke Magazine, Vol 29.
2009
- The Words We Found (book compiling best of 21 years of Voiceworks Magazine).
- Maiden Voyage by One Thousand Shipwrecks (illustration).
- Me, myself and I, artist profile/feature, Nava Quartlerly, April
2009.
- A constructed World (review) Art and Australia, June,
- Life and Times- the work of Mark Feary, (feature), Artlink Vol no 29, theme: Time.
- Making a Living, introduction to Miso and Ghostpatrol publication for book Nesting & Dying.
- North Eastern Rehabilitation Centre (review) Artichoke magazine Vol 28.
- The Narrows (profile), Artichoke magazine, Vol. 26.
2008
- Chambre de Hote (review) Artichoke magazine, Vol. 24.
-Curvy 6- International publication of female illustrators, by YEN magazine.
- Cover design and illustration for ‘Going Down Swinging’ CD.
- Herding Kites, illustration, published by Affirm Press, edited by Michael Williams.
2007
- Penthouse Mouse (review)- Artichoke magazine. Vol 21.
- Moonlight Serenade (feature)- Artichoke magazine, Vol 19.
- Escape to Cape Shag- March/April edition, Architecture Australia magazine, Vol 96.
1999- 05
- Voiceworks Magazine – various printed black and white illustrations and collages.
Professional Associations
2007- 2009 - Member of the Arts Advisory panel to the board of the City Of Melbourne.
2006 - 2009- Smart Arts radio review with Richard Watts and Kiron Robinson, 102.7 Triple R.
2009 - West Space PC committee member.
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