EVOLVEAustralian Emerging Artists6 December – 21 December

37 Ocean StreetWoollahra, Sydney, NSW 2025

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DALE BUCKLEYJAMES R FORDFREYA PITTMEAGHAN POTTERBENJAMIN STONE-HERBERTHANNAH TOOHEY

JAMES R FORDJames R Ford (b. 1980, UK) studied at Goldsmiths College in London and currently lives and works in Wellington. He has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and overseas and in 2013 was winner of the inaugural Tui McLauchlan Emerging Artist’s Award from the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. In 2014 Ford published a book of selected works, with accompanying texts, interviews and essays from 2008-2013, entitled Fail Better, and was a finalist in the Parkin Drawing Prize, the National Contemporary Art Award and The Wallace Art Awards.

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JAMES R FORD James R Ford’s investigations into, and reflections on, existential nature and the use of conventional materials and modes of presentation reveal countless nuanced contradictions as well as a fascination with process and the filling in of time. The Needs and Wants series considers our basic human desires, as well as those things in life that we may want but don’t really need. Modern day life is saturated with choice and vacuous time fillers that often disorientate our priorities. But on the other hand, Bertrand Russell, from the essay “In Praise of Idleness”, says “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Where do “wastes of time” sit in our hierarchy of needs? What are your priorities and what defines you? The works are not intended to be condescending, more thought provoking; looking at how we spend our time, what we worry about, what we desire. Maybe we all need some things we don’t need for the subsequent virtue or pleasure they can bestow, but we should also contemplate what is worth our attention and how much time we spend wasting.

Filled Except For Ambition, 2013 Biro on magazine page 297 x 221 mm$850

Filled Except For Feeling, 2013 Marker pen on magazine page 297 x 222 mm$850

Filled Except For Love (aqua), 2013Marker pen on magazine page297 x 220 mm$850

Filled Except For Sex, Drugs and Rocknroll (diptych) 2013Biro on magazine pages297 x 220 mm, 274 x 200 mm$1400

Twiddling My Thumbs, 2014, HD digital video transferred to Blu-ray (silent), 1 sec (looped), (unique disc) before shipping and GST. $1400

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Born 1980, Frimley (UK)Currently based in Wellington (NZ)

EDUCATION2004 – 2005 Goldsmiths College, London, UK1999 – 2002 Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK1998 – 1999 Winchester School of Art, Winchester, UK

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2014 Lollygag, Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne, NZ2013 Redbush and Milk, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ2013 Loopy, The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ2013 Status Quo, 120 Courtenay Place, Wellington, NZ2012 Infinite Monkey Syndrome, Square2, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, NZ2012 Snake Pis, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, NZ2012 Tongue-Tied and Tired, {Suite} Gallery, Wellington, NZ2011 Air of the Irrational, Christian Ferreira at the Wapping Project, London, UK2011 Zero Expectations, Peloton Gallery, Sydney, Australia2009 Too Orangey For Crows, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, NZ2009 Only Boring People Get Bored, Ferreira Projects, London, UK2008 Duchamp Played Chess; I Made Cranes, Ferreira Projects, London, UK

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS2013 Content Missing, with Samin Son, JJ Morgan & Co / Development AIR, Auckland, NZ2003 Crème Brulee: The Art of House Gymnastics, with Spencer Harrison, Northern Lights Gallery, Bristol, UK; Brahm Gallery, Leeds, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2014 Evolve, .M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia2014 Tools of the Trade, The Wandering Room, Brisbane, Australia2014 The Wallace Art Awards 2014, The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ2014 Lying in Space, 30 Upstairs, Wellington, NZ2014 Melbourne Art Fair (PaulNache Gallery), Melbourne, Australia2014 Parkin Drawing Prize 2014, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, NZ2014 National Contemporary Art Award 2014, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ2014 Whakaora, Whakatane Museum, Whakatane, NZ2014 Nothing but precious, Elbowroom Gallery, Wellington, NZ2014 Tools of the Trade, Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne, NZ2014 Odd Peer Nexus, The Young, Wellington, NZ2013 Saloon des Ferari 2, Ferari Space, Auckland, NZ2013 Auckland Art Fair (PaulNache Gallery), Auckland, NZ2013 Recent Acquisitions: Emerging and Established Artists, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ2013 Studio Raids, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ2013 Wellington Underground Film Festival 2013, Wellington, NZ2013 Remake: Emerging Artists, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, NZ2012 Advent 2012, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ2012 Never Mind the Pollocks, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, NZ2012 Creep, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ2012 Proposals, Ryan Renshaw Gallery Window, Brisbane, Australia2012 Gordon’s Walters Prize, Snake Pit, Auckland, NZ2012 Too Little Too Late, Snake Pit, Auckland, NZ2012 At Play 2012, South Hill Park, Berkshire, UK; Ovada, Oxford, UK2012 Never Mind the Pollocks, PaulNache Gallery, Gisborne, NZ2012 Welcome, Satellite Gallery, Auckland, NZ2012 Never Mind the Pollocks, curated by James R Ford, {Suite} Gallery, Wellington, NZ2011 Two Sides of the Same Coin, The Russian Frost Farmers, Wellington, NZ2011 Emergence, Auckland Art Week, Auckland, NZ2011 Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award 2011, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ2011 Airline, ABC Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

2011 Cliftons Art Prize 2011, The Majestic Centre, Wellington, NZ2011 Recent Acquisitions: Part II, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ2010 Geometry Is Never Wrong, W+K, London, UK2010 At Play 2, South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK2010 Spreading Blankets on the Beach, JJ Morgan & Co, Wellington, NZ2009 Summer Group Show, Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Auckland, NZ2009 Encounters with Scale, Portman Gallery, London, UK2009 Sale, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK2008 Irregular Pulse, curated by James R Ford, Ferreira Projects, London, UK2008 PURE_drawing+illustration, Ferreira Projects, London, UK2007 Designersblock @ 100% Design Tokyo, Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, Japan2007 Stick*Stamp*Fly, Gasworks, London, UK2007 4C: SightSeeing Tour, GUM Factory, Saatchi & Saatchi, London, UK2007 Driven, Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK2007 Extreme Crafts, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania2007 Feel Good Feel Bad Boys and Girls, Lange Gasse 28, Ausberg, Germany2006 GIFT, Museum MAN, Liverpool, UK2006 Your Gallery@The Guardian, The Guardian Newsroom Gallery, London, UK2006 Objects in Waiting, End Gallery, Sheffield, UK2006 Knock Down Ginger, MyHouse Gallery, Nottingham, UK2006 Kitson Kaleidoscope, Kitson Road, London, UK2006 Terrible Toy Fair III, CBGB Art Gallery, New York, USA2006 Another Product – Britishness, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK2005 Never Finished, Always Ready, 75 Brushfield Street, London, UK2005 Bound_less, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway2004 Pictoplasma Conference, Cafe Moskau, Berlin, Germany2004 Exhibit.001 (Nth-Art), Ols $ Co Gallery, London, UK2003 Re-Form, The Art Exchange Gallery, Nottingham, UK2003 Trailing Cables, PEA Gallery & 291 Gallery, London, UK2003 Disposable Generation, Bridlesmith Gate Gallery, Nottingham, UK2003 Made@Home, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK2002 Blueprint, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK2001 Starbucks, Sex and Space Invaders, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK2001 Curried Trout, The Art Exchange Gallery, Nottingham, UK

PRIZES AND AWARDS2014 Finalist, The Wallace Art Awards 2014, The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ2014 Finalist, National Contemporary Art Award 2014, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ2014 Finalist, Parkin Drawing Prize 2014, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, NZ2013 Winner, Tui McLauchlan Emerging Artist’s Award, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, NZ2011 Finalist, Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ2011 Finalist, Cliftons Art Prize, The Majestic Centre, Wellington, NZ2003 Winner, Net Art Category, Third Place Gallery/Sony Playstation2 Award

FREYA PITTTaking up drawing at age 8 in an attempt to impress the brooding & creative Brenton-from-the-year-above, Freya hasn’t stopped since. She has exhibited in galleries, completed permanent and ephemeral commissions in public space around Australia and internationally. Recently, Freya has covered a tram for the Melbourne Festival’s Art Tram project, shown work at White Night Melbourne and participated in Skypetrait; transcontinental faces, a research project between Melbourne and Reutlingen University in Germany. Using projection to explore ways of interrupting the experience of space and self and encourage reflexive engagement, she is currently completing her Masters of Art in Public Space at RMIT University. Freya and Brenton never worked out, but she does have more projectors than she ever dreamed of as a kid and few regrets.

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They forgot all about the ground, 2014 ink, watercolour & gold acrylic99 x 55cm $1600

FREYA PITTThroughout all eternity logical arguments have been overridden by the surging strength of Desire. Lately I cannot drag myself away from mythology. These stories that follow the havoc and glory wreaked by the sometimes-pure-but-often-drunk-and-disorderly Desire seem to hold out some illogical, untouchable truth about humanity. I want to hold it, to feel it’s pulse and never let it fall. The series Desire; a story of hands explores the potential in a moment; in an unexpected relationship. It plays with the universality of intimacy and the power of fragility. Once upon a time, we had only hands. Using them, we build the world.

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EDUCATION2014 Master of Art (Art in Public Space), RMIT – Currently Completing2006 Bachelor of Arts, (Visual Arts), Edith Cowan University

EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES2014 ‘The Skies are on the Ground’, White Night Melbourne2014 ‘Onsite/Insite’, First Site Gallery, Melbourne2014 ‘Once There Were’, Melbourne Music Video Festival 2013 ‘City Impressions’, 33 On The Bund, Shanghai, China2013 ‘Between You and Myth’, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne2013 ‘When I wake in Woodend’, Maloa House, Woodend, VIC2013 ‘Skypetrait; transcontinental faces’, Reutlingen Town Hall, Germany2013 ‘Skypetrait; transcontinental faces’, Project Space, Melbourne2013 ‘Skypetrait; transcontinental faces’, Federation Square Bigscreen, Melbourne2013 ‘Skypetrait; transcontinental faces’, City Library, Melbourne2013 ‘The beasts from behind’, White Night Melbourne2012 ‘Joy’, Federation Square Bigscreen, Melbourne2012 ‘The Beat In My Chest And Yours’, Kings Ari, Melbourne2012 ‘Drawn on Elements’, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne 2011 ‘Unconformity’, 21 Alfred St, Melbourne2011 ‘Recipes for Encounters’, Central Dandenong2011 ‘Something to Live For’, Trades Hall, Melbourne2010 ‘Illuminata; Searching for Babel’, Woodford Fold Festival, Qld 2010 ‘Howard Grey’s Unsame Day’, Woodford Folk Festival, Qld 2010 ‘Caravella’, Wild Dog Festival & Pigeonhole, Melbourne 2010 ‘Departures’, Artplay, Melbourne 2010 ‘Howard Grey’s Unsame Day’, Brisbane Arts Festival2010 ‘The Arival’, Artplay, Melbourne

COMMUNITY ARTS EXPERIENCE 2013 Children’s Drawing Workshops, Woodend Primary School, Victoria2011 Children’s ShadowPlay Workshops, Artplay, Melbourne2010 Children’s ShadowPlay Workshops, Artplay, Melbourne2010 School ShadowPlay Workshops, HUONlink, Tasmania 2010 Private Shadow Workshops, Melbourne

RESEARCH & AWARDS2013 Melbourne Art Trams Project, Melbourne Festival2013 Soya Visual Arts Award Runner-up2013 Macedon Ranges Projection Art Award 2012 Skypetrait; transcontinental faces – Research Project2012 School of Art Ministry of Transport Partnership Commission2010 City of Melbourne Arts Grant Recipient

MEAGHAN POTTERMeaghan Potter is an Australian artist, who recently completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramics) prior to an Honours in Fine Arts (Drawing Major). Her work is about taking familiar elements of art and nature and revealing their complexities. Using animals, specifically felines and canines as subject matter, she explores their fur colour and pattern as a means to an abstract language in art. The patterns are representative of both a complex biological evolution and the pareidolia effect in the human brain; that is the ability to envisage a familiar image within an environment where it does not exist. Her approach has been one of material and conceptual exploration. Otter has linked artistic and scientific thought with this work in an attempt to encourage inter-disciplinary activity. Her grand aspiration is to become part of a humanistic art field uniting art with the burgeoning technological and scientific progression present in the modern world.

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Blue Crowned Pigeon, 2014Coloured ink, pastel on paper98 x 153 cmSOLD

Cedar Waxing Bird, 2014Watercolour on paper145 x 114 cm$1400

Chestnut Breasted Mammikins, 2014Watercolour on paper75 x 110 cm$900

European Bee Eaters, 2014Watercolour on paper153 x 98 cmSOLD

Lilac Breasted Roller (detail), 2014Watercolour on paper 145 x 114 cmSOLD

Mindanao Pair, Watercolour and conte charcoal on paper114 x 145 cm$1400

Red Tailed Black Cockatoo, 2014Watercolour on paper75 x 110 cm$900

Rufuos Hummingbird, 2014Watercolour on paper75 x 110 cm$900

MEAGHAN POTTER

EDUCATION2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (Drawing), National Art School2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramics), National Art School

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2014 Peculiar Compendiums 24.7.14 - 4.8.14, Gaffa, Sydney2014 Strung, Drawn and Quartered, Jean Ballette Gallery, Hill End, Bathurst2014 Drawn Out, Art Est. Art School, Leichhardt, Sydney2014 The Intimate Whole: Chapter II-Closer Than You Thought, The Corner Cooperative, Chippendale2013 Don’t allow the lucid moment to dissolve, Gallery Eight, Millers Point, Sydney2013 Emporio Armani National Art School Postgraduate Exhibition, NAS, Sydney2013 C3, Library Stairwell Gallery, NAS, Sydney2012 National Art School Graduate Exhibition, NAS, Sydney2011 Dirt People, Building 5 NAS, Sydney2011 Cockatoo Island Drawing Week Exhibition, Building 25 NAS, Sydney2010 Showcase Exhibition, Building 24 NAS, Sydney COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE2014 Wondermountain and Mud Maps, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith2013 Holiday + Memory, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith2013 Birds, Lewers Learning Centre, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith2013 NOISE-an exhibition of new music, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith2013 Kare Sansui-Japanese raked garden; Lewers Learning Centre; Birds in the Garden and From the Collection: AsianConnections, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith2012 Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney2011 Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney2011 Post-Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney

PUBLICATIONShttp://issue.com/paperfinger/docs/the_hunger_issuehttp://www.artnewsblog.com/meaghan-potter-cat-studies/http://www.10magazine.com.au/blog/emporio-armani-national-art-school-graduate-show/

BENJAMIN STONE-HERBERTBenjamin Stone-Herbert is an emerging artist who has been exhibiting since 2009. His practice is concerned with the materiality of photography, light’s affect on these materials and the process of experimentation with chemistry. Working mainly with 19th century techniques that date back to the birth of photography, his unique photographs offer the opportunity to see through the eyes of another time. With an emphasis on the hand made, unique photographic object, his work provokes the reconsideration of photography in today’s digital world.Benjamin has worked as a printer, photographer’s assistant, technical assistant and has had a darkroom for 10 years. He has studied at Universität der Künste in Berlin and is completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours this year at Sydney College of the Arts. Benjamin has had a number of solo exhibitions in Sydney and has been exhibited in Berlin and San Francisco. BE

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BENJAMIN STONE-HERBERT‘Photogenic drawings’ was the name given to the first photographic images by their inventor William Henry Fox Talbot, who in the 1830’s described his process as Nature drawing herself. I have always been particularly taken by this poetic description because it ties photography’s origins with nature - an association that has long since been forgotten. Talbot’s process works by coating paper in salt water, which after drying a second solution of silver nitrate is applied to. These two solutions bond together in the fibers of the paper to form light sensitive silver chloride that darkens upon exposure to sunlight. Once a sensitized sheet of paper is placed in the sun beneath an object such as these plants, their shadow is recorded.Nature has played a crucial role in the making of the photogenic drawings that I have prepared for ‘Evolve’. While collecting the plant specimens, a sample of seawater was also taken from the harbour that surrounded them. This water facilitated the making of the works as well as embedding that place into the work on a physical level. This entanglement of subject and object has increasingly become an interest of mine. I believe it to provide the occasion to contemplate the materiality of photography, which can lead to deeper personal insights and reflections of the nature of things, as they carry through from the past to the present.

Photogenic Drawing 1 gold toned, salt printed photogram on cotton rag/kozo paper 30 x 50 cm $600

Photogenic Drawing 2 gold toned, salt printed photogram on cotton rag/kozo paper 30 x 50 cm $600

Photogenic Drawing 3 gold toned, salt printed photogram on cotton rag/kozo paper30 x 50 cm $600

Photogenic Drawing 4gold toned, salt printed photogram on cotton rag/kozo paper30 x 50 cm $600

Photogenic Drawing 5 gold toned, salt printed photogram on cotton rag/kozo paper30 x 50 cm $600

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EDUCATIONCurrent BVA Honours. Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, NSW.2013 Completed Bachelor of Visual Arts, Photography Major. Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, NSW.2013 Exchange program with Universität der Künste (The University of Arts) Berlin, Germany.2010 Certificate IV in Photoimaging, Sydney Institute of Technology, Ultimo, NSW.2007-2008 Various photographic workshops. Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington NSW.2003 Higher School Certificate, Gleanaeon Rudolf Steiner School, Middle Cove, NSW. SOLO EXHIBITIONS2014 Nature’s Pencil. Gaffa, Sydney NSW2011 Angophora Obscura. Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington NSW.2010 Views of the World. Gallery East, Clovelly NSW.

GROUP AND JOINT EXHIBITIONS2014 Undergraduate Exhibition. Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, NSW.2014 Slowness/Pastness. Joint exhibition with Michael Waite. Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, NSW.2013 Human Taxonomies. Bondi Pavilion, Bondi, NSW.2013 Undergraduate Exhibition. Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle, NSW.2013 Glenaeon Art Show. Glenaeon Rudulf Steiner School, Castlecrag, NSW.2013 Rundgang 2013. Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany.2013 Libidinal Net. Heit, Berlin, Germany.2012 Capturing and Creating Realities. Gallery Lane, Leura NSW.2012 8x8. Casula Powerhouse in conjunction with the Biennale of Sydney and Museum of Contemporary Art.2012 5th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show. Rayko Photo Centre, San Fransisco CA.2011 Glenaeon Art Show. Glenaeon Rudulf Steiner School, Castlecrag NSW.2011 Glebe Art Show. Benledi. Glebe.2011 Captured: Most accomplished graduates of Sydney Institute of the last 60 years. Sydney Institute of Technology, Ultimo NSW.2010 A Shot in the Dark. Cricketers Arms, Surry Hills NSW.2010 The Hole Thing. Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst NSW.2010 Glebe Art Show. Benledi, Glebe NSW.2010 Simple Pleasures. Cricketers Arms, Surry Hills NSW.2010 3rd Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show. 2010 Rayko Photo Centre, San Francisco CA.

PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS2013 Exchange Scholarship. University of Sydney.2010 Peoples’ Choice Award. Glebe Art Show, Benledi, Glebe NSW.

HANNAH TOOHEYHannah Toohey is a Sydney based object / installation artist currently completing her BFA Honours at National Art School. She applies the conventions of printmaking in her artistic practice in a non-traditional manner, experimenting with an array of mediums to explore the concept of “print” and “multiple” in sculptural form.Hannah’s work, specifically her installation pieces, are an examination of identity and the role of the individual through the use of unique state multiples to evaluate the significance of the singular within the mass.Both Hannah’s work and methodology centers around an engagement with exhaustive process, mimicking a contemporary culture built on mass production and consumption. The repetitive nature of her methodology is a device utilised as a means to physically and psychologically meditate on the themes explored in her artworks, thus retrieving and emphasising individuality.

Hannah’s work is currently held in private collections. Notable exhibitions include her solo show Species, Gaffa Gallery and her inclusion in the Saatchi & Saatchi’s annual exhibition of 2014.

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Central to Hannah Toohey’s art practice is an examination of the contemporary sublime and notion of identity through an exploration of material quality and the concept of the ‘unique state multiple’. The installation piece Scuttle, 2014 draws inspiration from sprawling swarm-like formations within the natural world, aiming to investigate the significance of the individual within the masses. The work, being comprised of 369 unique sculptures, culminates into a single experience made possible only through the sum of its parts. Parallel to its exploration of identity Scuttle also compositions itself as an examination of base human instinct, drawing on the reactionary fear associated with large swarms of creatures to create and eerie and uncomfortable experience, repelling the viewer whilst simultaneously drawing them in. The Softie Series centers on the concept of the ‘unfamiliar familiar’ synthesizing both the visual language of natural history and museum aesthetic but also quite literally re-compositioning and re-contextualising materials from animals such as butterfly wings, antler tips and porcupine quills to form imagined creations. The sculptures evoke a nostalgia for the art of specimen collections and 18th century cabinets of curiosity.

Jeremy, 2013, Stuffed corduroy, hemp twine, butterfly wings, antler tips $900

Ikaros, 2014, Stuffed corduroy, hemp twine, antler tips, butterfly wings $550

Scuttle, 2014, 500 pieces, Stuffed calico, hemp twine, buttons, beads, pins, antler tipsDimension and state variable $9000

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BORN1992 Sydney, Australia

EDUCATION2014 Bachelor of Fine Art Honours, National Art School

GROUP EXHIBITIONS | SELECTED PAST2014 Peculiar Compendiums, Gaffa Gallery, NSW2014 Unknown Destinations, Bow & Arrow, Manly, NSW2014 Saatchi & Saatchi Graduate Exhibition, Saatchi & Saatchi Head Office, The Rocks, NSW2013 Undergraduate Show, NAS Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW 2013 The Paper Show, Clifton School of Arts, Wollongong, NSW2013 Dirty Impressions, Stairwell Gallery, NAS, Darlinghurst, NSW 2013 The Vagina Dialogue, Stairwell Gallery, NAS, Darlinghurst, NSW 2012 20 x 20 Project, Stairwell Gallery, NAS, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010 Art Express, Newington Armory, Homebush, NSW

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 Species, Gaffa Gallery, NSW

CURATORIAL PROJECTS 2012 20 x 20 Project, Stairwell Gallery, NAS, Darlinghurst, NSW

AWARDS2012 2nd Year Printmaking Award, FONAS2013 Parkers Printmaking Award, Parkers Fine Art Supplies

All Photographs of Hannah Toohey’s artworks are by Peter Morgan

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