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CAROLINE PHILLIPS
EDUCATION
2017 PhD (Fine Art), University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts
2012 Master of Fine Art (Research), University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts
2009 Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Art, University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts
1993 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne
AWARDS, PRIZES, GRANTS, COMMISSIONS, RESIDENCIES
2020 National Assistance Program for the Arts Grant
2020 Feminist Art Conference (FAC), International Feminist Art Residency, Florence (cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions)
2020 Petite Residency, Factory 49, Paris (cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions)
2017 NARS Foundation, International Artist Residency, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Feminist Art Conference (FAC), International Feminist Art Residency, Toronto
2015 NAVA, Australian Artists’ Grant
2015 University of Melbourne Student Union, Arts Grant
2015 University of Melbourne, POTS Award (Prestigious Overseas Travelling Scholarship)
2014 Creative Victoria, Vic Arts Grant
2014 Victorian Women’s Trust, Sponsorship Grant
2014 Australian Tapestry Workshop, Artist in Residence
2014 Melbourne Social Equity Institute, Doctoral Academy Grant
2014 University of Melbourne, Faculty Small Grant Scheme
2013 Melbourne Social Equity Institute, Seed Funding Grant
2012/3 Australian Postgraduate Award for PhD Research
2012 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Moya Dyring Studio Residency, Cité International des Arts, Paris
2012 City of Melbourne, Arts Project Grant
2011 Copyright Agency Limited, Creative Industries Career Fund Grant
2011 NAVA, The Janet Holmes á Court Artists’ Grant
2010/1 Australian Postgraduate Award for Masters Research
2010 University of Melbourne Conference and Creative Research Activity Fund
2010 University of Melbourne Student Union, Arts Grant
2009 University Melbourne Student Union, Sculpture Commission
2009 Winner, George Paton Gallery Proud Award
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Deme, Factory 49, Paris (cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions)
2019- #imawomanartist, durational online performance work, ongoing
2019 Totem and Taboo, Feltspace, Adelaide
2018 there’s something happening here… (extended remix), Boxcopy, Brisbane
2017 there’s something happening here…, NARS presents @ Anese Projects, NYC
2016 Materialising Feminism, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Hang Ups, Factory 49, Sydney
2013 Enmeshed, Craft, Melbourne
2012 Open Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2012 Barely Breathing, Factory 49 Project Space, Sydney
2012 Easement, Blindside, Melbourne
2011 Bunker, NoNo Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Holding Pattern, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP AND COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2020 I’ve Never Seen The Sky Like This Before, Southwest Contemporary, Adelaide, curated by Bronia Iwańczak
2020 A1 Darebin Art Salon 2020, Online Exhibition, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
2020 BooBoo, with Karryn Argus and Stephania Leigh, Assembly Point, Melbourne
2020 @Covid-19 Global Quilt, online global quilt project, curated by Tal Fitzpatrick and Kate Just
2020 MCA International Women’s Day, Favour Economy Installation- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney NSW
2019 Care: Feminism, art and ethics in neo-liberal times – symposium week, (with Claire Field), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Crafting Resistance – Six Moments in Kingston, Kingston Arts Centre, Melbourne, curated by Tal Fitzpatrick
2019 Love Letters to Feminisms, Trocadero Artspace, Melbourne, curated by Margaret Mayhew and Nilmini Fernando
2019 Women’s Work, (with Laurene Dietrich), Backspace Gallery, Ballarat
2019 MCA ARTBAR Things We Do Together, Favour Economy Installation, Curated by Lara Merrett – Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney NSW
2018, Hutchins Australia Contemporary Art Prize, Hobart
2018 Hiraeth, Tacit Gallery, Abbotsford, curated by WAC (Women’s Art Collective)
2018 AbstractionTwentyEighteen, Langford 120, Melbourne curated by Wilma Tabacco and Stephen Wickham
2017 Various Existential Angsts, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Eriola Pira
2017 Free Love Hurts, Mailbox Art Space, Melbourne, curated by Andree Ruggeri and Rachel Pearce
2017 9×5 NOW, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Elizabeth Gower
2017 Favour Economy Vol 2. 2016-2017, Co-leaders Claire Field & Bronwyn Treacy
2017 Selvedge, Space on Collins, Melbourne, curated by Alozj Babic
2016 F49 3D, Factory 49, Sydney
2016 BOOB – Bias Objects, Objective Bodies, (with Karryn Argus and Stephanie Leigh), KINGS Artist Run, Melbourne
2016 Cut: garments without patterns, Backspace, Ballarat, VIC, curated by Laurene Dietrich
2015 Looking forward, looking back, OCAD University Great Hall, Toronto
2015 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Prize, Deakin University, Melbourne
2015 f generation: feminism, art, progressions, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2015 AS IF: Echoes of the Women’s Art Register, West Space, Melbourne
2015 Feminist Art Conference (FAC) International Residency Exhibition, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto
2015 Relatedness, (with Cathy Johnstone), Living Museum of the West, Melbourne
2015 Fertile Ground, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
2015 Notes Towards a Future Feminist Archive, Affiliated Text, Sydney, curated by Bronia Iwańczak and Lynne Barwick
2014 Topologies of Sexual Difference, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2014 The f Word, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat, VIC
2014 quietNOISE, Chapman and Bailey, Melbourne, curated by Filomena Coppola
2014 Annual Group 2014, Factory 49, Sydney
2013 Curtain Call, Blindside, Melbourne, curated by Kali Michailidis
2013 Bird Hide and Bunker, (with Catherine Evans), M16, Canberra
2013 Regimes of Value, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Elizabeth Gower
2013 Luminescence, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
2012 Bird Hide and Bunker, (with Catherine Evans), Seventh, Melbourne
2012 A Dinner Party: setting the table, West Space, Melbourne
2012 Wild vs Man, Goodtime Studios, Melbourne
2012 The Art of Collecting, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Masters Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2011 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Gallery, Melbourne
2011 The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne
2011 Travelling Scholarship 2011, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD
2011 Interior Architecture, La Trobe University Visual Art Centre, Bendigo, VIC
2010 Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics, The Slade School of Art Research Centre, London
2010 Travelling Scholarship 2010, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD. curated by Claire Mitchell
2010 The Feminist Salon Group – The Envelope, The West Wing, Melbourne
2010 aRtECYCLE, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Hide and Seek, redgallery, Melbourne
2010 SafARI 2010, Firstdraft, Sydney
2010 Current Sculpture Biennial, Rural City of Wangaratta, VIC
2009 Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2009 Albury Art Prize, Albury Art Gallery, Albury, NSW
2009 UNAP Group Show, Galleria Praxis, Managua, Nicaragua
COLLECTIONS
Melbourne University Student Union Art Collection
Hotel Sofitel Emerging Artists Collection
Byron Bay Community Health Centre
Private Collections
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND MEDIA
2020 Darebin Arts, Artist Profile, August 2020
2020 Rhonda Dredge, Being vulnerable in the COVID-19 era, Southbank News, August 4
2020 The Review Board, Review: BOOBOO, July 14
2020 Interview | Caroline Phillips | Linking into the history of feminism at the GPG, Conversation with Sandie Bridie, May 5: https://umsu.unimelb.edu.au/studentlife/gallery/interview-caroline-phillips-linking-into-the-history-of-feminism-at-the-gpg/
2020 The Rap with Areej Nur, 3RRR Radio interview, February 26
2019 Women On The Line, 3CR Radio interview, November 25
2018 Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Ways of Following; Art, Materiality, Collaboration. Open Humanities Press, London
2018 Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore (eds), “Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes” Routledge, Oxon (UK) and New York
2016 Ch & Ch discussion podcast, with Christine McFetridge and Charlotte Watson: http://www.chandch.com.au/blog/areyouokbob
2015 Jacqueline Millner, Catriona Moore & Georgina Cole, Art and Feminism: Twenty-First Century Perspectives, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 15:2, 143-149, (148-9).
2015 No falling ribbons, Issue #1, August, 205, journal cover and artist profile: Issue 1
2015 365 artists/365 days, artist profile: http://365artists365days.com/2015/03/19/caroline-phillips-melbourne-victoria-australia/
2015 Meet the FAC Residency Artist: Caroline Phillips, artist profile: http://factoronto.tumblr.com/post/119738214140/carolinephillips
2014 Louise Mayhew, A history of women-only art collectives and collaboration in Australia, 1970-2010. PhD Thesis, COFA, NSW
2014 Carolyn Barnes, Conversation, ‘The f Word’ exhibition catalogue
2014 The f word is feminism, Times-Spectator, Gippsland, July 18
2014 Breakfast with Dominic Brine, ABC Ballarat Radio Interview, September 1
2014 Australian Tapestry Workshop Artist in Residence Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKOtFj8n5Ic
2013 Regimes of Value Blogspot: http://regimesofvalue.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/caroline-phillips.html
2013 Regimes of Value, exhibition catalogue, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Kali Michailidis, Curtain Call: The Material Body in Space, ‘Curtain Call’ exhibition catalogue
2013 Helen Musa, http://citynews.com.au/2013/spoilt-for-choice-at-m16-2/
2013 Sally Pryor, Humour and Politics at M16, The Canberra Times (Capital Life), June 1
2013 Carolyn Barnes, Enmeshed catalogue essay, Craft Victoria
2013 Debbie Pryor, Q&A with Caroline Phillips, Craft Victoria: http://www.craft.org.au/news/qa-with-caroline-phillips
2012 Dylan Rainforth, Bird Hide and Bunker, The Age Newspaper, October 3
2012 Megan Backhouse, Festival of short and girlies to pique interest in feminism, The Age Newspaper, September 5
2012 Get Cereal, SYNFM Radio Interview, August 29
2012 Rhonda Dredge, The Art of the Stretch, ‘Easement’ catalogue essay, Blindside
2012 Kent Johnson, SNO 85 – Factory 49 – Abstract Art Baby!: http://streetfashionsydney.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/sno-85-factory-49-abstract-art-baby.html
2011 Victoria Duckett, Review: Interior Architecture, un magazine 5.2
2010 Lynne Barwick, SafARI 2010: Drop your weapons, Runway, Issue 16
2010 Kate Just, The Whole Truth, ‘Holding Pattern’ catalogue essay, George Paton Gallery
2010 Craft cubed featured event: Caroline Phillips and Samantha Scott ‘Hide and Seek’: http://craft-victoria.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/craft-cubed-featured-event-caroline.html
RESEARCH AND CURATORIAL
2018-20 Research Assistant, Care: Feminism, art and ethics in neo-liberal times, LaTrobe University, Bendigo.
2018 Curator, Conspicuous Presence, with the Women’s Art Register, Trocadero Artspace Guest Curator Program, Melbourne
2017 Assistant Curator, Doing Feminism/Sharing the World, Norma Redpath House, Melbourne
2016- Research Assistant, Women, Art and Feminism in Australia since 1970 (Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2016-18), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2015 Co-curator, f generation: feminism, art, progressions, with Juliette Peers and Veronica Caven Aldous, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Co-curator, As If: Echoes of the Women’s Art Register, with Juliette Peers and Stephanie Leigh, with the Women’s Art Register, West Space, Melbourne
2014 Co-curator, Topologies of Sexual Difference, with Louise Burchill, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Curator, The F Word, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale and Ararat Art Gallery, Ararat, Victoria
2014 Curator, Imagining Social Equity, perspectives on migration, gender and community, Museo Italiano, Melbourne
2014 Co-curator, The Technopia Tours Feminist Art Bus, with Kim Donaldson, Melbourne
2013 Convenor, Regional Feminist Art Forum, Bendigo, VIC
2012 Co-curator, A Dinner Party; setting the table, with Victoria Duckett, West Space, Melbourne
2012 Curator, Wild vs Man, Goodtime Studios, Melbourne
2011 Curator, Interior Architecture, LaTrobe University VAC, Bendigo, VIC
2010 Co-convenor, The Feminist Salon Group – The Envelope, with Sarah Lynch, The West Wing, Melbourne
PUBLICATIONS
Published Arts Writing
2020 The Long Haul: Women’s Art Archives, in “She Persists: Protest and Gender in the NGV Collection”, National Gallery of Victoria, Edited by Isobel Crombie et al, Melbourne
2018-20, Editor, Women’s Art Register Bulletin, Women’s Art Register, Melbourne
2018 Materialising the interval: Relationality as a feminist art practice in “Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes“, Edited by Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore, Routledge, Oxon (UK) and New York
2015 Watch this space, Catalogue Essay for Furies solo exhibition by Kate Just, The Gallery St. Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
2015 Call to Arms, Catalogue Essay for Reclaiming Isis – Auset exhibition by Filomena Coppola, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo
2014 The f Word ,Exhibition Catalogue
2014 Conversation (with Carolyn Barnes), The f Word, exhibition catalogue
2013 Past Lives, catalogue essay for Skins and Bones solo exhibition by Eliza-Jane Gilchrist, Blindside Artist Run Space Inc.
2013 Louise Bourgeois, Late Works, Review, Artlink Vol 33, No.2
2012 Actions speak louder than words, catalogue essay for Viewpoints solo exhibition by Timothy Kendall Edser, Blindside Artist Run Space Inc, Melbourne click here
2011 A Different Temporality: Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985, Review, Artlink Vol 31, No.4 click here
2011 Death Becomes Her, catalogue essay for Swan Song solo exhibition by Catherine Evans, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne. click here
2011 Interior Architecture, Catalogue Essay for Interior Architecture group exhibition with Timothy Kendall Edser, Catherine Evans, Mark Friedlander, Kate Just, Caroline Phillips, Clare Rae, Julie Shiels and Inez de Vega, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo. click here
Published Academic Writing
2017 Materialising Feminism: Object and Interval, PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, School of Art. Open access available here
2015 Art and Social Equity, a feminist approach, Researching for Change, Melbourne Social Equity Institute published working papers
2013 A phenomenology of Sexual Difference in Sculpture, Writing from Below Vol 1,No.2
2012 Placing the Body – Towards a subjectivity of the feminine in sculpture, MFA exegesis, University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, School of Art. Available at University of Melbourne Libraries here
AFFILIATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2016- Women’s Art Register, member/current Secretary
2013-15, Matters of the Body Research Cluster, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, co-founding member
2013- Melbourne Social Equity Institute, Gender Research Network, member
2012-14 Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, volunteer Visitor Services Officer
2008- UNAP – Union Nicaraguense de Artistas Plasticos, Nicaragua, member
1992- NAVA (National Association for the Visual Arts), member
