DR ELIZA BURKE
M: 0425 767 234 | eliza.burke@utas.edu.au
EDUCATION
· 2015: MFA (Theory) Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart. Thesis Title: ‘Unsettling Space: Architecture and Trauma in Contemporary Art’.
· 2004: PhD (Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies) Monash University, VIC. Thesis Title: ‘Celebrity Anorexia: A Semiotics of Anorexia Nervosa’.
· 1995: Bachelor of Arts (Hons 1), University of Tasmania, TAS.
CURATING: 2010-present
Solo
· 2021: (forthcoming) Nocturne: Sonic Migrations Waterside Pavilion, Hobart TAS (Constance ARI), September, 2021.
· 2018-2022: Systematic The Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart. TAS National Tour: Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston TAS; Artspace Mackay QLD; Bunjil Place, Narre Warren VIC; Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport TAS.
· 2017: Full Void Bond Store Basement, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS.
· 2016: Ghost Biologies Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (Curatorial Mentorship Exhibition).
· 2010-11: Trace. Rosemary Burke: A Retrospective Rosny Barn and Schoolhouse Gallery, Hobart TAS; Toured to Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie TAS.
Collaborative/Assistant
· 2021 (forthcoming): Corpus Tempus The Plimsoll Gallery University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS (Aug-Oct, 2021)
· 2020: Expressing Our Experience Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, TAS.
· 2020: Tenderness Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS.
· 2017-2018: Broken Bodies The Plimsoll Gallery and Grand Chancellor Hotel, Hobart TAS.
· 2015-2016: Tempest Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart TAS. Assistant to Guest Curator Juliana Engberg and Jane Stewart, TMAG.
· 2012: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Redevelopment Stage 1 Assistant to Jane Stewart, Principal Curator of Art, TMAG.
PUBLICATIONS: 2010-present
Catalogue and Exhibition Essays
· ‘Sara Maher: Working with Consciousness’ Sara Maher, ‘In (and out of) the Grey’, Bett Gallery, Hobart, July, 2021.
· ‘Relative geometries: notes on the landscapes of Paul Boam’ ‘A Creative Life: Paul Boam’, (Curator: Sean Kelly) Moonah Arts Centre, May-June, 2021.
· ‘Mourning Story’: On matters of time, fertility and mourning’ Svenja Kratz ‘Mourning Story: Expectations, Absences and the Potentials for Self-Persistence’ Rosny Barn and Schoolhouse Gallery, Sept – Oct, 2020
· ‘Breaking Horizons’ Amber Koroluk-Stephenson ‘Breaking Horizons’ Bett Gallery, Hobart, June – July, 2020
· ‘On love and painting’ Amanda Davies ‘Crushing’, Rosny Barn and Schoolhouse Gallery, June 1-30, 2019
· ‘Dreaming the Anthropocene – An Allegory’ ‘Anthropocene Noir’, Contemporary Art Tasmania (Curator: Eva Nillsen) May 2019.
· ‘The Lucid Shell’ Maria MacDermott ‘The Lucid Shell’ Moonah Arts Centre, September-Oct, 2019.
· ‘Middleground’ Amber Koroluk-Stephenson, ‘Middleground’ Bett Gallery Hobart, October 2018.
· ‘Michael Schlitz - light memory dark ground’ Michael Schlitz, ‘light memory dark ground’ Contemporary Art Tasmania, March 2017
· ‘Hunt, Nature, Birth’ Tara Badcock Hunt, Nature, Birth Devonport Regional Gallery, TAS, September 5- October 18, 2015.
· ‘Memory, Matter and Meaning’ Lee Harper Somoar M16 Art Space, Blaxland Centre, ACT, March 28 - April 14, 2013.
Reviews
· ‘Experimenta Life Forms’ (Curators: Lubi Thomas, Jonathan Parsons and Jessica Clark) Artlink online 14/04/2021
· ‘New Alchemists’ (Curator: Alicia King) Artlink online 20/08/2016
· ‘Tricky Walsh - Tiefenzeit’ Artlink online 02/11/2016
· ‘Lucy Bleach - superslow’ Artlink online 01/06/2015
· The Plimsoll Inquiry’ (Curator: Fiona Lee) Artlink 34:1, March 2014.
· ‘Hollow in the Paper’ (Curator: Bec Stephens) Artlink 01/12/2013
· ‘Theatre of the World’ (Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin) Artlink 32:3, September 2012.
Other essays and articles
· ‘A measure of distance’ Sydney Review of Books, ‘Writers at Work’ series, July 2020
· ‘New frameworks for art and health’ Artguide Australia, Aug 11, 2017.
· ‘Acts of Displacemant: An Interview with Valerie Sparks’ Island Magazine 146, 2016.
· ‘Reflections on the Lab: Imagination, Submergence and Empathic Engagement’, Reflective article for GASP! ‘Art Lab : Swimmable! Reading the River’, Carbon Arts and GASP! Glenorchy City Council. Tas.
· ‘Everywhere else but here: revisiting failurespace’ in (2014) transmissionspace David Clegg projects 2006-2012 St Paul Street Publishing, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland NZ.
· David Clegg ‘Failurespace’ Writer’s Response for Cross, D (ed) (2013) Iteration Again, 13 Public Art Projects Across Tasmania, Punctum Books, Brooklyn, New York. pp. 53-63
· ‘Reflections on the Waif: Images of slenderness and distress in pro-anorexia websites’ (2012) Australian Feminist Studies 27: 71: 37-54
ART EDUCATION RESOURCES AND VIDEOS (2010-present)
· ‘Paul Boam – A Creative Life’, Exhibition video with Troy Melville, Paul Boam – A Creative Life (Curator Sean Kelly) Moonah Arts Centre, 2021
· ‘Systematic’ Education Resource and Teachers Guide, The Plimsoll Gallery University of Tasmania, in consultation with Contemporary Art Tasmania, 2018.
· ‘In the Making’ Online Art Education Resource with Mark & Tom, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2013-2016
· ‘Close Encounters with Public Art’, Flotilla Public Art Trail Education Kit, Moonah Arts Centre, TAS, 2012.
ACADEMIC TEACHING, RESEARCH AND ADMINISTRATION (2010-present)
· 2016-present: Short Course Coordinator and MBBS Currriculum Development, Tasmanian School of Medicine, University of Tasmania; Sessional Lecturer and Tutor, School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania.
· 2017-2019: Project Officer, Project: HealthLit4Kids, Tasmanian School of Medicine (Tasmanian Community Fund funding) University of Tasmania.
· 2011-2021: Sessional Lecturer and Tutor: School of Creative Arts and Media and School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania.
· 2013-2014: Grants Officer and Reader for ARC Discovery and DECRA Grant Rounds, Office of Research Services, University of Tasmania.
· 2013-2014: Research Assistant, School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania.
AWARDS/GRANTS (2010-present)
· 2021: Creative Hobart (Small Grants), Hobart City Council, for Nocturne: Sonic Migrations
· 2018: Artist Investment Program (Curator) Arts Tasmania, for Systematic, Plimsoll Gallery School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart. Other funding for Systematic secured via Creative Hobart, HCC for public and education programs (2018), and Australia Council, Contemporary Touring Initiative for national tour (2020-2022).
· 2017: Artist Investment Program (with David Edgar), Arts Tasmania for Full Void Bond Store Basement, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
· 2017: Exhibition Development Fund, (Curator) Contemporary Art Tasmania, for Systematic.
· 2015/16: Curatorial Mentorship Recipient, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart.
· 2010: Arts Tasmania Assistance to Individuals Program, (Curator) for Trace. Rosemary Burke: A Retrospective Rosny Barn and School House Gallery, Clarence, Hobart.