SUE PEDLEY
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  • Bio
  • Installations 1990-2000
    • Quarrying Memory 2000
    • The Convict and the Jew 1999
    • Spinifex 1999
    • Drawing on Rock 1998
    • Listening to Clara, Ethel and Ada 1997
    • Under the Pier 1996
    • Humidity 1995
    • The Intertidal Zone 1991
    • Combing 1990
    • The Element Orange 1990
  • Installations 2001-2020
    • Manly Dam Project, Manly Art Gallery and Museum 2019
    • Patches of Light - Tasmania 2019
    • Tracing Water - Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2018
    • Rolling Musical Screech - Bankstown Art Centre - 2017
    • Orange-Net-Work 2017
    • Patches of Light - SCA Gallery 2015
    • Birch Bridge - Norway - 2014
    • Home Garden 2012
    • Copper Ships - Tin Sheds Gallery 2011
    • Harmonica - Setouchi Art Triennial - Japan 2010
    • Blue Jay Way 2007
    • Spare Room 2007
    • Haze - Echigo Tsumari Triennial - Japan - 2006
    • In Tray 2006
    • Sound of Bamboo 2003
    • Sound of Bamboo 2002
    • Sound of Lotus 2001
  • Works on paper
    • Sonic Pressure 2020
    • Orange-Net-Work 2017
    • Lacuna 2017
    • Blueprint 2016
    • Patches of Light - water colours - 2015
    • Sound Lines - drawings- 2014
    • Harvest - monoprints - 2012
    • Monoprints - 2012
    • Sounding - collages - 2011
    • cyanotypes - Porifera Portraits - 2005
    • Cyanotypes 2000 - 2007
    • Humidity - drawings - 1995
    • Rolling Musical Screech-cyanotypes
  • Essays
    • Anne Finnegan
    • Jacqueline Millner
  • Contact

Curriculum Vita

EMPLOYMENT: 
Tutor: 
Architectural Sketching and Drawing, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
Drawing - Visual Communication, Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology
Drawing-  University of New South Wales, Art and Design.
Drawing- Public Programs, National Art School.

QUALIFICATIONS:
1997: Master of Fine Arts, College of  Fine Arts, UNSW
1989: Postgraduate Diploma of Fine Art
Sydney College of the Arts
1987: Guest student, Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
1984: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Tasmanian School of the Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Drawings, Articulate, Sydney
2012 Harvest, James Dorahy Project Space
2011   Copper Ships, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
 2011   Sounding, MARS Gallery, Melbourne

2007 Blue Jay Way, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Penrith Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2002 Sound of Lotus, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2002 Sound of Bamboo, Artspace, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
2001 Sound of  Lotus ,Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2000 Quarrying Memory, Gallery 4A, Sydney 
1999  round and round the garden, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
1997  Listening to Clara Ethel and Ada, Australian Perspecta1997, Sydney
1996 under the pier, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1996 under the pier, Artspace, Sydney
1995 humidity, Pendulum, Sydney
1994 stains frescoes 111 riverbed, IMA, Brisbane
1993 frescoes 111assay, aGOG, Canberra
1993 frescoes 111 assay, Glare, Artspace , Sydney
1992 tide, First Draft West, Sydney
1992 frescoes, Photospace, Canberra
1991 the intertidal zone, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne and  The Performance Space, Sydney
1989 the element orange, Performance Space, Sydney
1986 Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Wasch Salon, Frankfurt, Germany
1985 Handmark Gallery, Hobart

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2018
Tracing Water, 
 collaboration with Japanese architect, Iwaki Kazuya - Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2018.
2017
Tokkotai, T5 Camouflage Tank, a Mosman Art Gallery exhibition.
Water: This Precious Liquid, Lake Macquarie Gallery, NSW
2015

Daughters, Mothers (Future Feminist Archive), Sydney College of the Arts Gallery
2014  
Fertile Ground Exhibition- Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
The Democracy of Drawing, Airspace, Sydney
Monochromatic,  Sheffer Gallery, Sydney
2013 
Cementa13, Kandos Projects
2012 
Moving,  with Gail Kenning, Peleton, Sydney
House Garden,with Virginia Hilyard, Kandos Projects, NSW, Australia
2011
Redgate Residency, Beijing
LARQ ( Land Art Reseach Queenstown), Residency,Queenstown, Tasmania
Interweave,with Gail Kenning, MOP Gallery, Sydney
2010  
Harmonica, Setouchi International Triennial 2010. Japan
2008
5th International Sculpture Symposium2008, Hue, Vietnam
Sound of the Night Sky, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
Spare Room, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney
2007
Walking and Art Residency, 
The Banff Centre, Canada
2006
Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2006
, Japan
Light Sensitive, Contemporary Australian Photography, National Gallery of Victoria,
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Contemporary Award winner, Campbelltown Regional Gallery
We are Australian Too, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Sydney
Procession, Mai Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2005
Australian Photographic Portrait Prize,
 Art Gallery of NSW
Intray, two cubes, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Works from Sri Lanka, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2004
Blake Prize
, The Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney
A Matter of Time 16th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial
National Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Municipal Council, Sydney
2003
First Impressions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Lunugunga, Comfort Zone, ABC Radio National
Reverb, Mai’s Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2002
7 Photographers
, Stills Gallery, Sydney
Hue, with Boyd, Gallery4A, Sydney
2000 Techne, UTS Gallery, Sydney
The Convict and the Jew, 24HR Art, Darwin
1999
The Convict and the Jew, Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Schaufenster in die Welt, Kassel, Germany
1998
International Sculpture Symposium
, Hue, Vietnam
Shields, National Sculpture Forum, Canberra
1997
Listening to Clara, Ethel and Ada, Australian Perspecta, Sydney
1991
Reef of the night sky, Open City's Production, Museum of Accidents, Performance Space, Sydney
1990
Combing, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney

RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS:
2016   
Artist in Residence, Bundanon Trust, NSW
2014
International Land Art Project, Norway.
2011 
Creative Research Residency, Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan.
2010  
Setouchi Triennial 2012, Japan, funded by the  Australia Japan Foundation, Australia Council, Australian Embassy,
2009  

New Works Grant, Australia Council
2008  
Skills and Development Grant, Australia Council
2008  
Walking and Art Residency, The Banff Centre, Canada
2006 
Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan, funded by  International Visual Arts Strategy, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council,
2005 
New Work, Visual Arts & Crafts Project Grant, Australia Council
2001 
New Work, Visual Arts & Craft Project Grant, Australia Council
2000 
Asia Link Residency, Sri Lanka
1998 
Travel Grant, Vietnamese International Sculpture Symposium, New South Wales Ministry for the Arts
1997 
Project Grant, Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Australia Council
1995 
Artist in Residence, London, Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Australia Council
1990 
Project Grant, Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Australia Council
1986 
Guest Student, Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
1985 
Travel Grant, Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Australia Council

Selected bibliography:
Louise Martin -Chew, Daughters Mothers (Future Feminist Archive), Eyeline 84, 2015

Jacqueline Millner, Future Feminst Archives, SCA Gallery catalogue, SCA 2014

Phip Murray, Loti Smorgon: A Life with Art, NGV, 2015

Jennifer Barrett, Jacqueline Millner, Australian Artists and the Museum, Ashgate Publishing, London 2013
Time and Vision, London, 2012 ACME Studios, London, Australia Council

John Clark, Setouchi Art Matters, Asian Art News, Volume 20 No.5, 2010

Setouchi International Art Triennial 2006, catalogue, Japan, 2010

Zara Stanhope, Ann Loxley, Jacqueline Millner, Blue Jay Way, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest, 2006

Isobel Crombie, Light Sensitive, Contemporary Australian Photography, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2006

Sasha Grishin, Work from Sri Lanka, Canberra Times, March 10, 2005

Suzie Attwil, A Matter of Time, 16th Tamworth Fibre Biennial 2004

Jacqueline Millner, Sound of Bamboo and Sound of Lotus, Sue Pedley, Artspace Publication 2003

Margaret Roberts, Sound of Bamboo, Haiku Review HR 2 2002

Jacqueline Millner, Sound of Bamboo, exh. cat., Artspace, Sydney, 2002

Isabella Reich, ‘The Convict and the Jew, Eyeline, vol 44, Summer 2000

Jacqueline Millner, ‘Quarrying Memory’, like, issue 44/45, November 2000

Jacqueline Millner in Martin Thomas (ed.), Uncertain Ground, Essays Between Art and Nature, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999

Suzanne Lecht, ‘Sculpturing Impressions of Hue’, Sculpture News, issue 4, Spring 1999

Anne Ferran, ‘Listening to Clara, Ethel and Ada’, Eyeline, vol 35, Summer 1998

Kevin Murray, Jaqueline Millner, Real Time, August 1997

Virginia Ross, ‘Under the Pier’, Eyeline,, February 1997

Jaqueline Millner, ‘Humidity’, Agenda, ivol 38, September 1996

Jacqueline Millner, Under the Pier, exh. cat., Artspace, Sydney, 1996

Christine Morrow, ‘stains frescoes 111 riverbed’, Eyeline, vol 50, January 1995

Abby Mellich, ‘Broken Circle’, catalogue essay, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1994

Abby Mellich ‘tide’, Agenda, issue 29, June 1993

Tess Horwitz, the intertidal zone, exh. cat., 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, 1992

Sue Pedley
Sue Pedley researches place, community, culture and history in relationship to materiality through site-specific installation and interdisciplinary practice. She explores ways to experiment with different materials and their connection to place, reformulating basic elements of time/light and space. 

She works as a tutor in drawing at the University of Sydney, University of Technology and University and works in drawing at the University of UNSW, Art and Design. She has a Master of Visual Art having studied at Tasmanian School of Art, Sydney College of the Arts, College of Fine Art and Stadelschule, Franfurt, Germany. Sue has had studio/residencies in London, France, Germany and Sri Lanka funded by the Australia Council and Asialink. The National Gallery of Victoria has acquired cyanotypes which were included in the exhibition, First Impressions, curated by Dr Isobel Crombie. Installations include Perspecta, Between Art and Nature, 1997, Gertrude Street, Melbourne1991; IMA, Brisbane,1994; EAF, Adelaide,1996, Gallery4a, 2000,2002, Artspace,1996 and Royal Botanical Gardens, 2002. Exhibitions of works on paper include Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo,2001; Mori Gallery, 2002; Stills Gallery, 2002; Mai's Gallery, Saigon, New York, 2003, Setouchi International Art Festival, Japan 2010.


Sue Pedley researches place, community, culture and history in relationship to materiality through site-specific installation and interdisciplinary practice. She explores ways to experiment with different materials and their connection to place, reformulating basic elements of time/light and space. 

She works as a tutor in drawing at the University of Sydney, University of Technology and University and works in drawing at the University of UNSW, Art and Design. She has a Master of Visual Art having studied at Tasmanian School of Art, Sydney College of the Arts, College of Fine Art and Stadelschule, Franfurt, Germany. Sue has had studio/residencies in London, France, Germany and Sri Lanka funded by the Australia Council and Asialink. The National Gallery of Victoria has acquired cyanotypes which were included in the exhibition, First Impressions, curated by Dr Isobel Crombie. Installations include Perspecta, Between Art and Nature, 1997, Gertrude Street, Melbourne1991; IMA, Brisbane,1994; EAF, Adelaide,1996, Gallery4a, 2000,2002, Artspace,1996 and Royal Botanical Gardens, 2002. Exhibitions of works on paper include Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo,2001; Mori Gallery, 2002; Stills Gallery, 2002; Mai's Gallery, Saigon, New York, 2003, Setouchi International Art Festival, Japan 2010.
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  • Home
  • Bio
  • Installations 1990-2000
    • Quarrying Memory 2000
    • The Convict and the Jew 1999
    • Spinifex 1999
    • Drawing on Rock 1998
    • Listening to Clara, Ethel and Ada 1997
    • Under the Pier 1996
    • Humidity 1995
    • The Intertidal Zone 1991
    • Combing 1990
    • The Element Orange 1990
  • Installations 2001-2020
    • Manly Dam Project, Manly Art Gallery and Museum 2019
    • Patches of Light - Tasmania 2019
    • Tracing Water - Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2018
    • Rolling Musical Screech - Bankstown Art Centre - 2017
    • Orange-Net-Work 2017
    • Patches of Light - SCA Gallery 2015
    • Birch Bridge - Norway - 2014
    • Home Garden 2012
    • Copper Ships - Tin Sheds Gallery 2011
    • Harmonica - Setouchi Art Triennial - Japan 2010
    • Blue Jay Way 2007
    • Spare Room 2007
    • Haze - Echigo Tsumari Triennial - Japan - 2006
    • In Tray 2006
    • Sound of Bamboo 2003
    • Sound of Bamboo 2002
    • Sound of Lotus 2001
  • Works on paper
    • Sonic Pressure 2020
    • Orange-Net-Work 2017
    • Lacuna 2017
    • Blueprint 2016
    • Patches of Light - water colours - 2015
    • Sound Lines - drawings- 2014
    • Harvest - monoprints - 2012
    • Monoprints - 2012
    • Sounding - collages - 2011
    • cyanotypes - Porifera Portraits - 2005
    • Cyanotypes 2000 - 2007
    • Humidity - drawings - 1995
    • Rolling Musical Screech-cyanotypes
  • Essays
    • Anne Finnegan
    • Jacqueline Millner
  • Contact