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EDUCATION |
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Doctorate of Philosophy, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney |
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Köln International School of Design, Germany |
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Bachelor of Visual Arts 1st Class Honours, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney NSW Australia |
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Üniversität der Künste Berlin, Germany |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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Sylvia Schwenk, Selected works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne |
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Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne |
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Along white lines, Dianne Tanzer, Melbourne |
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five Prison stories, Artereal Gallery, Sydney |
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birds and clouds from one life to another, Dynamo Expo, Enschede, Netherlands |
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birds and clouds from one life to another, Perron 1, Delden, Netherlands |
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birds and clouds from one life to another, Kulturbüro Münsterland, Münster, Germany |
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The workers’ lift, Albury Library Museum |
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Life takes place on foot, Gallery 2, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney |
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The workers’ lift, Oxford Art Factory, Sydney |
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Love and Loss, Art2Muse Gallery, Sydney |
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The world is made up of unfinished stories, Artereal Gallery, Sydney |
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One day, I think I’ll lend a hand, but right now I need a new plasma TV, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Forum für Kunstvermittlung, Germany |
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They paved paradise put up a parking lot, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand |
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Anything you can see in person, you can see better on TV, Bondi, Sydney |
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Eternal Return, Zapp Live Galerie, Berlin |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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Multiples, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney |
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Is this Art?, presented by dLux MediaArts, Artereal Gallery, Sydney |
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12th In the Palace International Short Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria |
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38th Alice Prize, Araleun Arts Centre, Alice Springs |
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GrensWerteWeltAusstellung, the Kloster Bentlage, Rheine |
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Art Fair, Contemporary Art Ruhr -‘CAR’, Essen, DE |
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Middle Head: 33° 50’ S, 151°14’ E, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney |
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Collaborateurs, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, AU |
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The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival, Berlin, DE |
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Insider/Outsider, Lincoln Arts Project, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA |
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Going Gaga with Dada, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney |
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Figure and Landscape, QVMAG, Launceston |
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Dialogue with Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart |
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The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival, Berlin, Germany |
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Homegrown, COFAspace, Sydney |
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Body Language, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney |
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Body Language, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney |
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David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award, SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney |
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Albury Digital Art Outdoor Gallery, Albury Library Museum |
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Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre |
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Art Month, Artereal Gallery, Sydney |
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Lethbridge 10000, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane |
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Linden Postcards, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne |
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Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre |
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Art Sydney 09 – Off the Wall, RHI Pavilion, Sydney |
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Tickled Pink, Artereal Gallery, Sydney |
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Climate Camp 09, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
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Someone draws a flower on a wall beside a bed, School of Arts and Aesthetics Galleries, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi |
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Climate Emergency, At the Vanishing Point Gallery, Newtown |
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Thesis, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery Melbourne |
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Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre |
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Altered States of Reality, Agora Gallery, New York |
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Dunedin Fringe Festival, New Zealand |
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Go Figure, Artereal Gallery, Sydney |
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Wilson National Art Prize, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane |
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Watch this space … Brenda May Gallery, Sydney NSW |
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Lobetrotters, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Canada |
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Go North!, Halifax, Canada |
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Red Cross Summer Exhibition, Nutshuis Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands |
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Newtown Flicks Short Film Festival, Newtown, Sydney NSW |
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Moran Prize – semifinalist |
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Night Markets, Performance Space, Sydney NSW |
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Degree Shows 2007, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney NSW |
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Sydney Underground Film Festival, The Factory Theatre, Sydney NSW |
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The Howard Years, At the Vanishing Point Gallery, Sydney NSW |
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Trajectories of Dissent, Mori Gallery, Tooth Studios, and Little Fish Gallery Sydney NSW |
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Enviro-Collective Art Show, Exit Gallery, Sydney |
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Beautiful paper, beautiful design, albb, Saigon, Vietnam |
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Degree Shows 2006, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney NSW |
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berliner-fotoalbum, Linienstrasse Berlin, Germany |
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Szpilman Awards 2006, Berlin, Germany |
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Australia right now, Newspace Gallery, Sydney NSW |
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Rundgang, UdK, Berlin, Germany |
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Sommerwende International Arts Festival, Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany |
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On the Same Page, Greig and Hinde Gallery, Sydney NSW |
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… about, China Heights Gallery, Sydney NSW |
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Art Sydney 05 – Off the Wall Emerging Artist Showcase, RHI & Hordern Pavilion NSW |
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MCQ International Art Prize, Chifley Tower, Sydney NSW |
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… it’s the economy, stupid, Newspace Gallery, Sydney NSW |
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Subculture, Newspace Gallery, Sydney NSW |
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PERFORMANCES |
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The bubble, Circular Quay, Sydney |
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Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
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World Domination, various locations around Sydney |
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Study for Dazzle, HMAS Penguin, Sydney |
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dada – when up is down, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney |
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Along white lines, during half time at the NTFL Grand Final, Aurora Stadium, Launceston |
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In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney |
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birds and clouds from one life to another, Bad Bentheim, border Germany and Holland |
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In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people, on the lawns of the MCA, Sydney |
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Boots for Rising Waters, Artereal Gallery, Sydney |
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Life takes place on foot, Elizabeth & Market St, Sydney |
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One day, I think I’ll lend a hand, but right now I need a new plasma TV, Artfair Sydney 09, RHI Pavilion, Moore Park, Sydney |
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Remember the importance of SELF, Schöppingen, Germany |
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One day I think I’ll lend a hand, K+K carpark, Schöppingen Germany |
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X Performance Dunedin,The Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand |
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Red, blue or green? Bondi, Sydney |
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Each in their own time, the Hub Newtown, Sydney NSW |
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X Performance Köln, Altstadt Cologne, Germany NSW |
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Life Preservers, Südstadt, Cologne, Germany |
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Boots for Rising Waters, on the stairs of the Dom Cathedral, Cologne, Germany |
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X Performance outside TNT Building, Redfern, Sydney NSW |
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Under Surveillance, Martin Place, and St Leonards Train Station, Sydney |
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X Performance Le Loi Saigon, Saigon, Vietnam |
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X Performance George Street Sydney, Sydney |
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RESIDENCIES |
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HMAS Penguin and Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney |
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School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania |
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Kuntstledorf Schoppingen, Germany |
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Residency albb Saigon, Vietnam |
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AWARDS & PRIZES |
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Finalist, 38th Alice Art Prize at the Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs |
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Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre |
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Commission, Federation Square, Melbourne |
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Commission, Mosman Art Gallery and HMAS Penguin, Sydney |
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Australia Council – Artstart Grant |
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Finalist, Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, The Arts Centre, Gold Coast |
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Commission European Union, GrensWerte Program |
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Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre |
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ACUADs Scholarship, Conference presentation |
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Highly Commended, Art Monthly Australia Emerging Writer Award |
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Kickstart Grant, USU, New works Grant |
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Stan + Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery |
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Grant, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany James Kentley Memorial Scholarship, University of Sydney |
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Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre |
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Finalist, Wilson National Art Prize, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane |
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Postgraduate Research Support Scheme Grant, University of Sydney |
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University of Sydney Postgraduate Award, 3 year grant |
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Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Exchange Scholarship |
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Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Exchange Scholarship |
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Finalist, MCQ International Art Prize, Chifley Tower Sydney |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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Fitzgerald, M, Bullseye as art reveals hidden gems, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 September 2013, p. 9 |
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Middle Head 33° 50’ S, 151° 14E’ Catalog, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney |
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Artwiki, 7th Berlin Biennale |
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Fortescue, E, Poking fun, Daily Telegraph, 25 August 2012, p. 8 |
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Frost, A, Engage, explore and evolve, Catalog essay, dianne tanzer gallery + projects, Melbourne |
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Waldvogel, F, birds and clouds from one life to another: a project by Sylvia Schwenk and Nikola |
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Dicke, in ‘birds and clouds from one life to another , (Munich: Euregio-Programm Grenswerte, 2012) |
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Bourne, P, Sylvia Schwenk In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people, Inteview: Radio Station 2SER, 17 March 2011 |
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Dennemann A, Tanzende Flugzeuge vor wolkenverhangenem Himmel (Dancing aircraft and an overcast sky), Grafschafter Nachrichten, 4 July p. 5 |
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Fortescue, E, Let’s hear it for tradies, Daily Telegraph, 12 March 2011, p. 9 |
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Venterink, GL, Vanuit het ene leven in het andere vliegen (Flying from one life to another), De Twente Courant Tubantia, Holland, 2 July 2011, p. 3 |
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Bourne, P, Sylvia Schwnek Life takes place on foot, Inteview: Radio Station 2SER, October |
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Bourne, P and McGregor C, Sylvia Schwenk: The world is made up of unfinished stories, Inteview: Radio Station 2SER, March |
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Pavlich, C, Height of Fashion, mX, 23 March, 2010, Front cover |
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Benson, N, Traffic brought to a standstill, Otago Daily Times, March |
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G.bert, Interview with Sylvia Schwenk, Radio One 91FM Dunedin, March |
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Locksmith Project, Issue I, June |
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Meisel-Kemper, E, Jeder einzelne Mensch hat Bedeutung, Westfälische Nachrichten, July |
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Pariat, J, Bedroom becomes a drawing room, Time Out Delhi, Vol No 3, Issue 10, August |
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Taplinger, M, Altered States of Contemporary Photography in Chelsea, NY. Gallery&Studio, Feb/March, pp. 14-23 |
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Todd, J, The Interactive Audience, Old, New, Borrowed, Blue Oyster Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand |
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Finnegan, A, Hyperplexic, desalinated but not scary, Artlink, Vol 28, No 1, March, pp. 47-51 |
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Hunt, A, What do our bodies do in Public Spaces?, Inteview: Radio Station 2SER, May |
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University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, SCAfold, August 2007, The University of Sydney, Sydney |
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COLLECTIONS |
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Gold Coast City Art Gallery |
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Harris Freidman Hyde Page, Lawyers |
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Insight Project Pty Ltd |
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Sydney Adult & Children’s Ear Nose Throat Centre Sydney |
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The Ent Centre, Sydney |
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Private Collections in Sydney, Berlin, Saigon, Cologne and The Hague |
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