Joan GROUNDS JOAN GROUNDS Born 1939 Atlanta, USA Lives and works in Sydney, Australia Selected solo exhibitions* 1995 Annandale Galleries, Sydney 1990 'Bridge', ‘4th Australian Sculpture Triennale', 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne 'Portraits, Phantoms, Fountains and . . . Covers: Temporal Works', Artspace, Sydney 'Water Mark', Silpakorn University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 1986, '87, '88 The Performance Space, Sydney 1984 Forti Studio, New York, USA (performance) 1983 'Act III', Canberra School of the Arts (performance) 1982 'Between the Lines', Canberra School of the Arts (performance) 1980 'Act II', Australian National University, Canberra (performance) 'Women at Work', Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University (performance) 1972 'Untitled: Ceramic Sculptures 1970–72', Watters Gallery, Sydney Selected group exhibitions* 2002 'Saisampan (Soul Ties)' (with Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook), Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Thailand 'G v2' (with Stevie Wishart), The Studio, Sydney Opera House 2001 'G v2' (with Stevie Wishart), Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide 2000 'Terra Mirabilus' (with Sherre DeLys), Centre for Visual Art, Cardiff, Wales 'Eyes Over Skin' (with Stevie Wishart), Sydney Festival, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1999 'Swelter' (with Sherre DeLys), Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney 'Sonic Hieroglyphs' (with Machine For Making Sense), Sydney Opera House 1998 'ARX5', Singapore Art Museum and Perth (with Jane Finlay) 'UT ' (with Stevie Wishart), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1997 'Australian Perspecta '97' (with Sherre DeLys), Westmead Hospital, Sydney '40 Days and 40 Nights' (with N.S. Harsha), 'Fire and Life Part II', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1996 'Women Hold Up Half the Sky', Monash University Gallery, Melbourne 'Spirit and Place', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 'Above and Beyond: Austral/Asian Interactions', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 'Fire and Life‘ (with N.S. Harsha), Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, India 1995 'Girls! Girls! Girls!', Annandale Gallery, Sydney 'Women at Watters: 1964–94', Watters Gallery, Sydney 'Sound in Space: Adventures in Australian Sound Art' (with Sherre DeLys), Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney 1994 'Earwitness: Excursions in Sound' (with Sherre DeLys), 'Experimenta 1994', Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne 'Clermond-Ferrand International Short Film Festival' (with Aleks Danko), France '25 Years of Performance Art in Australia' (with Stevie Wishart), Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 'Working With The Wall', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 'Sin-E-Scope', The Performance Space, Sydney 'Thai-Australian Cultural Space', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1993 'Thai-Australian Cultural Space', National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand '5th Australian Sculpture Triennial', Melbourne 1992 'Succession Shadows' (with Rik Rue), Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 'Virtu: UNSW College of Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney '1st International Women's Art Exhibition', 2nd International Women's Festival, Bangkok, Thailand 1992, ’93 ‘Chiang Mai Social Installation’, various public installations, Chiang Mai, Thailand 1991 'Hybrid', USIS Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand 'Inland: Corresponding Places', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 1990 '4th Australian Sculpture Triennale', 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne 1989 'Australian Perspecta '89', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1986 SPAN artist-run space (with Rik Rue), Sydney 1985 'Sound Waves', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (sound installation) 'Australian Perspecta '85', The Performance Space, Sydney 'Makers Choice', The Jam Factory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide 1984 Forti Studio, New York, USA (performance) 1983 'Long Long Time Ago', The Performance Space, Sydney (performance) 'Women Work Sound Rhythm Pause Pattern' (with Margaret Dodd), Artspace, Sydney 1981 'Show Bags', Women and Theatre Project, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney (performance) 1978 'Orange Festival of the Arts' (with Aleks Danko), Orange (performances) '3rd Biennale of Sydney', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 'Pitspace' (with Aleks Danko), Preston Institute of Technology, Melbourne (performance) 1977 '23rd International West German Festival of Short Films', Oberhausen, Germany '10th Paris Biennale' (with Aleks Danko), France (performances) 'Women's Show', Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide 1976 '1st Phillip Morris International Animation Film Festival', Adelaide 1975 '22nd Sydney Film Festival' 'New Australian Film and Video Festival' (with Aleks Danko, David Lourie, and David Stewart), London, UK 1974 'Boxes', Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University 'Australian Women Artists', Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University 'World Crafts Council Exhibition', Toronto, Canada 1973 'Crafts Australia', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 'Mildura Sculpture Triennial' '10x10=100', Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne 1972 'Craft 70s', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1968 Faculty of Architecture Show, University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana 1965 'Comprehensive Show' Kroeber Hall, University of California at Berkeley, USA Qualifications, grants & awards* 2002 Asialink Residency, Chiang Mai, Thailand 2001 Artist-in-residence, Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture & Design, University of South Australia, Adelaide 1996 Asialink Visual Arts & Crafts Artists Residency Exchange Between India and Australia 1995 Tokyo Studio Residency, Australia Council Grant, Japan New South Wales Government Arts Industry Grant (with Sherre DeLys), Sydney Australia Council New Media Grant (with Sherre DeLys) 1991 Artist-in-residence, Power Institute Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France 1990 Artist-in-residence, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne Artist-in-residence, University of Western Sydney 1989 Artist-in-residence, Silpakorn University, Bangkok 1988 Development Grant (with Jude Walton), Theatre & Performing Arts Board, The Australia Council 1987 Australia Council Full Standard Grant, The Visual Arts Board 1981 Greene Street Studio Residency, Australia Council Grant, New York, USA 1976 Shared 1st Prize, ‘1st Phillip Morris International Animation Film Festival’, Adelaide Experimental Film and Television Fund grant to participate in 'New Australian Film & Video Festival (with Aleks Danko, David Lourie, and David Stewart), London, UK 1964 MA, University of California, USA 1962 BFA, Newcombe College, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA Collections* Powerhouse Museum, Sydney National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Flinders University, Adelaide The University of Sydney National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne *All Australia unless otherwise stated Selected bibliography Alexander, George. 'The dancer snared in her reverie: the poetics of Joan Grounds’. Eyeline, no.9, Winter 1989, pp.20–21. Best, Susan. ‘Elemental constructions: women artists and sculpture in the expanded field’. In What is Installation, eds Adam Geczy & Benjamin Gennocchio, Power Publications, Sydney, 2001 (reprinted from Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol.1, no.2, 2000, pp.147–61). Best, Susan. ‘Emplacement and infinity’. In Uncertain Ground: Essays Between Art and Nature, ed. Martin Thomas, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999, pp.61–75. Best, Susan. ‘What is affect? considering the affective dimension of contemporary installation art’. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol.2, no.2 & vol.3, no.1, 2002, pp.207–25. Davies, Shaun. ‘Lost in space: sound in space: adventures in Australian sound art’. In Essays in Sound 2: Technophonia, eds. Shaun Davies et al., Contemporary Sound Arts, Newtown, NSW, 1995, pp.34–5. Grounds, Joan. ‘Coming home for Christmas’. Artlink, vol.13, nos.3 & 4, November–March 1993–1994, pp.40–41. Kidd, Courtney. ‘Fire and life: kindling cultural exchange’. Art AsiaPacific, no.18,1998, pp.27–9. Artists and Works Print friendly version