curriculum vitae peter dyson
exhibitions (solo)
2009 Feb – Mar Life, death and other things, solo exhibition, Incinerator Arts Complex, Moonee Ponds, Melbourne – painting, installation, video, photography, sculpture
exhibitions (group)
2015 May readyMADEready – Fondation de Duchamp, Paris – The blind man, video installation
2014 Mar MFA exhibition – Postgraduate Gallery, Monash University – Being present: here and there, video installation
2012 Dec Creative Spaces Open Studio – River Studios – video installation
2012 Sep Agency for Unrealized Projects – Daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany – Heautoscopia, conceptual project
2011 Oct London Lift-Off Film Festival – Tricycle Cinema, London, UK (finalist) – video installation
2011 Aug SALA Festival – Moving Image Project – Bang & Olufsen, Adelaide – video installation
2011 Aug SALA Festival – Moving Image Project – Peel Street, Adelaide – outdoor projection
2011 Jul Zero Film Festival – Shortwave Cinema, London, United Kingdom – Lista di Spagna, video installation
2011 Jun ArtBasel – Agency for Unrealized Projects – Kopfbau, Messeplatz, Basel, Switzerland – conceptual project
2010 Aug SALA Festival – Moving Image Project – Queens Theatre, Adelaide – video installation
2009 Nov Monash Graduand Exhibition – Monash University, Caulfield Campus – video installation
2009 May aRtECYCLE, Incinerator Arts Complex, Melbourne – sculpture
2008 Aug Constance Gordon-Johnston Sculpture and Installation Prize Exhibition, SASA Gallery, Adelaide – video installation
2008 Aug SALA Festival – Moving Image Project – Queens Theatre, Adelaide – video installation
2008 May aRtECYCLE, Incinerator Arts Complex, Melbourne – outdoor sculpture
2007 Dec – 2008 Jan ArtWest, Adelaide – video installation
2007 Dec SASA Graduate Show – video installation
2007 Aug SALA Festival – Moving Image Project – Hope: A Moving Image – Arts SA –video installation
2007 Aug SALA Festival – Moving Image Project – First@RichmondHotel /Belgian Beer Cafe – video and sound installation
2007 Apr The Dream Republic – SASA Gallery – in collaboration with Heri Dono
2007 Apr Meet & Greet – Downtown Art Space, Adelaide – mixed media, 20x20x30cm
2007 Apr Refill2 – Aroma Art Space, UniSA, Adelaide – sculptural installation
2006 Dec ArtWest group exhibition – Holiday Inn, Adelaide – /span>
2006 Aug SALA Festival group exhibition – Arts SA, Adelaide – 24/7 video installation
2006 June Bye Bye Baby Bye Bye group exhibition – SASA, UniSA, Adelaide – external video installation
2006 May Rock Paper Scissors group exhibition – SASA, UniSA, Adelaide – sculptural installation
2005 Oct Sculpture installation – Lounge Gallery, SASA, UniSA, Adelaide – sculptural installation
2005 Oct Public Intervention collaborative project (with Michelle Rodgers, Corinna Freytag and Louise Sibenaler) – Installation, Light Square, Adelaide – The Waiting,
2005 Sept The Florey Medical Research Foundation Extraordinary Art Exhibition – National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide – Moor_001, acrylic on canvas 50x60cm
education
2014 Master of Fine Art by Research - Photomedia – Monash University, Melbourne
2009 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) – Monash University, Melbourne
2007 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture) – South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia
1975 Associate Diploma of Graphic Design – RMIT, Melbourne
awards, grants, residencies & memberships
2011 Postgraduate Travel Grant (Monash)
2010 Residency – Prato Centre (Monash), Prato, Italy
2009 Board of Examiners' Letter of Commendation (Monash)
2008 Residency – Incinerator Arts Complex (Melbourne)
2007 Chancellor's Letters of Commendation (UniSA)
2007 Appointed to South Australian School of Art School Board
2006 Chancellor's Letters of Commendation (UniSA)
2006 Member: National Association for the Visual Arts (professional)
2006 Member: Golden Key International Honour Society
2005 Chancellor's Letters of Commendation (UniSA); Dean's Merit Award (UniSA)
text
2009 "Artist finds many happy mediums" Moonee Valley Leader (11/2/09)
2008 "Turning trash to treasure" Moonee Valley Leader (5/5/08)
employment
2005-present desertpony design practice (Adelaide/Melbourne, Australia) – owner and manager
– primarily publishing design for tourism, government and educational clients
1987-2004 P.A.G.E. Pty Ltd (Southbank/Port Melbourne, Australia) – company director and graphic designer
– graphic design and print consultancy for corporate, government, educational and publishing clients: corporate identity and literature, magazine and book publication, multimedia, image manipulation and digital retouching; studio management including network systems design
1976-1987 Dyson Design Studio (Melbourne) – graphic designer/manager
– freelance graphic design (full-time 1986-1987)
1976-1986 Herald & Weekly Times Ltd (Melbourne) – art director and graphic designer
– magazine design and layout (Home Beautiful and Epicurean magazines, various books and supplements); photo direction and styling for studio and on location assignments; picture editing; prepress and production liaison
1973-1976 Herald & Weekly Times Ltd (Melbourne) – layout artist
– layout of feature section for daily and weekly newspapers; illustration and cartooning
1972-1973 Austarama Television Ltd – Channel 0/10 (Nunawading, Victoria, Australia) – floor manager/staging technician/cameraman and boom operator
– backstage production; co-ordination on live and pre-recorded television broadcasts; scenery flying; set construction and strike; studio & OB camera and sound boom operation
