Curriculum Vitae:
Flossie Peitsch
| Email: |
flossie.peitsch@research.vu.edu.au |
| Address: |
3 Riverview Court, Maribyrnong, Victoria AUSTRALIA 3032 |
| Telephone: |
+61 3 9318 3280 |
| Born: |
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada flossie.peitsch@research.vu.edu.au
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Education |
| 2006 |
November Completion of PhD, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2003 |
Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, PhD candidate |
| 2003 |
Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship |
| 2002 |
Monash University, Faculty of Art and Design, Melbourne, VIC, Masters of Fine Art |
| 1999 |
Monash University, Faculty of Art and Design, Melbourne, VIC, Honours Bachelors of Fine Art Degree |
Professional Experience |
Visual art practice includes installation, watercolours, mixed media, tapestry, sculpture
Community art projects include Artist-in-Residencies, workshops, public art |
| 2005 |
Curator, FLO-ART Exhibition, Footscray Community Arts Centre, VIC |
| 2005 |
Seminar Lecturer, Home Economics Institute of Australia, NSW |
| 2005 |
‘Art and Commemoration’, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT |
| 2005 |
Chisholm’s Homes’ community art project involving 700 participants for 2D/3D/digital/audio art production, interstate tour in 2006; Website found at http://www.livingmuseum.org.au
Opener, Warrnambool Easter art Festival |
| 2004 |
Toured Italy and Canada for PhD research |
| 2004 |
Directed Symposium for VU ‘I, We They, It’: Finding Voice in Creative Research |
| 2004 |
Elected Postgraduate Rep for Faculty Research and Graduate Studies Committee, VU |
| 2004 |
Elective Presentation, Australian Conference for Lutheran Education II, Adelaide, SA |
| 2004 |
Elective presentation, LCA National Worship Conference, Brisbane, Qld |
| 2003 |
Project Coordinator, Art Forum, NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Ian Potter
Centre, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2003 |
Sessional Lecturer at Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2003 |
Panel Presentation, ‘Alchemies’, Curtin University, Perth, WA |
| 2003 |
Session Presentation, ‘Word and Image’, Sydney, NSW |
| 1995-2005 |
Extensive travel overseas in Europe, USA and Canada for art research |
| 1994 |
Project Manager for “Boatload of Dreams” Multi-media art portraying journey of WW2 displaced persons |
| 1992-99 |
Holden Village, Seattle, Washington, USA; United Trades and Labour Council of SA; SA Country Artists Trust, Lobethal SA; Country Area School’s Development Program SA Government, Lobethal. Project Grants: SA Country Artist’s Trust Grant, Loxton, SA; SA Country Schools ; Extension Program Grant, Waikerie, SA; Foundation SA Grant, Adelaide; Central Regional Cultural Authority, Loxton, SA; Foundation SA, Adelaide. |
Solo Exhibitions |
| 2006 |
The Immortal Now, Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2005 |
HOMEMADE, Australian Catholic University. Sydney, NSW |
| 2005 |
HOMEMADE, Mildura Cultural Arts Centre, Mildura, VIC |
| 2003 |
“EIGHTPLUS”, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC |
| 2002 |
“EIGHTPLUS”, Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2002 |
“EIGHT”, Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2000 |
“Table Eight on the Floor”; Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1999 |
“Horizons”; Cato Conference Centre, Melbourne VIC |
| 1997 |
“Horizons”; St Johns Southgate, Melbourne VIC |
| 1981-99 |
Public, Private and Institutional Galleries in Australia, Canada and USA: Canberra, Darwin, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Sydney, Perth, Chicago. St Louis, Detroit, Atlanta, Toronto |
Group Exhibitions |
| 2006 |
Chisholm’s Homes, Adelaide, SA |
| 2005 |
Chisholm’s Homes, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2004 |
Blake Prize and Travelling Exhibition, Sydney NSW |
| 2004 |
Needham Religious Art Prize. Mt Gambier, S.A. |
| 2004 |
Wyndham City Contemporary Art Prize, VIC |
| 2003 |
‘Alchemies’, Curtin University, Perth W.A. |
| 2001 |
“Work: cut, paste, create, burn”, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Mel VIC |
| 2000 |
“Decade”; Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1999 |
“Evidence”; Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC |
Commissions |
| 2006 |
WAYSIDE, Williamstown Public Art Project |
| 2005 |
Ecclesiastical Stole; Lutheran Church of Australia |
| 2004 |
A Splace For Me, Altona Meadows Public Art Mural, VIC
SCADE Project, 3 School Murals, VIC
Installation, Lutheran Church of Australia, President’s Office |
| 2002 |
Altona Mural, Hobsons Bay City Council, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2001 |
Federation Mural; Holy Eucharist Catholic Primary School, Melbourne, VIC |
| 1997 |
Ecclesiastical Chasubles; Lutheran Church of Australia |
| 1995 |
'Discovery' Stainless steel outdoor sculpture, Novar Gardens, SA |
| 1995 |
“Through the Mill”; Onkaparinga Woollen Mills, SA |
Publications |
| Glenda Kowald |
Lutheran Women, 2006 |
| Clare Schulz |
Jubilee Grapevine, Perth, 2006 |
| Claire Boyd-McCrae |
Art From on High, The Age, 2005 |
| Glenn Pass |
Alchemies: Community exchanges, 2004 |
| Jesse Broadhurst |
Offset Press, 2004 |
| Morna Sturrock |
Gesher, 2004 |
| Ian Whitehall (ed) |
A quivering of Arrows, 2003 |
| Cresside Collette |
Embroidery, London, UK, 2003 |
| Cresside Collette |
Textile Fibre Forum, 2003 |
| Alison Barclay |
Herald Sun, 2003 |
| Melanie Dove |
The Age, 2002 |
| Alison Barclay |
Herald Sun, 2002 |
| Copia |
Setting the American Table, 2002 |
| Greer Honeywill |
International Tapestry Journal, 2000 |
| Greer Honeywill |
Textile Fibre Forum, 2000 |
| Alison Barclay |
Herald Sun, 2000 |
| Frederick Ted Castle |
New York Art Critic, 1995 |
| Art in Australia |
March 1992 |
| Max Germaine |
Women Artists in Australia, 1991 |
| Max Germaine |
Artists and Galleries of Australia, 1991 |
| Jean Campbell |
Australian Watercolour Painters, 1989, Craftsman House |
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