Artists

Shaun Wilson

Shaun Wilson is a Tasmanian new media artist working with video and sound art. His current doctoral studies at the Academy of the Arts, University of Tasmania, explores the relationship between scale and mnemonics.

The current sound project 'Mnem' looks at creating an audio based memoryt palace by deconstructing family audio recordings and spatially manipulating such sounds to form a movement based sound instalation.

Shaun has exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally including galleries such as 24hr Art: NT Centre for Contemporar Art (2004), Seattle Centre of Contemporary Art (2002/3), Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2002), CASt (2003) and the Academy Gallery (2003/4).


Shaun Wilson

Born Melbourne, 1972

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004, 'Modern topographies', 24hr Art, Darwin
'The Empire of Small', curated by malcom Bywaters, Academy Gallery, Launceston
2003, 'Secret Worlds', CAST, Hobart.
2002, 'Nextworlds', Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004 'An architecture of Hope, curated by Martina Copley, Gallery 101, Melbourne
'Compendium', curated by Martina Copley, Icon Museum of Art, Melbourne
'Boogy, Jive and Bop', curated by Malcom Bywaters, Plimsol Gallery, Hobart
2003 'Little Things Count', Seattle Centre on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
'Research2', coordinated by Prof. Vincent McGrath, Academy Gallery, Launceston
2002 Celebrating the Exquisite Corpse', curated by Anonda Bell, touring Regional galleries throughout Victoria 2000 - 02.

Grants and Awards

2003/4 Graduate Research Support Scheme, University of Tasmania
2002 Australian Post Graduate Award, Australian Research Council
2001 Julian Burnside Artists Trust Fund
2000 Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, NAVA

Selected Bibliography

2004 Malcom Bywaters, 'The Empire of Small', catalogue essay
Hot Seat: Visual Arts, The Weekend Australia, (Melbourne, July 17-18, 2004) 17.
Diana Klaosen, 'Seductive Talents', Real Time, No. 61 (Sydney, June 2004), 41
Briony Lee Downes, 'Boogie, Jive and Bop', Artlink, Vol 24, No. 2 (Henley Beach, June 2004), 83-84
Review, Photofile, edition 71, (Sydney: Winter 2004), 8
2003 Marco Corsini, 'The Memory Palace of Shaun Wilson', Vehicle: Cpontemporary Visual Arts, Issue 9 (Singapore:
September 2003), 26 - 27.
Boogy , Jive and Bop', exhibition catalogue, Acadmey Gallery, (Launceston: September, 2003).
Vincent McGrath, 'Research2', catalogue essay, Academy Gallery (Launceston:September, 2003).


Collections

The National Gallery of Victoria - Artists Books
The State Library of Victoria
Deakin University Art Collection
Private Collections in Australia, United States, Holland and France.