Mande Morgan

ARTISTS STATEMENT
At the moment I tend to consider identity, location, and how one viewer can perceive these things differently from the next. Site-dependant work interests me, as do political connections with landscape and place. I often combine works in a method that is similar to a traditional architectural practice, whereby an idea is sketched out by hand, or constructed in some way, then photographed, painted or combined digitally. Some aspects of the work refer to history, while others take place outside of a gallery and exist only as ephemeral moments in everyday situations.

Installations, works on paper, photography, books, videos.

BIOGRAPHY
Morgan has exhibited internationally in public and commercial galleries the USA , Brazil, Australia, China, Greece, and Indonesia. Morgan was a co-founder and co-director of Conical gallery, and a curatorial member from 2001-2004.

She has won a number of esteemed art awards and scholarships including Bates New Media Art Award New York, NAVA Janet Holmes à Court award with Australia Council, City of Melbourne Laneways, and Australian Postgraduate Research Award.

From 2008 and 2009 Morgan conducted a residency with Warlayirti Artists Aboriginal Corporation, WA, and in 2004 she held a residency with the NSW Ministry of the Arts at the Gunnery Studio Artspace Sydney. In 2012 she has been selected for a residency with PointB Worklodge New York.

She has been a lecturer from 2000 to 2012 in Fine Art, and Theory, and Digital Media at numerous institutions, including Melbourne University, Deakin University, Swinburne, and VCA , where she was second year Coordinator in 2003. She currently is a tutor in the Architecture department at Melbourne University.

Morgan has forthcoming works in; Lumen New york, Q-View Digital Gallery City of Albury, NSW , Gertrude Projection Festival, and Fairhall house Museum 2012. Her work is held in a number of international, national and private and public collections.