Zamara Zamara is a sculpturally and performatively grounded installation artist. Their practice looks to how non-traditional modes of communication and composition can be located to highlight the un-liveability of social structures and to preserve space for disruption within the mundane.
Their recent focus has been an evolving series of projects toying with how re-appropriation can create space for subversive methods of use and organisation. Pursuing the fabrication of queered iconography and propaganda, through which non-dominant histories may be located and alternate futures may be performed.
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2014
EDUCATION
Master of Contemporary Art from The University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) – Fine Art from RMIT University
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Sound, Sculpture and Spatial Practice from RMIT University
RESIDENCIES and AWARDS
People’s Choice Award recipient, Incinerator Art Award
School House Studios Residency and Grant
NGV Women’s Association Award, VCA Masters Graduate Exhibition
The Melbourne Global Scholars Award
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
made jagged, Cool Change Contemporary
The use of most resistance, Trocadero Art Space
Subconscious Being, First Site Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
It’s not you, it’s me, curated by David Sequeira, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
NO GODS NO MASTERS, curated by Adina Kraus, AN/ARI
TECH SUPPORT, curated by HeeJoon Youn, TCB Gallery
kori toku ingoa, curated by kori (fka Sean Miles), Blak Dot Gallery
Assemblage, curated by Jon Butt, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery
Tough & Tender, curated by Anna Dunnill, Side Gate
Layers, Dirty Dozen
Queer Economies, St Heliers Street Gallery
VCA Masters Graduate Exhibition, Margret Lawrence Gallery
#fromwhereistand, curated by Kim Donaldson, George Patton Gallery
Queer Threads, curated by Kate Just, Assembly Point
PROUD, Margaret Lawrence Gallery
The distance between things, curated by Emma Michaelis, Tinning Street Presents
PARADISE LOST, Paradise Hills Gallery
100 Years, The Substation, performance work with Zoë Bastin
Formation, First Site Gallery
RMIT Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University
Not in that way, RMIT School of Art Gallery, collaborative performance with Zoë Bastin
PERFORMPRINT, Meat Market, collaborative performance
RMIT Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University
Superfictions 1: The Art Fair Murders, curated by Peter Hill, KINGS Artist-Run
Crème: the affects of materiality, curated by Peter Westwood, RMIT School of Art Gallery
PUBLICATIONS
Brigid Hansen, "Ok ladies, now let's get in formation", CRITICAL, 2016.
Greg Creek, "2015 RMIT School of Art Graduating Honours & 3rd Year BAFA Exhibition", catalogue for the RMIT Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, 2015.
Greg Creek, "RMIT School of Art Graduating Honours and 3rd Year BAFA Exhibition", catalogue for the RMIT Graduate Exhibition, 2014. Additionally sat on the Student Committee Team for the catalogue.
Download curriculum vitae in accessable format PDF here.