Brodie Ellis CV 2023
education
2003-05 BFA Painting, The Victorian College of the Arts
1997-98 BFA Sculpture, The Canberra School of Art
awards & residencies
2022 Further Residency Recipient, Castlemaine State Festival
2020 National Small Sculpture Prize Finalist
2014, 2015, 2016 Resident Artist, Falls Creek
2010 Australia Council New Work Grant
2007-08 Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artist Residency
ABN AMRO Emerging Artists Prize Finalist
NGV Encouragement Award Winner
West Space Award Winner
The John Vickery Scholarship Recipient
collections
Private collections
MONA, The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart
Bendigo Art Gallery Permanent Collection
selected solo shows
2023 ‘Essays on Earth’ Director & Editor, Castlemaine State Festival
2021 ‘Contact & Witness’ MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2019 ‘Heavy Launch’ Linden New Art, Melbourne
2018 ‘The Crystal World’ MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2017 ‘The Crystal World’ Caves, Melbourne
2016 ‘The Crystal World’ Stockroom, Kyneton
2012 ‘Brodie Ellis’ Huddle, Tokyo, Japan.
2011: ‘Constant’ Longplay, Melbourne.
2010 ‘Pulse and Pause’ Blindside, Melbourne
2008 ‘The Super Pit’ Conical Inc., Melbourne
2008 ‘Rigorous Geometry’ Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2007 ‘Spaceship 1’ Studio 11, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2006 ‘Swarming Behaviour’ West Space, Melbourne
2004 ‘Thin Red Line’ 3x site specific installation Projects Melbourne CBD
selected group shows
2023 ‘Surfaces’ MADA Gallery, Melbourne
2023 ‘Essays On Earth” Bendigo Art Gallery
2023 ‘Chromaphilia Dreams’ Bunjil Place, Melbourne
2020 'National Small Sculpture Prize', McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Melbourne
2019 ‘Material Place’ UNSW Galleries, Sydney
2018 ‘Framing Nature’ McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery, Melbourne
2017 ‘WITNESS: Contemporary Video’ Latrobe Art Institute, Bendigo
2016 ‘Space’ MUMA, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2016 ‘The Crystal World’ Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton
2012 ‘Melbourne Art Fair’ Exhibition Centre, Melbourne
2010 ‘Umbra Penumbra Antumbra’ The 17th Biennale of Sydney; “The Beauty of Distance- Songs of Survival In a Precarious Age”, A large scale installation on Cockatoo Island , Sydney NSW
2009 ‘Noosphere’, A large scale installation, New 09, ACCA, Melbourne
2008 Gertrude Studio Artists Show, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2008 ‘ABN AMRO Emerging Artists Prize’, Sydney.
2008 ‘The Ecologies Project’ Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
2008 ‘Hockey Plot’ West Space, Melbourne, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
2007 ‘Videoteca’ Care of Gallery, Milan, Italy
2007 ‘Gertrude Studio Artists Show 2007’ Gertude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2007 ‘Too Near Too Far’ Care of Gallery, Milan, Italy
2007 ‘A Bridge Too Far’ Alliance Francaise Art Gallery, Melbourne
2006 ‘Under Embargo’ Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2005 ‘Wallara Travelling Scholarship Exhibition’ V.C.A Gallery
2005 ‘Hurt Couture’ Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2005 ‘Halfway’ George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2005 ‘Lurking There’ Red Gallery, Melbourne
2004 ‘Landed’ Domain House, Melbourne Botanical Gardens
bibliography
“Brodie Ellis Explodes The Crystal World”, Artguide Preview Review 5/6/2018, by Anna Dunnill; The 17th Biennale of Sydney; “The Beauty of Distance- Songs of Survival In a Precarious Age”, Exhibition Catalogue, 2010; The 17th Biennale of Sydney | by Laura Cassidy Rogers | Art Practical www.artpractical.com, San Francisco; Ella Mudie,“The Beauty of Distance- Songs of Survival In a Precarious Age”, Runway Magazine, issue 16, Disappearance; Charlotte Day, New 09, Catalogue Essay, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2009; Ulanda Blair, “From Earth to Sky and Beyond: The Long Drive Home”, New 09, Catalogue Essay, The Australian Centre For Contemporary Art, 2009; Gary Anderson interview for Artshub website, 2009; Jacqueline Doughty, “5 Cool Hunter Predictions” in Australian Art Collector, issue 47, 2009; Simon Gregg, “Right Now I Am Unravelling: Notes On The 2008 Next Wave Festival”, Artlink, Volume 28 no.4, 2008; Helen Johnson, “The Super Pit”, Conical Inc, Melbourne, 2008; Alex Martinis Roe, “Descent into the Pit” in Runway, issue 11, The Invisible Inc, Sydney, 2008; “Hockey Plot: Negotiations between young contemporary artists from Gippsland and Melbourne” in Trouble, Newstead Press, June 2008; Geraldine Barlowe and Kyla McFarlane (eds.), The Ecologies Project , Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2008; Amelia Douglas, “Psychotroplicalism: A Manifesto in Search of a Manifestation” in un Magazine, vol 2, issue 1, 2008, p. 7; Ulanda Blair, Under Embargo, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2006; Christine Morrow “Hurt Couture - SEAM-STRESS” in Blindside Editions, Melbourne, February 2005.