| EDUCATION | |
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| 2002 | Master of Fine Arts (Research), College of Fine Arts, The University of NSW |
| 1999 | Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), College of Fine Arts, The University of NSW |
| AWARDS AND GRANTS | |
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| 2015 | The NSW Artist's Grant Scheme, National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) |
| 2014 | The Australian Artist’s Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) Finalist - Josephine Urlick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery |
| 2013 | Finalist - William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art |
| 2012 | Finalist - Josephine Urlick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery Finalist - 37th Alice Art Prize 2012, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs |
| 2011 | Finalist - William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art Finalist - Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery Finalist - Josephine Urlick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery |
| 2010 | Moreland Seeding and Project Grant, Moreland City Council, Melbourne Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts |
| 2008 | Finalist - Josephine Urlick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery Finalist - Stanthorpe Art Prize 08, Stanthorpe Regional Gallery |
| 2007 | Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts Shortlisted - Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award Finalist - Josephine Urlick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery |
| 2006 | Finalist - 31st Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre |
| 2000 | Australian Postgraduate Award, The University of NSW |
| 1999 | Marketing Grant for NSW Artists, National Association for the Visual Arts |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
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| 2014 | Detective Special, Fort Delta Gallery, Melbourne Future Forms, Academy of Design Australia, Melbourne |
| 2013 | Boys with guns, Gallery 2010, Sydney |
| 2012 | Boys with guns, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane |
| 2011 | Boys with guns , Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne |
| 2010 | Prudence Murphy: Future Forms, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne Future Forms, MOP Projects, Sydney |
| 2007 | The Male Grooming Series, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney |
| 2006 | revisiting the Paper Plan, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney |
| 2002 | roll it up until it's nice and tight, Koskela, Sydney |
| 2001 | Simply draw it out & start again, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney |
| 1999 | Brown Paper Packaging, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney |
| 1997 | Cabello en Alimbar, Galeria Ferran Cano, Barcelona |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
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| 2015 | Photo Independent Art Fair | PhotoBook Independent, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles Melbourne Art Book Fair, NGV International |
| 2014 | The Ulsan International Photography Festival, Ulsan Culture and Art Centre, Ulsan, South Korea |
| 2013 | Dark Nights, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2012 | What Goes Around Comes Around, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor Divergence: Photographs from Elsewhere, FotoFreo 2012, Perth The Drawing Room, BREENSPACE, Sydney |
| 2011 | The rest is silence, Death be Kind, Melbourne Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery |
| 2010 | Not a Christmas Show, MARS Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2009 | Off The Wall, Art Melbourne 09, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| 2008 | Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Stanthorpe Art Prize 08, Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, Stanthorpe, Qld |
| 2007 | LIT-UP like a Christmas Tree Vol II, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney First Anniversary (Paper), James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney |
| 2006 | 31st Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle Snowdropping, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney Shelf Life, MOP Projects, Sydney LIT-UP like a Christmas Tree Vol I, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney Post-it: an exquisite corpse mail art project, Peloton Gallery, Sydney |
| 2005 | Room 35 turns 8, Room 35, Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney |
| 2002 | AGNSW Contemporary Collection Benefactors Art Auction, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney |
| 2001 | Wild Sheep Chase, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra Lights, Camera, Auction, First Draft Gallery, Sydney |
| 1999 | Works on Paper, Equrna Gallery, The Academy of Fine Arts, Slovenia |
| 1998 | Helen Lempriere Travelling Art scholarship, Artspace, Sydney |
| 1997 | Hearsay: New Photo Artists, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney Stamp & Post, collaborative public works Manhattan, New York Breathing Bones, Sligo Model Arts Centre, Ireland |
| PRESS/PUBLICATIONS | |
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| 2015 | Prudence Murphy: Detective Special published by Emblem Books 2015, Australia |
| 2014 |
Moon Hee Kim, Prudence Murphy: Artist Profile, DCM Magazine, July 2014, p.168-170, South Korea Keynote speaker_ Prudence Murphy: Weapon play, C&K Annual Convention, Brisbane |
| 2013 | Ali Gripper Natural born pretenders, Arts, Artist Profile, Uniken Magazine, Summer 2013/14, p.24 Jen Vuk, No need to target boys and guns, The Age, 16/11/13, p.25 & Sydney Morning Herald, 16/11/13 Sarah Thomas Boys with guns, The Shortlist, SMH, 18/10/13, p.7 Nick Shelton Boys with guns, Broadsheet Sydney, 18/10/13 Hayley Morgan Prudence Murphy, Boys with guns, Two Thousand, 15/10/13 Natasha Mitchell, Prudence Murphy: boys with guns, Life Matters, ABC Radio National, 14/10/13 |
| 2012 | Ed. Alice Cage, Ampersand Magazine Issue 5, Eleventh Hour, Summer 2012, Art & Aust. The Rest is Silence; Death and the skull in contemporary art, Death be Kind Helena Lucey, What goes around comes around (but never quite as we remember), catalogue essay, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Prudence Murphy, Boys with guns, Queensland Centre for Photography, Exhibition catalogue, March 2012 Camilla Birkeland, Prudence Murphy - Boys with guns, catalogue essay, Queensland Centre for Photography |
| 2011 | Louise Schwartzkoff, 'Print's Charming', Spectrum, SMH, 17/09/11, p.6
Robert Nelson, Grave images of time passing, The Age, 8/06/11, p.19 Stuart Teather, Boys in play trigger artistic impulse, Monash Weekly, 13/06/11 Ed. Alice Cage, Ampersand Magazine Issue 4, From the heart of the forest to the edge of the road Prue Gibson, What's On: Boys with guns, Australian Art Collector, Issue 56, p.214 Prudence Murphy Boys with guns, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Exhibition catalogue, July 2011 Kelly Fliedner, Prudence Murphy: Boys with guns, catalogue essay, Monash Gallery of Art |
| 2010 | Ashley Crawford, Not a Christmas Show, exhibition essay, MARS Gallery, Melbourne Annalice Creighton, Body Space Motion (Catastrophic Future), Art Month Sydney, 18/03/10 Nicholas Hose, 'Arts Monday', Eastside Radio 89.7FM, 15/03/10 Prudence Murphy, Future Forms, Catalogue, MOP Projects, Sydney and Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, Exh. Cat., March-September 2010 George Alexander, ‘Home is where the art is’, Future Forms catalogue essay, MOP Projects Elizabeth Stanton, 'A good ARI isn't hard to find', Art Guide Australia, March/April, p.40-41 Louise Schwartzkoff, 'Scenes to see and be seen', Spectrum, SMH, 27/02/10, p.6 Andrew Frost, Artist-Run Adventures, Art Month Sydney, in association w/ Vogue Living |
| 2009 | J. Middelton, D. Lawrey & R. Scott, Future Forms, Runway issue 14: Futures, Invisible Inc Ed. Suzanne Boccalatte & M. Jones, Trunk Volume One: Hair, Boccalatte, p.162-173 |
| 2007 | Lenny Ann Low, Twisted Whiskers, Arts & Entertainment, SMH, 16-17/05/09, p. 10 Kathleen Noonan, Half a mo, what’s this? The Courier Mail, 17/11/07, p. 40 Louise Schwartzkoff, Photographer relishes close shave, SMH, 13/11/07, p.15 Charles Purcell, Top Shelf - art, Metro, SMH, 9/11/07, p.2 |
| 2006 | ABC Radio National, The Male Grooming Series, Nov 2007
Courtney Kidd, manoeuvres #6, Art Monthly Australia, Issue 193, Sept 2006, p.56 Marrickville Galleries & Museums Guide, Cover image, Aug-Dec Issue Joseph Sumegi, ‘An interesting take’, Inner Western Courier, 29/08/06, p.4 Shelf Life, MOP Projects, Sydney, Exhibition catalogue, July 2006 Daniel Mudie Cunningham, ‘Shelf Life’ catalogue essay, MOP Projects publication |
| 2000 | Tracey Clement, 'Critic’s Picks–Rm 35 turns 8', Metro, SMH, 16/9/05, p.23 |
| 1999 | Cassie Proudfoot, ‘When life imitates art’, The Canberra Times, 13/4/00,p.12 John McDonald, ‘The Good, The Bad & The Paranoid’, Spectrum, SMH, 30/10/99 p.4 Sebestian Smee, 'Mind-Bending & Nipple Modifying', The Galleries, SMH, 21/7/99, p.13 Bruce James, ‘Just Have a Look’ Spectrum Art', SMH,17/07/99 p.12 Brad Johnston, ‘Adoring Audrey’, The Sydney Observer, 8/07/99, p.11 |
| 1998 | John Mcphee, ‘Turning the Closets Inside-Out’, SMH, 2/03/98 p.12 |
| 1997 | Bruce James, ‘Galleries’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3/01/97, p.12 |
| 1994 | Prudence Murphy, Minora Majora, Artist book, Jetsetpress, Sydney Prudence Murphy, Seven Ways to Shingle, Artist book, Jetsetpress, Sydney |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
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| 2015 | Prudence Murphy: Weapon play, Sixth Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, IAFOR, Osaka, Japan |
| 2007 - current | Lecturer, Photomedia, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney |
| 2014 | Keynote speaker - Prudence Murphy: Weapon play, C&K Annual Convention, Brisbane |
| 2013 | ABC Radio National, Life Matters Prudence Murphy: boys with guns, Interviewed by Natasha Mitchell |
| 2012 - 2013 | Lecturer, Photography, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney |
| 2010 - 2013 | Lecturer, Photography + Situated Media, DAB, University of Technology, Sydney |
| 2011 | Public Lecture 5: Prudence Murphy, PSM Image Studies Public Lecture Series, University of Technology, Sydney |
| 2010 | Photography for The note, exhibition by artist Kate Murphy, Breenspace, Sydney |
| 2003 - 2004 | Assistant/Arts administrator to artist Rosemary Laing, Sydney |
| 1999 | Photo documentation of installation for artist Marion Borgelt, News Limited, Sydney |
| 1997 - 1998 | Archiving & B/W hand printing for photographer Bruce Weber, Chelsea B/W, New York |
| 1996 | Photographic assistant to artist Erwin Olaf, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney
Lecturer’s assistant, Photomedia, College of Fine Arts, The University of NSW, Sydney |
| 1995 - 1999 | B/W processing and hand printing, Superprint Photographic Services, Sydney |
| COLLECTIONS |
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| Artbank Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne Private collections in Australia, Europe and the US. |