Statement
My painting practices arise from a cross-cultural/cross-disciplinary focus. I am interested in how order and randomness, chance and the arbitrary can play out in painting, carried in a conversation between the process of making, relationships of colour, space and notational forms. They are responses to the phenomenological experience: of cultural spaces, of those of sound and paint, of immediacy and improvisation. Manipulating these aspects, constructing and re-constructing, makes for the experience of the unexpected and often a sense of the unfinished at the end stage. The viewer can add her own perceptions to the richness of the experience.
Contact
Email: elisabethbodey@gmail.com
Instagram: bodeyliz
Studies
- 2016 • Doctor of Philosophy – Australian National University
- 2001 • Graduate Diploma of Education in Visual Arts – University of Melbourne
- 1998 • Master of Arts in Fine Art – RMIT University
- 1985 • Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Printmaking – RMIT University
- 1975 • Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fine Art and German – University of Queensland
Collaborations
- 2016 • Poetic Energies across Sonic Space – curated by Dr Bruce Crossman, University of Western Sydney: an ‘exploration of the traditional Chinese literati cross-art form attitude towards artistic creation and scholarship’. A video is available here.
Curatorial Projects
- 2022 • Black – curated by Elisabeth Bodey at Five Walls, Melbourne. A project involving six artists (painters) with very different approaches to their practices. An investigation into the colour Black - Elisabeth Bodey, Paul Boston, David Harley, Emma Langridge, Aaron Martin, David Thomas.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2023 • The Co-existence of Things – Five Walls, Melbourne
- 2021 • Go-between – Five Walls, Melbourne
- 2020 • Convergence - Abstract Project, Paris
- 2020 • 'Spectral' - Five Walls, Melbourne
- 2019 • 'le temps entre les' – Factory 49 Paris. Paris
- 2018 • 'Developing Structures - Resonance' – Abstract Project, Paris
- 2017 • 'Songs for a Lorikeet' – Factory 49, Sydney
- 2017-18 • 'Vespers' – The Sofitel, Melbourne
- 2016 • 'Fields and sites’ - Factory 49, Sydney
- 2016 • 'Fields and sites’ - Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
- 2015 • 'Fields of relations, boxes of jewels' – School of Art Gallery, ANU, Canberra
- 2013 • 'In Place' – Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
- 2012 • SOA Foyer Gallery, ANU
- 2011 • 'In Place' – Aranda Contemporary, Melbourne
- 2008-2009 • Recent Paintings – Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Melbourne
- 2008 • Excision – WTS, Alice Springs
- 2007 • Apmere – Forty Five Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne
- 2007 • Excision – Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney
- 2003 • Idea of North – Conical, Melbourne
- 2001 • Idea of North – Ocular Lab, Melbourne
- 1999 • Span – Temple Studio, Melbourne
- 1998 • Master of Fine Arts Presentation – Span Galleries, Melbourne
- 1998 • Gauge – Temple Studio, Melbourne
- 1997 • Lull – West Space, Melbourne
- 1997 • Glisten – Project Space, Faculty of Art Design and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne
- 1994 • Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
- 1993 • Periodic – Archival Body – 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- 1993 • Periodic – Intrada – Artspace, Sydney
- 1991 • Periodic – Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- 1990 • Realities Gallery, Melbourne
- 1989 • Realities Gallery, Melbourne
- 1989 • D.C.Art, Sydney
- 1988 • Girgis and Klym Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
- 2024 • Tangent - Mayoral Art Exhibition, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, Melbourne
- 2023 • Paper:The Permanence Of The Temporary - JAHM, Melbourne
- 2023 • Women In Abstraction - Five Walls, Melbourne
- 2022 • Thinking Black - Five Walls, Melbourne
- 2022 • Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize - finalist. Bayside Gallery, Melbourne
- 2021 • Que des femmes...only women (Biennale Internationale d'Art Non-objectif) – Factory 49, Sydney
- 2021 • TAPE group show – Five Walls, Melbourne
- 2021 • Covimetry Art Project – ElyCentre of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, USA
- 2020 • Covimetry Art Project – BWA Gallery, Poland
- 2018 • The Field Revisited – Langford 120, Melbourne
- 2018 • Of Colour And Light – West End Art Space, Melbourne
- 2018 • Abstract Junctions – Abstract Project, Paris
- 2018 • The Abstract Project – Factory 49, Sydney
- 2018 • Edge – Langford120, Melbourne
- 2018 • Abstraction TwentyEighteen – Langford120, Melbourne
- 2017 • Group Show: Reductive – Non objective Private Gallery, Katoomba, NSW
- 2015 (November-December) • 'Works On Paper' – Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
- 2014 • 'Blue' – Langford120, Melbourne
- 2014 • Gold Coast Art Prize, Queensland 2013 • In Line – Langford 120, Melbourne
- 2012 • SPAN – The Stockroom, Kynton
- 2008 • Abstraction Six Ways – Charles Nodrum Gallery
- 2006 • Fletcher Jones Art Prize – Geelong Gallery, Geelong
- 2005 • A Short Ride in a Fast Machine – Gertrude Contemporary Art Space
- 2002 • APW Celebrating 21 Years of Printmaking – Australian print Workshop, Melbourne
- 1997 • A4 Art 1997 – West Space, Melbourne
- 1996 • The Art of Collecting #2 – Linden Gallery, Melbourne
- 1996 • Grounded – The Basement, Melbourne
- 1995 • Save Albert Park – Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
- 1995 • Decadence – 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- 1994 • Don't Stop – Linden Gallery, Melbourne
- 1994 • Sinistra – Artspace, Sydney
- 1994 • House – Lighthouse Foundation at Sotheby's, Melbourne
- 1993 • Margaret Stewart Endowment Selected Exhibition – National Gallery of Victoria
- 1993 • Supervalent Thoughts/Periodic: post factum – Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial (Core Program)
- 1993 • Ether Ohne titel – Melbourne
- 1992 • Recently Seen – Works from the Margaret Stewart Endowment of the National Gallery of Victoria, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
- 1992 • A.C.A.F.3 – Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
- 1992 • Artworkz Four – 101 Collins Street, Melbourne
- 1991 • Frustrated Cargo, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- 1991 • Art Object Vending Machine Project – Cell Block – Rhumbarallas, Melbourne
- 1990 • Inaugural Exhibition – Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art
- 1990 • A.C.A.F.2 – Realities Gallery, Melbourne
- 1990 • Lost in Space – 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- 1989 • IN-HOUSE – 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- 1989 • IN-HOUSE – Exhibition Gallery, Wangaratta
- 1988 • A New Generation – Australian National Gallery, Canberra
- 1988 • Five Painters – RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
- 1988 • Show With No Name – Linden Gallery, Melbourne
- 1988 • Artist's Choice – Stanfield Gallery, South Melbourne
- 1988 • Collector's Starting Kit – D.C.Art, Sydney
- 1988 • National Women's Art Award – Centre Gallery, Gold Coast
Awards
- 2010 • ANU CASS Scholarship for PhD Candidature – July 2010
- 2007 • Corangamarrah Art Prize – Victoria
- 1993 • Pat Corrigan Artist Grant – National Association for the Visual Arts, for Periodic, an installation at 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- 1991 • Australia Council Visual Arts and Crafts Board – Verdaccio Studio, Italy, 1993
- 1989 • Pat Corrigan Artist Grant – National Association for the Visual Arts, for IN-HOUSE at 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- 1986 • RMIT Arts Travelling Scholarship
Presentations
- 2014 • AAANZ Conference. Before, During and after Watiyawanu: a story of a brief moment in time.
Residencies
- 2019 • Residency and exhibition at Factory 49 Paris
- 2017 • Residency and exhibition at Abstract Project gallery in Paris
- 2015 • The Gatekeepers Cottage at Police Point, Point Nepean, Victoria
- 2007 • Bundanon Studios. N.S.W
- 2004 • Bundanon Studios, N.S.W
- 1994 • Australia Council, Verdaccio Studio, Italy
- 1992-1993 • Oncology Department, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne
Bibliography
- 2023 • Sheridan Palmer, David Harley: Split Spectrum: Visual Artists and the Prism of Music, p.275 in Belonging, Detachment and the Representation of Musical Identities in Visual Culture. Antonio Baldassarre, Arabella Teniswood-Harvey. Wien: Hollitzer Verlag.
- 2016 • Bodey, Elisabeth. Negotiating cross-cultural conversations in painting. Quoted in Warlpiri non-linguistic references. David Nash, compiler.
- 2008 • Rebecca Guest, Abstraction 6 Ways catalogue essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery
- 2006-7 • Sunnysideup2006-7 blogspot fortyfivedownstairs “A short ride in a fast machine: Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985-2005"
- 2005 • Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2005
- 1998 • RMIT 98 Postgraduate Catalogue, Department of Fine Art, RMIT University
- 1997 • “Nachtraglichkeit (deferred action)”, Hjorth L., catalogue essay, Glisten, Project Space, RMIT University
- 1996 • “Artist mothers tell...”, BROADsheet, Vol. 25 No.2
- 1994 • Christopher Heathcote, The Age, June
- 1993 • Kevin Murray, The (B)Racket (Creep), catalogue essay, 1993 Australian Sculpture Triennial
- 1993 • The (B)racket (Creep). Kevin Murray. Catalogue. Sculpture Triennial. Melbourne
- 1993 • “Declension/Thanatos”, Rizkalla A., catalogue essay, Periodic – Intrada, Artspace, Sydney
- 1993 • “The Archival Body”, Marsh A., catalogue essay
- 1993 • Periodic- Archival Body, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- 1992 • “Art Object Vending Machine Project”, Agenda, March/April, p.22
- 1992 • Christopher Heathcote, The Age, March
- 1989 • Gary Catalano, The Age, October
- 1989 • Elwyn Lynn, The Australian, July
- 1989 • Gary Catalano, The Age, June
- 1988 • Gary Catalano, The Age, March
- 1988 • Ron Millar, The Herald, March
- 1987 • Ron Millar, The Herald, June
Collections
- Australia, France, England, Japan
- City of Darebin
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Artbank
- Private Collections