Biography
Craig Walsh was born in Orange, NSW, in 1966 and has been based in Brisbane, Queensland for the past 20 years. He is primarily interested in hybrid and site-specific projects, and often utilises projection in response to existing environments, exploring alternative contexts for contemporary art. He works across a range of art forms including theatre, architecture, public works, gallery exhibitions and festivals. Whilst projection is a dominant media, he also works with photography, sculpture and new media.
His work has been selected for major survey exhibitions, festivals, commissions and residencies both nationally and internationally. Recent projects and exhibitions include Artefact H10505, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (2009); Heads Up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2008); 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, California, (2008); DRIFT 08, London (2008); My favourite Australian, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2008); Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2007); Wavefront: Australian Contemporary Art Scene, Tokyo Wondersite, Japan (2007); RE:SEARCH, Sendai Mediateque, Japan (2006); Eyes, Lies & Illusions, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne (2006); Media City Seoul, 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Korea (2006) and Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Japan (2005).
Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL
Current Adjunct professor, Griffith University, Brisbane
EDUCATION
1992 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Griffith University, Brisbane
1984 Senior Certificate, Wavell State High School, Brisbane
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010-11 Digital Odyssey: MCA National Media Arts Residency, Museum of Contemporary Art Touring Project, (touring project through rural and remote Australia)
2009 Artefact H10515, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
2008 Heads Up, C3West, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2006 Aloof, Brisbane Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
2003 Generation Point Click Drag (collaboration with Sebastian Moody), The Farm, Brisbane
2001 K:\012044 (collaboration with Cox Rayner Architects), Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane
2001 Blurring the Boundaries, Vietnam Institute of Architects, Hanoi, Vietnam
2000 Despite all the rage, OUTPUT, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1998 Outside In (collaboration with BCC line markers), Brisbane Festival, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1997 Self Promotion Tour, Artspace, Sydney; Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia; Grand Central Art, Melbourne, Australia and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (touring exhibition)
1997 Public Art: The Brunswick Street Collection, Brunswick Street Train Station, Brisbane
1994 Breathing Space, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1993 Queensland Country Life Collection, Fringe Festival, Brisbane
1992 Wasteland (collaboration with Jeremy Hynes), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Jakarta Biennale XIII, Jakarta, Indonesia
2008 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, California, USA
2008 My favourite Australian, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2008 DRIFT 08, London, UK
2008 Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan
2007 Nuit Blanche 2007, Toronto, Canada
2007 Tokyo: Floating World, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2007 Streetworks: Inside Outside Yokohama, Chulalongkorn University Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand; Valentine Willies Fine Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Substation, Singapore; The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia; Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (touring exhibition)
2007 Wavefront: Australian Contemporary Art Scene, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Re: Search, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
2006 Media City_Seoul, 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, Korea
2006 Eyes Lies & Illusions, Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne
2006 Experimenta: Under the Radar, FACT Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2006 Habitus – Habitat, Parasitism, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Qld, Australia
2005 Vanishing Point, Experimenta, Melbourne
2005 YOKOHAMA 2005, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
2005 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2004 The Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2004 Seoul-Brisbane Artists Exchange, Ssamzie Space, Seoul; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2004 I thought I knew but I was wrong, Chulalongkorn University Arts Centre, Bangkok; Beijing, China; NAFA, Singapore; Ssamzie Space, Seoul (touring exhibition)
2004 Australian Culture Now 2004, Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne
2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2003 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
2003 House of Tomorrow, Experimenta, Melbourne
2003 Multimedia Art Asian Pacific, Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
2002 10th Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2000 Fortitude: New Art from Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1999 Nine Dragon Heads, 9th International Environmental Art Symposium, Seoul
1999 Persona, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1998 Takahikawa International Art Festival, Tokyo
1992 Imminent, Isn’t Studios, Brisbane
COMMISSIONS (PERMANENT)
2008 Know your product, Fortitude Valley Train Station, Brisbane
2007 Agitations, TAFE Southbank, Brisbane,
2007 Classification Pending, Ipswich Parklands, Brisbane
2005 Shifting Planes, River Plaza, Brisbane
2005 Untitled, Casino Towers, Brisbane
2002 Untitled, Macarthur Chambers, Brisbane
2002 Entwined, Mackay Artspace, Mackay, Qld, Australia
2002 Input, Logan Entertainment and Cultural Centre, Logan, Qld, Australia
1998 Eye Site, Mooloolaba, Qld, Australia
COMMISIONS (TEMPORARY)
2007 Incursion, 12:28:50.33 S / 130:58:59.58 E, Palmerston Festival, Darwin, Australia
2007 Humanature, Womad, Malmesbury, UK
2006 Humanature, Fuji Rock, Japan and Womadelaide, Adelaide
2004 Temporary Lodgings, Luminosity, Rundle Street, Adelaide
2004 Blurring the Boundaries, ARTV series, ACMI & SBS Television, Australia
2004 Inside Out, Old Parliament House, Singapore
2003 Interface, Queensland Biennial Festival of Music, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane
2003 Humanature, Womad, Singapore, Adelaide (touring exhibition)
2003 Ice Cube, Adelaide International Film Festival, Rundle Street, Adelaide
2003 Urban Tide, Sydney Festival, Sydney
2002 Rolling Clone, God Lab, Livid Festival, Brisbane
2002 The Observatory, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
2001 Hydromancers, Livid Festival, Brisbane
2000 Tollwood Das Summer Festival, Munich, Germany
2000 Pulse, Tollwood Das Winter Festival, Munich
2000 Powerhouse Opening (collaboration with Arterial), Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
1998 Dust (collaboration with Arterial), Brisbane Festival, Brisbane
1996 Interactive Head Systems (collaboration with Jeremy Hynes), Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane
1995 In your face (collaboration with Jeremy Hynes), Livid Festival, Brisbane
1994 Space Madness (collaboration with Jeremy Hynes), Livid Festival, Brisbane
1994 Humanature, Woodford Folk Festival, Woodford, Qld, Australia (until 2001)
1994 Twisted Extrusion, Babble On Nightclub, Brisbane
1992 Beasts of Burden II, Livid Festival, Brisbane
THEATRE/PERFORMANCE PROJECTS
2007 Pig City, Brisbane
2006 Electric Lenin, Northern Rivers Performing Arts, Lismore, NSW, Australia
2006 Deconstruction (collaboration with ILISION and Richard Barret)
2006 Johnno
2004 The Flood, Northern Rivers Performing Arts, Lismore
2002 Innana’s Descent, Theatre Kantanka
RESIDENCIES
2006 Tokyo Wondersite, Tokyo
2006 Sendai Mediatech, Sendai
2005 Habitus – Habitat, Green Mountain and Binna Burra National Parks, Beechmont, Qld, Australia
2001 Artist-in-Residence, Cox Rayner Architects, Brisbane
2001 Artist-in-Residence, Asialink, Vietnam Architects Association, Hanoi
1999 Artist-in-Residence, XIT 99, Arterial, Brisbane and Gold Coast, Qld, Australia
1999 Artist-in-Residence, XIT 99, Hands on Art, Emerald, Qld, Australia
1999 Artist-in-Residence, Vision Millennium, Hands on Art, Townsville, Qld, Australia
1998 Zen Che, Community Youth Project (collaboration with Arterial, Ningi youth and R Wood), Ningi, Qld, Australia
1995 Artist-in-Residence, Primary Schools (various), Far North Queensland, Australia
1994 Assistant to John Elliot (Queensland Law Courts commissioned sculpture)
CURATORIAL / MANAGEMENT/ CONSULTATION
2009 Splendid Artlab, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
2004-08 Splendour in the Grass Arts Program, Byron Bay
2000-02 Headspace, Fortitude Valley, Qld, Australia
1999-03 LIVID Festival Arts Program, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne
1999 Output, organised by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane,
1998 Art on Line, Brunswick Street Train Station, organised by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
AWARDS
2007 People’s Choice, Nuit Blanche 2007, Toronto
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2007 Greene Studio Residency, New York, USA, Australia Council for the Arts
2003 8th Havana Biennial, Cuba, Australia Council for the Arts
2001 New Media Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2001 Studio Residency, Vietnam, Asialink
2000 Artist Monograph, Arts Queensland
1997 Studio Residency, Tokyo, Australia Council for the Arts
1996 Touring Grant, Arts Queensland
1994 Creative Development Grant, Arts Queensland