Academic Details

2007 completed a PhD by project - RMIT - Melbourne
1999 B.A. Fine Art (Sculpture) - Honours Degree - RMIT - Melbourne
1999 Post Graduate Studies (Autonome Kunst) - Sandberg Institute - Amsterdam
1997 B.A. Fine Art (Sculpture) - RMIT - Melbourne

Projects

2008
projectprojects – curated by Kirsty Ogg - The Showroom – London
Line Drawing – curated by Dr Linda Marie Walker – South Australian School of Art – Adelaide
The Narrows Print Workshop - curated by Warren Taylor - The Narrows - Melbourne
Evergreen magazine - curated by Liv Barrett and James Deutscher - Melbourne
The Library Project - curated by Pat Foster and Jen Berean - Frankston Library - Frankston
International Students Exhibition - Tongji University - Shanghai Biennale - Shanghai
Axis Bold As Love - Melbourne Selection - Curated by Liv Barrett and James Deutsher
for the exhibition 'Saisons Increase part 3' at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux -
organised by A Constructed World
One Hundred Sound Works by One Hundred Artists from the 21st Century - with PAECES -
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces - Melbourne
advance/retreat: three experiments in transdisciplinary collaboration - curated by Brad
Haylock and Mark Richardson - West Space - Melbourne

2007
provisional devices for a propositional living space (partial collaboration involving Daniel van Cleemput and Jude Walton), Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces – Melbourne
Westspace East (as a part of Run artist Run asialink program) – curated by Mark Feary – at PKW Singapore
Structural Adjustments (participant within: choreographed by Jude Walton) - Arts House - Melbourne
Gertrude Studio Artists Exhibition – Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces – Melbourne
subdivide and concrete - curated by James Deutscher and Chris Hill - Joint Hassles - Melbourne
PhD graduate publication/exhibition - Gossard Studios, RMIT - Melbourne
abstraction, architecture, space - curated by Justin Andrews - RMIT project space - Melbourne
workshopnonstop - curated by Lisa Kelly - LOOSE projects - Sydney

2006
indexing practices (projects in production) - Gertrude Studio Artists exhibition - GCAS Melbourne
system, modification - video installation with OSW (Terri Bird, Scott Mitchell) for 'resistance is futile' - curated by Kim Donaldson, VCA Gallery
actual transformational [winters end] - partnering with Spiros Panigirakis, Christopher Hill, Helen Johnson, Matthew Brown as a part of 'anoccupation' (a 1 day event constituting an intervention into an abandoned house in Melbourne
project projects: open and hosted 19/06/06 – 14/07/06 - RMIT Project Space, Melbourne

2005
things & things & pieces of things - in 'SELEKTA'- Westspace - Melbourne
active air (with OSW) - Ocular Lab - Melbourne (collaboration)
groundings (with OSW) Melbourne Prize for urban Sculpture - Federation Square, Melbourne (collaboration)
things full of people(publication)- contribution to Situation in the context of Lisa Kelly’s project within 'Situation: Artists Collaborations, collectives & artist networks from Sydney, Singapore and Berlin'(curated Russell Storer) - MCA - Sydney
thickening diagrams - corner to corner and stretching - as a part of 'the molecular history of everything' - curated by Juliana Engberg - Australian Centre For Contemporary Art - Melbourne
corner to corner and stretching - pagework for 'SLAVE 3' - issue 3 - curated by Rob MacKenzie in collaboration with BLESS - Melbourne and Paris
collected collection dispersed collection summer ’04 – ’05 - in 'SLAVE 3' exhibition - VCA Gallery - Melbourne
bookcover commission for the Deleuze and Gauttari Dictionary edited by Dr Adrian Parr - Savannah USA

2004
Consandine, Fulton, Geikie, Hester, Huang - curated by Katherine Huang - MIR11 - Melbourne
some kind of dispersing states of thick - pagework for SLAVE 2 magazine - curated by Rob MacKenzie - Melbourne
multipleMISCELLANEOUSalliances - a largescale curatorial project/workshop facilitated at CLUBSproject inc - Melbourne
Resistance Through Rituals - co-ordinated by Lisa Kelly - WESTSPACE - Melbourne
There’s a Hole in The Bucket - curated by Spiros Panigirakis - CLUBSproject inc - Melbourne
The Manifesto Show - co-ordinated by Bridget Currie, DOWNTOWN project space, Adelaide (group show)
Quiet - coordinated by Avantika Bawa, Aqua Space, Savannah Georgia, USA (group show)

2003
one thing another thing some things other, other things stagger, and - CLUBSproject inc (independent project)
fish-time - with OSW, CLUBSproject Inc (independent project) (collaboration)
CLUBStennis - with OSW, CLUBSproject Inc (independent project) (collaboration)
of events into tiny chunks (an occasion of relaocation) - In The Making, curated by Liza Vasiliou, MUMA, Gippsland (group show)

2002
intensive objects indeterminate events - Westspace: Melbourne (independent/solo project)
outbox - Arts Victoria Light Wells, Melbourne (independent project)
objects translations (series 2) - exhibited in Possible Worlds, Curated by Juliana Engberg, Artspace, Auckland

2001
objects translations - 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
expanding compressing figures fields - within 'the blind spots we sometimes see' during Primavera 10 - Curated by Gail Hastings, MCA, Sydney (group show)
mixed bag - collaboration with Masato Takasaka and Nick Mangan, Ocular lab, Melbourne (collaboration)

2000
an example of an exhibition..... - TCB inc.art, Melbourne (independent project) (collaboration)
Longevity - Curated by Bala Starr, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (group show) (collaboration)
Imagination Travels Faster - with Scott Mitchell, Fleur Summers and Maudie Ingleton, Next Wave Festival (collaboration)
SPF 4+ - Curated by Spiros Panigirakis, Harley Heaven Studios, Melbourne (group show)

1999
A Translation - A three week project involving 18 interviews with 18 Melbourne, culminating in a book
Kitchen - Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands (independent project)
Picnic - Kunstvlaai 3, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands (independent project)

Organisational Projects + Artist Initiatives
2002 – 2007 One of the founding members of CLUBSproject Inc
2003 – current member of collaborative group OSW (with Terri Bird and Scott Mitchell)

Committees + Groups
2006-2008 GERTRUDE contemporary art spaces studio artist resident
2006 (since 2005) member of art-music collective ‘paeces’ (with Chris LG Hill, Joshua Petherick and Sean Bailey)
2006 (since 2003) OSW collaborative group (with Terri Bird, Scott Mitchell and Natasha Johns-Messenger)
2006 (since 2002) one of the founding members of CLUBSproject inc.
2001 - 2002 westspace committee

Teaching
2004-2007 Lecturer in Department of Sculpture and Spatial Practice - Victorian College of the Arts - Melbourne
2003 Studio Leader of “Interior Laboratory” with Suzi Attiwill - Interior Design Studio Elective at RMIT,
2002 - 2004 Lecturer of Sculpture, RMIT TAFE - Melbourne

Scholarships + Prizes
2006
Australia Council Visual Arts Board “Skills and Development” grant
Arts Victoria “International Program - Cultural Exchange” grant
Siemans prize – RMIT

2005
The Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture with OSW (terri Bird, Scott Mitchell and Natasha Johns-Messenger)

2004
recipient of ARTS VIC new work development award

2001- 2004
APA (Australian Postgraduate Award) to complete doctoral research

1998-1999
Funded to study for 12 months (from RMIT University) at The Sandberg Institute, The Netherlands

forums, discussions
'collaborative practice' - Gertrude Forums - GCAS - Melbourne - November 2007
SOUTH project – Wellington 2005
SOUTH project - forum at Ocular Laboratory - August 2005
'the individual and the collective' – paper given to the forum for SITUATION - MCA – Sydney 2005

Bibliography

Catalogue Essays
Rainforth, Dylan, Dancing For Architecture, catalogue essay for the project titled provisional devices for the production of a propositional living space, Getrude Contemporary Artist’s Spaces, 2007

Barnes, Carolyn. Abstraction, Architecture, Space. catalogue Essay co-inciding with the show of the same taitle curated by Justin Andrews. Melbourne 2007

Kelly, Lisa. Round 2, 3 & 4 Published in conjunction with Project Projects, RMIT project space, 2006

Panigirakis, Spiros. no not that way, this way. published in conjunction with Project Projects, RMIT Project Space, 2006

Kelly, Lisa , Resistance through Rituals is…. Published by west space inc, 2004

Kelly, Lisa + Hester, Bianca, A lively correspondance, Published by west space inc, 2004

Parr, Adrian. (Catalogue Essay), published by Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, July 2003 (yet to be published)

Vasiliou, Liza. In the making….Monash Museum of Art, June 2003

Hastings, Gail. The Blind Spots we Sometimes See. Primavera catalogue Essay, 2001

Starr, Bala. Catalogue essay to Longevity. Ian Potter Musuem of Art, Melbourne University. October 2000.

Hester, Bianca. - a translation - project book with essays concerning interviews with
18 artists - November 1999

Luker, Johnathon - Sync - exhibition catalogue essay - May 1998

McQualter, Andrew - Clear - exhibition catalogue - May 1997

published writings ( and texts for peers)
“some notes on the practice of Chris Hill” – catalogue essay published in conjuntion with the show ‘Happy Hard Haunted Haus’ at CLUBSproject inc, November 2005. Also published in Natural Selction # 6 (2006): www.naturalselection.org.nz

“some notes on collectivity”: Natural Selction # 6 (2006): www.naturalselection.org.nz

“CLUBSPROJECT feedback sessions: a manual”: Natural Selction # 6 (2006): www.naturalselection.org.nz

“things full of people;” – 2005
booklet published in conjunction with Lisa Kelly’s project in SITUATION – MCA Sydney - 2005

“between actions: working through Tom Nicholson’s practice from the multiple-middle” - 2004
published in Natural Selection issue 2, online journal
organized by Gwyn Porter and Dan Arps, New Zealand www.naturalselection.org.nz
and in Drain magazine (edited by Adrian Parr) http://www.drainmag.com/issue03/comments.php?id=74_0_6_0_C

“multipleMISCELLANEOUSalliances: an extrapolation” - 2004
published in resistance through rituals catalogue
published by west space 2004

“the proliferating A-Z”- 2004
published for multipleMISCELLANEOUSalliances dossier
limited edition of 100 copies
CLUBSproject inc - Melbourne

“prising it open” – 2004
a critical reflection on the ‘sat no to nothing’ campaign
to be published in UN-magazine, issue 2
organized by Brendan Lee and Lily Hibberd

“initial rendering of accumulation studies in open series”
Inventory text published in conjunction with exhibition titled
: objects : : translations : :
200 Gertrude Street, 2001

“of events into tiny chunks etc”,
artist page entry into Uniglory # 5: fanatic, 2002
Publication co-ordinated by Lisa Kelly

“notes | note pieces”
Catalogue texts published with Adrian Parr’s essay relevant to works (yet to be published)
untitled event 2002 (Westspace 2002) and
: objects : : translations : (200 Gertrude Street, 2001)
Published by Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, July 2003

“expanding.compressing.fields.figures”
series of 8 interviews with 2001 Primavera Artists
currently 2 independently published editions of each interview

“examples of some configurations”
series of 24 interviews and narratives for the event ‘Longevity’
Ian Potter museum of Art 2000
these currently consit of 1 independantly published edition of each interview

“a translation”
independently published text consisting of interviews and narratives translated from research gathered during the event titled ‘fame” held at 200 Gertrude Street in 1999

writer for SPEECH online review and discussion website: http://speech2012.blogspot.com/

Interviews
Artists / Artist-run Spaces: Interviews with artists from six Melbourne Artist Run Spaces
Sandra Bridie, March 2003
Published by West Space Inc.
ISBN 0 9585553 8 9

Mills, Jennifer - interview with Bianca Hester and Louise Weaver / a collaboration - April 1998

Reviews
Johnson, Helen. Geikie, Hester, Huang, Fulton + Consandine. Published in Un magazine, Issue 3, page 34.

Chapman, Chris. “Cool World”. Broadsheet Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture. Volume 30, no.4 December 2001 – February 2002.

Compte, Samantha - Imagination Travels Faster - Art Monthly On Line - www.artmonthly.com -
June 2000

Newspaper articles
Loxley, Anne. “Blindspots that make the mind work.” Sydney Morning Herald. 12/9/2001. p.15

Hynes, Victoria. “Spring Loaded”. Sydney Morning Herald. 14/9/2001. p.26

Genocchio, Benjamin. “Ah, to be young, gifted and free.” The Australian – Preview. 7/9/2001.