Amanda Alderson

curator, artist, arts management

Exhibitions

My recent artistic and curatorial projects flirt across the disciplines of contemporary art, local history, environmental forms and the (remembered) narrative.

Selected group exhibitions and awards received are listed below:

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 SICK AF, Nyisztor Studio, Indian Ocean Craft Triennial festival
2021 The Second-Best Time is Now, Mundaring Arts Centre
2021 Maelstrom, Nyisztor Studio, Indian Ocean Craft Triennial festival
2021 Safe Keeping, Mundaring Arts Centre
2020 Tied up with String, Mundaring Arts Centre
2020 Wide Open Road, Nyisztor Studio
2019 SCENE, Nyisztor Studio
2018 PCWK10, Nyisztor Studio
2018 City of Wanneroo Art Awards, Winner Sculpture category
2017 Bunbury Biennale, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery
2016 Tied up with String, Mundaring Arts Centre
2016 JMGAWA, Turner Galleries
2016 PCWKv8, Nyisztor Studio
2015 The Basement Studio, Mechanics Institute, Kalgoorlie
2015 SCENE, Nyisztor Studio
2015 PCWK 7EAVAN, Nyisztor Studio
2015 In-Transit, Depot II Gallery, Sydney
2014 PCWK14, Nyisztor Studio
2014 Mine Own Executioner, Mundaring Arts Centre
2013 Sojourn, Nyisztor Studio Annex
2013 Landscapes: Real & Imagined, Kidogo Arts Space
2013 PCWK13, Nyisztor Studio
2013 Fingers and Petals, Ellenbrook Arts and DADAA
2013 Suburban Archaeology, Ellenbrook Arts
2013 Aperture and Lace, Joondalup Festival
2012 Assemblage, Ellenbrook Arts
2012 The Shoe Show, Nyisztor Studio
2012 Art of Fashion, Joondalup Festival
2005 Crime Scene, Perth Centre for Photography
2004 Supermart04, Artrage Bakery Complex
2003 Supermart03, Artrage Bakery Complex
2002 Screen, Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth (BEAP02)
2000 Suburb, PICA
1999 Rebirth- Celebrating a Century of Change, Moores Building
1999 Degree Show, School of Art, Curtin University
1999 Contact- Unstable Fields of Power, Galeri Soemardja, Bandung Institut, Indonesia
1999 Contact- Unstable Fields of Power, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology
1998 HATCHED, Graduate Show, PICA
1998 Sculpture Survey, Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park
1997 Graduate Exhibition, WA School of Art, Design and Media (Central TAFE)
1996 Survey, Claremont TAFE

Selected Artisan Gallery Shops:
2010 – Present Mundaring Arts Centre, gallery artisan shop
2010 – 2012 North Gallery, gallery artisan shop
2008 – 2010 Found, Fremantle Arts Centre
2005 – Present John Curtin Gallery, gallery artisan shop

Education
2022-2023 Diploma in Silver Jewellery, Jewellers Academy London
1998-1999 Bachelor of Arts, Visual Art, Curtin School of Art, Curtin University of Technology
1995-1997 Diploma of Fine Arts, Western Australian School of Art, Design and Media &
Claremont School of Art

Awards:
2018 Prize winner of the Sculpture category, 2018 City of Wanneroo Art Awards
2012 Inaugural prize winner of the Art of Fashion award, 2012 Joondalup Festival

Residencies:
2016 Artist in Focus residency, Mundaring Arts Centre
2008 Friction Arts, Birmingham, UK for community development/ participatory arts
2005-2006 EPIC (Emerging Producers in Communities) program, Australia Council for the Arts
1998 – 1999 Artist Exchange Curtin School of Art / Bandung Institute of Technology

Collections:
Shire of Mundaring
Private and personal collections