Jody Graham is a multidisciplinary artist who uses unconventional tools and approaches when drawing, such as a rocks, bones or wire bound to the back of her hand or a bent umbrella. Jody Graham’s ideas celebrate the broken, displaced and forgotten, speaking to a compulsion to restore and rescue discarded material with an anti-consumerist and recycling ethos.
Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Witness Lost Bear Gallery Katoomba NSW
2019 Pee in a Wetsuit or Take a Long Hot Spa? Chrissie Cotter Gallery Camperdown NSW
2018 After the Rain M.Contemporary Woollahra NSW
2018 Discarded AD Space Paddington NSW
2018 Around the Block Art Est Art School & Gallery Leichardt NSW
2017 Salvage Lost Bear Gallery Katoomba, NSW
2017 Scavenger Stacks Projects Potts Point, NSW
2015 Sydney Drawn Lost Bear Gallery Katoomba
2013 Urban Landscapes Lost Bear Gallery Katoomba
2011 Industrial Landscapes Braemar Gallery Springwood NSW
Group Exhibitions
2020 Blue Mountains Portraits 2020 – Blue Mountains Cultural Centre NSW
2020 Birdland – NSW National Parks & Wildlife Blue Mountains Heritage Centre NSW
2019 Sculpture Otherwise – Blue Mountains Cultural Centre – Katoomba, NSW
2018 Articulate Turns Eight – Articulate Project Space – Leichhardt, NSW
2018 WILD – Flora & Fauna in Australian Art Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Windsor NSW
2018 String Along Articulate Project Space Leichhardt NSW
2018 All is not Black & White Artsite Galleries Camperdown NSW
2018 Grid – Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Oneroa New Zealand
2017 Smashed Screens – Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammer School, Ashfield NSW
2017 Mythologies of the Discarded – Peacock Gallery Auburn NSW
2017 Siteworks – Bundanon Trust NSW
2017 Off Site – Gaffa Gallery – Sydney, NSW
2017 Sculpture Otherwise – Blue Mountains Cultural Centre – Katoomba, NSW
2016 Ephemeral Inscriptions – Gaffa Gallery – Sydney, NSW
2016 The William Fletcher Rome Travelling Fellowship & Bundanon Residency Exhibition – Artarmon Galleries
2016 Vantage Points – Art Est. Leichhardt, NSW
2016 Out of Africa – The Space Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2015 Considered – .M Contemporary, Woollahra, Sydney, NSW
2015 1200K West – Fowlers Gap – AD Space ay UNSW Art & Design Campus, Paddington, NSW
2014 Elephant in the Room – Brenda May Gallery – 2 Dank St, Waterloo NSW
2014 Tweed Regional Gallery – Highlights from the Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings
2014 Embers of Empathy – Surry Hills, NSW
2014 Annual Autumn Exhibition Royal Art Society of NSW – Lavender Bay, NSW
2014 Just Drawing Exhibition Royal Art Society of NSW – Lavender Bay, NSW
2013 African Safari Exhibition – Depot Gallery – 2 Danks St. Waterloo, NSW
2013 Most Group Exhibition – May St. Gallery – St Peters, NSW
2012 Framed Penrith Regional & Lewers Bequest Gallery – Penrith, NSW
2012 Kedumba Drawing Collection – Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
2011 3 + 1 Mixed Exhibition – Lost Bear Gallery – Leura, NSW
2006 Selected group exhibition – Kedumba Gallery – Wentworth Falls, NSW
2004 Selected group exhibition – Kedumba Gallery – Wentworth Falls, NSW
Selected Awards/ Prizes
2020 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
2019 Blacktown City Art Prize
2019 Sculptures at Scenic World
2019 Art on the Greenway
2019 Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize
2018 Muswellbrook Art Prize
2017 Greenway Art Prize – Winner – Open Prize
2017 Blacktown City Art Prize
2017 Fishers Ghost Art Award – Campbelltown Arts Centre
2017 Paddington Painting Prize
2017 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize
2017 Gosford Art Prize
2017 Environmental Award, Directors Cut – BigCi – Bilpin NSW
2017 Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi, NSW
2017 Sculptures at Scenic World, Katoomba, NSW
2017 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
2016 Fishers Ghost Art Award – Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
2016 Kudos Award – Kudos Gallery, Paddington, NSW
2016 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize – Kudos Gallery, Paddington, NSW
2016 Rick Amor Drawing Prize – Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
2016 Waverley Art Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi – Winner, Mayor’s Prize
2015 Blacktown City Art Prize – Blacktown Arts Centre – Highly Commended
2015 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize – Kudos Gallery, Paddington
2015 Finalist The Outback Open Prize – Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2015 Re-magined (Waste material transformed into art) – First Prize – mixed media category.
2015 Calleen Art Award – Cowra
2014 Blacktown City Art Prize – First – Works on Paper
2014 Hornsby Art Prize
2014 Draw on the Mountain – Sketchbook Prize – First Prize
2014 St George Art Award – Highly Commended
2014 Waverley Art Award – Drawing – First Prize
2014 Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scale Art Award Lethbridge Gallery Paddington QLD
2013 Blacktown City Art Prize – Sculpture – First Prize
2013 Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize – Finalist
2013 The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing – Finalist
2013 Selected Students Exhibition – Trapezium Gallery – Western Sydney Institute – Drawing – First Prize
2012 Hawkesbury Art Prize – Purple Noon Gallery – Finalist
2012 Blacktown City Art Prize – Finalist (Art Reference group prize for works on paper)
2011 Blacktown City Art Prize – Finalist (Acquired by Fords Lands Company)
2008 Kedumba Drawing Award – Finalist (Selected for collection by Jenny Sages)
2004 Dobell Drawing Prize – Finalist
2003 Kedumba Drawing Award – Finalist (Selected for the collection by John Olsen)
Residencies
2020 BigCi – Bilpin, NSW – Artist Redidency
2018 October – Grafton Regional Gallery – Artist Residency
2018 March – BigCi – Bilpin, NSW – Artist Residency
2017 February – BigCi – Bilpin, NSW – Artist Residency
2016 June/July – BigCi – Bilpin, NSW – Artist Residency
2015 Blacktown Artist Studio Residency
Public Collections
Waverley Council
Blacktown City Council
Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings
Western Sydney Institute – TAFE NSW – OTEN
NADC – Nepean Art & Design Centre – TAFE NSW
Australian Ford Lands Company
Journals/Magazines/Blogs
Cheeseman J & Marashian N 2017, Mythologies of the Discarded exhibition catalogue 28 October – 26 November 2017 Peacock Gallery & auburn Art studio
Cawthorn M 2017, Off Site exhibition catalogue June 2017 Gaffa Gallery Sydney
NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize catalogue October 2017 Parliament House Sydney NSW
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing catalogue January 2017 Adelaide Perry Gallery
Fortescue Elizabeth ‘Artist Jody Graham’s love of bowerbirds inspired her latest installation at Sculpture at Scenic World in Katoomba ‘Daily Telegraph April 5, 2017 4:15pm http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/arts/artist-jody-grahams-love-of-bowerbirds-inspired-her-latest-installation-at-sculpture-at-scenic-world-in-katoomba/news-story/16de56cc38ef5fb2972c6c9fdf452210
Oz Art, Issue 7 Summer 2016, Re-Imaginging the Past – Artist Jody Graham. Pg 63-71
http://www.artsbluemountains.com.au/images/oz-arts/2016-summer/jody-graham.pdf
Artist Profile, Jody Graham – www.james-blackwell.com https://james-blackwell.com/blog/2015/8/11/artist-profile-jody-graham
Art Collector-Guide to public & Regional Galleries-Edition 4/2014-p41
Oz Arts, Summer/Spring 2013, Drawing a crowd-The Kedumba Collection hits the road by Julian Leatherdale. Pg63-72 www.ozarts.net.au
The Mountains Blueberry 2011 The age of steel by Carly Schultz
Education
2018 Master of Art UNSW Art & Design Paddington
2012 Advanced diploma in Visual Art, WSI, Nepean Campus
1991 Billy Blue Graphic Art School, Diploma, North Sydney
1987-89 City Art Institute, Paddington
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