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Mosaic Artist Helen Bodycomb

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Biography: Helen Bodycomb

Helen Bodycomb is well known as one of Australia’s few contemporary artists working primarily in mosaic. She is widely professionally active; exhibiting, fulfilling commissions, guest teaching and presenting her work in conference presentations, nationally and internationally.

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EDUCATION

2015-19 PhD in Visual Art (3 year PhD Scholarship recipient ), La Trobe University, Bendigo

1996 Masters Degree in Visual Art (Painting), University of South Australia (Distance Education) deferred (unfinished) 1997

1993-94 Graduate Diploma in Fine Art (Painting), Monash University-Gippsland

1988-90 Bachelor of Arts Degree (Fine Art – Painting), Victoria College, Prahran, Vic

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS, MAJOR COMMISSIONS, SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Bibliomosaico, Ravenna Mosaico, Ravenna, Italy

2019 Mosaicism: Thinking in Mosaic, final PhD exhibition, Lot 19 Gallery, Castlemaine, Vic

2018 In Conversation exhibition, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Vic

2018 Transitions exhibition, ACT Craft & Design Gallery, Canberra, ACT

2017 Tasmanian Perspectives in Mosaic, Mawson Pavilion, Hobart, Tasmania2016 The Material and The Immaterial, solo exhibition, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University2015 Lily Hester Memorial, St Therese’s Primary School, Essendon Vic

2014-15 RKM (Roadkill Mausoleum) multi-media installation, 2015 Castlemaine State Festival, Vic

2013 Futurescape, sculptural mosaic commission, ArtPlay, City of Melbourne, Vic

2013 Detritus, Solo Exhibition, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine, Vic

2011 Blancmange Solo Exhibition, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine, Vic

2010 The Shyness of Trees, (collaborative) Hotel Penaga, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia2009 Northcote Wayfinding Project, bronze inlay commission, City of Darebin, Vic

2009-10 Victorian State Memorial to Forgotten Australians, Vic State Gov, Southgate, Vic

2007-08 Once upon a slime, sculptural mosaic commission ArtPlay Mosaic Seat, City of Melbourne, Vic

2007 Gone but not forgotten, Post Office Place Mosaic Pavement Inlay, City of Moreland, Vic2006 Anchor, mosaic commission Park Apartments feature wall mosaic, Port Melbourne, Vic

2005 Forest Trail, ephemeral and permanent mosaic installation, City of Brimbank, Vic

2005 Integrated Art Elements, Westgarth Kindergarten, Westgarth, Vic

2004-05 21 sq m commissioned wall mosaic, Fawkner Cemetery, Fawkner, Vic

2004 The Unswept Floor, The Harvest, mosaic commission, City of Boroondara, Vic

2003 Wesley College Environmental Interpretation Mosaic Sundial, glass mosaic, Chum Creek, Vic

2003 Doggies to Highpoint Community Mosaic Project, Missions Australia, Footscray, Vic

2002 margins, memories and markers – Port Stories, glass mosaic inlay with stone, City of Port Phillip, Vic (Commission recipient with Dianna Wells Design)

2001 Artist in Residence, La Scuola di Mosaicisti del Friuli, Spilimbergo, Italy

1999-00 Untitled Fountain, sculptural mosaic commission, City of Wyndham, Werribee, Vic

2000 Moonee Ponds Creek Public Art Strategy, Vic (Artistic Coordinator/Author)

1998-99 Mosaic Street Furniture Installation, 27 major glass mosaic artworks with stainless steel, Campbell Parade, Bondi Beach, NSW (Commission Recipient with Enver Camdal)

1998 Street Installation, 40+ works in mild and stainless steel and glass, High Street Westgarth, Vic (Commission Recipient with Enver Camdal)

1997 Nest, stone mosaic and fibreglass sculpture, (collaborative) City of Eltham Vic

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

2016 Making mosaics in the Anthropocene Era, Mosaique Magazine, July, France

2016 MOSAIC-aimc- In Contemporary World, Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli, Italy

2014 SHED, Simon Griffiths, Lantern Books (Penguin Publishing), Melbourne

2011 An Ancient Craft Gets a Bigger World Stage, The New York Times, October 27, 2011

2008 The Divided Heart – Art and Motherhood, Rachel Power, Griffin Press, Melbourne, 2008

2008 Mosaic Art Now 2008, Mosaic Rocks LLC, USA2006 Mosaic Now: works from Italy and Australia, Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre

2002 Modern Mosaic – Inspiration from the 20th Century, Tessa Hunkin, Quintet Publishing, London

AWARDS

2016 La Trobe University Post Graduate Research Scholarship

2011 In-Habit International travel award, for exhibition in Ravenna Mosaico, Ravenna, Italy

2001 Australia Council for the Arts (Community Cultural Development Project Grant)

2001 Arts Victoria, Discussion and Dialogue Grant (Italy)

HELEN BODYCOMB PORTRAIT
Photography: Cathy Ronalds
2019

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