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Polly Stanton, Artist/Filmmaker

Polly Stanton is an artist and filmmaker. Her work primarily investigates the relationships between environment, human actions and land use. Her films and installations focus on contested sites and extractive zones, presenting landscape as a politically charged field of negotiation, entangled with history, technology and capital.

Selected Projects,
Curriculum Vitae,
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Contact.

Currently lives and works
in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia.

Education

2018
Doctor of Philosophy (Fine Art), RMIT University
2010
Master of Fine Art with Distinction, RMIT University
2001
Bachelor of Arts in Media Art, RMIT University

Solo Shows

2023
Thresholds. The Unconformity Biennial Arts Festival, Queenstown, TAS
2020
Indefinite Terrains. Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
2019
Indefinite Terrains. Stockroom Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2016
Undercurrents. May Space Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015
Undercurrents. MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014
Stórhrid. Conduit Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2012
Hallway. Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand
2011
Suburban Memory. West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2009
Shifting Measures. Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Group Shows

2023
The Space Beyond The Screen, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia
Unsettling Queenstown, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
Her Beauty and Her Terror, Redcliffe Art Gallery QLD
WIND, Climarte Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2022
Notions of Care. Ararat Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Notions of Care. Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2021
Mutable Ecologies (online)
Shelter in Place. Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Notions of Care. Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia
Hyper-Possible: Coventry Biennial of Art, Coventry, UK
Her Beauty and Her Terror. Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, QLD, Australia
2020
Numinous Beginnings. Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
Landscape Suicides. VODMilk Films (online)
Propositions for Listening. Avantwhatever Festival (online)
Post Human Publics. Project Space, Melbourne, Australia
2019
Notions of Care. Hobiennale Arts Festival, Hobart, Tasmania
Translating Ambience. Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Horizon/tal. City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
The Model Citizen. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018
Super Field. RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, Australia
2017
Current. Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Indefinite Visions. Alchemy Film & Arts Festival, Hawick, UK
The Ecology of Place. SAB Cinema, Melbourne, Australia
Spectral Ecologies. Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia
2016
Body, Place, Object. OGU Mag Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015
Current. Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW, Australia
Resolving Ruins. Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2014
One Hour Glass. Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Spacious Present. Art, Not Apart Festival, Canberra, Australia
Moving Pictures. Expanding Space. Careof Gallery, Milan, Italy
Index A. KINGS, Melbourne, Australia
2013
Melbourne Now. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Darkness On The Edge Of Town. Perth Centre For Photography, Perth, Australia
One After Another. Kings ARI, Melbourne, Australia
Future Visions. Castlemaine Art Festival, Victoria, Australia
Matter & Space. Ne’–Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2012
The Pulse of Duration. Bristol Biennial, Bristol, UK
2011
When the Image Takes Form. Mølla på Grim, Kristiansand, Norway
Untitled. Sardam Gallery, Sulaimani, Kurdistan
4x1. Screen Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2010
Creative Intelligence. Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
Place. RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Indefinite Remnants. Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia

Performances & Presentations

2023
Fieldworking (symposium) CAST+RMIT University, Melbourne VIC
Fieldwork for Future Ecologies (book launch + panel talk), Perimeter Books, Melbourne, VIC
2022
Re-assemble Art Education Conference (workshop), RMIT University
2021
Reading Aloud, (public reading) Open House + Melbourne Art Library
Lost Rocks (book launch + panel discussion) A Published Event (online)
Mutable Ecologies, Forest Session III (symposium) RMIT (online)
Shelter in Place (panel discussion) Town Hall Gallery (online)
2020
Eco_Media Symposium: Fire and Rain, RMIT University (online)
Unpacking Metahaven: Field Report (panel talk). MPavilion (online)
2019
And Then the Sea Came Back (presentation), The Blind Tourist, WFMU-FM
Emergent Fields (performance), Framework #686, Framework Radio, Resonance FM
RE:SOUND (conference) Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Rupture, Vibration and Residue (symposium) Black Box, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2018
Film Performance. Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
And Then the Sea Came Back (performance), Deutschland Radio, Germany
The Politics of Listening (conference) University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
The Eye of the Storm (commission) Museo Renia Sofía Radio, Madrid, Spain
Open Field (symposium) RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, Australia
2017
Amplification / Annihilation: In Sonic Defiance of Extinction (performance) Café Oto, London, UK
Oceans (diffusion performance) RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
And Then the Sea Came Back (performance), Documenta 14 Radio, Savvy Gallery, Berlin, Germany
And Then the Sea Came Back (performance) Errant Sound, Berlin, Germany
2016
The Art of Public Space (research exchange) Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Global Local (performance) SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Japan
And Then the Sea Came Back (commission) Soundproof, ABC Radio National
The Audio-Visual Essay (UK research council workshop) Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Helsinki Artist Program (guest lecture) Augusta Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2015
SSAAANZ Conference. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Performing Mobilities Symposium. Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Moral Horizon (conference) University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Awards and Grants

2022
Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups, Australia Council for the Arts
2017
Jury nomination. Prix Ars Electronica (And Then the Sea Came Back)
2016
Skills and Development Grant, Creative Victoria
International Residency Program, Australia Council for the Arts
2014
Australian Postgraduate Award
2012
Art Start, Australia Council for the Arts
2011
RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s List Award for Academic Excellence
2010
RMIT Masters High Achievement Award

Related Activities

2023
Judge (short film panel), 17th Indonesian Film Festival
Selection committee, The Unconformity Artist in Residence Program
2021
Broad Member, Crawlspace Radio
2019–21
Artistic Advisory Committee, Bus Projects
2017
Mentor. Audiocraft (Ladies Who Listen Program)
2013
Founding member. Foodcourt Arts Space (a Renew Australia project)
2011–12
Board member. Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia
Selection Committee. Screen Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Residencies

2023
Bundanon AiR Program, Illaroo NSW
2022
The Unconformity Artist in Residence Program, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia
2019
Hepburn Wind Farm Artist in Residence, Leonards Hill, Victoria, Australia
2016
Helsinki International Artist Program. Suomenlinna, Finland
2015
Laughing Waters. VCA Centre for Cultural Partnerships, Eltham, Victoria, Australia
2014
Bogong Centre for Sound Culture. Bogong Village, Victoria, Australia
2012
NES Artist Residency. Skagaströnd, Iceland
2011
WIRED Lab. Riverina District, NSW, Australia

Publications

2023
The Politics of Pubic Space: Reissue (interview) OFFICE (forthcoming)
Tiarney Miekus (interview) Art Guide Australia podcast series, Jan 27 [link]
2022
Fieldwork for Future Ecologies: Radical Practice for Art and Art-based Research (co-editor), Onomatopee
Both/And, CSPA Quarterly, issue 36 (practice in focus)
2021
Fossil, (artist novella for Lost Rocks series), A Published Event
2019
Jez Riley French, Verdure Engraved (interview) Dec 10 [link]
Kate Carr, The Field Recording show (interview) Resonance Extra, Sept 2
2018
Elaine Leong, Capture (interview) NGV podcast series, March 27
2017
Brooke Boland, Spectres of Cinema (review) Arts Hub, April 7
Bridget Crone, ‘Sonorous Fields’ (catalogue essay) Mildura Arts Centre
2016
Pia Parkkinen (interview) Yle Finnish Broadcasting Company, July 23
2015
Bridget Crone, ‘Undercurrents’ (catalogue essay) MARS Gallery
Dan Rule, ‘Undercurrents’ (review/image) The Sydney Morning Herald, March 13
Penny Webb, ‘Tapping the Heart of Glass’ (review/image) The Age, June 20
Kyle Weise, ‘Resolving Ruins’ (catalogue essay) May Space Gallery
2014
Andrew Atchison, ‘Ice Mirrors’ (catalogue essay) Conduit Arts Space
2010
Simone Hine, 4x1 (catalogue essay) Screen Space

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