Caroline Durre

Position title

• Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts

Qualifications

• PhD (in progress) Monash University
• MA (Visual Arts)by research Monash University
• Graduate Diploma in Education Hawthorn Institute of Education
• Dip. Art, PIT RMIT

Statement

As a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts, I am above all committed to the supervision of graduate research degrees. I bring to this work an enthusiasm both for studio practice and for the challenges of the exegesis, and an expertise which is demonstrated by many successful completions.

As a visual artist, three themes from the visual culture and the built environment of the seventeenth century inform my current research. These are: the Baroque formal garden; the style of fortress architecture known as the bastionated polygon; and quadratura (illusionistic ceiling painting). Such apparently disparate forms are linked in that they each manipulate the perception of space in order to entice and disorient the viewer.

Our era, with its emphasis on spectacle and excess, luxury and violence, consumption and inequality, has also been described as "baroque". I use perspective, distortion, repetition and symmetry to evoke a space which is entrapping and repelling by turns, part garden, part fortress, part death-star. Visit my website http://carolinedurre.com

Research/Professional activities

Awards & Commissions

• 2006 - Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery Drawing Aquisitive Prize
• 2001 - Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award
• 2000 - Fleming Muntz Albury Art Prize
• 1996 - Santos Whyalla Art Prize Industrial Art Award
• 1993 - Print Council of Australia Member Print Commission
• 1993 - Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Drawing Acquisitive

Grants & Residencies

• 2004 - Australian Postgraduate Award
• 2003 - Residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris supported by Monash University Faculty of Art & Design Research Grant
• 1994 - Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions humanities berth to Antarctica

Recent Publications  

• 'Now: Gosia Wlodarczak drawing'
  review, Imprint vol 39 no 3 Spring 2004 p10
• 'Papercuts'
  review, Imprint vol 38 no 3 Spring 2003 p10
• '2000 years 2 spaces': Clive Barstow & Nicola Kaye
  review, Imprint vol 37 no 4 Summer 2002 p22
• 'In the museum of extinction'
  Tick Tock: 8 artists look at extinction catalogue essay
  City of Melbourne/Melbourne Observatory 2002
• Notes... on the oceanic
  Isobel Clement catalogue essay, Diane Tanzer Gallery 2002

Recent Solo Exhibitions

• 2002 - Histories of... Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
  foreshadow, Linden, Melbourne
• 2000 - seven enigmas, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
• 1997 - Night scenes and allegories, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
• 1996 - Recent paintings, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
  An enquiry into allegory, Switchback Gallery, Monash University
• 1995 - Iconologies of Antarctica, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney

Other

• http://carolinedurre.com