| BIOGRAPHY |
| 1996-97 |
Graduate, BA (Applied Arts), College of Fine Art,
University of NSW |
| 1993-95 |
Student, Textiles Studio, Canberra School of Art,
Australian National University |
| 1992 |
Certificate of Textile Design and Screen-printing, East
Sydney Tech |
| 1989-91 |
Diploma of Interior Decoration, Swindon Technical College,
UK |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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| 2007 |
‘Black & White & Re(a)d All Over’, Strathnairn
Gallery, Holt ACT |
| 2003 |
‘Detritus’, Gorman House Arts Centre |
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SELECTED GROUP ACT EXHIBITIONS
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| 2007 |
‘New Work 7’, Megalo Members Exhibition, Megalo Gallery,
AC |
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‘Objects of Desire’, Strathnairn Gallery, Holt, ACT |
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‘Solace’, Cowra Regional Gallery, Cowra |
| 2006 |
‘Landmarks’, Strathnairn Gallery, Holt, ACT and Belconnen
Gallery, ACT |
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‘Storylines’, Mawson Gallery, Mawson, ACT |
| 2005 |
‘The Big Wrap’, M16 Gallery, Fyshwick, toured to Cowra
Gallery |
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‘Almost Square’, Strathnairn Members Exhibition |
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‘Vinyl’, M16 Members Exhibition, M16 Gallery, Fyshwick |
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‘New Work 5’, Megalo Members Exhibition, Megalo Access
Arts |
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‘Drawings’, M16 Drawing Show, Fyshwick, ACT |
| 2003 |
‘Journey to Strathnairn’, Strathnairn Gallery (ACT
Heritage Festival) |
| 2002 |
‘As Is Now’, ANCA 10th Anniversary Exhibition, ANCA
Gallery, ACT |
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‘Still Cryptal Orchard’, ANCA Gallery, Dickson, ACT |
| 2000 |
‘Rhythm’, ANCA Gallery, Dickson, ACT |
| 1999 |
‘Cryptal Orchard’, Craft ACT, Watson (Festival of
Contemporary Art) |
| 1996 |
‘New Ground’, Megalo Artist in Residence Exhibition, ANCA
Gallery, ACT |
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| SELECTED NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS |
| 2002 |
‘A Passion for Paper’, 10 years of Primrose Paperworks,
Mosman Regional Gallery, NSW |
| 2002 |
‘Paper and String’, Redcliffe Regional Gallery and touring
regional Queensland and Victoria |
| 2001 |
‘Nikon Summer Salon 2002’, Centre for Contemporary
Photography, Melbourne |
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SELECTED TOURING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ExHIBITIONS
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| 2001 |
‘Grand Comme Un Mouchoir’ (More Swanky Hankies in France),
Bibliotheque Forney, Hotel de Sens, Paris and Eco Musee de Fourmies, France (also
Exhibition curator) |
| 2001 |
‘Scissors Paper Stone’, Craft Qld’s touring fibre (paper)
exhibition: Qld and Vic Regional Galleries |
| 1998-01 |
‘More Swanky Hankies’. Jam Factory, Adelaide; Object
Gallery, Sydney and Meat Market, Melbourne |
| 1996-9 8 |
‘Putting It In Print’, Craft ACT, toured regional SA, Vic
and to Nara,Japan |
| 1996-97 |
‘Swanky Hankies’, Canberra, Goulburn |
| 1996 |
‘Art Postale Textile’, Dordogne France |
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AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
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| 2001 |
BundanonTrust: Artist in Residence Program with Primrose
Papermakers |
| 2000 |
Bundanon Trust: Boyd Studio @ Riversdale |
| 1998 |
Bundanon Trust: Artist in Residence Program |
| 1997 |
Arts Week Residency Program, Canberra Boys Grammar |
| 1994 |
Japanese Summer Cultural Exchange – Kyoto Seika
University |
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Megalo Access Arts – Printmaking Artist-in-Residence |
| 1996/98 |
Exhibition development grants from artsACT |
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| Represented in the collection of the University of New
South Wales, Junichi Arai, ACT Health, Thyssen Krupp Australia and various
private collections |
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| Maryann Mussared is a full-time practising artist, based
in Canberra. She studied textiles, printmaking and papermaking at the
Canberra School of Art for three years before completing her Bachelor of
Applied Arts of the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 1997. She has a studio in
an old farm cottage in the gardens of Strathnairn Arts Association in
north-west rural Canberra. |
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| Her practice combines mixed media and applied techniques,
including gilding and collage with handmade paper, often combined with
spontaneous and repetitive mark making such as subliminal writing and
Pitman’s shorthand. Each piece included in the “Archive” and “Shiryou”
series evokes a particular memory: a vision, smell or sense. |
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| She says: “Personal memory and a large collection of
artefacts in my studio are an important stimulus to my practice. As I look
at my hopelessly congested workspace, boxes overflowing with textiles and
shelves containing old journals, postcards and objects collected from all
over the world and inherited from my family, I often ask myself why I have
amassed so many objects and scraps over the past decades? What are their
relationships to each other? Why have I spent so much time carefully sorting
and archiving all these pieces? What is the internal mechanism that urges me
to save these scraps of memories, now safely physically archived in a picture
frame but also in my heart. Is sorting them so meticulously a way of making
sense of the past or is it providing me with a way to create order in the
present? Or maybe I am clearing away unfinished business and preparing
myself for the way forward – new ideas and all that waits in the
future.” |
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| Mussared has spent extended periods living overseas
including UK, USA, Germany and France. While a student at the Canberra
School of Art, she was part of the Canberra School of Art’s cultural
ambassadors program to the Kyoto Seika Summer Art School. |