Drew Pettifer

 

Biographical Information

Born Shepparton, Victoria 1980
Lives and works in Melbourne, Victoria

Studies:    University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Arts - First Class Honours (Cultural Studies)
________RMIT, Master of Arts (Arts Management) – current
__ ___ __ VCA, Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts - current

Selected Solo Shows

2009     You are the Light, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne
2009     The Decisive Moment, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2008     Cake boys: photographs, in two series, Blindside, Melbourne
2005     Photographs, Meyers Place Art Space, Melbourne
2003     Traces of the Familiar, Experimental Art Space, University of Melbourne

Selected Group Shows

2009     Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, INFLIGHT, Tasmania (forthcoming – November 2009)
2009     Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda
2008     Don't you know who I am? Five responses to urban anonymity, Trocadero, Footscray
2008     Iris Award 2008, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2008     moment monument, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford Convent
2008     Olive Cotton Award Finalists’ Exhibition, Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW
2008     Things@Kings, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2007     Beyond the Sprawl, Octopad Art Space, London, UK
2007     Art Mish Mash, Fad Gallery, Melbourne
2007     Sweet and Tender Hooligans, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton, UK
2006     White Noise, Meyers Place Art Space, Melbourne
2005     Ill Communication, Goya Gallery, Melbourne
2004     Room to Move, Switchback Gallery, Monash University
2004     Room to Move, 69 Smith St Gallery, Melbourne
2002     Josephine Ulrich National Portrait Exhibition, Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW

Selected Curatorial work

2009     Curtain Call, Blindside, Melbourne (forthcoming – November 2009)
2009     Artist-Run Initiatives in the City of Melbourne (co-curated by Mark Feary & Din Heagney), Art Melbourne
2008     Don't you know who I am? Five responses to urban anonymity, Trocadero, Footscray
2007     Sweet and Tender Hooligans, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton, UK
2005     Ill Communication, Goya Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Media and Publications

2009     Penny Modra, "You are the Light", M Magazine, The Sunday Age, 07/06/09: 20.
2009     “Gallery”, Art(e)fact Magazine, Issue 1, Fall 2009: 18-19.
2009     Stephanie Chapman, “Drew Pettifer”, Fallen Magazine, Issue 1, Summer 2009: 32-45.
2009     Mel Loughnan, “The Decisive Moment”, Opulent, 12/02/09.
2008     Isobel Dunstan, "Cake Boys", ThreeThousand.com, 11/06/08.
2008     Penny Modra, "Cake Boys", M Magazine, The Sunday Age, 8/06/08: 24.
2006     Photographs, self-published.
2003     Megan Backhouse, "Mixed Media - Review", A3, The Age, 06/08/03: 12.
2003     Cover image, Farrago Magazine (Issue 4, 2003).

Other Information

2009     Panel member for City of Melbourne Arts Projects Grants Assessment Panel
2008-    Board member of Blindside Artist Run Space, Melbourne