Drew Pettifer
Biographical Information
Born Shepparton, Victoria 1980
Lives and works in Melbourne, VictoriaStudies: University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Arts - First Class Honours (Cultural Studies)
________RMIT, Master of Arts (Arts Management) – current
__ ___ __ VCA, Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts - currentSelected 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 MelbourneSelected 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, NSWSelected 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, MelbourneSelected 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