Drew Pettifer
Biographical Information
Born Shepparton, Victoria 1980
Lives and works in MelbourneStudies
Current Master of Fine Art, Monash University
2009 Master of Arts (Arts Management) with Distinction, RMIT
Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts, VCA
2006 Bachelor of Arts - First Class Honours (Cultural Studies), University of Melbourne
2005 Bachelor of Laws, University of MelbourneSelected Solo Shows
2010 Hold on to your friends, No No Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, INFLIGHT, Tasmania
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
Selected Group Shows
2011 Radio Alice, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne (forthcoming)
2010 Lost in Painting, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne
2010 Youth, Art Charity, Berlin
2010 Secret Files from the Working Men’s College, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
2010 Re/Gendered, Platform Artist Run Space, Melbourne
2010 Finding Space, Carlton Hotel and Studios, Melbourne
2009 Fromagerie/Slime Store, Street Press Australia, Melbourne (with Helen Johnson and Rob McKenzie)
2008 Don't you know who I am? Five responses to urban anonymity, Trocadero, Footscray
2008 Iris08, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
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 Sweet and Tender Hooligans, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton, UK
2006 White Noise, Meyers Place Art Space, Melbourne
2004 Room to Move, Switchback Gallery, Monash University
2004 Room to Move, 69 Smith St Gallery, MelbourneCuratorial
2010 Experiments on Plant Hybridisation (with Gillian Brown), Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne (forthcoming)
2010 Debut VI, Blindside, Melbourne
2009 Curtain Call, Blindside, Melbourne
2009 Artist-Run Initiatives in the City of Melbourne (with Mark Feary, Phip Murray, 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, MelbourneMedia and Publications
2010 Dan Rule, “Around the Galleries”, A2, The Age, 28/08/10: 19.
2010 Robert Nelson, “Finding grace in natural cycles”, The Age: 19.
2010 Ace Wagstaff and Tai Snaith, “Hold on to your Friends” (review), RRR Radio, 22/07/10.
2010 Dan Rule, “Around the Galleries”, A2, The Age, 10/07/10: 20.
2010 Fiona Parker, “Hold on to your Friends” (interview), ABC Radio, 05/07/10.
2010 Nick Wurlod, “Hold on to your Friends” (interview), Joy FM, 29/06/10.
2010 Penny Webb, “Hold on to your Friends”, Melbourne Magazine, The Age, 25/06/10: 71.
2010 Gabrielle de Vietri and Anastasia Klose, “Hold on to your Friends” (exh. cat.), June 2010.
2009 Chris Barlow, “Fromagerie/Slime Store”, ThreeThousand.com, 30/07/09.
2009 “Photo Essay”, Arena Magazine, Issue 100, June 2009: 28-31.
2009 Dan Rule, “Drew Pettifer: You are the Light”, A2, The Age, 27/06/09: 21.
2009 Penny Modra, "You are the Light", M Magazine, The Sunday Age, 07/06/09.
2009 Daine Singer, You are the Light (exh. cat.)
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 Melissa Loughnan, “The Decisive Moment”, Opulent, 12/02/09.
2009 Jared Davis, The Decisive Moment (exh. cat.)
2008 Isobel Dunstan, "Cake Boys", ThreeThousand.com, 11/06/08.
2008 Penny Modra, "Cake Boys", M Magazine, The Sunday Age, 8/06/08: 24.
2008 Roger Nelson, Cake boys: photographs in two series (exh. cat.)Relevant employment and other information
2010- Artist representative, Shepparton Art Gallery Advisory Panel
2010- Secretary, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2009-10 Gallery Manager, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2009-10 Resident studio artist at Y3K Studios, Melbourne
2009- Program Administrator, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne
2009- Panel member for City of Melbourne Arts Projects Grants Assessment Panel
2008-09 Board member of Blindside Artist Run Space, Melbourne
2008 RMIT Union Arts Grant