about,
THERESE KEOGH is an artist and writer living and working on Awabakal and Worimi lands and waters, and pays respects to Elders past and present.
Sovereignty never ceded. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
EDUCATION
2021-2024, PhD, The Spoil Grounds, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2019-2020, Master of Geography, Narrating Materialities of Excess, Queen Mary University of London
2016-2018, Master of Fine Art, Revisiting the LBK Water Wells of Saxony, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
2011, Bachelor of Fine Art Honours, Monash University (First Class Honours)
2008-2010 Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash University
2009, Semester 2, Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash University, Prato: Italy campus
2007, Brighton Bay Art, Design and Photography Program
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2021, Wiedersehen mit einem Brunnen/A Well Revisited, State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz (smac), Chemnitz, Germany
2019, Imaged in Absence, Firstdraft, Sydney, NSW
2017, and murmured, Landesamt für Archäologie, LBK well excavation, Großstolpen, Germany
2015, After Firing, Firstdraft, Sydney, NSW
2014, verge, WPG, Mildura, Vic
2013, The Equatorial Arrangement (part one), Tarp Space, Ouyen, Vic
2012, Platform Archive Project, curated by Emma Hamilton, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Vic
2012, Bell’s Swamp, Allan’s Walk Shop 7, Bendigo, Vic
2011, Beeswax Project, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic
2010, Merri Creek Project part 1 and 2, Merri Park, Northcote, Vic
SELECTED GROUP+COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2021, 1/2 to dust, curated by Kenzee Patterson, Darren Knight Gallery, Waterloo, NSW
2019, Incubating Imaginaries, Old Corrimal Mine, Tarrawanna, NSW
2019, between clouds and screen savers, curated by Oliver Hull, Toy Returns, Fremantle, WA
2019, Place and Image, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt, NSW
2019, 19 Loftus, with Lyn Heazlewood, Carolyn Craig and Kat Sawyer, Loftus St Projects, Dulwich Hill, NSW
2019, Jack's Reloaded: material as memory, curated by Georgia Nowak and Eugene Perepletchikov, Jack's Magazine, Melbourne Design Week, Maribyrnong, Vic
2019, Dimensions Variable, National Art School, Sydney, NSW
2018, The time is out of joint, curated by Laura Carthew and Brie Trenerry, Trocadero Night Screen, Footscray, Vic
2018, Holes (working title), Our Neon Foe, Leichhardt, NSW
2018, Cosmopolitan Decline, Broken Hill, NSW
2018, Home ground advantage, curated by Kate Beckingham and Chris Dolman, twenty thirty seven, Sydenham, NSW
2018, The Habitat of Time, with A Published Event, Casula Powerhouse, Casula, NSW
2018, Petrified Wood, Fossil, Petrified Wood, curated by Justy Phillips and Margaret Woodward, Rosny Barn, Hobart, Tas
2017, An unorthodox flow of images, curated by Pippa Milne and Naomi Cass, CCP, Fitzroy, Vic
2016, Starting Point, curated by Alice Mathieu, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne, Vic
2016, Drawing Conversations, National Art School, Sydney, NSW
2015, While Wading, for more politely than shaking hands progress report, by Jacqui Shelton, Shop 43 Royal Arcade, Melbourne, Vic
2015, It ain't over yet (it hasn't even begun), curated by Alice Mathieu, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2015, The Collector Series, curated by Laura Thompson in collaboration with IDES, Two by Two, Northcote, Vic
2014-2015, Through a Lens, curated by Adam Harding and Alison Eggleton, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Vic
2014, The Sievers Project, CCP project space, Melbourne Art Fair, Carlton, Vic
2014, Obscured, Bus Projects, Collingwood, Vic
2014, First Night on the Job, facilitated by Jeremy Eaton and Alice Mathieu, DUDSPACE and Alice's house, Melbourne/Brunswick, Vic
2014, The Sievers Project, curated by Naomi Cass and Kyla McFarlane, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Vic
2014, Will to keep: reader, artist page, Archive_, Sydney, NSW
2014, Tarp West Space, curated by Jessie Lumb, West Space, Melbourne, Vic
2013, raft, curated by Spiros Panigirakis, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Vic
2013, Eclipse (return), Articulate Project Space, Sydney, NSW
2013, Bound Apart: Photography and Publishing, Rae & Bennett Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
2013, Between Architecture; The Writing Project, collaboration with Vivien Hollingsworth, Tim Royall and Jacqui Shelton, FELTspace, Adelaide, SA
2012, Placed, curated by Maryanne Coutts, Articulate Project Space, Sydney, NSW
2012, The Make Conversation Series – Week 4, Open Archive, Abbotsford, Vic
2011, Relay: repeat action over distance, curated by Tamsin Green, Firstdraft, Surry Hills, NSW
2011, (dis-)array – artists as independent publishers, facilitated by Brad Haylock, Light Projects, Northcote, Vic
2011, 3SQUARE, with Beth Arnold, Brooke Fenner, facilitated by Terri Bird, Conical, Fitzroy, Vic
2010, a series of reactions, collaboration with Brooke Fenner, Runt space, Caulfield, Vic
2010, Instant Network, facilitated by Ardi Gunawan, Guilford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2009, in process, with Tess Healy and Brooke Fenner, Runt space, Caulfield, Vic
RESIDENCIES+WORKSHOPS
2023, Visiting fellow, Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) and Critical Media Lab, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland
2023, Visiting artist residency, Bundanon, with Clare Britton and Kenzee Patterson, for Magnetic Topographies, Bundanon, NSW
2023, Redaction poetry and Deepening the Hunter, co-facilitated workshop with Rebecca Macklin, Research Coordination Network: Coordinating Global Coal Transitions Research, Durham University
2023, 1857, collective reading event for Quarry Pedagogies, Otways, Australia
2023, Visiting artist, Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, artist residency program, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
2023, Visiting scholar and artist, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program and The FEELed Lab, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada
2022, Magnetic Excursions:1+2, facilitated with Clare Britton and Kenzee Patterson, Wolli Creek, Sydney and Meanjin/Brisbane
2022, Visiting scholar, University of Newcastle, NSW
2020, Otherwise Possibilities, workshop run by Astrid Lorange and Free Association, Melbourne
2019, Being Heard, De-localising Dialect, workshop run by Denise Riley and Maria Fusco, Swedenborg Institute, London
2019, Old Corrimal Mine, Tarrawanna, NSW
2019, Frontyard, Marrickville, NSW
2017, Ergersheimer Experimente, Ergersheim, Germany
2016-17, Landesamt für Archäologie, Saxony, Germany
2013, Karringal Contracting, Ouyen, Vic
2012, National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW
AWARDS+SCHOLARSHIPS+GRANTS
2023, Miegunyah International Scholarship, University of Melbourne
2023, Prestigious Overseas Travelling Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts
2022-2023, Lorna Stirling Fund Scholarship, University of Melbourne
2022-2023, Norman Macgeorge Travelling Scholarship, University of Melbourne
2021-2024, Research Training Support Stipend, University of Melbourne
2021, Helen Macpherson Smith Scholarship, University of Melbourne
2019, Walter Oldershaw Award, Queen Mary University of London
2017, Dorothy Cameron Fellowship, University of Sydney
2017, David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award, Finalist
2016-2018, Australian Postgraduate Award, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
2016, PRSS, University of Sydney
2016, Dorothy Cameron Fellowship, University of Sydney
2014, Early Career Artist Commission, Centre for Contemporary Photography and Australia Council for the Arts
2013, Claypro Australia, material sponsorship
2013, Artstart Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2013, Creative Young Stars Grant, Australian Government
2011, Monash Vice Chancellor’s Honours-PhD Scholarship
2010, ADFAS Award for Drawing
2009, Monash Abroad Travel Grant
2007, Award for Excellence in Drawing, BBADPP
WRITING
2023, Of Scale and Allegory (in the Spoils of the Present), in Fossil Fables, by Global Extraction Observatory, edited by Therese Keogh, Sydney
2023, 1857, in Ecoes_5, edited by Mirna Belina and Hannah Pezzack, Sonic Acts, Netherlands
2023, Narrating Materialities of Excess, chapter in Fieldwork for Future Ecologies: Radical Practice for Art and Art-Based Research, edited by Bridget Crone, Sam Nightingale, and Polly Stanton, Onomatopee Press, Netherlands
2022, Global Association of Divers for the Written Extension of Shorelines, for Seaport2035, edited by Harun Morrison, Stockholm, Sweden
2022, Miring Grounds, with Louisa King, Swamphen Journal of Cultural Ecology, vol. 10, Ngā Tohu o Te Huarere: Conversations Beyond Human Scales
2022, Metal-logue, with Hélène Frichot, in Dimensions: Journal of Architectural Knowledge
2021, A misdescribed amendment, in Runway: Time, edited by Joel Spring, Sydney
2021, Wiedersehen mit einem Brunnen/A Well Revisited, including co-written contributions with Harald Stäuble, Clare Britton and Kenzee Patterson, curated by Ines Bruhn, State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz (smac), Chemnitz, Germany
2021, Dear J, Un magazine 15.1, Surplus, edited by Snack Syndicate (Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange), Melbourne
2020, toll-taken, exaction, expent, co-written with Katy Lewis Hood, in the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene, edited by Maria Sledmere and Rhian Williams, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Manchester
2020, we spent our lives confusing everything, like random shapes in dreams, written contribution to Photographic Tunnelling, solo exhibition by Emma Hamilton, Blindside, Melbourne
2020, With Laura, in The Clouds Have Died, independent publication, Melbourne
2020, With mud on my shoes, independent publication, London
2019, Then presumably to grasp, in 19 Loftus, independent publication, Sydney
2018, Holes (working title), independent publication, Sydney
2018, A rhythmic pattern of touching hands, a linking of bodies and actions, co-written with Jacqui Shelton, Un magazine 12.2, edited by Maddee Clark and Neika Lehman, Melbourne
2018, Petrified Wood, as part of Lost Rocks, edited by A Published Event (Justy Phillips and Margaret Woodward), Hobart
2018, Revisiting the LBK Wells, independent publication, Sydney
2016, Lull, independent publication, co-written with Jacqui Shelton, Melbourne
2016, Someone once told me that the secrets of the Universe are hidden in triangulation, written contribution to Immortal Flower, solo exhibition by Laura Carthew, Melbourne
2015, While Wading, for more politely than shaking hands progress report, by Jacqui Shelton, Melbourne
2014, On The Active Layer, Will to keep reader, edited by Lisa Sammut, Archive space, Sydney
2013, Light Turns Corners, The Curious Other, edited by Nikki Lam, Melbourne
2013, Between Architecture: Reader, in collaboration with Jacqui Shelton, Vivien Hollingsworth, and Tim Royall, as part of The Writing Project, Adelaide
2012, Platform Archive Project, edited by Emma Hamilton, Melbourne
2011, Boundaries of Bell's Swamp, independent publication, Melbourne
2011, the mind of itself and the world, edited by Brooke Fenner, Melbourne
2010, Bamboo Project, independent publication, Melbourne
FORUMS+LECTURES
2023, Educated Bodies, co-presented panel with Clare Britton, Faid Mazin Ahmad and Dana Marjan (Betchouف), Louisa King, Malak Al-Faraj, and Jacqueline Tran, facilitated by Endriana Audisho, as part of Reorientations: Exploring Architecture’s New Social Role, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
2023, Offshore Turbidities: Mist the Boat, with Harun Morrison, Research Colloquium at Critical Media Lab, Basel, Switzerland
2023, Magnetic Topographies, with Clare Britton, for the Intermedial Composition Network, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
2023, Legal Fictions, with Joel Sherwood Spring, as part of their exhibition Objects Testify, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2023, Conversations with Extractivism, lecture for Critical Ecologies, Shared Campus, Monash University, Art, Design and Architecture/Space for International Cooperation, Naarm, Australia/Athens, Greece
2023, Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud, co-presented lecture with Louisa King, Biennale Architettura College, Venice, Italy
2023, Sedimental Provisions, co-organised and presented at roundtable series, alongside Matthew Beach, including contributions from Imani Jacqueline Brown, Shellie Smith, Joel Sherwood Spring, Genevieve Zoe Murray, Eugenia Lim and Hoang Tran Nguyen, Queen Mary University of London and University of Melbourne
2023, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Research Series, FCCS, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada
2022, The Spoil Grounds, at Undoing Australia: Dismantling colonial institutions through struggle and resistance, The Australian Centre, Murrup Barak, and the Indigenous Graduate Student Association, University of Melbourne
2022, Narrating Excessive Grounds, Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network Conference, online
2022, GeoTour, Climate Collectivism: Environmental Storytelling, panel facilitated by Hélène Frichot and Isabelle Doucet, AHRA Conference, Pratt University, NY, USA
2022, A Schedule of Fictions, organised and presented at symposium, alongside contributions from Marwa Arsanios, Katy Lewis Hood, Harun Morrison, Susan Reid and Joel Sherwood Spring, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2022, Magnetic Topographies, with Kenzee Patterson and Clare Britton, Writing and Concepts lecture, KINGS Artist Run, Melbourne
2021, Miring Grounds, with Louisa King, Beyond Human Scales conference, Auckland, Aotearoa
2021, Dirt Moves: Dig and Dump, panel with Hélène Frichot, Karin Reisinger and Virginia Mannering, Fieldstations + DAZ (Deutsche Architektur Zentrum), TU Berlin
2021, Geostories and Geologics, lecture for Design, Philosophy, Architecture, University of Melbourne
2021, To: The Underside of Ships and Maps, reading at Strange/Letters symposium, Association for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture – Australia & New Zealand
2020, Neither River Nor Lake, panel presentation as part of European Association of Archaeologists annual conference, Budapest, Hungary
2019, Publication as artistic practice, panel discussion, Frontyard, Marrickville
2019, Talking to Termites, Think: Sustainability, podcast, 2ser
2018, Coded Stories, reading, MetroArts, Brisbane
2017, Rivers and a Well, panel presentation as part of AAANZ conference, co-presenting with Clare Britton and Kenzee Patterson, Art and its Directions, Perth
2015, After Firing, NAS art forum, National Art School, Sydney
POSITIONS HELD
2023-current, Co-facilitator of ‘Turbid Circulations’, with Katy Lewis Hood, writing group
2022-current, Lecturer, Architecture, University of Newcastle
2021-current, Co-facilitator of ‘Magnetic Topographies’, with Clare Britton and Kenzee Patterson
2021-2023, Lecturer, Drawing and Printmaking, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2021, Lecturer in Masters of Landscape Architecture, RMIT
2020-2023, Facilitator and Member of ‘Written Together’, writing exchange and workshop
2018-current, Lecturer, Landscape Architecture, UTS, Sydney
2018-current, Co-facilitator of ‘Incubating Imaginaries’, with Saskia Schut
2020, Design of website for ‘Speculative Fields’, Sydney
2016-2019, Lecturer, Drawing, National Art School, Sydney
2018, Project assistant to Michael Stevenson for ‘Serene Velocity in Practice: MC510/CS183’, Biennale of Sydney
2011-2016, Studio assistant to Raafat Ishak, Kathy Temin, Nusra Latif Qureshi, and Peter Kennedy
2014, Project assistant to Spiros Panigirakis for ‘Moorabbin’, as part of the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture
2011-2014, Research assistant to Bridget Crone for ‘The Cinemas Project’
2012 and 2014, Acting Program Coordinator at Platform Contemporary Art Spaces
2011, Student representative for the Social Equity Committee, Monash University Faculty of Art and Design
2010, Volunteer at Light Projects and Kings ARI
2010, Committee member at RUNTspace