Emily Valentine Bullock CV

Qualification Bachelor of Arts (Visual), Sydney College of the Arts 1984-87

Exhibitions Solo

2006 June
Flown, Quoil Gallery Wellington NZ Exhibition showing new feather work.
2006 Jan
Exciting, Exsighting, Exsiting! A-Space 420 Cleverland St Exhibition showing work from feathers and beads.
2002 Dec
City Edge, Enmore Theatre, Sydney. Performance showing alternative fashion.
2001 May
City Edge, Enmore Theatre, Sydney. Performance showing alternative fashion.
2000 July
Edged Over, Tapp Gallery, Sydney. Display of performance costumes.
2000 June
City Edge, Enmore Theatre, Sydney. Performance showing alternative fashion.
1999 Nov
Sole to Soul, Walking the Streets, Sydney. Decorated and hand built shoes.
1998 Sept
Beaded Booty, Shopfront Gallery North Sydney. Beaded jewellery and shoes.
1996 Aug
Objects & Old Lace, Shopfront Gallery, North Sydney. Jewellery & mirrors using doyleys.
1994 Nov
Wood a Feather Have a Bone, Macquarie Uni, Sydney. Jewellery from bones, feathers and wood, with postcards to form an instillation.
1993 Dec
Walking the Streets, Newtown. As above.
1992 Sept
Collidscape Airspace, Redfern, Sydney. Decoupage furniture.
1991 July
Burning Bush, Bounty Gallery, Glebe, Sydney. Wire Sculpture with fire.

Related Activities

2006
Sept-Oct Teaching in Aboriginal Communities outside Tennants Creek
2004-2005
Co-curated Melding: a touring exhibition of Contemporary Jewellery of Eight Regional Galleries in Australia

Exhibitions Selected

2007
Black and White, Glass artist Gallery, Glebe NSW Austraila Norseweart, NZ Comtemporary Art Award, Hastings NZ Weird, Wild and Wonderful, A-Space Cleverland St, Sydney 30th Alice Springs Acquisition Award. Northern Territory Craft Award
2006
Defiance Sculture gallery, Newtown Sydney 6x6x6 Show Canine Capers, A-Space Cleverland St, Sydney
JOC Jewellery out of Context. Selected exhibition showing work from New Zealand jewellers.
Out of Site JMGA NSW Inc members exhibition at the Pyrmont Studio Gallery.
4th Annual Dog Exhibition, A-Space Cleverland St, Sydney.
2005
Junk Love, Reverse Garbage, Sydney
Anti-War Medals. Touring exhibition organised by Velet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA .
Melding - Touring exhibition of Regional Australia.
2004
National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith Regional Gallery, Griffith Annual show of contemporary Jewellery .
2003
Worldofwearableart, Nelson NZ World wide competition for wearable art.
Anti-War Medals.Velet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA.
Soapbox, Pyrmont Studio, Sydney JMGA NSW Inc Members exhibition.
28th Alice Springs Acquisition Award. Northern Territory Craft competition.
2002
Worldofwearableart, Nelson NZ World wide competition for wearable art.
Junk Love, Reverse Garbage, Sydney & also shown at Casular Powerhouse, Liverpool. Competition using recycled material.
National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith Regional Gallery, Griffith Annual show of contemporary Jewellery.
2001
Contemporary Jewellery and Metalwork, Makers Mark, Sydney. JMGA NSW exhibition .
27th Alice Springs Acquisition Award. Northern Territory Craft competition.
Sites of Adornment, Doggett St Studio, Brisbane. JMGA National exhibition to co-inside with the biannual conference on contemporary jewellery.
Hermanns Art Award, Span Galleries, Melbourne and Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery. Competition for works inspired by shoes.
5th National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith Regional Gallery, Griffith. Annual show of contemporary Jewellery.
1999
Momento, Makers Mark, Sydney. JMGA NSW exhibition of jewellery inspired by memory.
1998
4th National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith Regional Gallery, Griffith. Annual show of contemporary Jewellery.
1996
Headfirst, Craftwest, Perth. JMGA WA Work for the head. A national jewellery award.
Souvenir Greetings From Sydney, Craft Space, Sydney. Curated exhibition for work about tourism.
1996
3rd National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith Regional Gallery, Griffith. Annual show of contemporary Jewellery.
1995
Ceremony, Holsworth Gallery, Sydney JMGA NSW. Work inspired by ceremony.
Clockworks, Cornucopia, Sydney. Selected work about timepieces.
Up Front, Door Gallery, Perth JMGA WA. A national non-acquisition award exhibition of jewellery worn on the torso.
Christmas Show, Glass Artist Gallery. Work in glass.
1993
Four Elements, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney. JMGA NSW. Inaugural members exhibition.
1992
Collidescape, Airspace, Refern, Sydney. Self-funded group Show.
1990
Wearable Glass, Glass Artist Gallery, Sydney.
1988
Graduate Metal, Craft Council of Queensland, Brisbane.
1986
Blake Prize, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney. Selected Exhibition about Religion in Art.

Prizes & Awards

Merit award (1 of 3) Norseweart, NZ Comtemporary Art Award 2007
Junk Love Wearable Art section 2005
Vision Grant, Australian Federal Government 2004/05
Mac's Bizarre Bra, WOW, Nelson NZ 2002
Soft Furnishing Section, Junk Love 2002
Most Innovative Work, Marker Mark, Sydney 2000
NAVA Grant 1998

Publications

Various Newpapers in NZ announcing the prize winners for the Norsewear Contempory Art Award April 2007
Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 2006
Feather Friends,Capital Times, Wellington NZ 2005
Beading a Bracelet, Growing Today, NZ May 2003
Highly Strung, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney. Jan 2003
Corsets & Cubists, The Independent Magazine, UK. Dec 2002
Montanta Wearable Arts Awards The Nelson Mail (Sept)
Most Local NZ newspapers showing the prize winners
Photo, Article & State Report, Lemel, Australia. Summer 2002/03
Editorial Comment, Lemel. Spring 2002
Photos, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney. Spring/Summer 2002
Seeing Red, Cosmopolitan, Australia. May 2001
Clobber, Ralph, Australia. July 2000
Free City, New York, USA. Nov 2000
Shopping Around, Cleo, Australia. May 1999
100 Years Triumphant, QVB, Sydney. Spring/Summer 98/99
Souvenirs, Object, Australia. Autumn 1996
94 Griffith Biennial, Lemel, Summer 94-95
State Report, Lemel, Summer 94-95
On Enmore Road, Newtown Bridge, Sydney. Jan 93
Various Fashion Magazines

Purchases

Worldofwearableart Museum, Nelson, NZ
Wardrobe Depts ABC, SBS, Channel 7
Film & Television - Babe 2, Various Advertisements
Local Theatre - New Theatre, Newtown School of Performing Arts

Interests

Member of Reverse Garbage Group
Member of NAVA