BIO

Mark Titmarsh PhD, (born 1955, Ingham, Australia) is a visual artist working in painting, video and text. His paintings and filmwork are currently held in public collections across Australia, and in private collections in Europe and the United States.

In the1980s he established an international reputation as an experimental filmmaker exhibiting in Europe, North America and South America winning awards at Ann Arbor and Montreal International Festivals. In Australia he was a significant contributor to the development of the postmodern debate in the visual arts in his role as co-editor of the Visual Arts magazine, On the Beach and as a new image painter included in Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW, 1989.

In the 1990s he co-founded the Sydney based artists group Art Hotline that exhibited ephemeral works in non-gallery everyday sites. He also edited a book documenting their activities between 1992 and 1995. Much of this work could be described as post-painting objects in that they take the form of 3 dimensional constructions that refer specifically to the conceptual aspects of painting. His screen based work included video and experimental websites were exhibited in Multimedia Arts Asia Pacific in 2000.

His current work in 2010s and 2020s is executed under the rubric of ‘expanded painting’, is a form of painting as constructed colour that dissimulates into objects, videos, performances and texts. Recent work has included paintings on industrial materials, environments of fluorescent string, video works for mobile phones and performances using painterly materials. In early 2006 he was a cofounder of the artist run space, Loose Projects.

Mark is currently a tenured, part time lecturer in Design Studies, School of Design, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, where he has taught since 1999.

Prior to taking up these appointments, he was a lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney where he has taught Theory and History of Art Production, Studio Theory, Electronic and Temporal Arts, and Painting, lecturer in  the School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Western Sydney. Previously, he taught Drawing (Visual Research Illustration) in the Design School, University of Western Sydney; the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales; and the National Art School. Additionally, Mark has taught Video, Filmmaking, Art History and Theory, and Mass Media and Popular Culture.

Mark is active in issues surrounding the arts, having been a co-founding member of WAAR (Working Artists Against Ralph) and PEAASS (Promoting Electoral Awareness of the Artist’s Status in Society), two groups that were formed to defend artists’ rights and raise awareness of their contribution to the national cultural environment. He was a co-founding member of Group 3 three, an artists’ collaboration exploring the boundaries of painterly practice through installation and photographic documentation; and Art Hotline, a consortium of 20 artists working mainly in ephemera and installation. He was the co-founding editor and a regular contributor to the Sydney-based visual arts magazine, On the Beach, as well as a contributing writer for Australian Art Collector magazine, where he was Associate Editor from 1997 to 2001. He was Assistant Coordinator, and then National Coordinator, of the New Image Research program at the Australian Film Commission from 1991 to 1994.

Mark was a co-founding member of the Super 8 Film Group, a Sydney-based organization for the promotion, distribution, and exhibition of Australian professional experimental filmmaking. He was the founding member of Metaphysical TV -- a group of 5 experimental filmmakers whose work relied on reconstructing fragments appropriated from television imagery.

Among other qualifications, Mark holds a PhD degree in Painting from the University of Technology Sydney and a Masters degree in Visual Arts in Painting from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and has studied at St. Martin’s College of Art, London; the University of London; and the Pietro Vannucci School of Fine Arts and the University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy.

 

Education

 University of Technology, Sydney                                                     2005-2009

PhD                                                                                                Sydney, Australia

University of Technology, Sydney                                                     1999-2002

Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning        Sydney, Australia

Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney                           1990–1993

Master of Visual Arts in Painting                                                       Sydney, Australia

St. Martin’s College of Art                                                                   1979–1980

and                                                                                                London, England

University of New South Wales                                                     1981-1983

Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts                                                          Sydney, Australia

University of Queensland                                                                    1973–1976

Bachelor of Laws                                                                            Brisbane, Australia

 

Other Education

 

University of Sydney                                                                                                     1981-1983

Coursework in Philosophy                                                                Sydney, Australia

University of London                                                                                                     1979-1980

Coursework in Film Theory                                                              London, England

Pietro Vannucci School of Fine Arts                                                                        1978

Coursework in Visual Arts                                                                Perugia, Italy

University for Foreigners                                                                                                1978

Coursework in Italian Language                                                       Perugia, Italy

 

Exhibitions selected

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS: PAINTING

2018, “Expanded Painting Performed (Just the two of Us)”, Book Launch, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 17 Mar 2018, Launched by Reuben Keehan, Performed by Cassandra Baker.

“Light Touch”, Gallery 9, Darlinghurst, Sydney (June/July)

2017, “Light from Light”, Knulp, Sydney.

“Wet Paint”, Artspace, Sydney.

 “Expanded Painting Performed (Cant get you out of my Head)”, Book Launch, VOLUME 2017, Another Art Book Fair, Artspace, Sydney, 15 Oct 2017, Launched by Cameron Tonkinwise, Performed by Ranjini and Loren.

2016, “Lumosphere”, Wayward Brewing, Sydney.

2015, “Painting Town”, West Project Space, Blue Mountains.

2014, “Cloud Library”, Fisher Library, University of Sydney, Sydney. (June)

2012, “Black Rainbow”. The Substation, Melbourne

2011, “Colourism”. Peloton Gallery, Sydney

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: PAINTING

2025, “The Nature of Things”, Factory 49 Gallery, Sydney.

 

2024 “The 3rd Australian Biennale of Reductive Art” 3.3

Reflex

University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Tower

15 Broadway, Ultimo, Sydney 2007

22 December 2023 –28 January 2024

Curated by Mark Titmarsh and Billy Gruner

 

“Shape Shifters: A Retrospective of Australian Collage” Wollongong Gallery, Wollongong, Australia

7 December - 2 March 2025. Curated by Angie Cass.

https://wollongongartgallery.au/past-exhibitions/shape-shifters-a-history-of-collage-in-australia

 

2023 “The 3rd Australian Biennale of Reductive Art” 3.1

Brisbane / Meanjin

at the Eisenmenger House

in association with West Projects and AUSTRALIAN MODERN Publishing

9 Burchell St, Carina, Brisbane

30 Sep 2023

curated by Billy Gruner, Tarn McLean and Mark Titmarsh.

 

“The 3rd Australian Biennale of Reductive Art” 3.2

Woodford / Deerubbin

The Kree House

Cox’s Road Woodford

29 October 2023

curated by Billy Gruner and Mark Titmarsh.

 

“Material Action”

Florence Peake, Hester Reeve, Mark Titmarsh & John Latham

Gloam Gallery

Sheffield, UK.

4-8th Oct 2023

curated by Stu Burke.

 

“First Hand”

Origin Forward Slash Group

(Sacha Golob, Marie Hay, Johanna Malt, Hester Reeve and Mark Titmarsh with Jan Hopkins)

Flat Time House

London, UK

29 Sep – 5 Nov 2023

curated by Gareth Bell-Jones

 

“Hiding Out”

Origin Forward Slash Group with Art and Language (Mel Ramsden and Michael Baldwin)

Flat Time House

London, UK

20 July 2023

 

2022 “AN EXPANDING FIELD”, Gloam Gallery, 160 Arundel Street S1 4RE Sheffield, UK

10 June to 3 July 2022, curated by Stuart Burke

Website https://www.facebook.com/GLOAMGallery/

 

“Show and Tell about how to Dwell in the House of Art”

Origin Forward Slash Group,

Flat Time House, London, UK

online exhibition, 27 July 2022.

 

 

2021 “Dust Jacket for an Exhibition Postponed”, Origin Forward Slash Group, Flat Time House, London, UK, online exhibition, 7 July 2021.

 

 

2020 “Re/production: Australian art from the 1980s and 1990s”, 16 Albermarle Gallery, Sydney, 29 August –10 October 2020.

https://www.16albermarle.com/exhibitions/reproduction

 

“The Other Hand”, Origin Group, Flat Time House, London, UK, online exhibition, 18 Sep 2020.

 

“Summer Group Exhibition”, Sally Dan Cuthbert Gallery, Sydney, 16 Dec 2020 – 7 Feb 2021

https://gallerysallydancuthbert.com/exhibitions/19/works/

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AS PROFESSIONAL SCREEN ARTIST

 

2024: “The 3rd Australian Biennale of Reductive Art”, Video component, UTS Central, January 2024.

Curated by Mark Titmarsh and Billy Gruner.

 

“The 3rd Australian Biennale of Reductive Art”, Video component in We are Nature, at the Ionion Centre for Art and Culture, Argostoli, Greece. Curated by Mark Titmarsh and Billy Gruner.

 

2023: “Painting Town 2023”, UTS Central, June 2023.

 

2020, Super 8, UTS Gallery

 

2018, “SEAS Arts 2018”, The Ionion Centre for Art and Culture, Kefalonia, Greece (with Gary Warner and Sean Lowry)

“The Ghosts of Nothing – In Memory of Johnny B. Goode”, The Lock-Up Regional Gallery, Newcastle, NSW.

2017, “Scanlines”, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange, NSW, 11 Nov 2016 - 14 Jan 2017

                              Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery,  3 Feb - 5 Mar 2017

 

2016, “Vivid 2016”, Perspectives, Galeries Victoria, Sydney (May/June)

          “Mapspace”, Blue Mountains  Cultural Centre, Katoomba, NSW (March/April)

           “Scanlines”, Logan Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld, 26 Feb - 02 Apr 2016

                              Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania, 28 May - 26 Jun 2016

                              Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Qld, 16 Jul - 28 Aug 2016

                              Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, 14 Sep - 22 Oct 2016

                              Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange, NSW, 11 Nov 2016 - 14 Jan 2017

            “OchrOmOchronOtopOsonicO”, UTS Gallery, Sydney (Dec 9 - 17)

2015, “Scanlines”, Artspace Mackay, 13 Feb – 5 Apr, 2015.

                             Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth, 06 Jun - 18 Jul 2015

                             Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, 27 Jul - 13 Sep 2015

                             Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney,19 Sep - 31 Oct 2015

                             John Curtin Gallery, Perth, 02 Oct - 08 Nov 2015

“Lines of Force”, curated by Nicholas Tsoutas, Sydney Coilege of the Arts Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, (May).

 

WORKS HELD IN COLLECTIONS: PAINTING

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

The Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.

The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

The Monash University Museum Art Collection, Melbourne, Australia.

The Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia.

Art Bank, Canberra, Australia,

Parliament House Collection, Canberra, Australia.

The University of Technology Sydney Art Collection, Sydney

WORKS HELD IN COLLECTIONS: FILM

The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.

Cinemedia, National Film Library, Melbourne, Australia.

The National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australia.

 

REVIEWS

Titmarsh’s work has been reviewed or discussed in the following publications and events.

2025 Cameron Tonkinwise, The Nature of Things, Introduction speech, opening night, Factory 49

Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

2024 Angie Cass, Catalogue Essay and Artist Page in Catalogue for “Shape Shifters: A Retrospective of Australian Collage” Wollongong Gallery, Wollongong, Australia. 7 December - 2 March 2025. Curated by Angie Cass.

2023 Cameron Tonkinwise, Painting Town 23 Introduction, opening night event, UTS Central, June 2023.

Michael Corris, “Reading the Show”, 5 November 2023, finissage event for “First Hand”, Origin Forward Slash Group, (Sacha Golob, Marie Hay, Johanna Malt, Hester Reeve and Mark Titmarsh with Jan Hopkins) Flat Time House, London, UK

2018, Stella McDonald, Expanded Painting, Book Review, U Magazine, Sydney.

2014, Sally Clark, “Motion In”, In Motion Catalogue, AirSpace Projects, Sydney, November 2014.

2013, Michael Fitzgerald, “Open Gallery – Intrasections”, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 August

Leanne Richards, “Intra-sections”, City News, 5 September

2012, Andrew Frost, “Critics Choice – Re-extended Painting”, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 February 2012

Michael Fitzgerald, “Re-extended Painting”, Open Gallery, Spectrum, 4 February 2013

Bethany Small, “Extended Painting”, Art Events, Concrete Playground, http://sydney.concreteplayground.com.au/

Michelle Helmrich, “Return to Sender”, in Return to Sender, Uni of Qld Art Museum, Brisbane 2012, ISBN 978-1-74272-050-0

Andrew Frost, “Super 8 Deluxe”, Art Monthly Australia, November, 2012

Jessica Bridgfoot, “Foreword”, SUB 12 Catalgoue, Substation Gallery, Melbourne.

2011, Jacqueline Milner, Decentralising Cultural Capital: Recent Public Initiatives in Sydney, Broadsheet, June 2011, Vol 40 No 2, pp 140-141

Andrew Frost, “Open Gallery – Colourism”, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 October 2011.

Keith Gallasch, “In the Loop – action fashion”, Real Time online, Aug 2011, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/104/10410

 

Publications

Titmarsh’s writing has been published in the following books, professional magazines and catalogues:

 

Google Scholar (as of May 2025)

Citations           166      46

h-index              4          3

i10-index          3          2

 

CRITICAL AND THEORETICAL WRITING: PAINTING

“The Nature of Things” catalogue essay for The Nature of Things, Mark Titmarsh and Justin Trendall, Factory 49 Gallery, Sydney, Australia. 22 March 2025.

 

“Theory /of \ Blend: expanded media | convergent technologies | blended ontologies” in THE NOMADIC IMAGE: Explorations at the intersections of art, science, and Technology,

edited by Michael Garbutt, Soheil Ashrafi, Proceedings from the. 7th International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference. https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ligwEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA33-IA1&ots=bkBX_NcJHw&sig=r_8QOtzYHn-JdLXZe8FQexlCOvA#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

“Deep Pockets”, Catalogue essay for The 3rd Australian Biennale of Reductive Art

Reflex, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Tower

15 Broadway, Ultimo, Sydney 2007, 22 December 2023 –28 January 2024

curated by Mark Titmarsh and Billy Gruner. ISBN 978-0-6480719-1-4

 

“The Work of Art in the Age of the Australian Misanthropocene” Proceedings from the. 6th International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference 2020, Dark Eden (2021) figshare. Journal contribution. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16993348.v4

And in

Colless, E., Eastwood, D., Lehmann, C., & Thomas, P. (Eds.). (2022). Dark Eden: Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture. Art + Australia, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Ch39 pp 264-270.

 

“Piss Off WestConnex”, Art and Australia, Brutalism, Issue 5, May 2019 (55.2), pp150-159.

ISSN 0004-301 X  ISBN 978-0-6485474-0-2

 

”Rein Man: A Review of Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015”, Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture 01 Jan 2019

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2019.1619286

 

What do images want? Towards an Ontotypology of the Image in the Age of Digital Envisioning –Mark Titmarsh – DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6104747

 

https://figshare.com/articles/What_do_images_want_Towards_an_Ontotypology_of_the_Image_in_the_Age_of_Digital_Envisioning/6104747

 

“When is an installation, a garment, or a building really a painting?” A + a (Art and Ausrtalia) online, March 2018, Review of Katharina Grosse: The Horse Trotted Another Couple of Metres, Then it Stopped, Carriageworks, Sydney January 6—April 8 2018

http://www.artandaustralia.com/online/discursions/katharina-grosse-horse-trotted-another-couple-metres-then-it-stopped

 

Titmarsh, M. (2018), ‘The work of art in the time of technogenesis’, Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media, 5:1, pp. 175–89. http://www.ubiquityjournal.net/

 

“How painting escaped the canvas and another brush with death” The Conversation,

December 18, 2017.

https://theconversation.com/how-painting-escaped-the-canvas-and-another-brush-with-death-86611

 

“How painting escaped the canvas and another brush with death” Business Daily,

December 19, 2017.

http://www.businesses.com.au/general-business/425159-how-painting-escaped-the-canvas-and-another-brush-with-death

 

“Expanded Painting: Ontological Aesthetics and the Essence of Colour”

Bloomsbury, London, 2017 ISBN: 9781350004177

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/expanded-painting-9781350004177/

https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/expanded-painting-9781350004177/

 

Titmarsh, Mark. “Sight, Insight, and Out of Sight: From Light as Information to Colour as World.” In Leonardo Electronic Almanac 22, no. 1, edited by Lanfranco Aceti, Paul Thomas, and Edward Colless. Cambridge, MA: LEA / MIT Press, 2017.

ISSN: 1071-4391 ISBN: 978-1-906897-62-8

https://www.pubpub.org/pub/sight-insight-and-out-of-sight?context=cac

 

WRITINGS IN TRANSLATION

“Suivez le Soleil”, 7th Montreal International Super 8 Film Festival Catalogue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1986, a French translation of the catalogue essay Follow the Sun, 1986.

 

“El Auge del Super 8 en Australia”, Spanish translation of “The Rise of Super 8 in Australia”, 13 th Festival of International New Super 8 Cinema and Video, Caracas, Venezuela, 1988, p15.

 

“ATVAIZDO FENOMENO REFLEKSIJA ŠIUOLAIKINĖS

IŠPLĖSTINĖS TAPYBOS POETIKOJE” ,Lithuanian translation of “Thinking The Phenomenon Of Image Through The Poetics Of Contemporary Expanded Painting”, Limes: Borderland Studies, 2012 Volume 5(1): 42–53, in English and Lithuanian,  ISSN 2029-7475 print / ISSN 2029-7483 online

 

Kalintilarla Oynamak: Salvatore Mele ve Mark Titmarsh !le roportaj , Turkish translation of “Game with Vestiges, Interview with Jean Baudrillard”, https://www.cafrande.org/kalintilarla-oynamak-salvatore-mele-ve-mark-titmarsh-ile-roportaj/

 

CRITICAL AND THEORETICAL WRITING: FILM AND VIDEO

“Colourtimespacesound”, with Sean Lowry and Gary Warner, Catalogue essay, OchrOmOchronOtopOsonicO, UTS Gallery, December 2016, published by ochromosonico, Sydney, Australia, December 2016. ISBN 978 0 9871483 7 7

 “The Super 8 Effect”, Catalogue Essay, The Super 8 Effect, Chauvel Cinema, Sydney, 2006

“Stickin’ it to the Man”, SynCity Catalogue, dLux Media Arts, Sydney, October 2006 ISBN 0-9751369-1-7

“Stargazing: The Super 8 Scene of the 1980s”, SynCity Catalogue, dLux Media Arts, Sydney, October 2006 ISBN 0-9751369-1-7

“TV Writings 1981 – 1985”, Sun Valley Research, 2004, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (Editors),  http://www.sunvalleyresearch.com/

“Number of the Beast”, Catalogue Essay, Super 80s Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1998.

”Game with Vestiges - Interview with Jean Baudrillard”, with Salvatore Mele. Reprinted in Baudrillard LIve: Selected Interviews, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1993. ISBN 978-0-415-07038-6 (paperback) 978-0-415-07037-9 (hardback) 978-0-203-41585-6 (electronic)

 

CRITICAL AND THEORETICAL WRITING: FASHION

“Rein Man: A Review of Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015”

(ID: 1619286 DOI:10.1080/1362704X.2019.1619286)

Fashion Theory (Download Current Citation: RIS BibTex)

 

 

Book Chapters

 

“Thinking Heidegger’s post aesthetics through the expanded field of painting (2008) in Palmer, C. and Torevell, D. (eds) The Turn to Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas in applied and philosophical aesthetics. Liverpool Hope University Press, United Kingdom. ISBN: 9780951584736

 

“Sheer Aesthetics”, (2008) in Palmer, C. and Torevell, D. (eds) The Turn to Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas in applied and philosophical aesthetics. Liverpool Hope University Press, United Kingdom. ISBN: 9780951584736

 

Consensual Dissensus” in Mark Titmarsh and Alex Gawronski (eds), Loose Papers, Loose Projects 2006 – 2007, Loose Projects, 2009, Sydney, Australia, ISBN:978-0-646-50291

 

“Expanded Painting + Urban ReDesign = Art in a Post Medium Condition”, in Urban Life and Contemporary Arts, East Mediterranean Academic Research Centre, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2013, pp 55-63, ISBN 978-605-4514-05-2

”Game with Vestiges - Interview with Jean Baudrillard”, with Salvatore Mele, On the Beach, Issue 5, 1984, Sydney Australia. Reprinted in Baudrillard LIve: Selected Interviews, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1993. ISBN 978-0-415-07038-6 (paperback) 978-0-415-07037-9 (hardback) 978-0-203-41585-6 (electronic)

“Onion Skin Airmail”, Art Hotline 0055 29334 1992 -95, Sydney 1995.

“Contemporary Hybrid Painting: The Poetics of a Post-Medium Condition”, in Su Baker and Paul Thomas (Eds), New Imaging: Transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media, Published by Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference Proceedings 2010, Sydney, Australia, 2011,  ISBN: 978-0-9807186-6-9

 

“The Autopoiesis of Colour in the Age of Machinic Shine”, in Su Baker, Paul Thomas and Andrew Varano (Eds), The 2nd International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference Proceedings, http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/2012-transdisciplinary-imaging-conference-proceedings/, Australia, 2013 ISBN 978 0- 9807186 8 3

“Towards an Ontology of Colour in the Age of Machinic Shine”,

Interference Strategies, Leonardo Electronic Almanac 2014, Volume 20 No 2, pp132-145, ISBN: 978-1-906897-32-1  ISSN: 1071-4391

 

EXHIBITIONS AS CURATOR

Super 8 Film Festivals, Chauvel Cinema, 1982-1988

Rites of Delay, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1984

Independent Super 8 Films from Australia, Various venues in Europe,1983-4

Follow the Sun, Various venues in North America, 1986

Metaphysical TV, Various venues in North and South America, 1988-9

Cones of Zontact, Loose Projects, Sydney 2006

SynCity, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney 2006

Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2007

The Super 8 Effect, Chauvel Cinema, Sydney, 2006

Expanded Painting and the Proper Name of Installation Art, Symposium Convener, Artspace, Sydney, 2007

In Temperance, Pop up Gallery, with the Designing Out Crime Centre, UTS, Temperance Lane, Sydney, 2010

Open House 2010, Pop up Gallery, UTS Design Lab, Foley Street, Darlinghurst Sydney, 2010

Open House 2011, Pop up Gallery, UTS Design Lab, Foley Street, Darlinghurst Sydney, 2011

Open House 2012, Pop up Gallery, UTS Design Lab, Foley Street, Darlinghurst Sydney, 2012

Open House 2013, Pop up Gallery, UTS Design Lab, as part of Rocks Village Bizarre, The Rocks, Sydney, 2013

Open House 2014, Pop up Gallery, UTS Design Lab, as part of Rocks Village Bizarre, The Rocks, Sydney, 2014

State of the Island, Ionian Centre for Arts and Culture, Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece, July 2014.

Reports from a Global Island, District 01 Galery, Sydney, September 2014.

Future Perfect, UTS City Campus, Sydney, November 2014.

State of the Island 2015, Ionian Centre for Arts and Culture, Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece, July 2015.

Globus, Central Park Project Space, Sydney, September 2015.

Plastination, Foundation Park, The Rocks Sydney, November 2015

Plastination 2016, Foundation Park, The Rocks Sydney, June 2016.

Single Use Island 2016, Ionian Centre for Arts and Culture, Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece, July 2016.

Single Use Island 2017, Ionian Centre for Arts and Culture, Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece, July 2017.

Plastination 2017, The Goods Line, Ultimo, Sydney, December 2017.

Experimental Film Art 1980 – 2020, Works by Gary Warner and Mark Titmarsh, UTS Gallery, Sydney, 8 January 2020.

 

The International Super 8 Film Festival Phenomenon of the 1980s, UTS Gallery, Sydney, 9 January 2020, Hosted by Isabel Arredondo and Selected by Mark Titmarsh

 

The 3rd Australian Biennale of Reductive Art Reflex

University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Tower, 15 Broadway, Ultimo, Sydney 2007

22 December 2023 –28 January 2024, with Billy Gruner.

 

The 3rd Australian Biennale of Reductive Art, Video component in We are Nature, at the Ionion Centre for Art and Culture, Argostoli, Greece, with and Billy Gruner.

 

Conference / Seminar Presentations

 

“Sight, Insight and Out of Sight: From Light as Information to Colour as World”, The Third International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, ‘Cloud and Molecular aesthetics’, Pera Museum, Istanbul,  June 2014.

“Only a Devil can Save us Now”, GEOcritical, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Annual Conference, Launceston,  2014.

“Retrieval Life in Defrag'd Time”, The Fourth International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, ‘The Atemporal Image’, Plymouth University, UK, July 1-3 2016

“What do Images want? Towards an Economy of the Image in the Age of Digital Envisioning”, The Fifth International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, ‘The Latent Image’, Edinburgh University, UK, April 19 – 20, 2018.

“OWA: Origin with Attitude (Straight Outta Freiburg)”, Thinking through, with  and against The Origin of the Work of Art, Flat Time House in association with Kings College, Uni of London and Uni of Sheffield (Hallam), London, UK, 4 September 2018.

 

“The Work of Art in the Age of the Australian Misanthropocene”, DARK EDEN, The Sixth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture, , Uni of NSW, 6 – 8 November, 2020.

“Theory of Blend”, The Nomadic Image, The Seventh Transdisciplinary Conference on Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Culture, 23 – 25 September 2022, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan.

 

“Figuring the Con-temporary”,Material Image, The Eighth Transdisciplinary Conference on Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Culture, National Art School, Sydney, Australia. Nov 2024.

https://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/

 

Awards and Grants

 

PAINTING

The Fishers Ghost Art Award                                                         2017

Finalist                                                                                            Campbelltown Art Centre, Campbelltown, Sydney

 

The Woolhara Small Sculpture Prize                                               2017

Finalist                                                                                            Woollahra Council Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney

 

The Sunshine Coast Art Prize                                                        2017

Finalist                                                                                            Caloundra Contemporary Art            Gallery, Queensland

 

The Vortex Wearable Art Prize                                                       2017

Finalist                                                                                            Stonevilla Studios, Sydney

 

The Grace Cossington Smith Art Award                                        2016

Winner, $15,000 award                                                                   Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney

 

The Grace Cossington Smith Art Award                                        2015

Finalist                                                                                            Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney

 

The Vortex Wearable Art Prize                                                       2013

Finalist, with Todd Robinson                                                             Stone Villa, Sydney

 

The First Australian Audi Art Prize                                                  2007

Finalist                                                                                            MCA, Sydney

 

Bald Archy, Artspace                                                                    1990

The Thelma Clune Celebrity Prize                                                    Sydney, Australia

Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery                                                  1989

Winner

The Lake Macquarie Regional Art Prize                                            Lake Macquarie, Australia

 

FILM / VIDEO

SEA(S) International Arts Festival 2018                                        2018

SEA(S)Institutional Grant – Residency                                               Kefalonia, Greece

 

 

The 10th Annual International Festival of Young Cinema               1989

Grand Prix                                                                                      Montreal, Canada

17th Ann Arbor 8mm Film Festival                                                 1987

                                                                                                      Ann Arbor, MI

Special Mention

                                                                                                      United States of America

 

dLux Media Arts                                                                            2005

Production Grant to develop media for mobile phones ($750)             Sydney, Australia

 

Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council                                    1995

Group member Grant to publish a book on the activities of Art Hotline, an artists run

organisation  ($5000)                                                                      

                                                                                                      Sydney, Australia

 

 

Australian Bicentennial Authority                                                 1988

Individual travel Grant to USA and South America to exhibit experimental film work at media festivals and galleries. ($8000)           Sydney, Australia

 

Australian Film Commission and                                                  1986

Brodsky and Treadway Foundation, USA                                      Sydney and Boston USA

 An individual  travel Grant to North America, co-funded by Australian and American organizations, to exhibit experimental film work at media festivals and galleries. ($5000)

 

Australian Film Commission                                                         1985

An individual production Grant to make an experimental film ($1300) Sydney, Australia

 

Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council                                    1984-6

Group member grant to publish “On the Beach”, a contemporary arts magazine ($10,000)

                                                                                                       Sydney, Australia

 

Australian Film Commission                                                         1983

An individual travel Grant to Europe to exhibit experimental film work at media festivals and galleries. ($5000)                                                                                                 Sydney, Australia

 

RADIO & TV INTERVIEWS

Metaphysical TV, Practicalities, The Deep End, Radio National, 1988, interviewed by Amanda Stewart

Mark Titmarsh and Experimental Super 8, Boston and Springfield, Community Television, 1986

Nude in Art, Radio 2 SER, Monday 13 September 2004

Postmodernism, Radio 2 SER, “Antidotes”, Tuesday 28 June 2005, interviewed by Rohan Mackenzie

Sampling in Screen Media, SynCity, Eastside Radio, 88.7 FM, Tuesday 24 October 2006, interviewed by Sean O’Brien

SynCity, Eastside Radio, 88.7 FM, Tuesday 24 October 2006, interviewed by Christopher Johnson

The Super 8 Effect, The Naked City, FBI 94.5 FM, Saturday 9 December 2006 interviewed by Jamie Leonarder

Expanded Painting, The Art Life, ABC TV, interviewed by Andrew Frost, 26 June 2007

New Technologies and the Arts, Homepage Interview, interviewed by Clare Colley 11 September 2008, distributed to 2MCE, Bathurst, 18 Sep 2008

Artspace 25 Year Celebrations, 24/25, Sunday Arts, Interviewed by Fennela Kernebone, ABC 1, Sunday, 16 November 2008

Pop Up Galleries, Interviewed by Mig Caldwell, 2SER, Sydney, Tue 16 Feb 2010

In Temperance: Activating Sydney’s Laneways, Interviewed by Ed Phillips hosting the Stuart Bocking Show on 2UE, Sydney, Tue 16 Feb 2010

Norman McLaren: Painting with Light. Interviewed by Matt Levinson, “Canvas”, FBI Radio, Sydney, Sunday 14 March 2010

Open House Pop up Gallery, Foley Street Darlinghurst, interviewed by Angela, “For your Arts”, 2 SER, Saturday, 5 Dec 2010

“Open House 2013 at the Rocks”, interviewed by Sophie Ly, on The Daily, 2 SER, Friday 1 Nov 2013.

“Single Use Island Exhibition”, interviewed by Maria Founta, on Arts and Culture, Ionian Galaxy Radio, 90.8FM, Argostoli, Greece,Thursday 2 July 2015.

“Single Use Island 2016 Exhibition and SEAS Arts Performance”, interviewed by Peter Lee, on Arts and Culture, Cosmos Radio, 96.5FM, Argostoli, Greece, Monday 18 July 2016.

“Remembering Dali”, interviewed by Glynn Greensmith, “It's Just Not Cricket”, ABC Radio, Saturday 20 May 2017.

“Gerhard Richter” The Mix, ABC TV, Broadcast Sat 25 Nov 2017.

“State of the Island 2018 Exhibition and Plastic”, interviewed by Peter Lee, on Arts and Culture, Cosmos Radio, 96.5FM, Argostoli, Greece, Monday Monday 23rd July 2018.

 

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Sydney, Australia

LANGUAGES

  • Italian
    Can speak and understand

PROFILE TYPE

  • Academic

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

DISCIPLINES