Statement

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Emma Rochester’s cartographic art practice is an exploration of the sensory experience of place. One that goes beyond the hard rigorous line of mapping to investiagate the historical culture associated with the mapping process.

Sentient, emotive and responsive her cartographic practice charts an understandings of landscape, place and terrain as felt and knowable, feminine and gentle. Her works exists at the cross roads of artistic mediums from drawing to sculpture, print to moving image. She charts the axis of these modes of expression to create depictions of site specific locations that extend beyond the the digital or two dimensional map to remember the feminine experience of place.

In sum, Rochester's art works invites a re-imagining of place, one which reinserts the feminine experience into 'place knowing'.

Emma Rochester. Sometimes it is impossible to know. 2011

Resume

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Education:

First Class Honours in Fine Art (Media Arts) RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 2010

Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 2008-2009

Bachelor of Visual Arts, Southern Cross University Lismore, Australia, 2006-2007

Residency:
Cataract Gorge National Park, Tasmania, 2012
Cyprus College of Art, Larnaca, Cyprus, 2011

CAMAC Centre D'Arte, Marnay sur Seine, France, 2011
DRAWinternational, Caylus, France, 2011

A.I.R Vallauris, Vallauris, France, 2011
Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre, Australia, 2009

Medium Artspace: Studio Artist, Melbourne, Australia, 2009

Awards:
2012
Visiting Artist, Artforum Program, University of Tasmania, Australia

2011

City of Melbourne. Art and Culture Fund. Docklands Art Grant, Australia

2010

Graduated in the top 2% of all outgoing RMIT graduating students from RMIT University

RMIT Student Development Grant

RMIT Union Arts Grant

ATOM Best Experimental Short Film Finalist

2009

‘Cairo at Night’ selected for international distribution via DVD on a documentary on the Centenary of Manifesto Futuro sound art

Golden Key International Honours Society for academic excellence in Fine Arts

2007

Selected as a curator for ‘Mediatised Sites,’ online project between the University of North Umbria, UK and the University of Texas, USA

2006

Festival Artist at Renaissance Festival, Ulupna Island, Australia

Small Business Photography, Queensland Government, Australia.

2005

Guest Lecturer at the University of Queensland

2003

Sponsored by Photo Perfection, Kodak Express, West End, QLD Australia

Recipient of a Highly Commended Photographic Award at the Brookfield Art Show, Australia

2002

Italian Government Language Scholarship

2001

Golden Key International Honours Society for academic excellence in Arts.

Solo Exhibitions:

2012
Venus with her interrupted life, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne, Australia

To swim in a sphere,Seafarers Mission, Melbourne, Australia.

2011

Floating in Place, Series One. 1, Waterfront City Marina, The Docklands, Melbourne, Australia
Floating in Place, Series One. 2 ,Waterfront City Marina, The Docklands, Melbourne, Australia
Floating in Place, Series One. 3, Waterfront City Marina, The Docklands, Melbourne, Australia
Floating in Place, Series One. 4, Waterfront City Marina, The Docklands, Melbourne, Australia

Floating is bespattering, City of Melbourne Library, Melbourne, Australia
Floating is bespattering, Federation Square Big Screen, Melbourne, Australia

2010

Tracking the line, RMIT Foyer, Melbourne, Australia

2009

The Exiled Body, Guildford Lane Galley, Melbourne, Australia

Mesmerised, at Loop Bar, Melbourne, Australia

Re-Imagining Place, Cube 37 Frankston Arts Centre Frankston, Australia

Transient Static, Medium Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia

2005

Moving Spaces, Ritual Organics Gallery, Nelson Bay, Australia

2003

Tunisia: Desert Sand, The Gun Shop, Brisbane, Australia

Invitational Projects:

2010

Site Unseen, invited to create a dance film for the Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival. Screened at the Kasey Chambers Concert and The Australian Bush Film Festival as part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival

2009

The Mapping Room, Invited to map the Melbourne International Fringe Festival, Headquarters, Melbourne? Australia.

2008

Canon Mirror Snips Drawing and Installing Tony Trehy’s (British poet and Director of the Bury Museum, Manchester, UK.) textual based art work in The Drawing Space, Melbourne.

Sweet Work Next Wave, Perry Sandhills, Mildura, Victoria, Australia.

THE JOHN AND YOKO DRAWINGS a collaboration with Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen’s (Head of Art and Director of Postgraduate studies respectively at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Scotland) The Drawing Space, Melbourne, Australia.

2007

DRAW: Selected Student and Lecturer Exhibition, Next Gallery, Southern Cross University, Australia.

Interviewed by 4ZZZ Radio, Brisbane, Australia.

Group Exhibitions:

2011
Dimanche Rouge, Edition 10, Petit Bain, Paris, France
Oxford Street Arts Festival Screenings, COFA, Sydney, Australia
Picasso's Place, Vallauris, France
Circular structures as feminine echoes, Caylus Art Centre, France
Correspondence Project, A and D Gallery, London, UK

OPEN STUDIOS, CAMAC Centre D'Art, Marney sur Seine, France

GoogleMeThis, Fitzroy Library Artspace, Melbourne, Australia

2010

Six… Field… Current, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

ATOM Finalist Screenings, The Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne

Drawing Out, The Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia

2009

A Fine Line: RMIT Drawing Graduate Exhibition, RMIT Drawing Department, Melbourne, Australia

2008

Totem: Dolls with Soul, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Atrium Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Picture this 08, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Drawing, First Site Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

Cairo at night, screened 16 April as part of the Mediatised Sites Festival, The University of North Umbria, UK and then screened at The University of Texas, USA

You saw me, Cake on the Icing Inter-access 8th Annual Emerging Artist Festival, Toronto, Canada.

I wish I could show you' Next Wave Festival 08, Horse Bazaar Digital Bar, Melbourne, Australia

2007

Peer Esteem, Five Years, Regent Studios, London, UK

Online Internet Arts Festival: Fonlad University of Arts Coimbra, Portugal

The Wait Gallery, Online new media exhibition,London, UK

Szpilman Award, Online new media exhibition based from Berlin, Germany

Outsiders,One night group show & workshop at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Up Against It,online exhibition, London, UK

Scarlet, Serpentine Gallery, Lismore, Australia.

Folk, The Channon Buttery, The Channon, Australia.

2006

Opening, Serpentine Gallery Lismore, Australia

2004

Tweed Shire City of the Arts,Tweed River Gallery, Murwillumbah, Australia.

2003

Stuartholme Alumnae Art Exhibition, Stuartholme, Brisbane, Australia.

Employment:

2011

Frankston Arts Centre: Digital Imaging and Video Art Installation workshops

2010

Next Wave Festival: Regional Art Mentor

2008

National Gallery of Victoria: Information services/front of house officer

Next Wave Festival: Audio guides

2007

Art Below (Internship UK): Photographing current exhibitions, managing printer relations and the client database

Volunteer:

2009

Artbeat Fund for Art, National Gallery of Victoria: Committee Member

The Kuronoz Project, Melbourne Fringe Festival: Clone Assistant

2008

International Comedy Festival: Promotions and research,

Rainbow Serpent Festival: Ticketing

Yalukit Wilam Ngargee, Saint Kilda Festival: Administration and on-site assistant

2007

Festival of Folk, Rhythm and Life: Merchandise official

The Dreaming: Performers Gate: Welcoming and organising performers and artists

2006

Museum Australia National Conference: Guide

The Planting Festival and The Woodford Folk Festival: Assisting with childrens' workshops

The Dreaming Festival: Welcoming and organising of performers and artists

Publications & Media:
Les artistes ouvrent leur atelier au public jeudi prochain, Lest Eclair, 21 August 2011
http://www.lest-eclair.fr/article/sorties-loisirs/les-artistes-ouvrent-leur-atelier-au-public-jeudi-prochain
Reflections on a studio practice at RMIT for Australia's Arts Industry Online Journal: http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/opinions/visual-arts/these-white-walls-180079

Frankston Arts Centre: http://artscentre.frankston.vic.gov.au/library/scripts/objectifyMedia.aspx?file=pdf/202/34.pdf

Animation. The Age. 2009