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Jasmine Hirst - Bio

Education

1985-89 Diploma of Art, National Art School, Sydney
1993-94 Master of Art, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney

Solo Exhibitions

2005 Devastating Moments: Suicide, Sexual Assault, Broken Love Affairs, Blood Splatter and an Execution, (with Linda Dement), Mori Gallery, Sydney
2004 You Can Execute Her But You Can't Kill Her, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2003 A Different Peep Show, Bullet Space Gallery, New York
2000 Girls, Girls, Girls: A Peep Show, Wollongong City Gallery

Group Exhibitions

2007 Sono Passato A Trovarti Ma Non C'eri, Il Torchio-Constantini Arte
Contemporanea, Milan
Curve Pericolose, Casa Del Pane, Milan
  Artists Space, Irving Sandler Artists File Online, www.afonline.artistsspace.org
  Saatchi Gallery Online, www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk
2005 Brute, First Draft Gallery, Sydney
2003 Beyond Anita, Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewer's Bequest
2002 Displaced Desires, Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong
2000 Revealing Images, Wollongong City Gallery
1999 Babe, A. Roland Hump Gallery, Sydney
1998 She's No Serial Killer, Artspace, Sydney
1996 Sex and Crime, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
  Out of the Frame, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
1995 I Really Want To Kill You But I Can't Remember Why, Artspace, Sydney
  Lather, Lizard Lounge Artspace, Sydney
1994 Master of Art Exhibition, The College of Fine Arts, Sydney
  National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
  Strut, The Echo Bar, Sydney
1993 Young Dissonants Exhibition, The Works Gallery, COFA, Sydney
  In Sight In Mind, Arthaus Gallery, Sydney
1992 Hard, Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney
  Young Dissonants 1992, The Works Gallery, COFA, Sydney
1989 A Fundamental Attack, Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney
1987 Women's Work, Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Sydney
1984 20 x 20, Arthaus Gallery, Sydney

Film

2006 Co-Scriptwriter, Surf Gang, Director: Katrina Del Mar, Best Experimental Film: Planet Out, Miami, Screened: Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Chicago Reeling, Coney Island Film Festival
  Alive On Death Row, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2003 I Live With Fear Every Day/She's No Serial Killer, Bullet Space Gallery, New York City
1999 I Live With Fear Every Day, A. Roland Hump Gallery, Sydney
1998 She's No Serial Killer; Artspace, Sydney
1994 So Many Men, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth; COFA, Sydney
1986-91 With Inertia, SBS Television; Contemporary Arts Society, Buffalo, USA; Yale University, USA; Berlin Film Festival; Communications Course, University of Technology, Sydney; Spoleto Film and Video Festival, Melbourne; Toowoomba Film Festival; Brisbane Film Festival; Frames Festival, Adelaide; Film Fatale, Melbourne; Melbourne Film Festival

Collections

  Madonna, Los Angeles, USA
Penny Arcade, New York
Stephen Mori, Mori Gallery
Various Private Collections

Grants and Awards

2002 New Work Development, VACB, Australia Council
1997 Script Development, NSW Film and Television Office Film Production Development, Australia Film Commission
1996 International Exhibition Assistance, Goethe Institut, Sydney
International Promotion for Artists and Crafts People, Australia Council
1992 The Pat Corrigan Artist Grant managed by NAVA with financial assistance from the Australia Council
1987 Awarded Best Film for "With Inertia", Toowoomba Film Festival, QLD
1986 Film Production Grant, Australian Film Commission

Selected Reviews

2005 The Sydney Morning Herald, The Critic's Choice, Metro, March 4-10, p31
2004 The Sydney Morning Herald, The Week's Best, Metro, March 19-25, p2
2003 HQ Magazine, Lee Tran Lam, "Difficult Art", March/April, p16-17
The Weekend Australian, Jane Albert, "About a Girl", Feb 22-23, p8-9
Art Monthly Australia, Jeremy Eccles, "Anita and Beyond", June, p6-7
The Sydney Morning Herald, Anne Loxley, "An Angel in Disguise", Nov 9-10, Spec 6
Panorama Upfront, Helen Musa, "Time to Reassess, Educate and Celebrate a Life Lost", March 8, p6-7
The Sydney Morning Herald, Joyce Morgan, "Artists Put Human Face of Tragedy in New Light", March 3, p17
Sunday Telegraph, Diana Simmonds," Works of Unsettling Splendour", March 2, P108
The Sydney Morning Herald, Joyce Morgan, Metroplitan Section, March 3, p17
Panorama Upfront, Helen Musa, "Time to Reassess", March 8. p6-7
Penrith City Star, Tracy Sorenson, "Moving Tribute to Anita", Feb 18, front page
Sunday Telegraph, Diana Simmonds, "Works of Unsettling Splendour", March 2, p108
The Western Weekender, Heath Davis, "Celebrating a Special Life", March 7, p3
Time Out, Gail Kavanagh, "Beauty of Her Smile is Captured Forever", March
Penrith Press, "Exhibition Confronts Aftermath of Murder", Jan 31, p31
Blue Mountains Gazette, "Exhibition on Murder", Feb 5, p86
Australian Police Journal, "Anita and Beyond", March, Vol 57, No 1, p70
2002 SPARX: Illawarra's Cultural Magazine, "Displaced Desires", Oct/Nov, Vol 3 Issue 19
Advertiser News, Anne Howell, "Desire in Art a Widely Varied Range", September 11, p26
1998 Sydney Morning Herald, Barbara Karpinski, "It's Sex and Death Again", Metro Feb 20-26, p6
1996 Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
Artist News
Brigitte
Neue Zurcher Zeitung
Der Tagesspiegel
Downtown, Ausgabe Nord
1995 Barbara Karpinski, "I Really Want To Kill You But I Can't Remember Why", Capital Q Weekly. July 14. p13
Diana Taylor, "Art For Those Stout Of Heart", The Daily Telegraph Mirror, July 20. p13
John McDonald, "Science Fiction and Sex", Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum 12A
1994 Mark Thornley, "The National Graduate Show", X-Press, May 19
David Bromfield, "Youthful Energy Opens Eyes to Exciting Styles", The West Australian, May 21
Jacob Seinemeier, "Art Review: National Graduate Show, Grok, June, p24
Graduating Art, West Side Observer, June, p20
1989 Martin Portus, "Artists Fight the Taboo", The Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 4, p82
Art Review, Sydney Star Observer, Feb 2
1988 Karen Jennings, "The Frames Film Festival", Artlink, Vol 8 #2, p41

Selected Publications

2007 LOTL Magazine, Psychic, NYC, September
LOTL Magazine, Hell on Wheels, NYC, April
2006 LOTL Magazine, Katrina Del Mar, NYC, September
LOTL Magazine, New York Underground, NYC, November
LOTL Magazine, My Sister Aileen, NYC, June
LOTL Magazine, Rachel Kramer Bussel, NYC, April
Yen, Feb/March
Cream, Chrissie Amphlett, Feb/March, pp16, 114
LOTL Magazine, Editor's Page, March, p26
2005 The Village Voice, New York City, Jan 3
LOTL Magazine, Buggirl, CBGB's, New York City, January, p18
Slit Magazine, Penny Arcade, NYC, Issue 7
2004 Slit Magazine, Chrissy Amphlett, Issue 6, p22-25
1998 Artlink, Linda Dement, "Dying Frightened Gasps of Old Men in Suits", Vol 18 #3 p17-21
1997 the mag, Jasmine Hirst, "Nan's Wild Lives", June, p48-51
1996 (not only) blue, Paul Capsis
(not only) black and white, Chrissie Amphlett
Paul Capsis, publicity photos
DIY Feminism, ed. Kathy Bail, p40 & 204
Australian Women's Forum, Barbara Karpinski, "Malice in Wonderland", p14-17
An Encounter With Power, ed. Elizabeth Ashburn, p34 & 98
Penny Arcade, publicity photos, "Sissi Sings The Blues", Vienna
1995 (not only) blue, Fiona McGregor, "Don't Call Me Bitch", February, p18
Penny Arcade, publicity photos for "Bad Reputation", International tour
1994 Wicked Women, "Jasmine Hirst", Vol 2, #10, p19-21

Websites (photography)

  Chrissy Amphlett, www.chrissyamphlett.com
Penny Arcade, www.pennyarcade.com
Chris Rael, www.churchofbetty.com
Paul Capsis, www.capsis.org

CD Covers

  The Divinyls, Underworld, BMG Records
Chris Rael, The Devil You Know, Fang Records
Penny Arcade, Bad Reputation, Fang Records