Staff Profiles

 

Paula Dawson  http://www.pauladawson.com.au

 

Education

2001 PhD the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20020418.103955/

1992 Master of Fine Art, The University of New South Wales, Sydney,Australia.

1981 Bachelor of Art,  Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne,Australia.

1978 Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, Painting  RMIT ,Melbourne, Australia.

1975 Higher Diploma of Teaching Secondary Art and Craft, State College of Victoria, Melbourne,Australia.

 

Academic Positions

2006- Associate Professor, College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales

2002/3 Visiting Scholar, Centre for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass

2000 Secior Lecturer, School of Art, College of Fine Art, UNSW

1994  Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Visual Studies and Spatial Imaging Group Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Mass

1994/7  Research Fellow, The University of New South Wales

1990   Lecturer, College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales

1994 Research Fellow ,Centre for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MASS

1991/7   Visiting Artist  Australian Museum, Sydney

1987/91  Lecturer in Holography (School of Design)University of Technology Sydney

1987/8    Artist, Heytesbury Holography, Bell Resources Limited, Melbourne.

1986 Lecturer in Sculpture, Life Drawing and Photography ,Prahan College of TAFE, Melbourne.

 

Artist Residencies

2008 Holocenter, New York

Cite International des Arts,Paris

2004  Holocentre, New York

1986  Department of Applied Physics,RMIT Melbourne

         Museum of Holography, New York

1984  Telecom Technology, Melbourne

         Adelaide Festival, Applied Physics Dpt. Adelaide University

1980   Artsit in Residence

 

Professional Appointments

1992 Chair, Poster Sessions and Co-ordinating Committee Member for the Third International Symposium on Electronic Art, Sydney    

1991/2 Director, Invited Artist Program, Advanced Computer Graphics Centre, Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute, Melbourne

 

Honors  and Awards

1994 - 1997 Australian Artist Creative Fellowship, Prime Minister, Australia   

1989  Shearwater Foundation ,New York. For excellence in Holograhic Art

1989 Grand Prix ARTEC  (Nagoya, Japan) First International High-tec Art Biennale

 

Public Collections  

Australia National Gallery , Canberra

National Portrait Gallery, Australia

St Brigid’s Church Coogee, Sydney.

Questacon, The National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra.

Macquarie University Gallery,Sydney.

Muse de Holographie, Paris.

Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Newcastle Region Art Gallery,Newcastle.

MIT Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge Mass.

 

Solo exhibitions

2004 Hologram Mirrors Boutwell Darper Gallery, Sydney.

1998 Holographic Models Sherman Galleries ,Sydney.

1994 Paula Dawson and the Secret of Happiness Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne.

1991 Sci-Tech Discovery Centre ,Perth

1986 The holograms of Paula Dawson Queensland Museum  Brisbane

1985 Look Here Avago Gallery  Sydney

1980 There's no place like home Gryphon Gallery  Melbourne

1979 Subsets RMIT Gallery  Melbourne

1977 Music and lasers in mazes Gryphon Gallery  Melbourne

1977 Transparent things RMIT Gallery  Melbourne

 

Group Exhibitions

2009 Art & Illusion: masterpieces of trompe l'oeil from antiquity to the present. Piazza Strozzi,Florence

2008 Luminous Windows: Holograms for the 21^st Century, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass.

2007  Global Eyes,SIGGRAPH 2007,International conference and Exhibition on computer Graphics and Interactive techniques), San Diego Conference Center. San Deigo,USA

2006  21^st Century Holography, 12 July-17 September, 2006 Bodelwyddan Castle (outstation of the National Portrait Gallery) Wales, UK

2004 Art and New Media, Tinan National University of the Arts, Taiwan.

2003 Light from Shadow:The Leagacy of Chiaroscuro in Spatial Imaging, Ivan Dougherty Gallery (Sydney) http://www.shadowyfigures.com

2001 Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H.Irving Gallery ,Sydney.

2000 Body Language: Art Sport and the Cyberconversation Ivan Dougherty Gallery,Sydney.

1999 On the tiles Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney.

1999 Shifiting Currents COFA exhibition space,Sydney  

1999 Metis Australia National Gallery  http://www.nga.gov.au/Exhibitions/Dawson.htm

1999 The Possibilities of Portraiture National Portrait Gallery,Canberra

1998 Archibald Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1998 Switch Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney

1995 Interlude Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney

1994 Creators and Inventors National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne

1993 Manu et Mante , Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.

1993 Virtu Ivan Doherty Gallery , Sydney

1993 Luminaries Monash Gallery , Melbourne.

1993 Hypothetically Public Penrith Regional Gallery , Sydney

1992 Manuet Mante Ivan Doherty Gallery , Sydney

1991 Fiat Lux! Asturias , Spain

1990 International Holography,Moreau Gallery, Indiana, USA

1989 Artec '89 ,First International Biennale of High Technology Art,   Nagoya, Japan

1989 Perspecta Art Gallery of NSW , Sydney

1988 Work in Progress Adelaide Festival of the Arts,Adelaide 

1987 The Holographic Instant Museum of Holography , New York

1987 Images in Time and Space Expotec,Montreal

1984 Interface Centre Gallery , Adelaide

1984 Light-blicke German Film Museum , Franfurt

1983 Continuum Surugadai Gallery ,Tokyo, Japan

1983 Light dimensions Octagon Gallery  (Bath, UK)

1982 Space light Sydney Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences  

1981 First Australian Sculpture Triennial Latrobe University  (Melbourne)

1978 Latrobe University Sculpture   (Melbourne)

1978 Mildura Sculpturescape   (Mildura)

1978 Queensland Festival of Arts   (Brisbane)

1975 Mildura Sculpturescape   (Mildura)

1975 Document Performance Video National Gallery of Victoria  

1974 Boxes Ewing Gallery  (Melbourne)

 

Commissions

2008 ANN, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Australia

1997 Shrine of the Sacred Heart, St Brigid's Church,Coogee,Sydney

1989 To Absent Friends, Robert and Janet Holmes a Court, Perth

1985 The Eidola Suite, Australian Pavilion Science Expo’85 Tsukuba, Federal Government, Australia

 

 

Conference papers

Dawson, P ( 2006) The Legend of the True Hologram. Proceedings , Advances in Display Holography, 7th International symposium on display Holography, editor Dr Han I Bjelkhagen, technium OpTIC

Dawson, P. (2006). Bronze Rainbow Hologram Mirrors.Proceedings of SPIE (The International Society of Optical Engineering), Vol.6136 Practical Holography XX: Materials and Applications, San Jose, CA, USA.

Dawson, P. (2004). Composing Mosaic Holograms. In Proceedings of SPIE Vol 5290 June 2004 P130-136

1996 Exploring the Threshold of Perception and Reverie for a Display Hologram, San Jose, SPIE.

1992 Optical Transfer of Master Hologram With 20 Metres of Depth, Holographics International, London European Optical Society, SPIE, The International Society for Optical Engineering.

1992 Lunar Illuminated Outdoor Hologram, Optical Society of America, San Jose, SPIE.

1991 You Are Here, International Symposium on Display Holography, Chicago, SPIE.

 

Bibliography

2008 Digital Baroqe: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds, Minnesota Press, Timothy Murray,
2004   Unnatural Selection, A. Ivanova and A. Cavallaro, Eds, Novamedia (Aus) 2004, Ars Electronica,     Austria.

2000 Saur Allgeneines Kuenstler-lexikon, Volume 24 2000 Page 567

1999 Contemporary Women Artists, ed Laurie Collier Hillstrom, Kevin Hillstrom with a preface by Lucy Lippard, St James Press, London.pp162-165.

1996-97 B Burgner, Interferenzen 7/8 page 12,13

1997 J. Aland & M. Darby Australian artwork Hienemann, Melbourne

1995   Apparition University of Sydney: Power Publications

1993 Frank Popper Art of the Electronic Age Thames & Hudson, London

1992 R.Coyle 'Object, image, space and light, Paula Dawson's Artwork 1974-1990' Leonardo Vol 24, No. 51

1990 Ken Scarlett 'Marking the mundane miraculous' Art and Australia Vol 27, No 4, Winter

1990 Phil Hayward 'Art in the space of technology' Culture Technology & Creativity in the late 20th Century John Libbey & Co

1989 C. Bainier & G. Tribillon 'Holography and art in a research laboratory: A retrospective' Leonardo Vol 22, No 3/4

1989 R. Rallison 'Artists against great odds' Leonardo Vol 22, No 3/4

1987 Pat Sabine 'Memory theatre' Artlink Vol 7, No 3/4, pp. 92-95

 

Films about Works

Investigations, Directed and written by Paula Dawson, DVD, 1hr, 2003

To Absent Friends  Directed by Ronnie Taylor, Film Australia. 55 minutes 1989

Visions in the Making Directed by George Gittoes1988.

Women Artists Australia Directed by Scott Hicks, South Australian Film Corporation1982