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	Mr Martin Sims MFA UNSW, BA(Hons) Chel.Sch.Art Senior Lecturer School of Art
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Academic Profile

Education

MFA , College of Fine Arts UNSW, Sydney, Australia , .
BA (Hons) , Chelsea School of Art, London , .
Postgraduate Art History , Chelsea School of Art, London , .
Postgraduate Sculpture , Royal College of Art, London , .

Areas of Expertise

Sculpture, Performance & Installation; Sound & Video; Art History & Theory.

Teaching Areas

Sculpture, Performance & Installation; Sound & Video.

Current Research Activity

Martin Sims has an extensive background in sculpture and installation practices, though in recent years has developed a series of projects using video and sound. Earlier work has drawn heavily upon architectural traditions of monumental building and a distinct sense of physical mass in relation to spatial extent remain central to the ideas Martin currently pursues with temporal media.

Martin's five-year audio project Thin Air brings together real-time sound of iconic silent spaces in global locations. It features sonic minutiae recorded at sites such as the Rothko Chapel, Auschwitz/Birkenau concentration camp and the Whispering Gallery in Saint Paul's Cathedral; this work will received its premiere presentation in Cork, European Capital of Culture 2005. Video work in progress uses real-time footage of urban and rural topologies to explore the notion of ground as a site of manifold kinds of inscription and erasure. See the current issue of Artlink magazine, for discussion of his work on the Hay Plain in western NSW.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2005, Thin Air. "Soundworks 2005", Cork European Capital of Culture.

2002, One Million Candelas . "Incarnations", Paddington Uniting Church, Sydney, NSW.

2001, Voice-Motion-Euphony. The Listening Room, ABC Classic FM.

1999, Frequency. The Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, NSW.

1997-1999, There Are Warnings of Gales. The Listening Room and Elizabeth Bay House, ABC Classic FM and Sydney, NSW.

1997, Air Pressure. Artspace, Sydney, NSW.

Group Exhibitions

2003, The Democracy of Objects . Connie Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

2000-2001, Mildura Palimpsest #3 & #4. Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, VIC.

1997, Sextet. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

1996, V Bienal Internacional de Poesia Visual/Experimenta. , Mexico City.

1996, Manuscript In a Bottle. OR Gallery , Vancouver, Canada.

1994, Out of the Box. Nolan Gallery , Canberra (also toured nationally).

1994, Matter and Mutations. The Substation , Singapore.

1991, Agape, Australian Perspecta. King Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

1990, New Sculpture. Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

1983, Three Artists. Showroom Gallery , London, UK.

Works Exhibitioned in a Competition

2005, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (finalist) . Woollahra Council, Sydney, NSW.

2002, Blake Prize for Religious Art. Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW.

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