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click here to download pdf of CV education
work experience
residencies / scholarships 2010/12 The Art Students League of New York Artist-in-Residence Program |
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awards 2012 Shortlisted, Beers.Lambert Award for Emerging Art 2011 Australia Council ArtStart grant 2011 The John and Shelagh Kaske Memorial Fellowship
publications 2007 Byron Bay Artists Diary 2008, published by True Art + Media
solo exhibitions 2007 i love you... forever, Dolores Cupcake Studio Gallery, Byron Bay NSW (download)
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selected group exhibitions 2012 FIGMENT NYC, (as paperJAM) Governors Island, New York, NY 2012 Vytlacil Alumni Exhibit, Elizabeth Sullivan Gallery, The Art Students League of New York, NY 2011 SVA Summer Residency Open Studio Show, SVA, Chelsea, NY 2011 About Face, No Longer Empty, NY, NY (exhibiting as artist collaboration paperJAM) 2010 Vytlacil Holiday Show, Elizabeth Sullivan Gallery, The Art Students League of New York, NY 2010 Resident Open Studio Exhibit, The Art Students League of New York, Sparkill NY 2010 petits travaux, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, NSW 2010 The Magic Faraway Tree, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, NSW 2010 Eastcoasters : Vegas Spray Cross City Experience, Bleeding Heart Gallery, Brisbane QLD 2010 Tandem 10, Space Gallery, North Coast Institute of TAFE Lismore, NSW 2010 Art Melbourne, Retrospect Galleries, Melbourne VIC |
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2009 Art Sydney, Retrospect Galleries, Sydney NSW 2009 Transit 09, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2009 Unknown Landscapes, Next Gallery, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2009 Revolution of Art - Urban Art Exhibition, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW 2009 2010 Byron Bay Art Diary Launch Exhibition, Byron Bay NSW 2008 12x12 art for the tree, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay NSW |
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artist biography dolores cupcake is an artist, graphic designer, word-nerd, and occasional pirate based in byron bay. she began her career as a graphic designer, graduating from Sydney Graphics College, followed by an internship at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. Originally a self-taught painter, she has also completed a degree in Visual Arts at Southern Cross University, and an Honours degree (first class) in Fine Art at Queensland College of Art. Recent explorations have seen her moving away from her signature graphic and illustrative narrative style of painting, and into a more process driven multimedia practice. |
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artist statement i have begun to use video as a central point in my work, as a tool for documenting, making work and as a medium itself... i am inspired by the beauty and the mundane nature of everyday sorts of objects and activities, and have lately been quite taken with the notion of making art whilst doing such activities, in a way that captures something of an experience without impacting the nature of it too much; walking, driving, reading... i have made whole bodies of work whilst doing these things...
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my latest work sees me projecting this video onto surfaces upon which i paint and draw... creating abstract multimedia works using the footage that i have collected on my travels as my source material. i am interested in the collision of digital media and the hand made mark, and using this to create my own pathway into abstraction. i am also experimenting with creating video pieces or what i call slow moving paintings out of some of my collected video footage, and these are dream-like video versions of the paintings i’ve been making...
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