Born Bendigo, Australia. Lives and works Sydney, Australia.
EDUCATION
2015
Masters of Fine Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
2001
Bachelor of Music, Honours, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University
ACADEMIC
2016
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, artist educator
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, visiting artist educator
University of Wollongong, School of the Arts, English and Media, tutor
University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, guest lecturer
2015
Australian Youth Orchestra, National Music Camp, tutor
2014
Macquarie University, Sydney, lecturer and tutor
City University London, guest lecturer
National University of Ireland, University College Cork, guest lecturer
2010
University of Melbourne, Melbourne Conservatorium, guest lecturer
2009
Edith Cowan University, WAAPA, Perth, guest lecturer
Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium, guest lecturer
University of Newcastle, guest lecturer
2008-12
School of Audio Engineering, Sydney, regular guest lecturer
2004-5
Australian National University, Canberra School of Music, regular lecturer and tutor
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Vibrant Matter, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney
2015
STATIC, Berlinskej Model, Prague
White Noise, William Wright Projects, Sydney
Studies in Unison, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2014
Consensus bb15, Linz, Austria
Lovers, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo
2013
Dissonance, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Turbulent Geometry, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, Canberra
2012
AURA (with Luke Jaaniste), Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney
Jagged Heart (with Luke Jaaniste), Islington Mill, Manchester, UK
2010
Ceremony, Firstdraft, Sydney
Ceremony, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Arts NSW Visual Art Fellowship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
Sydney ARI Show, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
NEW16, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
CUSP, Australian Design Centre, Sydney
2015
8th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Prague Quadrennial of Performance Space and Design, Czech Republic
envelop(e), Dark MOFO/Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart
Sound And Vision, Galerie pompom/MOP, Sydney
The NOW now, SNO Projects, Sydney
2014
Bildhauen, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney
CUSP, Jam Factory, Adelaide
CUSP, State Library Queensland, Brisbane
Human Landscape, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney
2013
Bloom Space, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
CUSP, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2012
SafARI, The Rocks Pop-Up, Sydney
Transmission, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Near Earth Art, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2016
An Infinity Room (AIR), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Open Plans, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Moving Collected Ambiance, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
2015
Quartz, Bang On A Can Marathon, New York
Hammer Action, Royal Academy of Music, London
Social Systems, VIVID Sydney, Seymour Centre, Sydney
GAMES+ACTIONS, Art & About, Sydney
2014
Super Critical Mass, MPavillion, Melbourne
AIR National Portrait Gallery, London
AIR Café Oto, London, UK
Sonic Social, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Shudder Space Aurora Festival, Parramatta Town Hall, Sydney
2013
AIR Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Turning The Tables, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Together We Breathe, Library of Birmingham, UK
Soundland, Underbelly Festival, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
Live And Let Die, Performance Space, Sydney
2012
Monochrome, The Horse Hospital, London, UK
Low End, Spitalfields Music Festival, Old Spitalfields Markets, London, UK
Voice Field, FutureEverything Festival, Manchester Cathedral, UK
Halogen, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
2011
Sound, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Vaporisation, Queensland Music Festival, Old Museum, Brisbane
Swelter, Make Music New York/MATA Festival, New York
INTERCESSIONS Altes Finanzamt, Berlin
INTERCESSIONS, Test Extra, Het Nutshius, The Hague, Netherlands
2010
Resonate, Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art
Wollongong Art Gallery
Private collections (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane)
SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
2016
Arts NSW Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Finalist
2015
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travelling Scholarship
Aesthetica Prize, UK, Finalist
APRA/AMC Art Music Awards, Excellence by an Individual, Finalist
Arts NSW, New Work Grant
2014
ARTAND Australia Credit Suisse Contemporary Art Award
NAB Private Wealth Emerging Artist Award, Finalist
Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Australia Fellowship; ArtStart
2013
DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY Award
Willoughby Sculpture Prize, Emerging Artist Award
Australia Council for the Arts, Peggy Glanville-Hicks fellowship
APRA/AMC Art Music Awards, Excellence in Experimental Music, Finalist
New Ideas In Sound, Third Angle, Portland, USA
London Sinfonietta RSVP, Highly Commended
2012
Australia Council, Going Global; New Work Grant
Wild Rumpus, San Francisco, Commissioning Prize
APRA/AMC Art Music Awards, Excellence in Experimental Music, Highly Commended
Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize, Highly Commended
Fishers Ghost Art Award, Finalist
2011
Arts NSW, International Travel Grant; Creative Development Grant
2010
MATA Commissioning Prize, New York
RESIDENCIES/DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
2014 Alvin Lucier masterclass, Sonic Acts, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2013 National Composers Forum, Australian String Quartet, University of Adelaide
2012 Federation Square, Melbourne
SELECTED AUDIO RELEASES
2016 White On White, Room 40/A Guide To Saints
2014 Passages (vol two), New Weird Australia
2013 Sixes and Twelves, Wood & Wire
2012 Stasis Ecstatic, Heartless Robot
2011 Asleep On Red Earth, Under Bright Stars, Kaldor Public Art Projects
SELECTED BIOGRAPHIES
Fehily, Toby. “NEW16 Review.” The Guardian, 11 Mar 2016
Stephens, Andrew. “Breaking A Family Silence: NEW16.” Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, 27 Feb 2016
Jaspers, Anneke. NEW16. Exhibition catalogue. Melbourne: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2016
Larsson, Chari. “This Is Not An Orchestra”, Broadsheet, issue 44.3, Nov 2015
8th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art. Exhibition catalogue. 2015
Future Now. Aesthetica Prize. Exhibition catalogue. 2015
Ford, Andrew. Earth Dances. Sydney: Black Inc., 2015
Zeichner, Eleanor. “Julian Day.” ARTAND Australia, issue 52.1, Dec 2014
Lorenzen, Matthew, “Artist Profile”, RealTime, RT125, Nov/Dec 2014
McDonald, Kelly. “Sonic Social”, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, June2014
Gibb, Susan. “Undiscovered: Julian Day”, Art Collector, issue 68, Apr-Jun 2014
Parker, Francis E. “Found Sound.” In Reinventing The Wheel: The Readymade Century. Melbourne: MUMA, 2013
Reid, Chris, “The exhibition as a single entity”, RealTime, RT115, Jun/Jul 2013
Ed. “The Portal”, The Wire, Aug 2012
Tommasini, Anthony, “SWELTER: review”, New York Times, 22 Jun 2011
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