Dr Peta Clancy - Researcher Profile

Biography

Peta Clancy’s selected solo exhibitions have been included at Performance Space, Sydney (in collaboration with Helen Pynor) (2011); Dominik Mersch Gallery (2009 & 2007), Sydney; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2007); Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, UK (2005); Platform Public Contemporary Art Spaces (2001); Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Studio 12 (1997); and Centre for Contemporary Photography (1995). Clancy’s selected group exhibitions include Controversy: The Power of Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (2012) and Imagining the Everyday, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China (2010).

In 2012 Clancy and Pynor were awarded an honorary mention in the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica in Austria for their ambitious exhibition project The Body is a Big Place commissioned by Performance Space. Furthermore, they have been awarded an ANAT Synapse Art/Science Residency Grant to undertake a four-month residency at St. Vincent’s hospital, Sydney in 2012. Clancy’s artwork has been published in ‘Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art’ by Ingeborg Reichle and ‘Look: Contemporary Australian Photography Since 1980’ by Anne Marsh. Articles about her work have featured in the contemporary art journals: Artlink, Eyeline, Photofile, RealTime, Asian Art News and a front cover article in Australian Art Collector (2007). She has undertaken commissions at the Australian Museum and the 2006 Mozart Festival in Salzburg, Austria.

PhD, Monash; MFA, RMIT; and BFA, RMIT.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2009

Publications

Books

Clancy, P.J., 2009, Paper Thin, Peta Clancy, Melbourne, Vic.

Conference Proceedings

Clancy, P.J., 2009, Porous boundaries, Media Art Scoping Study Symposium Proceedings, 04 July 2009, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, pp. 35-44.

Other

Dziekan, V.L., Clancy, P.J., Pynor, H., 2011, Interview with Peta Clancy and Helen Pynor, 'The Body is a Big Place', Interview, Leonardo Electronic Almanac Digital Media Exhibition Platform, online.

Clancy, P.J., Pynor, H., 2011, The Body is a Big Place, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), Sydney, Australia (online), 1 November to 30 November 2011.

Clancy, P., 2010, Ageing Roses, Series of Type-C photographs and wax, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Waterloo, NSW.

Clancy, P., 2010, Untitled, Hand-altered Type-C prints, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Waterloo, NSW.

Clancy, P.J., 2009, Amorphous Bodies - the space between, photographs, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield East, Vic.

Clancy, P.J., 2009, Paper Thin, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, NSW, 3 to 22 December 2009.

Perkins, M.J., Clancy, P.J., 2009, Post: After the fact, Catalogue essay in 'Testing Ground', Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Vic, pp. 24-25.

Perkins, M.J., Clancy, P.J., 2009, Testing Ground, Group exhibition curation, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Vic.

Clancy, P.J., 2008, Link Exhibition, RMIT SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, RMIT SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY, Melbourne, Vic, 29 September to Friday 10 October.

Clancy, P.J., 2007, Elixir, Thirty Seven Degrees Contemporary Art Gallery, Australian Art Collector, Sydney, NSW, 22 November to 22 December.

Clancy, P.J., 2007, Eye 2 from the series 'She carries it all like a map on her skin' in Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts Photography Award, Gold Coast AA Gallery, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Qld, 12 May - 24 June.

Clancy, P.J., 2007, Lips 1, Lips 2, Lashes 2 & Eye 2 from the series 'She carries it all like a map on her skin' in U Turn, The Glandale College Art Gallery, Glendale, California, USA, The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, California, USA, 1 September to 5 October.

Clancy, P.J., 2007, Lips 2 from the series 'She carries it all like a map on her skin' in ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award, ABN Amro Tower Foyer, Sydney, NSW, ABN Amro, Sydney, 3-25 September.

Clancy, P.J., 2007, New German Photomedia and Visible Human Bodies, Artist talk, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW.

Clancy, P.J., 2007, Visible Human Bodies, Solo Exhibition, Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography, Sydney, NSW.

Clancy, P.J., 2006, Body manufacture: genetic genie, Juridische Fakultat Salzburg, OFFMozart FESTIVAL DER FREIEN SZENE 2006, Salzburg, Austria, 27 September to 10 October.

Clancy, P.J., 2006, 'Untitled 3' from the series Human Visible Bodies in Art for Science (Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Fund-raising Exhibition), Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Vic, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Vic, 21 to 23 July.

Clancy, P.J., 2006, Waiting for the Dust to Settle, Alliance Francaise Gallery, Alliance Francaise de Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, 5 October 2006 to 31 October 2006.

Clancy, P.J., 2006, 'Waiting for the dust to settle' in Interior Design, Alliance Francaise Gallery, Melbourne, Vic, Alliance Francaise de Melbourn and Monash University, Faculty of Art and Design, Melbourne, Vic, 5-31 October.

Clancy, P.J., 2005, Lips 1 from the series 'She carries it all like a map on her skin' & Floating 2, Floating 3 & Settled from the 'Dust Series' in Expiration, Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic, 24 October to 11 November.

Clancy, P.J., 2005, The Latent Image: New Life Drawings, RMIT Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic, 6-24 June.

Clancy, P.J., 2005, 'Untitled 1' from the series Visible Human Bodies in A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Group Exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Vic.

Clancy, P.J., 2005, Visible Human Bodies, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, UK, James Green Centre for World Art, Melbourne, VIC, 30 April to 10 July.

Clancy, P.J., 2004, 'Sweetie' in Suck: Voices from the Interior, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne, Vic, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne, Vic, 26 August to 25 September.

Clancy, P.J., 2003, Genetics and Art, Paper for the art association of Australia and New Zealand 2003 annual conference, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

Clancy, P.J., 2003, 'Visible Woman' in Global Contact, Group Exhibition 24 May to 7 June, Soho In Ottakring, Vienna, Austria.

Clancy, P.J., 2003, X-T Xenobiotic Art (Exhibition at XIX International Congress of Genetics), Exhibition, XIX International Congress of Genetics, Melbourne Convention Centre.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

An investigation and analysis of the conscious and unconscious roles of the spectator during participation in live and pre-recorded video installation art.

Supervisors:

Clancy, P (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Caught Between: an exploration of cross-cultural landscape as identity.

Supervisors:

Clancy, P (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Contemporary art and the vanitas.

Supervisors:

Clancy, P (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Drawing Them In: Diagramming Self and other in Drawing Practice.

Supervisors:

Clancy, P (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Exchange.

Supervisors:

Clancy, P (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Lowa Maleetye.

Supervisors:

Clancy, P (Main).