Sue Dodd

Throughout her long career, Sue Dodd has developed an artistic practice that incorporates performance, video and installation and responds to the contemporary cultural landscape of globalisation, homogeneity and desire. Dodd looks at the playful and expressive potentials of pop, mass media and celebrity culture through translation, over-dubbing and performance, challenging audience relationships to the work of art and demonstrating possibilities for hybrid modes of production.

Dodd participated in Art Athina Contemporaries: Statements Made, Athens (2014); Now Hear This – Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria (2013); Technopia Tours, StudioVisits, Berlin (2012); and Frame_Birmingham, Clarke Gallery, Birmingham (2012).

Among her solo presentations are Wendy Airhole, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne (2013); Technopia Tours, Art Stage Singapore, Singapore (2013); and Watch Me Buy Me at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2009).

 

Sue Dodd

Sue Dodd

Sue Dodd

EDUCATION

2013    PhD, Victoria University, Melbourne
2000    MFA, RMIT University, Melbourne
1997    BFA (Honours), RMIT University, Melbourne

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015
Travelogue Super Uncertain, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne

2013
Wendy Airhole, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
Technopia Tours – Singapore, w Kim Donaldson, Art Stage Singapore, Anna Pappas Gallery, Singapore
Best of: A Survey of Gossip Pop, Techno Park Studios, Melbourne

2010
Shangri-La, Techno Park Studios, Melbourne
Turn On Tune In, w Kim Donaldson, Techno Park Studios, Melbourne

2009
Watch Me Buy Me, ACMI, Melbourne

2007
Westspace East, Plastic Kinetic Worms, Singapore

2006
Inventory: On Op Shops, Living Museum of the West, Melbourne 2006
Gossip Pop, Satellite Opening, Shanghai
Gossip Pop, Glamour Bar, Shanghai
Gossip Pop, Artist’s Party Opening for Artist’s week, Adelaide International Festival
Starf*ckers, rockpigs & arterarti, The Tote, Melbourne

2005
Next Week’s Boring Surprise, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
The Reality TV Tour, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Gossip Pop, Art After Dark, Andy Warhol Exhibition, NGV International, Melbourne
Pop Vs. Death, L’Orèal Melbourne Fashion Festival, The Croft Institute, Melbourne

2004
Starf**ker, Monash University Museum of Art and VCA Gallery, Melbourne
Gossip Pop, Res Artis Program, ACMI Screen Gallery, Melbourne
More Gossip Pop, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Gossip Pop, Fitzroy Town Hall, Arts Launch of L’Orèal Melbourne Fashion Festival

2003
Gossip Pop, Kings ARI, Melbourne
Gossip Pop, BUS Gallery, Melbourne
NW, The Gig, CLUBSproject Inc., Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
Art-Athina, Anna Pappas Gallery, Athens, Greece
MAF Video Program: Staging Actions, curated by Kyle Weise and Simone Hine, Melbourne Art Fair
Don’t Kurt Cobain, curated by Lisa Radford and Rosemary Forde, Slopes, Melbourne
AwesomeRepeatxInfinityBonus;-), curated by Sue Dodd, Trocadero, Melbourne

2013
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Moving on Asia: Towards a New Art Network 2004-2013, City Gallery, Auckland
Move On Asia: Video Art in Asia, 2002-2012, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Pursuit, Art Stage Singapore
My Avante-Garde is Bigger Than Yours, Kings, Melbourne
Pursuit, Art Stage Singapore

2012
Technopia Tours – Berlin, w Kim Donaldson, Studio Visits, Berlin
Technopia Tours visits Zbludza, w Kim Donaldson, Zbludza, Poland
Frame_Birmingham, Clarke Gallery, Birmingham
Radio Alice, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne Art Fair, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
This Is Not A Love Song, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
Pursuit, Delhi Art Fair, India

2011
Future Possible, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
Panoply, curated by Death Be Kind, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston
Move On Asia, (touring exhibition) Casa Asia, Madrid/ Barcelona and LABoral, Gijon

2010
The End of Video Art, Move on Asia, (touring exhibition) Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
Zumba & Goliath, Technopark Studios

2009
My little opening, Hells Gallery, Melbourne
The End of Video Art, Move on Asia, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
Synaesthesia, (performance) ACMI, Melbourne

2008
Intermission (performance) for Melbourne International Film Festival, Ding Dong Lounge
One of Us Cannot Be Wrong, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne
You Don’t Have to Call It Music, The Toff, Melbourne
Sound from the Choir Loft 1, AC (Institute Direct Chapel Unlimited), New York
Girls, Girls, Girls, Carlton Club, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Video@ICA, Private Screening, ICA, London
United Artists, (Live Performance) Palais Theatre, Melbourne

2007
What is (Australia Like)? FABS, Warsaw, Sub-urban Video Lounge, Rotterdam Directors Lounge Video Festival, Berlin
Relentless Optimism, Carlton Club, Melbourne
OOMPH, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Good Morning!! City Noise:Sound Art Project, Galeri Soemardja (ITB), Bandung
Anxious Bodies Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
PROJEKT Video Art Archive, PICA Touring Project, Western Australia

2006
show show, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Satellite, Australian Pavillion, Shanghai
Anxious Bodies, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
Feminist Actions, Spacement, Melbourne

2005
A Portable Model Of…, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart and Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
Gertrude Studio Artists, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2004
More Boring Video Art, Vuspace, Victoria University, Melbourne
2004: Australian Culture Now, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia
And Something More, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Pink Spunk, Performance, Loop, Melbourne
Can’t Talk Right Now, The Shed, Melbourne
Sad Pastie, Bar 303, Melbourne
Projekt Video Catalogue, The Physics Room, Christchurch
OuttakeOut, The Physics Room, Christchurch

2003
Projekt #5, Kings ARI, Melbourne
Project Everyone, CLUBSproject Inc., Melbourne

AWARDS
2008            Finalist, Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship
2006-7         Funding Recipient, Arts Victoria Community and Cultural Development
2006            Australia-China Council, New Work
2005            Australia Council for the Arts, New Work
2005            City of Melbourne, New work
2001            Arts Victoria International and Cultural Exchange
1999-2000   RMIT Postgraduate Research Award
2004-5         Studio Residency, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces

SELECTED MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS 

Vikki McInnes & Laura Castagnini (eds), Bureau2, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne University, 2014
Phillip Brophy, Mouthing Politics, Breathing Politics: Sue Dodd, Significant Others, Realtime 121, June/July, 2014
Matthew Perkins (ed) Video Void: Australian Video Art, Australian Scholarly Publishing: Melbourne, 2014
Andrea Hylands and Peter Hylands, ‘Technopia Tours’, Creative-i Magazine: Issue 4 The Singapore Issue, 2013
Lisa Radford, “Are We In A Cone of Silence?: A Letter Between Two Artists, Who Are Editors (For Now)” Un Magazine 6.2, 2012
Jinsuk SUH (ed.), Moving On Asia 2004-2013, Seoul: Korea Foundation, 2012
Sue Dodd, Future Possible, Catalogue essay, 2011
Max Delany & Nicola Harvey, ‘Melbourne’, Frieze Magazine, Issue 115, UK, May, 2008
Zoe Skewes, Rumour To Move, Herald Sun, 12 February, 2008
Enza Gandolfo, Sue Dodd, Inventory: On Op Shops, The Vulgar Press
Dan MacKinlay, ‘Indoors and Out There’, Realtime 78, April-May, 2007
Penny Webb, ‘Relentless Optimism’, The Age, 14 February, 2007
Robert Nelson, ‘A Look Beyond the Bright Side’, The Australian, 17 February, 2007
Elena Galimberti, ‘In the Body of the Beholder’, Realtime, Iss.75, 2006
A Short Ride in Fast Machine 1985-2005, Charlotte Day (ed), Gertrude Contemporary Art
Spaces, Black Ink, Melbourne, 2005
Grace McQuilten, ‘Pop Vs. Death and So Hot Right Now’ UnMagazine, Issue 4, Winter, 2005
Zara Stanhope, ‘Video, Dude…’, Photofile, Winter, 2005
Radio Interview/Live Performance, Julie McCrossin (presenter), Life Matters, ABC Radio National, 2005
Din Heagney, ‘Gossip Pop’, Pagesonline, April, 2005
Peter Anderson, ‘Honk4Art’, Australian Art Review, Issue 6, 2005
Edward Colless, ‘Hot Gossip’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 30, Oct-Nov, 2004
Radio Interview, Nicole Foote (producer), 2004
‘2004: Australian Culture Now’ with Jason Smith and Kelly Gelatly (curators), Sunday Morning, ABC Radio National, 20 June, 2004
Max Delany, Performance, ‘Pop and Video: The work of Phillip Brophy’, Guy Benfield and Sue Dodd, Hatched’04 Symposium, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2004
Andrew Frost, ‘The Next Generation’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 28, April-June, 2004
Radio Interview, Madeliene Randall, ABC Overnight, 14 March, 2004
Radio Interview/Live Performance, Vikki Kerrigan, The Deep End, ABC Radio National, 11 March, 2004
Lucinda Strahan, ‘Disrobing Celebrity with a Microphone’, The Age, 6 March, 2004
Radio Interview/Live Performance, Red Symonds (presenter) Breakfast, 774 AM, ABC, 5 March, 2004
‘Two Dimensional Paris a Right Little Popsicle’, MX, Ben Swinnerton (photography), 2 March, 2004