CURRICULUM VITAE
JANIS SOMERVILLE

BORN:

4 December, 1947, Melbourne, Australia

ADDRESS:

Artists Unlimited, August-Bebel-Straße 94, 33602 Bielefeld, Germany

Tel./ fax: +49 (0) 521 659 64

OR

34 Russell Terrace, Indooroopilly, Queensland 4069, Australia

E-mail:

ARTatWORK2000@yahoo.com

EDUCATION:

1965 - 86

- University of Queensland, Faculty of Arts

1965 - 66

- Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Certificate of Education

1971 - 76

- Australian Flying Arts School

TEACHING & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

1967 - 70

- Queensland Department of Education, Primary Teacher

1975 - 76

- Australian Flying Arts School, Board Member

1975 - 77

- Queensland Department of Education, Advisory Art Teacher

1978 - 87

- Toowoomba Preparatory School, Art Teacher

1985

- Author of Boss of Toowoomba Prep, ISBN 0589396 0 B

1986 - 87

- University of Southern Queensland, School of Art, Part-time Lecturer

1987

- Chairperson Toowoomba Festival of Arts

1988 - 90

- Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Education Officer

1991 - 95

- Artright, Artists For Human Rights, Founding Member & Project Coordinator

1993

- Established The Ovens Art Work Site, Brisbane, Australia

1994

- Art Coordinator, St. Vincent´s de Paul Shelter For The Homeless, Brisbane

1994 - 95

- Artist-in-Residence, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

1995

- Offical Observer for Indonesia, Asean Art Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1995 - 96

- Artist-in-Residence: V.A.C.B. Studio, Besozzo, Italy

1996

- Museum, Japan; Queensland University of Technology; University of Tasmania, Australia; National College of
Arts, Lahore, Pakistan.
- Speaker: Asialink Forum, Institute of Modern Art, Australia
- Artist-in-Residence: University of Tasmania
- Participating Artist: Lahore International Arts Workshop, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan

1997

- Artist-in-Residence: Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld, Germany
- Speaker: Panel ephemere Kunst und Relikte, ein Paradox? Performatrix, Die Performance Konferenz,
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
- Established ART at WORK together with Pip Cozens

1998

- Artist`s Talk: Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Featured Artist: 11th Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Ohio, USA
- Participating Artist: Arche Nova, Friedenskarawane / Peace Caravan,
1 month Performance Project, North West Germany and Netherlands.
- Radio Interviews: Voice of America, Voice of Tibet

1999

- Guest Artist: Felix-Fechenbach Gesamtschule, Leopoldshöhe, Germany
- Stipendium Kunstlerhaus Schieder Schwalenberg, Germany

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES

1988

- HALF-ACRE EXISTENCE, National Women´s Art Award, Gold Coast
Regional Art Gallery

1989

- EASTERN STATES/WESTERN STATES, Group Exhibition, Beach Gallery, Perth
- WORKS IN PROGRESS, Young Artists Gallery, Brisbane.

1990

- SOLO EXHIBITION: EMR Gallery, Sydney

1991

- FRAGMENTS OF HORSE, University of Southern Queensland Gallery;
Young Artists Gallery, Brisbane

1992

- THE DOG SHOW ; Group Exhibition, 24 Hour Art, Darwin
- LASCAUX REDEFINED, Art Site, Brisbane;
University of Southern Queensland Gallery, Toowoomba
- BIBELOT, Group Exhibition, Isn´t Studios, Brisbane
- ENSEMBLE, Group Exhibition, Isn´t Studios, Brisbane
- TURN, Artright For Tibet, M.O.C.A., Brisbane

1993

- SILENCE; Group Exhibition, Isn´t Studios, Brisbane
- LASCAUX REDEFINED, Umbrella Studios, Townsville
- POSTMODERN BUNK, Political Beds & Bedrooms, Fireworks Gallery,
Brisbane

1994

Otherness, Crossing Brisbane Lines, Longman Gallery, Hobart;
University of Tasmania, Launceston; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Perc
Tucker Gallery, Townsville; Brisbane City Art Gallery and Museum
- LETS CHANGE THE RULES OF THE GAME, COS THE GAME IS
CLEARLY KILLING US, Festival of Installation, Noosa Regional Art Gallery
- PESTA SENI RUPA, Group Exhibition, Gallery Braga, Bandung, Indonesia

1995

- SEDUCTION, Pembawa Impian / Dream Carriers, Gallery Soemardja,
Institut Teknologi Bandung, Raung Pamerang Utama, Taman Ismail
Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia
- DIALOG IN PROGRESS, Collaborative Works with Setiawan Sabana,
Studio R 66, Bandung
- AUTOPLASTIC, Collaborative Performance Installation with Fine Arts
Students, I.T.B.,Indonesia
- POHACI JERO BEBEGIG, Collaborative Performance Installation,
Contemporary Indonesian Art, Contemporary Art of The Non Aligned
Countries, T.I.M., Jakarta
- BANNING, The Book As Object, Wilfredo Lam Center, Havanna, Cuba
- WHOSE AFRAID OF THE JAVANESE, A Voice A Future, Queensland
Institute of Technology, Australia
- WANITA, WANITA, Installation, Gallery Soemardja, I.T.B., Indonesia
- WINDS OF CHANGE, Installation, Medan Experimental Arts Festival,
Sumatra
- IT`S UP TO YOU, Collaborative Works with Heyi Ma´mun and Setiawan
Sabana, Gallery Taksu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- SHARING TIME / SHARING PLACE, Interactive Performance Installation,
Sharing Time International Performance Festival, Solo, Indonesia
- STILL CLINGING TO THE KOALA?, Performance Installation, Chiangmai
Social Installation, Third Art & Culture Festival, Thailand

1996

- STAYING ALIVE: A white rose swiftly fades....., Performance Installation,
Villa Ghedini, Besozzo, Italy
- STAYING ALIVE: TRINITY, Site Specific Installation, Villa Ghedini Garden
- STAYING ALIVE II: HEALING RITUAL FOR HIROSHIMA, Interactive
Performance Installation, Hijiyama Hill, Hiroshima, Japan

1996

- AUSTRALIAN ROCKING HORSE, Geliebt und vergessen, das
Schaukelpferd, Lana, Italy
- ANIMA / ANIMUS IV, Opening Show, UTOPIA Collaboration, Singapore
- STAYING ALIVE III: Indonesian Tell-Tales; Metastank, Site-Specific Street
Art, Kitakyushu, Japan

1996

- SINGAPORE CYCLES, Moon & Star, UTOPIA Collaboration, Singapore
- DIALOGUE IN PROCESS II, A Collaborative Activity with Setiwan Sabana
(Indonesia) Queensland University of Technology: University of Tasmania,
Australia
- AUSTRALIAN WEB OF LIFE: What does it take for every person to get a
FAIR GO?, Interactive Performance Installation, King George Square,
Brisbane: The Mall, Launceston, Australia
- PLEASE CHANGE THE RULES OF YOUR GAME, COS THOSE GAMES
ARE KILLING US, Solo Exhibition, Utopia, Singapore
- A SUBTRACTIVE METHOD OF MAKING ART, Collaborative Performance
Installation with National College of Arts Students, Lahore, Pakistan

1997

Isle of Portland, UK
- A QUESTION OF HISTORY: To Australia With Love?, Installation,
Tout Quarry, Isle of Portland, UK
- GENUG IST GENUG: Spring Garden Performance, In Collaboration with
Barbara Buchholz and Pip Cozens, Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld, Germany
- STAYING ALIVE IV: Mapping The Violence, Three Month Performance,
Bielefeld, Germany
- WEB SITE I: Was brauchen wir für eine bessere Welt
- WEB SITE II: Dies ist Deine Welt! Wie soll sie aussehen?
Interactive Performance Installations, Marktpassage, Bielefeld
- STAYING ALIVE VI: Zeige Deine Wunden, Interactive Performance
Installation, Raum für Kunst e.V., Kamp 21 / Kotterhagen, Paderborn
- STAYING ALIVE V: Repairing The Damage, Interactive Installations,
Galerie Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld
- STAYING ALIVE VIII: Was tun Deine Hände dafür?, Interactive
Billboard Performance, Viktoriastraße, Bielefeld
- STAYING ALIVE VII: Show Your Wound!, Interactive Performance
Installation, Erster Berliner Kongress für Performance and Visual Art,
Dock 11, Berlin
- ASHRA; Neue Musik und Performance, Ateliers Crellestra. 19/20, Berlin
- STAYING ALIVE IX: Plan for open communication, Collaborative Work
with Pip Cozens, Gift For India, Sahmat, New Delhi, India
- STAYING ALIVE X: Show Your Wound!, Trotzt der Gewalt,
Interactive Performance Installation, Ravensberger Park, Bielefeld
- STAYING ALIVE XI: The Violence Mapped, Interactive Installation,
Unihalle, Universität Bielefeld
- 60ha: LEBEN oder STERBEN? / ALIVE or DEAD?, 9 Hour Interactive
Performance Installation, The Viadukt, Bielefeld, Germany
- STAYING ALIVE XII: Will the next grey skies from Indonesia be nuclear
fallout? What can we do?, Collaborative Performance Installation with Ben
Somerville, Parap Market, Darwin, Australia

1998

- GIVE A HAND TO FREE TIBET, Interactive Performance Installation in
partnership with Pip Cozens, Place du Trochadéro, Paris;
Jahnplatz Bielefeld, Germany; Borge Fabrik, Bielefeld;
Cleveland Public Theatre, Ohio, USA; United Nations Organisation, Ralf
Bunche Peace Park; Bryant Park, New York City, USA
- Leo 21, Agenda 21, Interactive Performance Installation in collaboration
with Pip Cozens and Team, Leopoldshöhe, Germany
- STAYING ALIVE V: Why is this the behaviour of rational man?, Plastic

1999

- GIVE A HAND TO FREE TIBET, Interactive Performance Installation, Queen Street Mall, Brisbane, Australia
- GIVE A HAND TO FREE TIBET, Interactive Performance Installation, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
- Wieviel Platz brauchst du wirklich?/ How much space do you really need?, One Week Collaborative Interactive
Performance, Felix-Fechenbach Gesamtschule, Leopoldshöhe, Germany
- GIVE A HAND TO FREE TIBET, Interactive Performance Installation, Westminster Hall; Trafalgar Square,
London
- VISION HUNTING, Interactive Performance Installation, Wolfensbüttel,Germany
- CIRCLES FOR CHINA; 4 June Interactive Performance Installation with Students 10th Anniversary of The
Tiananmen Square Massacre, Unihalle, Bielefeld University
- WHAT CAN YOU SAY TO THE EARTH?, Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld.
- FIFTY WISHES FOR DANIEL, Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Allen, Christopher

Sensible Intuition, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 March, 1990

Back, Laura

The Birth of Art, Lascaux Redefined, Umbrella Newsletter, Townsville 01.09.93

Bakarudin

Membawa Kenikmatan Impian, Tiras Magazine, Indonesia, 23 March 1995

Bianponen, Carla

Indonesian Women Artists: Between Dreams & Reality, Indonesian Observer, February 1995

Bopp, Martin

Bilder bis zum nächsten Regen, Umwelt-Info, Bielefeld, 2/1998

Braken Sparks, Amy

Showing as where our enviroment is going, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, USA, 28 May, 1998

Bruce, A llen

Ode to Equine Grace & Movement, The Chronicle, 7 August 1990

Collins, Kate

Review, The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, 28 August 1988

Durrani, Uzma

Between The Visible and The Invisible, The Nation, Pakistan, 31 January 1997

Fechner, Gerd

Tag der Bauherrenscheuche, Umweltschutz als Kunstaktion: 60 ha:
Leben oder Sterben? am Obersee, StadtBlatt, 25 September, 1997

Fishman, Robert

Hände werden zum Töten benutzt, aber auch zum Malen, StadtBlatt, 5 June 1997

ibid

Die Menschen ins Träumen bringen, StadtBlatt, 10 September, 1998

Gabriel, Matthias

Entscheidung über Bau einer Saalestaustufe derzeit noch offen, Volksstimme, 22 September, 1998

Ibid

Weltreisende im Dienste des Umweltschutzes, Volksstimme, 24 September, 1998

Helmrich, Michele

An Exotic Otherness: Crossing Brisbane Lines, Catalogue, C.A.S.T. 1994

Hyat, Kamal

Coming together from the far off lands, Lahore, December 1996

Hormes, Marcus

Visionen in bunten Bildern, Leopoldshöher Zeitung, Neue Westfälische, 27 April, 1998

Jackson, Beth

Review, Eyeline Magazine, Autumn 1993

Leo, Jan

Asian Residencies for Queensland Artists, Art Worker, Spring 1996

Linßner, Thomas

Künstler und Umweltschützer protestierten gegen Saale-Ausbau und Schwarze Folien als Symbol für Staustufen, Volksstimme, 24 August, 1998

Ibid

Von Flußgeistern und vetriebenem Getier, Schönebecker General Anzeiger, 26 September, 1998

Luetgebrune

Tausend Hände für den Frieden, Lippische Landes-Zeitung, 24/2/99

McCulkin, Tony

Equine Messages, The Toowoomba Chronicle, December 1987

Murray, Sarah

A Review, The Jakarta Post, Indonesia, 10 March, 1995

Nadarajan, Gunalan

Women Attuned to Childbirth & Creativity Theme, The Straits Times, Singapore, September, 1996

Nordwald

Zukunftsträume auf grauem Straßenpflaster. Neue Westfälische, 14 September, 1998

Prignitz

Hand in Hand als Zeichen der Solidarität, Neue Westfälische, 24 Feb.’99

Ibid

Weniger Platz für Häuser, Neue Westfälische, 27 February, 1999

Puspito, Agung

Impian Tujuh Wanita, Seni Magazine, Indonesia, 18 March, 1995

Putre, Laura

Acts of Green, The Cleveland Free Times, USA, 27 May, 1998

Purnawady, Edy

Pameran, Pembawa Impian Kaum Wanita, Pikiran Rakyat, Indonesia, 26 February 1995

Reimer, Nick

Vogelscheuchen gegen Wissmann, Die Tageszeitung Berlin, 17 September, 1998

Richards, Michael

Varying Styles of Eccentricity, The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 08.09.88

ibid.

Women´s Art Award - A Nationwide Gathering, The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 11 November 1988

ibid.

A Matter of Significance, The Courier Mail, 1 October 1990

Saputro, Heryus

Impian Tujuh, Wanita, Femina Magazine, Indonesia, April 1995

Sarjono, Agus R.

Pertemuan, Catalogue, Seni Rupa Kontemporer, Gerakan NonBlok Jakarta, 1995

Schimmang, Wolf

Die Gewalt aufzeichnen, Neue Westfälische, 7 June 1997

Ibid

Einsicht in den Ernst der Lage, Neue Westfälische,3 September, 1997

ibid.

Die Erde heilen, Aktion "60 Hektar" in der Johannisbachaue, 27/9/97

ibid.

Eine Performance - was bleibt?, Neue Westfälische, 22 October, 1997

ibid.

Mit Herz und Hand, Neue Westfälische, 7 March, 1998

ibid.

Auf nach Amerika, Neue Westfälische, 1 May, 1998

ibid.

Die Leute zusammenbringen, Neue Westfälische, 12 August, 1998

ibid

Bielefelder Bilder, Nue Westfälische,10 September, 1998

Helfende Hände, Ultimo, April, 1998

Schmidt, Fiona

Künstler fördern, Ateliers suchen, Neue Westfälische, 4 May, 1997

ibid.

Humane Lebensformen, Neue Westfälische, 26 May, 1997

Schmidt, Ugen

Was brauchen wir für eine bessere Welt?, Westfalen Blatt, 7 May, 1997

Suanda, Endo

Segumpal Makna dari Debuah Pertunjukan, Kompas, Indonesia, 14 May 1995

Sudarmadi, Antik

Wanita Pembawa Impian, Dewi Magazine, Indonesia, May 1995

Vormbrock, Reinert

Hoffnung aufs Pflaster gemalt, Lippische Landeszeitung, 27 April, 1998

CATALOGUES

- An Exotic Otherness, Crossing Brisbane Lines, CAST; Australia, October 1994

- 11th Annual Cleveland Performance Art Festival, May 1998, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

- Between the visible and invisible, Lahore Arts Workshop, National College of Arts,

- Lahore, Pakistan; December 1996

- ERSTER BERLINER KONGRESS FÜR PERFORMANCE UND VISIUAL ART, June, 1997, Berlin

- Pembawa Impian/Dream Carriers, Galeri Soemardja, Bandung; Ruang Pamer Utama, Jakarta, Indonesia; February, 1995

- PLASTIC (and OTHER WASTE), ASIA-PACIFIC ARTIST SOLIDARITY, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand, April; 1998

- PLEASE CHANGE THE RULES OF YOUR GAMES COS THOSE GAMES ARE KILLING US; UTOPIA GALLERY, Singapore;
November, 1996

- SENI EKSPERIMENTAL II; Medan, Indonesia, July 1995

- XX PERSONAE II, KK hospital and 5th Passage Artist Ltd., September 1996, Singapore

SELECTED AWARDS

1993 - Visual Arts / Craft Board of The Australia Council, Studio Residency, Italy

1994 - Asialink Artist In Residence, Institut Teknologi, Bandung, Indonesia

- Arts Queensland, Individual Professional Development Grant

- Stanthorpe Heritage Festival Art Award

1995 - Arts Queensland, Individual Professional Development Grant

1996 - Artist-in-Residence, Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld, Germany

1999 - Stipendium Schieder Schwalenberg, Germany

COLLECTIONS

Toowoomba City Art Gallery

Museum & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory

Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane

Brisbane City Art Gallery and Museum

James Cook University, Townsville

Japan Airlines

University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery

University of Tasmania

The Enright Collection, University of Queensland Art Museum

Various Private & Corporate Collections, Australia, Italy, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, USA, Germany