Erica Seccombe uses X-rays to produces 3D images. Her aim is to show how science and art can be combined. Photo: Jay Cronan, Canberra Times, FEBRUARY 20 2015
Erica Seccombe, Grow, work in progress, detail from stereoscopic projection, 6min duration with circular polarised glasses. In Synapse, a selection at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney
Cassie McCullagh, Roberta Ivers, Dan C, viewing 'Grow' in 3D at the Powerhouse Museum in the exhibition Synapse a Selection for ISEA 2013
Audience viewing Ocularanagluphos in the exhibition Time & Vision, London, 2012.
Nanoplastica on the BIG SCREEN at Federation Square 2009
Installation as a result of the Plants Under the Microscope Artist-in-Residence | The High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre CSIRO Black Mountain, ACT. Read more on the Projects | Residency page...
Grow: visualising nature at nanoscale, Mung Bean sprouting (foreground), work in progress in the exhibition Genart_sys | a window on digital culture at Australia Council for the Arts, Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills 2010.
RECENT ACTIVITY
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Grants, Scholarships and Commissions
- 2016, Capital Arts Patrons, CAPO Fellowship
- 2015, First Prize, acquisitive, Inaugural Paramor Prize: Art + Innovation Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Liverpool, NSW
- 2014, artsACT project Grant to take up Artist in Residence, Natural History Museum, London in 2015
- 2013, Commission, Centenary of Canberra, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Science Fiction
- 2011, Commission, High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre, CSIRO, Permanent foyer installation
- 2010, Australia Council for the Arts London Studio Residency - May - August 2012
- 2009, ArtsACT project grant for 2010 Visiting Fellow, ANU Department of Applied Mathematics
- 2007, George Mora Foundation Fellowship - Inaugural short-listed award recipient
- 2007, Megalo Print Studio Artist in Residence and Materials Award (Watson Studios)
- 2006, ArtsACT grant for 3-month artist in Residence, ANU Department of Applied Maths,
- 2005, Craft ACT, Craft-in-site writing grant for unMagazine, issue 5
- 2003, ANU School of Art Materials Award.
- 2002, Megalo Print Studio Artist in Residence and Materials Award. (Hackett Studios)
Solo Exhibitions
- 2017 (forthcoming), Megalo Print Studio & Gallery, April.
- 2016, Out of Season (PhD Examination Exhibition) ANU School of Art Gallery
- 2016 Metamorphosis, Brenda May Gallery, Dank St, Waterloo, Sydney. 9 July – 4 Aug.
- 2014 A zone of Living things, Dominik Mersche Gallery, Rushcutters Bay,
Sydney, 8-31May
- 2013 Science Fiction, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Supported by the Centenary of Canberra. 16 Aug – 16 Sep
- 2008 Nanoplastica, 23 May - 5 July, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gormon House, Canberra, ACT
- 2004, Surface for Air, 2x4 Masters and PHD graduation exhibition 2004 ANU School of Art Gallery, 29th April - 1May
- 2002, Work from the Megalo Residency Photography Gallery Space, ANU School of Art,
- 1998, SATELLITE space and other measurements. TAP Gallery, Sydney.
Selected Exhibitions
- 2017, How Does Your Garden Grow? Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW, 3 Feb - 18 March.
- 2017, (forthcoming) Aura, curated by Ben Rak, Manly Museum and Gallery: traveling, 14 Jul – 3 Sep.
- 2016, Contour 556: interventions in the landscape, curated by Neil Hobbs, Canberra Public Art Festival 22 Oct - 13 Nov
- 2016, Notfair: Sign O’the Times, curated by Kirsten Rann, 16-21 August 2016, 524 Flinders St, Melbourne.
- 2015, Light Speculation, The Carlton Connect Initiative, The University of Melbourne, curated by Dr Renee Beale, July 2015.
- 2013, Think it, make it share it, RiAus, The Science Exhange. Adelaide. SALA Festival, Curated by ANAT, 2 August - 30 August 2013
- 2013, Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle WA 21 September – 17 November
- 2013, Synapse a Selection, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 8 June- 14July
- 2013, Bad Girls, Gorman House, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, curated by Annie Doyle Wawrzynaczak, 8 February – 16 March
- 2012, Crossing the Rubicon, with Ellis Hutch, ANCA Studios & Gallery, Dickson, Canberra, 24 October – 4 November
- 2012, The 37th Alice Prize, selected contestant, The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs NT, 11 May - 10 June
- 2011, Natural Digression, University of Technology, Sydney – group show with Penelope Cain, Waratah Lahy, Al Munro, Kirsten Farrell, Ellis Hutch, Rose Montebelo, March, forthcoming. 8 March - 12 April + at Level17 Artspace, Victorian University, 12-23 October, 2010
- 2011, Imitation of Life, Canberra Musuem & Gallery, curated by Deborah Clark
- 2011, Genart_sys | a window on digital culture, Australia Council for the arts, 28 January - 16 March URL http://www.genartsys.com/
- 2003, 24/7. Exhibition Home. artsACT public art project in conjunction with ACT housing and ACT Craft. Curated by Barbara McConchie
- 2001, No Muttering, contemporary printmedia, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University of NSW; Gosford Regional Art Gallery, NSW; The Queensland University of Technology Art Gallery, Brisbane; curator Rilka Oakley.
- 200, Wild Sheep Chase. Group show of contemporary Print and Photo media. Curated by Patsy Payne and Denise Ferris. CSA Gallery. ANU. ACT.
- 2000, Vacant Possession. Collaborative Installation with video projection, sound and mixed media. with Scot Gordon, Cassie McCullagh and Rob Laurie. PROJECT, Centre for Contemporary Art. Wollongong.
- 1999, Moments with glass artist Deb Jones. Christopher Thomas Art and Design. Adelaide. S.A.
International exhibitions
- 2015, Aesthetics of Manufacture, Sheffield Design Week, Butcher Works Galley, UK, curated by Carle Baugh, Sheffield, UK.
- 2014, Natural History Museum, Tomography for Scientific Advancement exhibition – and highly commended finalist
- 2012, Time & Vision, Curated by Paul Bayley, 20 years Australia Council for the Arts London Studio Residency Exhibition, Barge House, London, 20 Oct – 11 Nov
- 2012 Nanoplastica, So far The Future, London, UK 21-23 June (solo)
- 2006 Super Natural, with Alison Munro. Alsager Art Centre, Faculty of Performing and Visual Arts Manchester University, Cheshire, UK.
- 2003, A Borderless State, the Miskolci Galleria, Prague, curator Dr Paul Thirkell, Centre for Fine Print Research, University of West England.
- 2000, Y2K International Print Exhibition, National Taiwan Arts Education Institute, Taiwan, and Tokyo Fine Arts University, Japan
- 1998 2nd International Triennial of Graphic Art. The Labyrinth: Visions and Interpretations of the Eternal Myth in Contemporary Printmaking Prague
Screenings
- 2013, Nanoplastica, This is Not Art Festival Building Projection Screening, Hunter Street, Newcastle, October – November
- 2010, Nanoplastica, at Linear Progressions: where art meets science, (panel selection) curated by QUT Creative Industries, screening at Precinct Parer Place, Kelvin Grove Urban Village screens, selected Screens at Gardens Point & Federation Square, 14th – 22nd August.
- 2010, Paro: mental commitment robot, VIRION, QUT, from 19 July to 1 August 2010, a screen based digital art exhibition that links to public sites across Brisbane, focused in the Kelvin Grove Urban Screen Network http://virion2012.com.au/submission/paro-mental-commitment-robot
- 2009, Oct 19 – Nov 19 Nanoplastica on the Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne Central Business District, curator by Melissa Delayney, notes on the underground.
- 1996, Tool2ob Sydney/Berlin First International Virtual Exhibition Screening. ARTSPACE, Woolloomooloo, curated by Uban Excile, Graham Crawford and Gavyn Lister
