Josephine Telfer

Josie Telfer was born on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, and is a practising visual artist.

She has attained a PhD in cross-disciplinary research between the Victorian College of the Arts and Music and the School of Behavioural Sciences at The University of Melbourne, Australia. This research has arisen from her curiosity about the changes of thought that occur while she is working creatively, and the connection between the way artists think and creative block.

Education

2004 Master of Fine Art (by Research), Monash University, Melbourne

2010 PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004 ‘Reflect’ Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne

2005 Stephen McLaughlin Gallery, Melbourne Central Goldfields Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria

2006 ‘Still’ Stephen McLaughlin Gallery, Melbourne St Michael’s Uniting Church, Melbourne

2007 ‘Silence and the Spaces Between’, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne

2008 ‘Nine Waves’ Stephen McLaughlin Gallery, Melbourne

2009 ‘Eclipse’ Stephen McLaughlin Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2001 Touring Blake Prize, S.H. Irving Gallery, Sydney

2004 The Alice Prize, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin,Queensland

2005 ‘The Discovery Art Show’ Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne 2006 Toorak Festival of Sculpture, Toorak, Victoria

2007 ‘Imagined Australia’ Monash University Campus, Prato, Italy

2008 ‘Australie, Mythes et Realities’, Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris ‘Australia, Mito E Realta’ Montefiascone (VT, Rocca Dei Papi, Italy

2009 Melba Hall, The University of Melbourne, Australia

2010 ‘Eclipse’ and ‘Cosmos’ videos, ‘The Light in Winter’ project, Federation Square, Melbourne. W: www.josietelfer.com