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BIO

Tammy Honey is an Australian artist who makes work about memory and place that oscillate between meta and social issues represented through painting, video art, and installation. Within this structure, she works in a method of long-term, ongoing series of works that address a particular thematic situated by works through collecting and translating data within her practice. 

 

She has exhibited and screened in numerous countries and venues including the TATE Modern, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, SCOPE Art Fair, and the Dundee Arts Centre, UK. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania and is represented in collections such as the ASAC collection, Venice Biennale, ERGAS Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Gippsland Art Gallery, and private in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Iceland, England, and Indonesia. 

Honey is represented by Studio Gallery Group in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, Australia.

EDUCATION

 

2004 Bachelor of Fine Art, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, University of Tasmania 

1996 Diploma of Art and Design, Central Metropolitan College of TAFE, Perth Campus, Western Australia

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

2023 Mapping Place, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria

2022 96: Tammy Honey, FAC Artist in Residence, virtual gallery

2021 Baby, I'm Your Man, Digital Facade, Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria

2019 Aesthetic Disruption, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

2018 Spidergirl, Venice Contemporary Art Fair, Venice, Italy 

2018 Spidergirl, NOIR Darkroom, Melbourne, Victoria

2018 Tammy Honey: iLandscape 2007-2018, Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide, South Australia 

2018 iLandscape, Cube 37, Frankston Art Centre, Victoria,

2018 iLandscape, Dark Space, Sawtooth ARI, Tasmania

2003 Manchurian Remix, CAST Gallery, Level 2 screening room, Hobart, Tasmania

2001 Tall Stories, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Victoria

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

2024 FEMME: Women in Art, Studio Gallery, Sydney, Brisbane

2024 Brisbane Art Fair, Brisbane, Queensland

2024 The Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2023 Sydney Art Fair, Sydney, New South Wales

2022 Digital Aesthetic, Box Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

2022 G Biennale 22 Metaverse, online, Melbourne, Victoria

2021 Christmas Exhibition, Small Works by the [MARS] Artists, MARS Gallery,  Melbourne, Victoria

2021 Carried Landscapes, curated by Kim Collmer, Q18 Galerie, Quarter am Hafen, Cologne, Germany

2020 Black Garden, Cinemalab, Colombia, Geelong International Film Festival GIFF20

2019 Black Garden, Venice Production Bridge, 76th Venice International Film Festival, Venice, Italy 

2019 Black Garden, Palais, Marche du Film, 72nd Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France 

2019 Museum of Platitudes and Aphorisms - #4, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria

2018 Super Awful Meta War Machines, curated by Shaun Wilson, NOIR Darkroom, Melbourne, Victoria

2018 Creativity Persists, Seattle Centre on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA

2017 Artefacts From 21st Century Humans, curated by Shaun Wilson, NOIR Darkroom, Melbourne

2012 Placeness, 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin 

2011 Boom Boom, Knowledge Knowledge, ARS Upstairs, Napier Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria

2009 Figuring Landscapes, curated by Steven Ball, Catherine Ewes, Pat Hoffie, Danni Zuvela. TATE 

Modern, London, UK, Artsway, New Forest, UK, Dundee, Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland,  FACT Liverpool, UK, Vivid, Birmingham, UK Showroom, Sheffield, UK, 7th Hull International Short Film, UK, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK, Site Festival, Cinecity, UK, Brighton Film Festival Stroud Valley Artscape, UK Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, eMerge Media Space, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia

2009 Perpetual Art Machine, University of Georgia Art Galleries, Athens Georgia, USA 

2008 Perpetual Art Machine, Utsikten Art Center, Utsikten, Norway, Charlotte and Phillip Hanes Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, USA, SCOPE Art Fair, Basel 

2008 The Mirror Stage, curated by Helene Black & Yiannis Colakides, Lanitis Foundation, Limassol,Cyprus 

2008 Neo Goth: Back in Black, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece

2007 Australian Gothic, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Project Space, & Spare Room, Melbourne, Victoria 

2007 New Revelations, curated by Leon Marvell, Perth International Film Festival 2007, Spectrum Project Space, Perth, WA

2007 After Cinema, curated by Shaun Wilson, 4th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Scala Theatre, Berlin, Germany 

2007 Voyeur One, 69 Smith Street, Melbourne, Victoria

2006 Exposed, The Basement ARI, Friskas, Finland 

2006 Risk, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Downtown ARI, Adelaide, South Australia 

2005 Vital Signs Conference, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria

2004 Megastar MegaMart, guerilla public projections, Hobart, Tasmania 

 

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2022 Corridors,  Online Artist in Residence, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia

2021  ACMI-X, ACMI, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND BOOKS

2023 Mapping Place, Exhibition and catalogue essay, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia

2021  Like, Whatever, Exhibition and catalogue essay by Shaun Wilson,  Laminex, Bakers Road Entertainment ISBN: 978-0648955344

2018 Spider Girl, Exhibition and catalogue essay by Jessica Schwientek, NOIR Darkroom, CC BY-SA 3.0

2011 Re-Imagine: Contemporary Art, book by L Chuy, Art Now International ISBN: 978-0982092132 

2008 Figuring Landscapes: artists’ moving image from Australia and the UK, Exhibition and catalogue essays by Catherine Elwes,Steven Ball, University of Arts London ISBN: 9781846380471

2008 Neo-Goth: Back in Black, Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue, The University of Queensland Art Museum, ISBN: 9781864999167

2007 Australian Gothic: Video Art Now, Exhibition and essay by Shaun Wilson, RMIT University 

2006 Risk, Exhibition and catalogue essay, Kings ARI, Melbourne 

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

2016 School volunteer, Queenscliff Primary School, Queenscliff, Australia

 

COLLECTIONS 

ASAC collection, Venice Biennale,  Venice, Italy

Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia

Ergas Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Private collections in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Iceland, and England

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

2007 Acquisition Artist Grant, ERGAS Collection, [$5000]

PRIZES AND AWARDS

2020 Shortlisted, Best Director, Best Film, Best Supporting Actor [Black Garden], The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts [AACTA]

2014 Winner, BigCI Artist in Residency Prize, BigCi, NSW, Australia

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2022 GBiennale GB22 Art Symposium, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia

2022 GBiennale - Film and Arts Program, GIFF, GECO, GUFF, GINDIE

2021 GBiennale - Film Festival Program, GIFF, GECO, GUFF, GINDIE

2019 GIFF - Film Festival
 

FEATURE LENGTH FILMS

2024 The Last Man in Vegas, dir: Shaun Wilson and Tammy Honey, 100 mins, post-production, Bakers Road Entertainment 

2020 Winter Orbit, dir: Shaun Wilson, 60 mins, Bakers Road Entertainment

2019 Black Garden, dir: Shaun Wilson, 90 mins, Bakers Road Entertainment, Honeyhouse Films

2017 Indigo Rising, dir: Shaun Wilson, 49 mins, Honeyhouse Films, Bakers Road Entertainment

2017 In The Journey of Midnight, dir: Shaun Wilson, 58 mins,Honeyhouse Films, Bakers Road Entertainment

2015 The Tailor of Autumn, dir: Shaun Wilson, 71 mins, Honeyhouse Films

2013 51 Paintings, dir: Shaun Wilson, 71 mins, Honeyhouse Films

FEATURE LENGTH SCREENPLAYS

Wilson, S (2017). Australian Gothic, Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia

Wilson, S (2016). The Plains, Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia

Wilson, S (2016). Black Garden, Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia

Wilson, S (2014). The Last Man in Vegas, Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia

Honey, T (2014) Love you more than Roses, Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia

Wilson, S (2012). The Darklands,  Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia

Wilson, S (2011). The Curse of the Mysterious Dark Vampire, Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia

Wilson, S (2011). Pineapple,  Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia

Wilson, S (2010). Saturn Rising, Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia

Wilson, S (2009). Nocturnus, Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia

Wilson, S (2009). Night Dwellers, Honeyhouse Films, Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia 

Wilson, S (2009). At Midnight, Honeyhouse Films, Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia 

Wilson, S (2009). Gothic Memoria, Honeyhouse Films,  Melbourne, Australia

Wilson, S (2008). Epic Memoria,  Honeyhouse Films, Melbourne, Australia

REPRESENTATION IN FILM MARKETS

​2021 European Film Market EFM, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany 

2020 TIFF Industry, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada 

2020 Marche du Film, 73rd Cannes Film  Festival, Cannes, France

2020 Venice Production Bridge, 77th Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy

2019 Canadian Film Market, Hamilton Film Festival, Hamilton, Canada

2019 Venice Production Bridge, 76th Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy

2019 Marche du Film, 72nd Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France

 

GUEST LECTURERS AND PRESENTATIONS

2023 Artist talk and workshop, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia

2022 Speaker, GB22 Symposium, GBiennale, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australia

2021 Guest Lecturer, RMIT

2020 Guest Lecturer, RMIT

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