Artist Statement
As a proud palawa woman with strong connections to my ancestral home of tebrakunna in the north-east of Tasmania, my art practice seeks to generate political and social dialogue against a background of contested Australian histories.
Working in sculpture, installation and filmic art, my work investigates issues around Aboriginal identity. I am responding to repressed historical encounters in order to empower Indigenous experience. Using cultural materials and found objects I seek public and personal meaning through the politics of their material. I make works to assert my sovereignty.
Artist Bio & CV
Mandy Quadrio was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her sculptural art and interactive works bring attention to historical, cultural and political events that have been ignored or buried by colonial histories. Mandy graduated from a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in 2016. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with 1st Class Honours in 2017, and is currently a Doctoral candidate in Fine Arts at Griffith University.
Mandy Quadrio
Born: Melbourne, Australia
Mob/Country: pairabeene clan, tebrakunna, Coastal Plains Nation, north-east Tasmania; Oyster Bay Nation, eastern Tasmania
Education
2018 – Doctoral candidate in Visual Arts (DVA) Queensland College of Arts (QCA), Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland
2017 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) 1st Class, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland
2014 – 2016 Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art (C.A.I.A.), Queensland College of Art (QCA), Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland
2013 Certificate III in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts, Southbank Institute of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland
2002 – 2007 Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology), University of Queensland (partial completion)
Exhibitions
2019 (Upcoming) grounds for existence, Outer Space, Brisbane
2019 with a steely resolve, Firstdraft, Sydney
2019 the country within, IMA Belltower, Brisbane
2019 face to face to face, BEAUT (Brisbane & Elsewhere Art UnTriennial), Kuiper Projects, Brisbane
2018 Around and Within, Macquarie Bank Art Collection, Barangaroo, Sydney
2018 Unleashed, Artisan, Brisbane
2018 Converse, Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane
2018 Speaking Beyond the Vitrine, Solo Exhibition, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2018 Finalist Hatched, National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
2018 Continuing Culture, Maiwar Festival, Art Space Vitrines, Queen & Edward Street, Elizabeth & Edward Streets, Brisbane City , Brisbane City Council
2017 Flying Arts Exhibition, Judith Wright Centre, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2017 Continuum, Queensland College of Art Honours graduate showcase, Brisbane
2016 Sculpture 16, Queensland College of Art graduate showcase, Brisbane
2016 (Contributor to) Art of the Skins, Possum Skin Cloak Project, State Library of Queensland
2016 A Unified Field, Art from the Margins, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2016 Kultcha, Jugglers Artspace, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2015 Blak History Month, St Andrews War Memorial Hospital, Brisbane
2014 Away from Country, Project Gallery, QCA, Brisbane Link
2011 Finalist, Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards, Brisbane
Awards
2017 Griffith University Medal for Outstanding Academic Excellence
2017 St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital Award for Artistic Merit, Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
Residencies
Australia Council Innovation Lab 2019 – Hobart & Sydney
Collections
St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Public Art
2018 Continuing Culture, Maiwar Festival, Art Space Vitrines, Queen & Edward Street, Elizabeth & Edward Streets, Brisbane City, Brisbane City Council
2017; 2019 Challenging the Aesthetics of Mythic Identity, Queensland College of Art Undercroft, Griffith University, Brisbane