Artist Statement
As a proud palawa,Tasmanian Aboriginal woman with strong connections to my ancestral home of tebrakunna, the Coastal Plains Nation north-eastern Tasmania, and the Oyster Bay Nation of eastern Tasmania, my art practice seeks to bring attention to historical, cultural and political events that have been ignored or buried by colonial histories. I work across sculpture, photography and mixed-media to assert a living and dynamic culture.
Artist Bio & CV
Mandy Quadrio was born in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating from a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art degree at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in 2016, she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts achieving 1st Class Honours. Mandy 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
2021
Slow moving waters, TarraWarra Biennial, Melbourne
Her Beauty, Her Terror, group exhibition, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Brisbane
I speak to uncover the mouths of silence, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (permanent acquistion), Launceston
Water Rites, ACE Open, Adelaide
QCA HDR Represent: A 2021 retrospective, POP Gallery, Brisbane
2020
Strike at the foundations, group exhibition, Rite of passage, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Kelp Culture 2020 Project, The Climate Foundation, International travelling exhibition
Her, Milani Gallery CARPARK, Brisbane
52proposalsforthe20s Maria Lind’s Instagram project, in collaboration with Dale Harding
Uterine Bag series, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania
2019
here lies lies, solo exhibition, Hobiennale 2019, representing Outer Space ARI, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart,
movement at the edge, solo exhibition, Outer Space ARI, Brisbane
with a steely resolve, solo exhibition, Firstdraft, Sydney
the country within, solo exhibition, Institute of Modern Art Belltower, Brisbane
face to face to face, solo exhibition, BEAUT (Brisbane & Elsewhere Art UnTriennial), with Kuiper Projects, Brisbane
Pacifica Symposium exhibition, Webb Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2018
Around and Within, Macquarie Bank Art Collection, Barangaroo, Sydney
Unleashed, Artisan, Brisbane
Converse, Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane
Speaking Beyond the Vitrine, solo exhibition, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Hatched, National Graduate Art Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Continuing Culture, Maiwar Festival, Art Space Vitrines, Queen & Edward Street, Elizabeth & Edward Streets, Brisbane CBD
2017
Flying Arts Exhibition, Judith Wright Centre, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Continuum, Queensland College of Art Honours graduate showcase, Brisbane
2016
Sculpture 16, Queensland College of Art graduate showcase, Brisbane
Contributor to Art of the Skins, Possum Skin Cloak Project, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
A Unified Field, Art from the Margins, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Kultcha, Jugglers Artspace, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2015
Blak History Month, St Andrews War Memorial Hospital, Brisbane
2014
Away from Country, Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane Link
Prizes / Awards
2021 Finalist 15 Artists, Moreton Bay Regional Council, Brisbane
2019 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2019, Sydney
2018 Finalist, Hatched, National Graduate Art Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
2017 Griffith University Medal for Outstanding Academic Excellence, Brisbane
2017 St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital Award for Artistic Merit, Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Brisbane
2011 Finalist, Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards, Brisbane
Residencies
2021
Open studio – BAD 2021 Festival (Brisbane Art Design), Brisbane
Griffith University, Hope Street Artist Residency, Brisbane
2020
Griffith University, Hope Street Artist Residency, Brisbane
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery studio residency, Launceston
‘Through a lens of visitation,’ Monash University cultural exchange, Sarina, north-Queensland
2018
Australia Council Innovation Lab 2018: Sydney
Australia Council Innovation Lab 2018: Hobart
Collections
2021
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
2017
St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, Brisbane
Public Art
2019 – 2021
Challenging the Aesthetics of Mythic Identity, Queensland College of Art Undercroft, Griffith University, Brisbane
2018
Continuing Culture, Maiwar Festival, Brisbane CBD Art Space Vitrines, Queen & Edward Street, Elizabeth & Edward Streets, Brisbane City Council
2017
Challenging the Aesthetics of Mythic Identity, Queensland College of Art Undercroft, Griffith University, Brisbane
Media / Events
Presenter: QUT Symposium – Grounded in Place: Dialogues Between First Nation Artists in Australia, Taiwan, and Aotearoa
7-9 October 2021
The Mercury (Tasmania), New permanent collection, QVMAG, Launceston, 14 August 2021
First Look: Inside the 7th TarraWarra Biennial; https://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/first-look-inside-the-7th-tarrawarra-biennial/news-story/0f5ecc677e82a60faa08ea429912438a, 25 March 2021
Interview – Launceston Examiner newspaper, re Uterine Bag Show, 23 November 2020
Editorial Assistant, Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings, Published by Power Publications and Griffith University Art Museum, 2020
Interview: The Art Show, ABC Radio, December 2019
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-art-show/studio-artist:-mandy-quadrio/11785024
Interview: AWAYE, ABC Radio, July 2019
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/awaye/mandy-quadrio/11443724
WIN News, Tasmania, December 2019
https://www.facebook.com/1138935429521446/posts/2560525554029086?d=n&sfns=mo
Justine Youssef and Mandy Quadrio in conversation, NAVA Podcast, December 2019
https://visualarts.net.au/podcasts/episode-49-mandy-quadrio/
“Artist Run Initiatives take over Hobart in Hobiennale”, Art Guide 2019
https://artguide.com.au/artist-run-initiatives-take-over-hobart-in-hobiennale 2019
Review of Hatched exhibition, PICA, Pelican magazine, July 2018
Interview – Koori Mail re Hatched exhibition, Perth, May 2018
Interview – Radio TalkBlak Program, BBM 98.7 FM Cairns, re Metro Arts 2018
Interview – Radio Goolarri, 6GME 99.7 FM Broome, W.A re Metro Arts 2018
Online magazine interview by Tianey Miekus, Art Guide Australia, re Metro Arts 2018