Marie Farr

ART TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

1989 James Cook University, Townsville Master of Education
1979/82 Victorian College Arts, Melbourne. BA Visual Arts
1971-1978 EastAus/Australian Flying Arts School, Qld
1964 Claremont Teachers College, WA & 1963-65 James St Technical College, Art Cert, Perth

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1981-2000 exhibited under the name Marie BIGGINS

2003 ‘Livestock Exchanges – Challenging Assumptions’. Installation/sound interactive (Marie Farr Biggins): Rockhamton Art Gallery
1993 Installation: ‘The Carousel’ toured after the Sept–Nov 1992 QAG show) to The Noosa Regional Gallery, Ipswich City Council Regional Art Gallery, The Gladstone Art Gallery and Museum.
1992 Installation: ‘The Carousel’ Gallery 14 – Queensland Art Gallery Project Space, Brisbane The Installation: ‘The Carousel’ then travelled to: Noosa Regional Gallery, Ipswich Regional Gallery, Gladstone Regional Gallery over period 6 mths in the 1993
1990 Installation: ‘Turning the Circle Within’ Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane & Lyndall Milani’s ‘Evolution’
1990 Installation: ‘Turning the Circle Within’ Walter Reid Centre, Rockhampton
1987 Installations: ‘Reflections’, ‘Passages of Life’, ‘Homage to Georgia O’Keefe’ combined with Performance by Backyard Theatre, Walter Reid Centre, Rockhampton
1983 Gallery UpTop, Painting – Rockhampton
1981 Gallery UpTop, Painting and Etchings – Rockhampton

SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONS & COLLABORATIONS In addition, exhibited in numerous group shows, not listed, going back to early 1980s.

1998 The Hutchins Art Prize, Tasmania
1995 VOLT New Visions New Performance ‘Sports Scores’ with Ralph Tyrrell (musician/composer), Action Archery, Albion
1995 ‘Pseudo’, Brisbane Fringe Festival, Princess Theatre, Woolloongabba, Brisbane. Video installation ‘Mind the Gap’
1991 ‘Materiality: A Human Scale’ 6th National Ceramics Conference, McWhirters Artspace, Brisbane
1988 Dejeuner sur le Plancher: Six Queensland Artists, Walter Reid Gallery, Rockhampton
1983 ‘ Four Queensland Painters’, Galerie Baguette, Brisbane
1982 ‘From the Inside Out’ Women & the Arts Festival, Sydney

ART TEACHING & ADMIN ROLES

1993-1994 Chairperson, Management Committee Queensland Art Workers Alliance Inc.
1992-93 Member Artform Assessment Panel – Visual Arts, Crafts & Design, Arts Division, Dept Premier, Qld
1990 Seminar Co-ordinator for ‘Artists go Troppo’ Regional Qld Arts & the exhibition ‘Opening the Umbrella’ Walter Reid Centre, Rockhampton
1989-90 Co-ordinator School Cultural Studies at Rockhampton College TAFE
1985 Member Art Syllabus Sub-committee of Arts Advisory Committee Board Secondary School Studies, Qld Dept. Education
1983-1990 Art District Panel Member Board Secondary School Studies
1977-78/1980-81/1983-88 – Art Teacher: St Ursula’s College, Yeppoon
1968 Emerald, Qld. Adult Education (evening & weekend workshops)
1966 Art Teacher: Esperance High School & Adult Education (evening & weekend classes)
1965 Art Teacher: Melville Senior High School, Perth, WA

AWARDS / CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

2001 Arts Qld grant to attend Curatorial Lab, Metro Arts, Brisbane (Marie Farr)
1995 Arts Qld scholarship to attend ‘Where Worlds Converge’. Week long workshops at 5th Design Winter School, Centre for Design, RMIT, Melb.
1995 ANAT (Australian Network for Art & Technology), Summer School, QIT, Brisbane
1995 ‘Eye-phonics’ attended workshops (sound/performance with Kathy Acker/Ellen Zweig) Metro Arts, Brisbane
1995 Presented a workshop: Sound Art: ‘Dig the Digital’, AIAE (Aust Institute Art Ed), Cairns
1994 Awarded Arts Qld Creative Development Grant: Electronic Arts – six month’s research Europe & USA: included: Ars Electronica, Linz Austria; ZKM (Centre for Art and Media), Jeffery Shaw, Karlsruhe/Germany; Arts & Technology Conference, Orlando, Florida; SRL (Survival Research Lab), San Francisco
1993 RADF, Project Grant Video documentary on fellow artist & educator, Ros Beasley, Emu Park, Qld.
1991 Arts Qld Travel Bursary and Invitation to attend: CAMA (Council of Australian Museums Association) Conference, Perth WA with Dr Margriet Bonnin and fellow artist, Judy Watson. After the CAMA conference, we had a private viewing of Janet Holmes à Court and Kerry Stokes collections.
Australian Network for Art and Technology Award to attend ANAT Summer School, Brisbane.
1989 Travel Award for 2hr workshop: ‘Lateral Thinking & Creative Problem Solving’ at ‘Art & Design Education Practice & Practise’ AIAE, INSEA, SEAPAC Congress, Darwin, NT.
1979 Victorian College Arts Painting Prize – National Gallery Victoria Trustees Award VCA, Melbourne.

CURATORIAL

1993 ‘The Disappointing Latitude’ IMA/AFAS (curator Marie Biggins), Walter Reid Centre, Rockhampton & IMA, Brisbane
1993 ‘Framing Experience’ Shell Art Award/AFAS (curator Marie Biggins) Flew to all AFAS Qld regional Tour Centres: Central (13 centres) & North-West (8 centres) and self-drove the Southern Tour (7 centres) to select works for the Brisbane Award Exhibition and supervise hanging the work of 63 selected artists at Boulder Lodge Concepts, Brisbane. Also curated separate exhibitions for artists in the Regional Centres: Glenmorgan, (Central & Southern Tour), Mt Isa, (North-West Tour).

WEB DESIGN BUSINESS – ELECTRIC OCEAN

1995 Established Electric Ocean a freelance design business, Brisbane. Created websites for AFAS, Brisbane City Council: Boondall Wetlands, West End Story.
1995 Eyeline Magazine freelance graphic design

QAGOMA VOLUNTEER GUIDE

2018-2019 Volunteer guide at Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art – QAGOMA, Brisbane.

Live and work at Flaxton on the Blackall Range, Qld. My work has come full circle – back to painting/drawing and printmaking