Elizabeth Presa

Elizabeth Presa (born 1956) is an Australian visual artist and academic based in Melbourne. She is Head of the interdisciplinary Victorian College of the Arts Centre for Ideas.[1][2]

Working with sculpture her work uses a range of materials and processes, including sericulture, apiculture and casting. Some of her installations use plaster as a forensic tool to examine traces of the psyche, biological life and the environment.[3] She is an academic, an author and has also worked as a curator and gallery director.[1][3]

Presa is the mother of Australian contemporary artist Anastasia Klose[4] with whom she occasionally collaborates.[3]

Academic career

Presa studied at the Victorian College of the Arts of the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Diploma of Sculpture in 1977. She studied at the Phillip Institute, Post Graduate Sculpture, 1980, University of Melbourne; 1978, 83-85. She has a Masters in Critical Theory and Comparative Literature and a PhD in Critical Theory and Comparative Literature both undertaken at Monash University.[1]

She tutored in art philosophy at Riverina College of Advanced Education during 1980-81, and as part of the Sculpture department of the Melbourne Centre for Adult Education from 1984–85, and following this in the Sculpture department of the Victoria College Prahran.[2]

From 1993 she taught in the School of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, in 2003 she was appointed Head of the interdisciplinary Victorian College of the Arts Centre for Ideas, where she focussed on interdisciplinary curriculum and research design in the visual and performing arts.[1] Additionally, she has been a visiting artist and guest lecturer at a number of international universities and has undertaken multiple international artist residencies. A notable fellowship Presa undertook was entitled "Interior Castle: St Teresa of Avila, architectures of space", at the Five College’s Women's Research Centre, Mt Holyoke, Massachusetts.[1]

Curation

Presa was Director of Wagga Wagga Regional Galley in 1978-79.[2]

Her work as curator has involved three iterations of ‘Do It’ with Hans Ulrich Obrist, including a project with the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.

Her work on a series of beehive projects titled ‘Apian Utopias: Small Architecture for Bees’ involves projects and exhibitions in Tokyo, the USA, Beijing, New Zealand and Australia.[1] Her ongoing interest is in the interrelationship between philosophy and art.[1]

Selected exhibitions

Selected shows include

  • Garden of small nuptials, sculpture installation for Aberrant Nuptials International Deleuze Studies conference, Orpheus Institute Ghent, Belgium, (2017)[5]
  • Of Martyrium and Reliquary, with Mireille Eid,  Articulate Project Space, Gallery, Sydney (2017)[6]
  • Views for the Future Vol. 16 (bricolage), curator and master printer M. Matsumara, October, (2016) Gallery TEN, Tokyo-Yanaka[3]
  • Art Space Mooni, Morioka, Japan (2016/17)[3]
  • Animal/Human/Artist curated by Janine Burke, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, (2016)[7]
  • Lorne Sculpture Biennale, curated by Julie Collins, Lorne, Victoria, (2014)[8]
  • Gallery TEN, Tokyo-Yanaka; 2017 Art Space Mooni, Morioka, Japan, (2012)[3]
  • Interior Castle, with architect Gregory Burgess, Linden Contemporary Arts Centre, Melbourne, (2010)[9]
  • Dear Jean Jacques, Cite International des Arts, Paris (2007)[3]
  • Milk River, Meru Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (2002)[3]
  • The Four Horizons of the Page, Linden Gallery, Melbourne (2000)[3]

Selected reviews
  • Eyeline Journal, Carol Schwarzman ‘Presence and Non-Presence; Inside and Outside’ (2017)[10]
  • Art+Australia, Review: Animal/Human/Artist –Art inspired animals’, by Lynn Mowson, (2017)[11]
  • Human/Animals/Artist: Janine Burke’s Exhibition Explores the Lines Between’, Gabriella Coslovich, the Sydney Morning Herald, Nov.18, (2016)[7]
  • Anne-Gaelle Saliot, The Drowned Muse, Oxford University Press, UK pp. 17-19; pp. 326-328; (2015)[12]
  • Lisa Harms, Duetto review, Art Link Vol 30, No3 (2010)[13]

Selected works
  • The Heart of the Matter (2018)[14]
  • Nothing (2018)[15]
  • Translation as a material practice (2017)[16]
  • Martyrium and Reliquary (2017)[17]
  • Birth to sartorial presence (2017)[18]
  • Garden of small nuptials (2017) [19]
  • human/animal/artist (2016)[20]
  • Bricolage (2016)[21]
  • Playland (2016)[22]
  • Nativity (2015)[23]
  • Life must first imitate matter (2015)[24]
  • Ways of Being: transitional objects and the work of art (2015)[25]
  • Small Utopias: architecture for bees - (beehive village) (2014)[26]
  • An Other Economy (2014)[27]
  • Apian Utopias: Small Architecture for Bees (Part 1: Tokyo Beehives) (2013)[28]
  • Echidna Body/Human Body (2013)[29]

References
  1. "Dr Elizabeth Presa". findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  2. Germaine, Max, 1914-2006. (1991). A dictionary of women artists of Australia. Roseville East, NSW, Australia: Craftsman House. ISBN 976-8097-13-2. OCLC 26591029.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  4. "Anastasia Klose", Wikipedia, 16 January 2020, retrieved 8 March 2020
  5. "DARE 2017: aberrant nuptials – DARE conferences". Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  6. "ARTICULATE". articulate497.blogspot.com. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  7. Coslovich, Gabriella (14 November 2016). "Human/Animal/Artist: Janine Burke's exhibition explores the lines in between". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  8. "Elizabeth Presa". Sculpture Magazine. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  9. "Gregory Burgess Architects, Practice Profile" (PDF). Gregory Burgess Architects. 8 March 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 March 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  10. Suzanne Berger, Chloé; Aubin-Horth, Nadia (2018). "A eDNA-qPCR assay to non-invasively detect the presence of the parasite Schistocephalus solidus inside its threespine stickleback host". doi:10.1101/231670. S2CID 90685369. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. "Review: Human Animal Artist: art inspired by animals | Art + Australia". www.artandaustralia.com. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  12. Saliot, Anne-Gaëlle (2015). The Drowned Muse: Casting the Unknown Woman of the Seine Across the Tides of Modernity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-870862-9.
  13. "duetto". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  14. "Elizabeth Presa". Parallax. 9 (3): 73–78. 2003. doi:10.1080/1353464032000103654. ISSN 1353-4645. S2CID 220343569.
  15. "Charing", Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press, 31 October 2011, doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00035806
  16. Yuan, Xueying; Shi, Yeli (1 September 2017). "The C-E Translation of Business Promotional Material Based on Skopostheorie". Theory and Practice in Language Studies. 7 (9): 775. doi:10.17507/tpls.0709.09. ISSN 1799-2591.
  17. Chaganti, Seeta (2008), "The N-Town Assumption's Impossible Reliquary", The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary, Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 73–94, doi:10.1057/9780230615380_4, ISBN 978-1-349-37245-4
  18. Breward, Christopher (1 March 2017), "Sartorial spectacle", Imperial cities, Manchester University Press, doi:10.7765/9781526117960.00022, ISBN 978-1-5261-1796-0
  19. Presa, Elizabeth (2 December 2019), "Sculpture Installation", Aberrant Nuptials, Universitaire Pers Leuven, pp. 445–455, doi:10.2307/j.ctvmd83nt.39, ISBN 978-94-6166-305-4
  20. "Morris, Desmond John, (born 24 Jan. 1928), writer on animal and human behaviour; artist", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28164
  21. "3 Empirie des Bricolage-Projekts", Bricolage, Peter Lang, 2014, doi:10.3726/978-3-653-03994-8/15, ISBN 978-3-631-64628-1
  22. "Playland". Playland. 15 February 2015. doi:10.5040/9781580817691.01.
  23. "18. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", Milton and His England, Princeton University Press, p. 16, 31 December 2015, doi:10.1515/9781400871865-021, hdl:2027/chi.18004778, ISBN 978-1-4008-7186-5
  24. Ruggieri, Dominique G.; Leebron, Elizabeth J. (2010). "Situation Comedies Imitate Life: Jewish and Italian-American Women on Prime Time". The Journal of Popular Culture. 43 (6): 1266–1281. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5931.2010.00799.x. ISSN 0022-3840.
  25. Presa, Elizabeth (1 May 2018), "Ways of being: transitional objects and the work of art", The Winnicott Tradition, Routledge, pp. 315–326, doi:10.4324/9780429483769-28, ISBN 978-0-429-48376-9
  26. Coleman, Nathaniel (7 May 2007). Utopias and Architecture. doi:10.4324/9780203536872. ISBN 9780203536872.
  27. Backhouse, R. E. (1 January 2014). "MIT and the Other Cambridge". History of Political Economy. 46 (Supplement 1): 252–271. doi:10.1215/00182702-2716190. ISSN 0018-2702.
  28. Ammar, Doreid; Savinien, Jean; Radisson, Lionel (2019). "The Makers' Beehives". Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things - IoT 2019. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press: 1–4. doi:10.1145/3365871.3365887. ISBN 978-1-4503-7207-7. S2CID 207955934.
  29. Sawday, Jonathan (16 October 2013). The Body Emblazoned. doi:10.4324/9781315887753. ISBN 9781315887753.
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