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Diane Mantzaris CV

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Mantzaris, Diane

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CV

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STUDIES:

1982
BA Bachelor of Fine Art, Degree
School of Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1987
CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing)
Underdale College of TAFE, Adelaide School of Engineering, SA.

1993-94
School of Printing Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Selected Modules Pre press, HTML and Web Design

 

AWARDS, Project awards, funding, sponsorship include:

1986 Project Grant, Visual Arts/ Craft Board of the Australia Council (Computer Generated Lithographs)

1987 Overseas Studio, 3mth Residency in the Australia Council Studio, Tokyo JAPAN

1990 Travel to Tokyo, JAPAN for exhibition and symposium Tokyo Connection, sponsored by Avante Systems Pty Ltd, Melbourne

1990 Australian Network for Art and Technology Research and Development Grant

1991 Australian Science Network. Sponsorship and funding towards participation in The Great Australian Science show, World Congress Centre, Melbourne

1992 Australian Network for Art and Technology Art Research and Development Grant

1992 4mth Asialink residency at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, THAILAND

1996 Development grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council

1997 Sponsored by Apple Computer Victoria

2002 City of Melbourne and Multicultural Arts Victoria, Ho HA Gallery Athens, Mythologies travel, collaboration and exhibition in Athens GREECE

 

SELECT GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1983 Recent graduates Prints by graduates, School of Art, RMIT, Melbourne

1984 Miniature Prints touring nationally, Print Council of Australia Inc, Melbourne Victoria,

1987 St. Kilda Prize Acquired: St Kilda Council, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

1987 Modern Legends 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria (CG Lithographs one person show)

1988 The Henri Worland Memorial Print Award Acquired, Warrnambool Art Gallery,
Victoria

1988 The First International Symposium of Electronic Art Jarsburg Congress Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

1988 Freemantle Print Show Fremantle Art Gallery, Fremantle, WA

1988 Encounters1 College Gallery, SA School of Art, South Australia. (curated by Stephanie Britton) with Banduk Marika and Kate Breaky (toured SA Regional Galleries)

1988 The Art collectors starting Kit D.C ART Gallery, 8”x10” show Sydney, NSW

1989 Bharat Bhavan International Biennal of Prints Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal INDIA

1989 Antipodes Roar Gallery, Melbourne Victoria, (touring Victorian Regional Galleries)

1989 Eight Printmakers Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria

1990 Anonymous Greater Western Building Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

1990 Encounters 1 (touring TAS and QLD)

1990 Tokyo Connection Heinekan Village, Harajiku, Tokyo, JAPAN. Australian artists in Tokyo (exhibition and symposium)

1990 A New Image Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

1990 Group show Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, QLD,

1990 Impressions in Print Toowoomba Art Gallery, QLD Touring Qld Regional Galleries.

1990 A New Aesthetic Exploring Computer Aided Art and Design ANAT. Linden Gallery. Victoria

1991 Correo para el Intercambio de Pequenas Estampas CIPE’ 91 Union of Artists and Writers from Cuba (UNEAC) CUBA. Exhibition and artwork exchange.

1991 Windows (Computer generated Prints and Constructions. One Person show. Powell Street Graphics Gallery.) Melbourne Victoria.

1991 The Great Australian Science Show One Person Show, World Congress Centre,
Melbourne, Victoria

1991 Digitise the World RMIT Gallery, Building 2, Melbourne Victoria

1991 Recent Acquisitions: Diane Mantzaris Gallery 2, Queensland Art Gallery, QLD

1991 25th Anniversary Print Council of Australia Commissions Exhibition Touring Nationally, Victorian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria

1991 A Little Treasure Powell Street Graphics, Melbourne, Victoria.

1991 Technology Assisted Art Monash University Studios, Collingwood, Victoria

1991-92 Reference Points: A New Perspective Gallery 4, Queensland Art Gallery, QLD

1992 Computer Generated Powell Street Graphics, Melbourne, Victoria.

1992 Unfamiliar Territory Curated by Tim Morell, The Adelaide Biennale, Art Gallery of South Australia

1992 5th Birthday Exhibition Verity Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

1992 Electric Visions One Person Show, Grahame Galleries, Brisbane, Queensland

1992 Savage Art Prize Melbourne International festival, Victoria

1992 Conrad Jupiter’s Art Prize (Awarded) Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Construction Assemblage exhibition, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

1992-95 My Head is a Map Curated by Roger Butler. Australian National Gallery, ACT, Touring Nationally

The Second Australian Print Symposium: paper by Diane Mantzaris: My Electric Visions, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT,

1992-93 6 x 6 Contemporary Australian Printmaking Curated by Anne Kirker Touring from Silpakorn University Bangkok, Khon Khaen and Chiang Mai University Galleries THAILAND, and concluding at the QLD Art Gallery Brisbane. Funded by Asialink and the Australian Embassy Bangkok.

1992 Diversity- Australia’s greatest printmakers Curated by Sharon Maslem, Access Contemporary Art gallery, NSW

1993 Margaret Stewart Endowment Collection Ground floor Raynor Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria

1993 Secrets from Siam One Person Show Verity Street Gallery. Melbourne Victoria

1994 Clashing Fragments Curated by Sara Lindsay, University of Tasmania, touring regional galleries nationally

1992 Diane Mantzaris One Person Show, Michael Wardell Gallery, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne Victoria

1993 Something Old Something New Michael Wardell Gallery13 Verity Street, Melbourne Victoria

1994 ToxicCity Concrete House, Nontunburi, Bangkok, THAILAND

1994 A.C.A.F.4 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Michael Wardell Gallery selection Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria

1995 The Computer is not the Creator Desk Top People/ Digit One Gallery, Sydney, NSW

1995 Technothelylogia Women and Technology Monash University Gallery curated by Zara Stanhope, Melbourne, Victoria

1995 NON: artists against nuclear testing Greenpeace Artists Fundraiser, Ether Ohnetitel Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

1996 New Space Michael Wardell at 2a Waltham Street Richmond Melbourne Victoria

1997 Photo in Print Michael Wardell at 2a Waltham Street Richmond Group Show, Melbourne Victoria

1997 Landline: Diane Mantzaris Michael Wardell at 2a Waltham Street Melbourne Victoria

1999 Hana print in glass. Commission for windows of Japanese udon and sushi bar, CBD Melbourne, Victoria, in association with BM architects.

2000-04 2 Public Artworks - Freeway Interventions
Accelerated Billboard with Print installation: ‘Working Class Heroes’ (billboard
print and 9 piece art installation Westgate freeway, Melbourne)
‘House in the Sky’ Melways Ref:40 D12
Steel fabricated house suspension with lighting
In association with BM architects, Pride of Place program (Victorian State Government) and Images of the West (Western Metropolitan Region Councils)

2002 Mythologies Ho HA Gallery Exhibition and Collaboration between 6 female artists in Athens and Melbourne, Co-ordinated by host gallery director and artist Dora Haralambaki, Participation sponsored by Multicultural Arts Victoria, City of Melbourne and Olympic Airways

2003 Mythologies, exhibition/collaboration exchange
Span Gallery, Melbourne Australia, supported by City of Melbourne and Multicultural Arts Victoria

2006-07 Marks and Motifs PCA touring exhibition curated by Stephen Rainbird.
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane: 22 June – 27 August 2006
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum: 8 September – 28 October 2006
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery: 31 January – 25 March 2007
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery: 10 April – 3 June 2007
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne: 19 June – 31 July 2007
Artspace Mackay: 28 August – 21 October 2007
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville: 16 November 2007 – 20 January 2008
This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia

2012 - 'The Human Clay' Diane Mantzaris and guest artist Vasan Sitthiket, Number 1 gallery,  Bangkok, Thailand, Feb- March 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Diane Mantzaris ARTLINK, Special Issue on Art and Technology 08/87, pp38-9

Computer Art The Age, 23/10/87

The Art of using an electronic easel The Australian 3/11/87

Searching the Mirror Encounters 1 catalogue by Diane Soumilas, PCA 1989
with introduction by Stephanie Britton.

Encounters review by John Neylon Art and Text, Vol 31 1989 pp65-67

College Encounter makes Underdale trip worthwhile review by Margot Osborne, The Advertiser, 19/10/88

A crowded Death review by Stephanie Radok, The Adelaide Review January 1989

NEWS Imprint Vol 23 no 5 March1989, p9

Bharat Bhavan International Biennale of Prints catalogue (published Bhopal, India, 1989)

Bharat Bhavan International Biennale of Prints review Art Monthly June 1989

Directory Australian Artists Producing Prints Published by the Print Council Of Australia Inc.

Computer Aided Art Linden Newsletter, (published St. Kilda Council) Vol2 pp7-8 1990

Artists Views PCA Imprint Vol 25 No1pp10-11

Tokyo Connection catalogue artists statement, published Australia/Japan Foundation, Australia Council 1990

Tokyo Connection review by Rodney O’Brien At the Centre: ART CIRCUT, for City Life News published Tokyo Japan p14, 1/5/1990

State of the Art show for Japan by Jenny Zimmer, The Melbourne Herald 03/06/90

Avante Systems Helps Computer Artist to attend Art exhibition in Tokyo by Francesca Da Rimini 12/06/190.

Australian artists in Tokyo FP Fusion Planning, 07/90

Impressions in Print Catalogue. Diane Mantzaris (artists statement) copy avail: Grahame Galleries, Qld, 1990

Boxing Clever for an East West way of seeing Culture Review by Jenny Zimmer, The Sunday Herald, 03/03/91

Young Artists Embrace tools of Electronic Age by Bryce Hallett. The Australian 02/07/91

ROLL UP, ROLL UP, for the Great Science Show. Helping to Understand our Future by Bryce Hallett, The Australian, 12/07/91

Transitional Times- the approaching ‘ fin de siecle’ by Sheridan Palmer. Imprint vol.26 No 3 1991

Looking to Asia for Inspiration by Suzy Freeman-Greene. The Age. 21/09/91

Diane Mantzaris- ADELAIDE BIENNIAL 1992, Unfamiliar Territory catalogue essay by Jenny Zimmer, published Art GALLERY SA 1992

Practitioner of a new art cursors her fate by Suzy Freeman- Greene, The Age 20/02/92 p.14

Not rebelling but making the change by Peter Davis, Canberra Times, 17/05/92

A printout of identity Bangkok Post, 03 /11/92

6x6 Catalogue, artist statement/poster, published by Asialink Melbourne, 1992

6x6 Contemporary Australian Prints Dao Siam Daily, Bangkok, 04/11/92,

Aussie Art hits Thailand The Nation, Bangkok, 04/11/ 92

Manager Daily Interview with Diane Mantzaris on 6x6 Contemporary Printmaking in Australia, Bangkok, 10/11/ 92

Khao Khaung Interview, Bangkok, 18/11/92

Diane Mantzaris: Computer Art Wattajak news, Bangkok, 26/11/ 92

Thais receive first Oz images The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 1/11/92

Phoochartkarn Daily 6 x 6 Review, Chaing Mai, Thailand, 02/ 93

Australian art to Asia -the Link being made Directions, The Melbourne Times, 22/7/92.

Artists set to forge Asian links by Rebecca Lancashire, The Age, 30/8/ 92

Clashing Fragments Catalogue. Artist statement published by University of Tasmania, Launceston. 1993.

Confronting paradox by Anne Kirker, ARTLINK / Contemporary Arts of the Region: SE Asia & Australia Vol 13 no 3&4

Technothelylogia catalogue essay by Zara Stanhope, published Monash University 1995

ART NOW - Contemporary Art post 1970 by Colin Simpson and Donald Williamson
Diane Mantzaris pp136, 137. Mc Graw Hill Book company Sydney. 1994

New Senior Computing Studies - The HSC Course Mark Baker and Neil Frost Diane Mantzaris
Mc Graw Hill Book company Sydney, 1995, pp441-442

High Tech Art flows into the Mainstream The Age review by Robyn McKenzie p23 26/07/95

Diane Mantzaris DESKTOP magazine feature1995

Australian Printmaking in the 1990s: by Sasha Grishin, Diane Mantzaris Sydney: Craftsman House, 1997

The Yellow Lady - Australian Impressions of Asia by Alison Bronowski, Oxford University press 1996

The Greeks of Melbourne Domenique De Stoop . Transnational Publishing co Pty Ltd 1996

Defining Digital Art by Mike Van Nikerk Computer Age (front cover) /24/4/1996

Hana Monument Magazine (journal of architecture) artwork on glass Febuary 1999

The Super Graphics of Diane Mantzaris (6 page feature) Common Ground: Glass, International journal on developments in Glass and Architecture, Published by IGGA MA. USA 1999

Australian Book Review by Margaret Manion (on Sasha Grishin’s Australian Printmaking in the 1990s)

Urban Design and Public Art Alliances ARTLINK Feature: by Andy Miller, Sculpture and Cities, Volume 20 no 4,

A changing agenda by Sasha Grishin, full page feature NKEW English section Neos Kosmos 19/02/01
“Diane Mantzaris is an unusual person and unusual artist in any national or international context… the Australian born Greek is changing the agenda of what is called art..”

Diane Mantzaris / Diane Mantzarisová GRAPHEION Vol 3-4 Full page feature, Australian Graphic Arts, by Sasha Grishin, Translated to Czech and English and distributed worldwide: P. O. Box 30, CZ-110 01 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Marks and Motifs, PCA RMIT touring exhibition Catalogue 2006-07

2012

TELEVISION AND RADIO

Tokyo Connection Documentary, NHK TV, Included interview and work of Diane Mantzaris from Tokyo Connection Tokyo JAPAN 12/6/90 (Televised to USA 10/6/90)

Hello from Tokyo, NHK RADIO, Tokyo Japan 10/6/90 Andrew Petrusevics and Diane Mantzaris, interviewed by Masako Yuasa and Mark Robinson. (Transmitted to SE Asia, Europe and USA.

Gotham City Gossip, 3RRR FM RADIO, Melbourne Australia. Diane Mantzaris Interviewed by Roger Taylor.( On ‘Windows’ exhibition) 2/3/91

Gotham City Gossip, 3RRR FM RADIO. Melbourne, Australia Diane Mantzaris Interviewed by Roger Taylor (On Science Show exhibition) 11/7/91

SCAT TV, STUDENT AND COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION,
Adelaide, Australia, artist chat/ game show hosted by Andrew Petrusevics and Pam Harris, special guest appearance Diane Mantzaris

Morning Talk, Television of Thailand, Bangkok, 2/11/ 1992.
Diane Mantzaris and Anne Kirker interviewed by Jay Walton

 

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery
Australian National Gallery
Art Gallery of South Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
State Library of Victoria
Queen Victoria Museum/ Art Gallery, Launceston
University of Tasmania, Launceston
Shepparton Art Gallery
Warrbambool Art Gallery
Ballaarat Fine Art Gallery
Naracoote Art Gallery SA
Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery
University of Central Queensland
Queensland University of Technology
Univesity Art Museum, Queensland
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Flinders University SA
Gordon Technical College, Victoria
Macrobertson Girls High School, Victoria
Ruyton Girls School, Victoria
Norwood Secondary College, Victoria
Fintona Girls College, Victoria
St Kilda Council, Victoria
Print Council of Australia
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
BHP
Canson Australia Pty Ltd
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Monash University
The Melbourne Club
Janet Holmes a Court Collection
Artbank
Gramercy Ventures
Corporate and Private Collections, Australia, India, Cuba, Japan, USA, Greece, Thailand.