Laura Carthew 

Lives and works in Naarm / Birrarung-ga (Melbourne, Australia)

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2020, The clouds have died, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, VIC 

2019, 學生府君神位 Farewell my darling, Musée Shuim, Seoul, KOREA

2016, Immortal flower, MARS Gallery, Windsor, VIC

2016, boat fire screen, Richmond Library, Richmond, VIC

2014, You can be a leaf of the rose garden, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster, VIC

2014, Selected works, Chin Chin Wall of Art, Melbourne, VIC

2013, My heart is a rose garden, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, VIC 

2012, Hero on the horse, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, VIC

2012, Circling Absence, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023, Bond Clean, Maggie Lane Gallery, Reservoir, VIC 

2023, Flux, Metro Arts, West End, QLD

2021, 각양각색(各樣各色 Various Colours, Bucheon City Museum, Seoul, KOREA

2020, Mixed Tape, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, VIC 

2019, 시간의 궤적 The trace of time, Ara Art Center, Seoul, KOREA

2019, Something inherent to nature, Tinning St Presents, Brunswick, VIC

2018, Holes, Our Neon Foe, Leichhardt, NSW

2018, The Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse, Casula, NSW

2017, Sweet FA, Trocadero Arcade, Footscray, VIC

2016, The SUBSTATION Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Newport, VIC

2016, Video Stage, Art Stage Singapore, SINGAPORE

2015, Floating Grounds, The Ferry Gallery, Bangkok, THAILAND

2014, Channels Presents: My heart is a rose garden, Roundabout Projections, Preston, VIC

2014, PLAY ME, Project Q.U.A.D, Melbourne, VIC

2014, Slip, Anna Pappas Gallery, Prahran, VIC

2013, Angkor Photo Festival, (Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive), Siem Reap, CAMBODIA

2013, Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopaedic Palace): Melbourne Offsite for the 55th Venice Biennale, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, VIC

2013, Tokyo Art Book Fair (Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive), Tokyo, JAPAN 

2013, Obscura Festival (Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive), Penang, MALAYSIA

2013, Agendo, St Heliers Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, VIC 

2013, TIME AND TIDE - living and surviving in the 21st Century, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne, VIC

2013, Bound Apart: Photography & Publishing, Rae and Bennett Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC 

2012, Locus of Control, Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra, VIC 

2011, (DIS)-ARRAY, Light Projects, Northcote, VIC

2011, the mind of itself and the world, Light Projects, Northcote, VIC

2011, Books…beyond words – evolution, East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale, VIC

 

Awards / Scholarships / Grants

2021, Sustaining Creative Workers Program, Regional Arts Victoria

2020, COVID-19 Arts Grant, City of Melbourne 

2019, Art Fund, Seoul Metropolitan Government

2017, Due West Festival, Creative Victoria

2017, Arts and Culture, Maribyrnong City Council

2014, The Ian Potter Cultural Trust, The Ian Potter Foundation

2014, Creative Individuals Career Fund, Copyright Agency Limited

2013, Creative Young Stars Program, Australian Government

2013, Artist Encouragement Grant, Rotary Club of Melbourne

2012, Artstart Grant, Australia Council for the Arts

2012, National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Award

2011, Monash Jubilee Honours Scholarship

 

Mentorships

2014-2015, JUNG Yeondoo, Mito City, Japan & Seoul, South Korea. 

Supported by The Ian Potter Cultural Trust and Copyright Agency Limited

 

Publications / Reviews

• Riek, Lizzie, Flux, Lemonade: Letters to Art, March 8th, 2023

• Carthew, Laura. ‘The clouds have died’ - Artist Book. Melbourne: self published 2020, 58 pages. Printed in conjunction with the exhibition, The clouds have died, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, March, 2020

• JEONG Yongdo.영혼의 풍경; 기억의 정원 Soul Landscape; Garden of Memory, October 11th, 2019

• NAM Eun Jung. 學生府君神位 Farewell my darling, October, 2019. Seoul: independently published 2019, p1-45. Catalogue printed in conjunction with the exhibition 學生府君神位 Farewell my darling, Musée Shuim, Seoul, Korea 11th October – 30th November 2019

• Greenaway, Judith. 65th Blake prize exhibition - a complexity of spirit, Sydney Arts Guide, 17th May 2018 

• Miller, Benjamin. Artists join forces for Sweet FA, Star Weekly, August 22nd, 2017

• Ian Potter Cultural Trust on Laura Carthew, June 2nd, 2016

• Stranger, Lucy. Laura Carthew / Immortal flower, Artist Profile, May 30th, 2016

• Keogh, Therese. Someone once told me that the secrets of the Universe are hidden in triangulation, 2016. Melbourne: independently published 2016, p1-2. Printed in conjunction with the exhibition, Immortal flower, MARS Gallery, Prahran, 4th – 25th June 2016

• Art Stage Singapore 2016 opens its sixth edition with The Southeast Asia Forum and launches Catalyst, Artitude, 2016

• Connellan, Nick. Play Me, Broadsheet, July 10th, 2014

• Marjoram, Amy. Play Me, Art Guide Australia, July 7th, 2014

• Rule, Dan. Spectrum: In the galleries, The Age, p.7, May 10th, 2013

• Rainforth, Dylan. Venice to the Degraves underpass, The Age, p.46, August 14th, 2013

• Trocadero Art Space hosts ‘My heart is a rose garden’, Beat Magazine, 31st July, 2013 

• Fehily, T. Trocadero July Openings, 2013

• Lam. N & Carthew. L. Gathering, Circling, Dwelling: Laura Carthew, as part of ‘The Curious Other’, 2013

• A photo finish, The Age, March 13, 2013

• Seward, A. Fêted as part of ‘The Platform Archive Project’, Melbourne: independently published, 2012. Printed in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Hero on the horse’ as part of The Platform Archive Project, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, July – November, 2012

• Your weekend: In the galleries, The Age, February 18, 2012

• A conversation with Sarah Gordon, Ocular Guest Curator, 2012

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Education

2011, Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours), Monash University, Caulfield Campus

2010, Bachelor of Visual Art, Monash University, Caulfield Campus