Mandy Quadrio is a Brisbane/Meanjin-based contemporary artist of Palawa heritage.[1]
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Biography
editBorn in Melbourne, Quadrio has strong ties to her ancestral Country of the Coastal Plains Nation and the Oyster Bay Nation of tebrakunna, North-East lutruwita (Tasmania). Quadrio is an artist of national significance, having been included in solo and group exhibitions across Australia, and commissioned by major institutions such as the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston.[2] She works in sculpture, installation, photography and mixed media.[3]
Career
editQuadrio is a graduate of the Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art (CAIA) degree at Queensland College of Art, part of Griffith University, in 2016.[4] She then completed an Honours degree in Fine Art in 2017, winning the Griffith University Medal for Outstanding Academic Excellence.[4] Quadrio is currently a PhD candidate at Griffith University. Her thesis is a continuation of her Honours research, which sought to redress the losses, invisibility and erasures of palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) women throughout history.[4]
Many of Quadrio's works use found objects and natural materials, such as Tasmanian bull kelp, ochres and river reeds. Another strand of her practice deploys stainless steel wool, hung in bulbous forms or moulded to the shape of a canoe. Quadrio has also produced photographic works, such as the series of self-portraits face to face to face (2019).[5]
Quadrio seeks to bring attention to the ongoing effects of brutality toward Indigenous people from Australian colonial history to the contemporary moment, seeing her works as acts of resistance and sovereignty. She says: “I’m rejecting the framing of colonisation and foregrounding my history by representing palawa culture, stories and lived experiences in my own way, and in my own terms”.[6]
Quadrio’s series of vulval-like forms in bull kelp speak to gendered Aboriginal histories, violence towards Aboriginal women, but also sensuous celebrations of female sexuality.[7]
Works
edit- I speak to uncover the mouths of silence (2020), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania.[8]
- Here lies lies (2019), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobiennale 2019, Hobart, Tasmania.[9]
Solo exhibitions
edit2022 Beyond misty histories, presented by Constance ARI in association with Mona Foma, Hobart, Tasmania[10]
2019 Mandy Quadrio: face to face to face, Kuiper Projects, Brisbane[11]
2019 Mandy Quadrio: The Country Within, IMA Belltower at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane[12]
2018 Speaking Beyond the Vitrine, Metro Arts, Brisbane[13]
Group exhibitions
edit2021 Tarrawarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria[14]
2021 Water Rites, ACE Open, Adelaide[15]
2020 Rites of Passage, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane[16]
2020 The muddy banks of kanamaluka, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania[17]
2018 Hatched National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)[18]
Awards
edit2019 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney[19]
2018 Finalist, Hatched, National Graduate Art Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth[20]
2017 Winner, The St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital Award, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane[21]
References
edit- ^ "Mandy Quadrio". Brisbane Institute of Modern Art. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "We've Changed: Exhibition highlights". www.qvmag.tas.gov.au. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Mandy Quadrio". Brisbane Institute of Modern Art. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ a b c Crossen, Louise (23 April 2018). "Emerging artist in the spotlight at national graduate exhibition". news.griffith.edu.au. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Kuiper Projects". kuiperprojects.org. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Mandy Qaudrio is Speaking Beyond the Vitrine". Art Guide Australia. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ Carmichael, Freja (2018). "Around and Within" (PDF). Macquarie Group Collection.
- ^ "We've Changed: Exhibition highlights". www.qvmag.tas.gov.au. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Episode 49: Mandy Quadrio". NAVA. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Mandy Quadrio: Beyond misty histories — Constance ARI". constanceari.org. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Kuiper Projects". kuiperprojects.org. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art. "Mandy Quadrio". Institute of Modern Art. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "MANDY QUADRIO MOVES OUT OF THE GALLERY FOR MAIWAR FESTIVAL - Metro Arts Brisbane". metroarts.com.au. 1 April 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ TarraWarra Museum of Art; Miall, Nina; TarraWarra Museum of Art, eds. (2021). Slow moving waters. Healesville, Victoria: TarraWarra Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-6487968-1-7. OCLC 1250007593.
- ^ "WATER RITES". ACE Open. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ Museum, QUT Art (23 October 2020). "Rite of Passage". QUT Art Museum. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Mandy Quadrio - Writing". Sawtooth ARI. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Hatched: National Graduate Show 2021 – PICA". Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "she unfolds | Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize". sculptureprize.woollahra.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Hatched: National Graduate Show 2021 – PICA". Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ Stewart, Casey (21 December 2017). "Queensland College of Art graduate awards 2017". news.griffith.edu.au. Retrieved 19 March 2022.