Michele Theunissen

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1995 M. A. (Visual Art) Curtin University of Technology WA
1992 B.A. (Visual Art) Curtin University of Technology WA
1971 U.E.D. Teaching Diploma, University Of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
1970 Bachelor of Arts (English Literature and Theatre Studies)NUD, South Africa
Professional Experience
1993-06 Lecturer in drawing, painting, sculpture programs. Curtin University of Technology, Perth, W.A.
1999-01 Teacher in Special Art Program, Kalamunda Senior High School.
1996-99 Board member, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, W.A.
1997 Curator mine own executioner, Mundaring Art Centre, WA
1995-96 Coordinator of the Art, Medicine and the Body project.

SOLO EXHIBITION
2011 sensation, exhibition of paintings at Goddard de Fiddes, Perth
2006 imperfect consonance, exhibition of paintings at Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2006 elastic boundaries, film installation, Artspace, Sydney.
2002 looking for nothing, an exhibition of paintings, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2000 skinned, a 2-screen video installation, Pica, as part of the Perth International Arts Festival 2000.
1998 skin spaces, an exhibition of painting and film, Galerie Dusseldorf

GROUP EXHIBITION
2011 Angel Hair, Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery, W.A.
2009-2010 Summer, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery,Perth, WA.
2009 Designing peace. MCAD, Manila, Philippines.
2009 Mundaring Acquisition Exhibition, Mundaring Art Centre, WA.
2008 moment: Goddard de Fiddes Gallery,Perth, WA.
2007 Cross Currents: Focus on contemporary Australian art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
2006 Mine own Executioner, a Decade of Self-Portraiture in Western Australia, touring WA.
2003 Gravitate 2. Art & Science. Gravity Discovery Centre, Gingin, WA.
2001 Reconciliation: exhibition of indigenous and migrant artists, Performance Space, Sydney.
1997 Gravitate: exhibition of science and art, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, U.W.A.
1999 Mine own executioner, annual exhibition of self-portraiture,Mundaring Arts Centre,WA
1998 Against racism, PICA,Perth.
1998 Mundaring Acquisition Exhibition, Mundaring Arts Centre,WA.
1997 21 years on, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
1996 Artists Choice, Claremont School of Art, Western Australia.
1996 Art, Medicine and the Body, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Western Australia.
1996 Postgraduate Exhibition, representing Curtin University at Nanyang Academy of
Fine Arts, Singapore.
1995 Postgraduate exhibition Sensible - Curtin University of Technology, Perth.
1995 A Rose is a Rose, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth.

AWARDS/GRANTS

2006 Australia Council Grant for new work, across, a film project about cultural hybridity.
2006 Landscape Architects award for MLSHS, with Stuart Green and Minaxi May
2005 Artswa: Mid-Career Fellowship grant
2004 Artsource: Gunnery exchange, residency program, Sydney
1999 Artswa: development grant with Josephine Wilson and Erin Hefferon: the Lombroso Project
1999 Artswa: development grant with Alice Cummins and Sharon Barker:
1999 Australia Council development grant
1997 Artswa: to develop a solo exhibition
1995 Australia Council grant on behalf of Art, Medicine and the Body
1995 Artswa to develop a catalogue, on behalf of Art, Medicine and the Body
1992 Outstanding achievement award: painting and visual culture, Curtin University of Technology.

COMMISSIONS
2010-11 Selected with Adrian Jones for Lake Grace stage 3 StoryTrail project
2007-9 Selected for Rockingham Hospital Redevelopment; team leader in collaboration with Eveline Kotai and Penny
Bovell
2004-6 Selected with Stuart Green, percent for art: Redevelopment of MLSHS, stage 3
2002-05 Selected with Stuart Green and Minaxi May, percent for art: Mount Lawley Senior High School Redevelopment, stage 1 and 2.
2003 Selected for design and development of Earthworks, Mandurah Council Offices.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007 A movable feast of art's changing face, Ric Spencer, The West Australian Jan 13.
2006 Artlife: online podcast episode#3 October 31
2000 Arts Today, Radio National, panel speaker for 'Gravitate' show, Sept.
2000 Hope through acceptance of difference, Ted Snell, The Australian, 4 Feb
2000 Festival's mixed bag, David Bromfield, The West Australia, 5 Feb,
1998 A vibrant world of colour, Robert Cook, The West Australian, 2 April,
1997 Review, David Bromfield,West Australian, Nov 1
1997 Review, Ted Snell, The Australian, Oct 24.
1997 Medicinal Art, Ted Snell, Art and Australia, Vol 34 No. 4
1996 Art, Medicine & the Body, Barbara Bolt, Like Art Magazine, October.
1996 An insistence on red, Terri-Ann White, Reeltime, October.
1996 PICA forum gets to the guts of theory, Nikki Miller, The West Australian, 14 August.
1996 Big body of work puts medicine in its place, David Bromfield, The West Australian, 10 August.
1996 Arts Today, Radio National, panel speaker with presenter Louise Adler, Radio National, 5 August.

COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Australian Capital Equity , Royal Perth Hospital , King Edward Memorial Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital, John Curtin Art Gallery, Bankwest, Holmes a Court, Burswood Collection, Mundaring Shire Art Collection, Various Private Collections.