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ADHOC: Bio

ADHOC is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, design and cultural critique, with a current focus on silversmithing, digital video and hand-built objects. Their work spanning over 20 years explores points of deeply private, emotional resonance for audiences by producing tensions between personhood and social constructs of being.

ADHOC

ADHOC: CV November, 2025

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Education

2021- current
Graduate Diploma of Psychology
Australian Centre for Applied Psychology
2014-2017
Masters by Research
Centre For Ideas, VCA
2008-2011
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours)
Monash University

Group exhibitions

2022
Hand embellished gloves, Future Fashion
Powerhouse Museum
2020
Mardi Gras Closing Night Party, video work
Hordern Pavilion
2019
Manic, AD Space
UNSW School Art and Design, Big Anxiety Festival
2018
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award
Riot in the Gallery, AGNSW
2015
Scold’s Bridle
1 OK-Club, NGV, Federation Square
2014
At Ease
Intercept Public Art Award, Mt Alexander Shire
Drawing Manifesto
published for Critical Animals Retrospective
2013
Mountain Song
Spiritous Award, neon text sculpture, Abbotsford Convent
Bed, Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve, Love Fortunes and Slogans
performative instigations, #Modern Love, The School of Life, Melbourne
Gotta Lust For Life
neon text sculpture, Harvest Festival, all sites
I Love Myself
neon text sculpture, Melbourne Music Week hub space, Where?House
2012
Agony Aunt
commissioned for Bellowing Echoes, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space
Site specific installation
commissioned by Penthouse Mouse, L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Week
2011
I Really Need You Tonight
Harvest Festival, Werribee Gardens
Your Thoughts With External Displays
TCB Gallery
Site specific installation
commissioned by Penthouse Mouse, L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Week
Dream Cave
mixed media installation, Folk Rhythm and Life Festival
2010
Mark (hearts) Keran
public performance in the form of auction, www.ebay.com
Site specific installation
commissioned by Penthouse Mouse, L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Week
2009
Cowboy Story, Why Do We Do The Things We Do
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Playground: Or, How Am I Not Myself?, Too Much of Me:7 Paths Through the Absurd, With Detour
Monash University Museum of Art
2008
Imagine Me & You, I Do’ neon text sculpture
St Paul’s Cathedral, Next Wave Festival
We Welcome You With Open Arms
Alphaville, Flinders Lane. Permanent collection of Glenn Barkley
Imagine Me And You I Do, vinyl lettering
Next Wave Nightclub Project, The Men’s Gallery
Thing That Say What We Want Them To Say
Next Wave Nightclub Project, Billboard Nightclub

Awards and achievements

2015
MATCH funding via Creative Partnerships Australia for Found Festival
2014
Intercept Public Art Prize
NAVA Grant, Future/Forward
The Melbourne University Fay Marles Scholarship
LINC Grant
2013
Melbourne City Council for Melbourne Music Week
2012
Spiritous award
Harvest Festival keynote commission
Awesome Melbourne Grant
2010
Guest artist at the Format Festival, Murray Bridge
2009
Connex Moving Galleries- Voted People’s Choice- most popular public artwork (Imagine Me & You, I Do)
Nottinghill Community House Prize
2008
Funding for the project, ‘Imagine Me & You, I Do,’ through Next Wave Festival, Ergas Collection and the Sidney Myer Fund
Commonwealth Bursary, awarded
2004
Monash Scholarship for Excellence and Equity

Residencies & Workshops

2014-2015
Testing Grounds, VIC
2013
Fontanelle Gallery, workshop
2012
Murray Bridge Festival, guest artist

Books

Arts and cultural critique published in Un Magazine, DAS Platforms, Day Four Magazine, Trouble Magazine, Lip Magazine, and fiction published for Alone, Together exhibition catalogue, A Sharp Knife and Critical Animals: A Retrospective

Curatorial work

2015
Found Festival
Director, Producer, Artist, Abbotsford Convent
2014
Found Festival
Director, Producer, Facilitator, Testing Grounds
2013
Positive Parks Project
Edinburgh Gardens, Curator, Producer
2012
Flux: You & Me
No Vacancy Gallery, Curator

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