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Associate Professor Bianca Hester
Associate Professor

Associate Professor Bianca Hester

Arts,Design & Architecture
iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research

Bianca Hester is an artist, writer and educator who specialises in critical place-based practice through artistic research. Her work focuses on the environmental aesthetics of a settler-colonial Anthropocene to investigate entanglements between colonial inheritance, extraction, environmental crisis, evolution and extinction evident within specific locations across Australia. Employing relational feminist methodologies, she combines experimental fieldwork, engaging the geologic record (in archives and in situ), embodied site-writing, sculptural production, collaboration and performed actions to develop artistic projects that unpack the material conditions of specific locations across the continent, resulting in an expansive form of public art unfolding in dialogue with a range of interlocutors and participants.

Bianca has exhibited widely within Australia and internationally. Recent works include: Dust of these domains, SITEWORKS, Bundanon (2023); Reading Walking Lithic Bodies, Museum of Contemporary Art (2022), Constellating bodies in temporary correspondence (2015-2016; 2021) exhibited within ‘Perspectives on Place: Works from the MCA Collection relating to land, mapping and environmental change’, Museum of Contemporary Art (2021-2023); movements materialising momentarily, ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland (2015); Down City Streets (with the Space Place and Country research group 2015); Fashioning Discontinuities presented during the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); Hoops: sound tests, performances, documents, Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013); only from the perspective of a viewer situated upon the surface of the earth does day and night occur, Glasgow International Festival for Visual Arts, (2012); a world fully accessible by no living being, which was the winning entry for the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture (2011); please leave these windows open overnight to enable the fans to draw in cool air during the early hours of the morning, The Helen MacPherson Solo Commission at The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2010); and projectprojects at The Showroom in London (2008). She is currently developing new research titled Lithic Bodies, funded by Australia Council for the Arts individual project Grant) Project code: RG220506

Alongside exhibitions, Hester has developed numerous practice-led publications including: Sandstone, Lost Rocks, A Published Event (2020) and Converging in time, with Open Spatial Workshop, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2017) which was awarded the Museums Australia Publication Design Awards for major exhibition catalogue, 2018 and the AAANZ Best University Art Catalogue, 2018.Her recent book Groundwork (2021) is published through Perimeter Editions (#069).

Hester studied sculpture at RMIT, Melbourne, where she completed her practice-led PhD titled Material Adventures, Spatial Productions: Manoeuvring Sculpture Towards a Proliferating Event, in 2007 which won a University research prize in 2008. She was a founding member of CLUBSpropject inc in Melbourne (2002-2007) and is a continuing member of the Open Spatial Workshop collective with Scott Mitchell and Terri Bird since 2003. Hester has lectured at Victorian College of the Arts (2004-2012) and the Sydney College of the Arts (2016), where she was a post-doctoral research fellow and the co-leader of the Space, Place and Country research cluster with Dr Saskia Beudel between 2013-2016. She is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow (2017-2018) and was an Artspace studio resident throughout 2017.

 

Hester is currently Associate Professor in Art and Design and is the Co-Director for Research and Engagement with Oliver Bown, an Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), and on the Editorial Committee for the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (AANZJA).

She convenes Studio Art Practice 5. She has experience teaching across all levels in undergraduate programs and in supervising practice-led Honours, MFA and PhD projects since 2004.

Website: www.biancahester.com

Open Spatial Workshop website: https://osw.com.au

Down City Streets: www.downcitystreets.com.au

 

 
E-mail
b.hester@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2021
    Hester B, 2021, Groundwork, Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, https://perimetereditions.com/GROUNDWORK
    Books | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S; Poll M; Yusoff K; Beudel S, 2017, Converging in time, Hughes H; Day C; Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, (eds.), Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, https://osw.com.au/Converging-in-time-publication-2017
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Hester B, 2022, 'Moving in memory of lava flows', in Crone B; Stanton P; Nightingale S (ed.), Fieldwork for Future Ecologies: Radical Practice for Art and Art-based Research, Onomatope, The Netherlands, pp. 313 - 337
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Hester B, 2020, 'Collective Modulations', in Heijnen E; Bremmer M (ed.), Wicked Arts Assignments: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education, Valiz, with Amsterdam University of the Arts, Amsterdam, https://www.valiz.nl/en/publications/wicked-arts-assignments.html
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2020, 'The time of the temporary', in Everything is Temporary, Freerange Press, pp. 76 - 83, https://projectfreerange.com/freerange-journal/freerange-vol-12-everything-is-temporary/
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Hester B; Millner J, 2018, 'The practice of remaining perpetually contingent', in Millner J; Moore C (ed.), Feminist Perspectives on Art Contemporary Outtakes, Routledge, New York, pp. 79 - 91
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, 'Carbon Cycles', in Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, pp. 101 - 106
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Hester B, 2016, 'CLUBSproject: Dedicated to the perpetually provisional', in Ulanda Blair ; Rosemary Forde ; Phip Murray (ed.), un Anthology 2004-2014: a decade of art and ideas, un Projects inc., Melbourne, pp. 577 - 589
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Hester B; Crone B, 2014, 'Primordial Projection and Cinematic Site: A Conversation', in Crone B (ed.), The Cinemas Project, National Exhibitions Touring Support (NETS) Victoria c/o The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, pp. 61 - 69, http://www.thecinemasproject.com.au/cinemas-project-book/
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2013, 'Shaping Territories', in Hughes H; Barikin A (ed.), Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction, Surpllus, Melbourne, pp. 124 - 140, https://www.surpllus.com/
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Hester B, 2008, 'Enabling Restraints', in McInnes V; Daw K (ed.), Bureau, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, pp. 16 - 22
  • Creative Works (non-textual) | 2023
    Hester B, 2023, Dust of these domains, SITEWORKS, Bundanon, 26 February 2023 - 27 February 2023, at: https://www.bundanon.com.au/whats-on/dust-of-these-domains-bianca-hester-performance/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2022
    Hester B, 2022, Reading Walking Lithic Bodies, Perspectives on Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, 30 April 2022 - 30 April 2022, at: https://www.mca.com.au/whats-on/reading-walking-lithic-bodies/
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2022, 'Sedimentation of Relationalities', presented at Conversations with Extractivism, Melbourne, Hybrid, 15 July 2022 - 16 July 2022, https://www.monash.edu/mada/events/2022/Conversations-with....Extractivism
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Hester B, 2021, 'Encountering lithic bodies: moving in memory of lava flows', ASLEC-ANZ (Association for the study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia and New Zealand), Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, presented at Conversations beyond human scales, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 23 November 2021 - 26 November 2021, https://beyond-human-scales.net/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2021
    Hester B, 2021, Constellating bodies in temporary correspondence, Perspectives on Place: Works from the MCA Collection relating to land, mapping and environmental change., Museum of Contemporary Art, 26 February 2021 - 01 March 2023, medium: sculpture, video, installation, image, at: https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/exhibitions/mca-collection-perspectives-on-place/
    Creative Written Works | 2020
    Hester B, 2020, Sandstone, Phillips J; Woodward M, (ed.), A Published Event, https://www.lostrocks.net/txt
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Hester B, 2020, Artist Voice: Bianca Hester, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Published: 25 May 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://www.mca.com.au/artist-voice/artist-voice-bianca-hester/
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Hester B, 2020, Sandstone: excerpts, FBI radio, Sydney, Published: 10 August 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://omny.fm/shows/canvas/ground-2-3-sand
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2020
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2020, Three thoughts about sculptural production: objects, material transformations, geo-social assemblages, "Spaced Apart" program from RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, Melbourne, Published: 29 July 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://spaced-apart.com/watch/osw
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2019, Works, Working, Work, Writing & Concepts, van Schaik J, (ed.), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, https://www.artandaustralia.com/publishing/titles/writing-concepts-2017-volume-2
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Cape Liptrap, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Cape Liptrap formation (Gippsland, Victoria on Boon Wurrung, Bunurong and Gunaikurnai country). Video: 4.55 minutes, at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Fossilised Kauri Log, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Papercrete platform with fossilised Kauri log (23 million years old) collected from Loy Yang open cut mine (Gunaikurnai Country) on loan from Museum Victoria, 7 bronze casts of meteorite impressions, pine, bronze., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Graphite Ball, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Polymer activated gypsum, fibreglass, glue, graphite., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Hanging Form Incorporating Natural and Artificial Tektites, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Steel, Perspex, tektites (on loan from Museum Victoria), fittings., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Linear Structure for a Room, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Polymer activated gypsum, fibreglass, paint, mild steel, found concrete form, molten scoria form, Murchison meteorite (on loan from Museum Victoria from Ngurai-illamwurrung Country), blown glass form, basalt log (on loan from Museum Victoria, collected from Footscray circa 1860’s), lava bomb., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Open Spatial Workshop: Converging in time, Open Spatial Workshop: Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 10 April 2017, at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Pothole Assemblage, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop, at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Saléeite Crystals, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Blown glass forms, lead caps and saléeite crystals collected from Ranger uranium mine, Northern Territory (Mirarr Country), mild steel, steel wire, fittings., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Sand Particles at Big Drift, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Video of sand particles from ‘Big Drift’, Wilson’s Promontory (Boon Wurrung, Bunurong and Gunaikurnai Country). Video: 3.06 minutes., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Shelf of artefacts, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Crinoid (sea lily) fossil (416-443 million years old), Silurian era collected from Brunswick clay pits circa 1900’s (Wurundjeri Country); vitrified brick for chemical works made by Hoffman’s Brickworks collected 1923; and greenstone from Wil-im-ee Moor-ring / Mt William, Lancefield (Wurundjeri Country) collected 1853-68, MDF and Perspex., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Slumped Pasticine Form, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Slumped plasticine form and steel models of crystals including graphite [brown coal], vivianite, quartz, copper, saléeite, iron [Murchison meteorite], hermatite [banded iron], jadeite [Victorian greenstone], sanidine [lava bomb], olivine [basalt tree], calcite [trilobite eyes]., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Other | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Symposium in transit: bus trip to Wil-im-ee Mooring/Mt William greenstone axe quarry, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, https://www.monash.edu/muma/events/2017/osw-bus-tour
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2017, Trilobite with Crystal Eyes, Converging in time, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 11 February 2017 - 08 April 2017, medium: Trilobite fossil, Cambrian era (488-542 million years ago), mild steel and stainless steel plate, fittings., at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2017/open-spatial-workshop
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2016
    Hester B, 2016, Constellating bodies in temporary correspondance, Endless Circulation: Tarrawarra Biennial 2016, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 19 August 2016 - 06 November 2016, at: http://www.twma.com.au/exhibition/tarrawarra-biennial-2016-endless-circulation/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2016
    Hester B, 2016, Constellating bodies in temporary correspondance, NSW Visual artist fellowship exhibition, Artbank, 01 December 2016 - 27 February 2017, at: http://artbank.gov.au/exhibitions/nsw-visual-artist-fellowship/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Hester B, 2015, Cut continuum, The Material Turn, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, 10 September 2015 - 03 October 2015, at: http://vca.unimelb.edu.au/engage/margaret-lawrence-gallery/the-material-turn
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Hester B, 2015, Fashioning propositions, Art as a verb, Artspace, Sydney, 04 June 2015 - 26 August 2015, at: https://www.artspace.org.au/program/exhibitions/2015/art-as-a-verb/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Hester B, 2015, Movements Materialising Momentarily, Movements Materialising Momentarily, St Paul Street Gallery, 31 July 2015 - 11 September 2015, medium: Collaborative walking event, Installation, Sculpture, Video, at: https://stpaulst.aut.ac.nz/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/2015/past-2
    Curatorial Outputs | 2015
    Hester B; Beudel S; Poll M; Fischer L; Wallace G; Campbell B, 2015, Down City Streets, exhibited at: Sydney, 20 February 2015 - 30 November 2015, https://downcitystreets.com/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2015, Anthropocite, Earth Sciences Garden, Monash Earth Sciences Garden, 15 September 2015 - 01 October 2029, at: https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/9288
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2015, FAULT, Performing Mobilities: Traces, Storey Hall, RMIT, 25 September 2015 - 24 October 2015, at: http://www.performingmobilities.net/symposium/traces_gallery/fault/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2015, GLIMPSE, Feeling Material, c3 contemporary Artspace, 28 October 2015 - 22 November 2015, at: https://www.c3artspace.com.au/feeling-material/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2015, SPLINTER, From the collection: Gertrude Regional Residencies: Chapter 2, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, 01 August 2015 - 20 September 2015, at: https://latroberegionalgallery.com/project/from-the-collection/
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    Hester B, 2014, 'A provisional context for discussion: thinking-making material relations, fashioning situations, and exhibiting practices in motion', presented at SITUATION: IDEA conference, Design Hub, RMIT, Melbourne, 31 July 2014 - 03 August 2014, https://idea-edu.com/symposiums/2014-situation/
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    Hester B, 2014, 'Embodying convergences, caring to commit', presented at Curating Feminism, Sydney College of the Arts, 23 October 2014 - 26 October 2014, https://www.contemporaryartandfeminism.com/contemporary-art-and-feminism/curating-feminism
    Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance) | 2014
    Hester B, 2014, Akaska Projects, Sydney, Publication: re-orchestrating objects, actions, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), http://home.alaskaprojects.com/Performance
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Hester B, 2014, Fashioning Discontinuities, 19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney, various sites, 21 March 2014 - 09 June 2014, medium: sculpture, performance, photography, installation, texts, symposium, at: https://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/19bos/artists/hester/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Hester B, 2014, Fashioning propositions, Art as a Verb, Monash University Museum of Art, 03 October 2014 - 16 December 2014, at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2014/art-as-a-verb
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Hester B, 2014, Hoops: sound tests, performances, So long as you move: recent video works form the Monash University Collection, Ark Gallerie, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 15 August 2014 - 15 September 2014, at: https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions/offsite-and-touring/2014/so-long-as-you-move
    Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance) | 2014
    Hester B, 2014, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Publication: Courtyard loops, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/bianca-hester
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Hester B, 2014, Performance Objects, HOLD, Sarah Scout Presents, 10 October 2014 - 08 November 2014, at: http://www.sarahscoutpresents.com/web/hold-akira-akira-and-bianca-hester/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Hester B, 2014, Re-orchestrating: objects, actions, Restaging, Restaging, Alaska Projects, 28 September 2014 - 28 September 2014, medium: sculptural objects, construction materials, bodies, performative action, at: http://home.alaskaprojects.com/Performance
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Hester B, 2014, Sonic Objects, Solar Objects: Variously, The Cinemas Project, Warrnambool, Victoria, 04 July 2014 - 05 July 2014, at: http://www.thecinemasproject.com.au/project/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    Hester B, 2014, contexts, cuts, convergences, SITUATION, Design Hub, RMIT, Melbourne, 31 July 2014 - 03 August 2014, at: https://idea-edu.com/symposiums/2014-situation/
    Conference Presentations | 2013
    Hester B, 2013, 'Shaggy Edge of Open', presented at AAANZ: Inter-discipine, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 07 December 2013 - 09 March 2013, http://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2013-conference/
    Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance) | 2013
    Hester B, 2013, Arts House, Melbourne, Publication: approaching/departing four grounds, 23 March 2013, Editor(s): Matthews H, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance), https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/actionresponse/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2013
    Hester B, 2013, Hoops, sound tests, performances, documents (2011-2013), Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, 22 November 2013 - 23 March 2014, at: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/media_release/melbourne-now-first-artists-and-projects-announced/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2012
    Hester B, 2012, only from the perspective of a viewer situated on the surface of the earth does day and night occur, ACCA pop-up program, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, The Common Guild, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow, 20 April 2012 - 07 May 2012, at: https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/acca-pop-up-program-glasgow/
    Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance) | 2012
    Hester B, 2012, supported by KUNCI, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Publication: Siang dan malam terjadi hanya dari sudut pandang orang di muka bumi, Performances (Music, Theatre, Dance)
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2012
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2012, Lumpen Falls, Lumpen Falls, Conical, 03 March 2012 - 24 March 2012, at: http://www.conical.org.au/archive/index.html#
    Creative Written Works | 2011
    Hester B, 2011, a world, fully accessible by no living being, The Narrows, https://issuu.com/thenarrows/docs/hester-newsprint-final32pp-web
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Hester B, 2011, A world, fully accessible by no living being, Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, Federation Square, Melbourne, 07 February 2011 - 12 November 2011, medium: sculpture, performance, publication, text, at: http://aworldfullyaccessiblebynolivingbeing.blogspot.com.au/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Hester B, 2011, bits and pieces, here and there, bits and pieces, here and there, Society, Sydney, 23 September 2011 - 25 September 2011, at: https://www.welcome-to-society.com/bits%20and%20pieces%20here%20and%20there
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Hester B, 2011, multiple assemblages, ACCA #2 ACCA Regional Tour, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, 07 May 2011 - 03 July 2001, at: https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/art2-acca-regional-tour-horsham/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Hester B, 2011, selection of fragments, composed, Galaxy Garden, Sutton Project Space, Melbourne, 07 May 2011 - 28 May 2011, at: http://ushindo.blogspot.com/2011/05/the-galaxy-garden.html
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Hester B, 2011, these circumstances temporarily generating open forms improvising encounters, these circumstances temporarily generating open forms improvising encounters, Sarah Scout Presents, 13 April 2011 - 07 May 2011, at: https://www.sarahscoutpresents.com/exhibitions/59-bianca-hester-these-circumstances-temporarily-generating-forms-improvising/installation_shots/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Hester B, 2011, untitled (wearable fragments), Rock Solid, Pieces of 8 Gallery, Melbourne, 22 March 2011 - 07 May 2011
    Creative Written Works | 2011
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2011, Big Log Book, Monash University Museum of Art, https://osw.com.au/Big-Log-Book-2011-1
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2011
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2011, Big Log Jam, Big Log Jam, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, 25 November 2011 - 06 December 2011
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2010
    Hester B, 2010, Please leave these windows open overnight to enable the fans to draw in cool air during the early hours of the morning, Please leave these windows open overnight to enable the fans to draw in cool air during the early hours of the morning, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 06 August 2010 - 26 September 2020, medium: installation and performance, at: https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/bianca-hester-please-leave-these-windows-open-overnight-to-enable-the-fans-to-draw-in-cool-air-during-the-early-hours-of-the-morning/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2010
    Hester B, 2010, solar system, system, Friends, TCB art inc., 01 September 2010 - 18 September 2010, at: https://tcbartinc.org.au/content/friends/
    Creative Written Works | 2010
    Hester B; Bird T; Benjamin A; Nicholson T; Day C, 2010, actions will occur intermittently, Hester B; Day C; Engberg J, (eds.), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, https://content.acca.melbourne/legacy/files/2010_Bianca%20Hester_Catalogue_1.pdf
    Creative Written Works | 2009
    Hester B, 2009, Accommodating spaces, materials, projects, people, videos, actions, objects, thoughts: relatively, The Narrows
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2009
    Hester B, 2009, Enabling Constraints, Imprint, Artspace, Sydney, 03 July 2009 - 01 August 2009, at: https://www.artspace.org.au/program/exhibitions/2009/imprint/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2009
    Hester B, 2009, Fashioning Discontinuities (Part 1), Fashioning Discontinuities (Part 1), Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 05 June 2009 - 02 August 2009, at: https://art.base.co/event/1618-fashioning-discontinuities
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2009
    Hester B, 2009, only from the perspective of an observer situated on the surface of the earth does day and night occur, only from the perspective of an observer situated on the surface of the earth does day and night occur, The Narrows, Melbourne, 02 April 2009 - 02 May 2009, at: http://www.thenarrows.org/archive/2009/36.shtml
    Curatorial Outputs | 2009
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2009, The West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial, exhibited at: multiple sites in West Brunswick, Melbourne, 21 March 2009 - 12 April 2009, http://www.openobject.org/wbst/?page_id=260
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2008
    Hester B, 2008, Implements, Actions and a Scoring of Moments, Line Drawing, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide, 15 July 2008 - 17 August 2008, at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26709405?selectedversion=NBD43672902
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2008
    Hester B, 2008, Project Projects, Project Projects, The Showroom, London, 05 March 2008 - 13 April 2008, at: https://www.theshowroom.org/exhibitions/bianca-hester-projectprojects
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2008
    Hester B, 2008, material iterations, The Narrows Print Workshop, 19 May 2008 - 29 May 2008, at: http://www.thenarrows.org/archive/2008/PW.shtml
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2008
    Hester B; Gunawan A, 2008, accumulative process, 2020?, Next Wave Festival, Meat Market Craft Centre, Next Wave Festival, 15 May 2008 - 31 May 2008, at: http://2008.nextwave.org.au/festival/projects/5-2020-
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2008
    Hester B; Gunawan A, 2008, monstera deliciosa, Advance/Retreat, Westspace, Melbourne, 07 November 2008 - 29 November 2008, at: https://westspace.org.au/exhi/6287/advance-retreat-three-experiments-in-transdisciplinary-collaboration
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2007
    Hester B, 2007, Material Adventures, Spatial Productions: Manoeuvring Sculpture Towards a Proliferating Event, Material Adventures, Spatial Productions: Manoeuvring Sculpture Towards a Proliferating Event, Gossard Studios, RMIT University, Melbourne, 07 June 2007 - 08 June 2008
    Theses / Dissertations | 2007
    Hester B, 2007, Material Adventures, Spatial Productions: Manoeuvring Sculpture Towards a Proliferating Event, RMIT University
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2007
    Hester B, 2007, Plant life, West Space East: an exchange between West Space, Melbourne and Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore, Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore, 15 October 2007 - 10 November 2007, at: https://westspace.org.au/exhi/6208/west-space-east
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2007
    Hester B, 2007, Propositional Pavilion (bench detail with re-articulated moments), Abstraction, Architecture, Space, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, 24 August 2007 - 23 September 2007
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2007
    Hester B, 2007, Provisional Devices for a Propositional Living Space, Provisional Devices for a Propositional Living Space, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 12 October 2007 - 10 November 2007, medium: installation, video, dance, at: https://www.gertrude.org.au/exhibitions/gallery-11/past-14/bianca-hester-368.phps
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2006
    Hester B, 2006, Indexing Practices: Projects in Production, Gertrude Studios Artists Exhibition, 01 November 2006 - 16 December 2006, at: https://www.gertrude.org.au/exhibitions/gallery-11/past-14/gertrude-studios-2006.phps
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2006
    Hester B, 2006, Project Projects: Open and Hosted, Project Projects: Open and Hosted, RMIT Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne, 19 June 2006 - 14 July 2006
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2005
    Hester B; Bird T; Mitchell S, 2005, Active Air, Active Air, Ocular Lab, West Brunswick, 11 March 2005 - 20 March 2005
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2004
    Hester B, 2004, Corner to corner and stretching, The Molecular History of Everything (well not everything), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 December 2004 - 27 February 2005, at: https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/a-molecular-history-of-everything-well-not-everything/
    Curatorial Outputs | 2002
    Hester B; Bird T; Panigirakis S; Kossloff L; Hill C; Consandine C; Usher M; Walter H; Keating M; McMahon K; Geikie S, 2002, CLUBS Project Inc., exhibited at: Builders Arms Hotel, Gertrude Street Fitzroy, Melbourne, 01 March 2002 - 01 June 2007

2023     Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Section, Arts projects for Individuals and Groups, to develop Lithic Bodies

2020     Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Section, Arts projects for Individuals and Groups to develop New Work (with Open Spatial Workshop)

2017-18  Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

2016    Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Section, Arts projects for Individuals and Groups to develop New Work (with Open Spatial Workshop)

2015    Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Section, Arts projects for Individuals and Groups to develop a publication

2014    Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Section, Skills and Arts Development General to develop a research project in Auckland

2014    NSW Arts and Cultural Development Program, Artist Support Grant

2013    DVC Research Compacts Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme (3 year full-time fellowship including research support)

2013    New Work Fellowship, Australia Council for Visual Arts

2013    New Work Fellowship (with Open Spatial Workshop) Australia Council for Visual Arts

2011    Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Section, Skills and Arts Development

2010    Helen Macpherson Smith Commission, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

2009    City of Melbourne grant to develop a publication of PhD research

2009    Arts Victoria, New Work, Presentation grant (with Open Spatial Workshop for the West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial

2006    Australia Council Visual Arts Board, Skills and Development grant

2006    Arts Victoria, International Program, Cultural Exchange

2006    Australia Council Artist Initiatives development grant for CLUBSproject Inc

2004    Arts Victoria new work development award

2001    APA (Australian Postgraduate Award) to undertake doctoral research

 

2018    Museums Australia Publication Design Award (MAPDA) for major exhibition catalogue, for Converging in time (with Open Spatial Workshop)

2018    AAANZ Best University Art Catalogue, for Converging in time (with Open Spatial Workshop)

2016    Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship (over 2017-2018)

2011    Winner of The Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture

2008    RMIT University Research Prize for outstanding PhD project

2006    Sieman’s prize, RMIT

2005   Winner of The Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture (with Open Spatial Workshop)

My Research Supervision

PhD

Caitlin Dubler. Research Area: Glass as a multivalent site of geological and social inheritances. Supervised jointly with Dr Zoe Veness.

Monika Citanovic. Research Area: Crafting time to care: sloppy stitching as a method of reclamation of the embodied history of women's craft-based knowledge wihtin a regenerative textile practice. Supervised jointly with Dr Rochelle Hayley and Associate Professor Alison Gwilt.

Mason Kimber. Research area: Surface Archeology: memory and matter in expanded painting. Supervised jointly with Professor Stephen Loo.

Miska Mandic. Research area: Pleating Time: Reframing relationships to ecological crisis by cinematically exposing the temporally distributed relations between everyday materials. Supervised jointly with Dr Astrid Lorange.

Aneshka Mora. Worlding Otherwise: The use of Institutions as Medium and Method for Decolonisation in Contemporary Art Practices in and from 'Australia'. Secondary supervisor with Veronica Tello.

Emma Pinset. Research Area: Porous matter: re-worlding fouled materials of the intertidal zone through sculptural practice. Supervised jointly with Dr David Eastwood 

 

MFA

Nick Breedon. Research area: Towards a neuroqueer aesthetic: queering heritage art forms. Primary supervisor.

Patrick McDavitt. Research area: Sculptural artistic practice drawing from archaeological methodologies to explore queerness as a process of excavation. Primary Supervisor.

Jo Mellor Stuart. Research area: Care and comfort in the era of solastalgia: Utilising a socially-engaged art practice to craft collaborative eco-feminist activism in The Darling River and Menindee Lakes System. Jointly supervised with Dr Fabri Blacklock.

Melody Newell. Research area: 'Kitsch Sights' investigates the aesthetic category of kitsch through poetry and a collaborative audio-visual performance. Secondary Supervisor (Astrid Lorange as Primary Supervisor).

 

Previous Candidates (completed):

Cindy Chen,  The Convergence of Aural and Optical Perception in the Experience of Place: How attentive listening through an experimental drawing practice can extend and challenge place representation, UNSW, PhD Jointly supervised with Dr Uros Cvoro.

Kenzee Patterson, A tree branches, so does a river, SCA, University of Sydney, MFA, 2018. (Primary supervisor)

Therese Keogh, Re-building histories (and some things that happened down a well), SCA, University of Sydney, MFA, 2018. (Primary supervisor)

Chris Fox, Performative drawing apparatus: Relations of constraint and abandon, SCA, University of Sydney, MFA, 2017. (Primary supervisor)

Sarah Crow-Est, An unaccountable mass: bothersome matter and the humorous life of forms, VCA, University of Melbourne, PhD, 2012. Jointly supervised  with Dr Barbara Bolt.

Akira Tamura, Embodied Practice, experience and intuition, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Primary supervisor)

Charlie Sofo, Pebbles, shattered glass, plastic, metal and dried grass: a research project on ritual action, experience and the everyday, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Primary supervisor)

Beth Arnold, Approaching Site, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Winner of the Sutton Gallery Prize). (Primary supervisor)

Dorothea Rechner, Detours along the spectrum of visibility: embodying views through three apparatuses: imaging, experimenting, re-presenting, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Primary supervisor)

Utako Shindo, Immanent landscape, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Primary supervisor)

Bree Dalton, MFA, The semper eadem: salting flesh shoreline project, VCA, University of Melbourne, MFA, 2012. (Primary supervisor)

 

 

My Teaching

I currently convene the following courses:

Fine Art Honours