JOANNA BUCKLEY
Joanna’s art practice involves sculpture, painting and site-specific installation with an interconnected relationship to nature and abstraction. Her emphasis is on transformation of environmental elements, materiality, space and light, with sensitivity to the viewer experience and context.
Buckley has exhibited at the Abbotsford Convent Melbourne, the Chinese Museum Melbourne, Craft Victoria, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, the University of Melbourne, Artery Cooperative, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venice, the Apeejay College of Fine Arts Jalandhar India, Burning Man Nevada US, Incinerator Gallery, ECNU Shanghai World Expo 2010, artist and community run spaces and has produced work for various commissions. She is represented in private collections in Australia and Europe.
Joanna Buckley is an associate member of Artery Co-operative Ltd, Melbourne, Australia and current Master of Contemporary Art candidate at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Joanna Buckley acknowledges the Kulin Nations and Larrakia people as sovereign custodians of the land on which she lives and works and extends her respects to ancestors and Elders; past, present and emerging.
QUALIFICATIONS
2022 - current / Master of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2009 - 2011 / Master of Arts (Art in Public Space), RMIT, Melbourne (with distinction)
2002 - 2007 / Bachelor of Built Environment (Industrial Design), QUT, Brisbane, with sustainable development field work in Lesotho, Africa and exchange semester at Politecnico diMilano, Italy
SELECTED PROJECTS
2023
Oculus, Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research exhibition and panel (in collaboration with psychological scientist Rebekah Street)
2017
The Light and the Ground, The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2014
Meet me in the Field (in collaboration with Claire Tracey), Lorne, Victoria
Under the Sun, Point Cook Town Centre Artwork Commission, Victoria
2013
Passage, Artery Co-operative Melbourne
Light in the willows, Incinerator Gallery Melbourne
2011
Sleeper - Water II, Docklands, Melbourne
Autumn Moon, the Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne
2010
New Growth, Overland Track, Tasmania
2009
Underexposed (in collaboration with Marina Breit and Tristan Smith), Flemington Road Bridge, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Oculus: Connection and consciousness, A participatory site-specific art installation and psychological science research collaboration / Processing the artistic process: A recurrent method of art creation inspired by computational neuroscience, Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research, The Stables Octagon, University of Melbourne
2022
Water - Works on Paper, SG Gallery, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice
Birrarung: On the River, Chapman&Bailey Gallery
2021
VCA GCVA Graduate Exhibition, University of Melbourne
2020
4th Rajeshwari Kala Mahotasva 2020 Art Festival International Online Art Exhibition, Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, India
The Meaning of Things, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
Water - Works on Paper, Artery Co-operative, Melbourne. International Collaboration, Exhibitions and Fundraiser organised by Helen Kocis Edwards, Andrej Kocis and Alexis Beckett, Artery Co-operative, Melbourne and Venice.
2017
Alchemy, the Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2015
40 Years On, Princess Hill Community Centre, Melbourne
Pleasure Planet, Roll Over Beethoven Gallery, Melbourne
2014
Lorne Sculpture Biennale: Sculpture Trail, Victoria (in collaboration with Claire Tracey)
2013
Artery Co-operative Studio Exhibition 2013, Melbourne
Artecycle Environmental Art Exhibition, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
2011
Meridians Gateway: Context, translation, place, displacement, the Chinese Museum, Melbourne.
Silent Observation, Lorne Sculpture Biennale: Sculpturescape, Victoria (lead artist Ange Leech)
Co-opting Practice, A Satellite Event, Artery Co-operative, Melbourne
2010
Meridians Shanghai 2010: Art and Sound in Public Space Project, Expo 2010, Shanghai China
2009
Meridians Shanghai 2010: Art and Sound in Public Space Project, Australian launch, Melbourne
Intersection, Debney Park Moonee Valley City Council Arts Week, Melbourne
AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2021
Co-recipient of Seed Project grant for Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research
2018
Artist in Residence, Hridaya Yoga France
2016
Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups grant (individual)
Alchemy Arts Program grant, the Abbotsford Convent Melbourne
2011
Vice-Chancellor’s List Award of Academic Excellence, RMIT Melbourne
2010
Meridians Shanghai 2010: Art and Sound in Public Space Project, Australia International Cultural Council grant (group)
2006
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, QUT Brisbane
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in Australia and Europe
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
VCA Art 2021 Graduate Online Catalogue
2020
Helen Kocis Edwards, Andrej Kocis, Alexis Beckett and Dierdre Kelly, Water - Works on Paper, Exhibition Catalogue, Artery Cooperative, Melbourne and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice
Nicholas Chilvers, Aqua Poetica, Imprint, Spring 2020
“Water” from Venice to Australia, SBS Italian, March 2020
2017
House of Gold, 7 News Melbourne
In Conversation with Artist Joanna Buckley, the Abbotsford Convent Melbourne
Debbie Cuthbertson, Melbourne artist Joanna Buckley covers Abbotsford Convent’s Providence building in gold leaf, the Sydney Morning Herald
Built to Last, International Stainless Steel Forum
2014
News, Robert Owen, Arc One Gallery
Suspended Sculpture “Under the Sun”, Ronstan Tensile Architecture
2012
Robert Owen Fine Art Services and Electrolight ‘Silence’, Arts Centre Melbourne
PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS
2023 / Speaker and panelist, The Self symposium, Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011 - current / Artist
2011 - current / Robert Owen Fine Art Studio, Mentee artist and studio manager
2008 / Urban Art Projects, Brisbane, Designer
2008 / Public Art and Design, Arts Queensland, Brisbane, Administration assistant
2007 - 2008 / S&J Link Conservatory Roof Systems, York, England, Designer
2005 - 2006 / Guglielmino Design Company, Brisbane, Production and creative co-ordinator
2006 / Craig Mounsey Design, Brisbane, Design intern
2006 / QUT, Brisbane, Design tutor
ROBERT OWEN FINE ART STUDIO
Since 2002 Robert Owen Fine Art Studio has undertaken investigations into art and contemporary culture, integrating art into a wider body of practices and community spaces. Joanna Buckley joined the studio in 2011.
ROBERT OWEN FINE ART STUDIO SELECTED PROJECTS
2022
Symmetria, Highpoint Shopping Centre, Victoria
2019
Sutra #4 (from the Tracing Light series), Private Commission
2016
Robert Owen, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Public Art Curatorial Advisor Conceptual Framework, City of Melbourne
2015
Sutra III, Private Commission, Melbourne
2014
Under the Sun, Point Cook Town Centre Artwork Commission, Victoria
Silence and Falling Light, Hamer Hall Art Centre Melbourne in collaboration with Electrolight
2013
Interlude, Collection Qantas Australia
2012
Fallen Light, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2011
Shadow Play - Fourth Constellation, National Bank, Melbourne
Tracing Light - For Harry 3D/4D, Harry Seidler Architects Sydney
2010
Gawler Bypass Arts Project Adelaide SA in collaboration with Landscape Architects Taylor Cullity Lethlean for Dept for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia
Contact: mail@joannabuckley.com