TATJANA ESTE

EDUCATION

2005 - Master of Fine Arts, Honours, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand

2002 - Design for Performance, Stage 1, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

2001 - Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 - TBA, Serbia

2023  - ‘Monumento', Rubicon ARI, Melbourne, Australia

2020 - 2021 'The Gathering (Contained)', Assembly Point, Melbourne, Australia

2019  - ‘Unfold’, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2018  - ‘Blueming II’, Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat, Australia

2017  - ‘Bound’, Center for Visual Arts, Gallery Reflektor, Uzice, Serbia

2016 - ‘Blossoming Diversions’, Bridge 38, Melbourne, Australia

2016 - ‘Break Off’ performance, BLINDSIDE Festival - On the Verge, Melbourne, Australia

2016 - ‘Blooms of Hesperides’, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne, Australia

2015 - 'Impressions of Eris’, Ranfurlie Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2014 - ‘Apple of Discord Project’, Hanging Space, River Studios, Melbourne, Australia

2011 - 'Peel' installation & performance, Café Urgency - An event by David Lakein and The Little Con, The SUBSTATION, Melbourne, Australia

2006 - 'The Story Teller - Time Machines', Whitespace Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2005 - 'Time Machines’, MFA exhibition, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, New Zealand

2003 - ‘Prologue’, Wellington Girls College Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2003 - ‘Bounce’, Civic Square, Capital E, Wellington, New Zealand

2001 - ‘Tula’, George Frazer Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

 

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2021 - Finalist, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Gymea, NSW, Australia

2020 - City of Melbourne Arts Grant

2019 - Finalist, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Gymea, NSW, Australia

2018 - Winner,  BOAA Blue Award, Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat, Australia

2017 - Artist in residence, Centre for Visual Arts, Uzice, Serbia

2015 - Finalist, M Collection Art Award, Melbourne, Australia

2011 - 2022 - Artist in Residence, River Studios, City of Melbourne Creative spaces program, Melbourne, Australia

2003 - Artist in residence, Wellington Girls College, Wellington, New Zealand

2000 - Finalist, international contemporary art award ’Eremi, Silenzi E Voci’, Chieti, Italy

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY / PRESS

2024 - MONUMENTO - Art, Protest and Memory in the time of the Great Cancellation, Exhibition catalogue essay by K. E. Roussos, Independent Art Curator

2022 -The Tension of The Soul, 2021, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Exhibition catalogue, page 63

2019 - UNFOLD, exhibition essay by Kim Anderson, artist and curator

2019 - UNFOLD, Counihan Gallery exhibition program

2019 - Bound - Anima Inverted, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Exhibition publication, page 70-73

2018 - BLUEIMNG II, Featured on BOAA 2018 Biennale of Australian Art - The installation, video, Sept 19

2018 - ABS News, BLUEMING II featured on Ballarat recasts itself as the 'Venice of Australian Art', video, Sept 23

2018 - BLUEMING II, BOAA Art catalogue, page 146 - 147

2017 - GLASNIK - Dnevnik zapadne Srbije, 28 August

2017 - DANAS Newspaper, Bound exhibition review by  N. Kovačević, 29 August

2017 - BOUND - A New Exhibition by Tatjana Este at Gallery Reflektor in Uzice, Serbia, August, 2017

2017 - PASAZ  Magazine/portal for culture and society featuring BOUND exhibition, review by  M. Nikolić,  28 August 2017

2017 - Udruženje Vizuelnih Umetnika Užice, Galerija Reflektor - Tatjana Este ''BOUND'' video (intervju), 30 August

2017 - PASAZ  Magazine/portal for culture and society featuring BOUND exhibition, article by  M. Nikolić, 25 August 2017

2016 - Blindside Festival Guide, Break Off - Page 26

2016 - The Orchard floor: Notes on Blooms of Hesperides - Exhibition essay by Christopher Hawkes, Melbourne-based writer and editor

2015 - Apple of Discord, exhibition article by P. M. Jenkins, Stance Media

2006 - The Story Teller - Time Machines, Exhibition essay, Whitespace Gallery, July 2006

2006 - The New Zealand Herald, Arts Guide, 'Moving pictures transfix the eye', review by TJ Mcnamara, 19 July 2006, page B5

2006 - Time Machines featured on Nightline News, TV3, report by David Farrier, July 2006, NZ

2006 - Time Out Magazine , Auckland, 13 to19 July 2006, Page 21

2003 - Dominion Post, Wellington, Wednesday, 5th of March Page A5 – ‘On the Ball’

2003 - Capital Times, Volume 28, No 24, February 26, 2003 Page 11 – ‘Bouncy Bouncy’

2001 - North Shore Times, Auckland, - Exhibition “Who Is the Next” February 22, 2001

2000 - Catalog, ’Eremi, Silenzi E Voci’, Copresso Archeologico La Civitella, ITALY, Page 93

 

COLLECTIONS

UVUU - Center for Visual Arts, Uzice, Serbia

ARTEmisia - Associazione Culturalle per la promozione delle arti visivi, Provincia di Chieti, Italy

Private collections - Australia, New Zealand, Serbia, Switzerland

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

TATJANA ESTE

 

Born in Uzice, Yugoslavia. Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 - Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymea, NSW, Australia

2019 - Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymea, NSW, Australia

2019 - The Artbox, Sydney Contemporary art fair, Sydney, Australia

2018 - ‘Doba Obnove 2’, UVUU - Center for Visual Arts, Gallery Reflektor, Serbia

2017 - The Artbox Biennial Exhibition, Sagra Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2016 - Artists For Kids Culture, Brightspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2015 -The Mad Minute’, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne, Australia

2015 - Creative Spaces Studio Exhibition, The Dirty Dozen,  Melbourne, Australia

2015 - M Collection Art Award, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia

2010 - 'MS Ellis Regrets She is Unable to Lunch today '

North Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2006 -  End Of Year, Whitespace Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2006 - 'Crossing the line', EA Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2005 - Masters exhibition, Stanbeth House Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2003 - ‘Nouveau’ - CBD, Wellington, New Zealand

2002 - 'Summer Hanging' Grantham Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand

2001 - 'Small one' George Frazer Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2001 - Studio Arte, Viewing Place, Zurich, Switzerland

2001 - 'Untitled', Gallery 2021, Auckland, New Zealand

2001 - ‘Who Is the Next‘, North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand

2000 - 'Portrait', ASA Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2000 - International Contemporary Art Award, It 'Il Guerriero di Capestrano - Eremi, Silenzi E Voci’, Chieti, Italy

 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND PROJECTS

2017 - Present - Freelance art educator, children and adult art classes

2016 - Teacher, Drawn to Abstraction - adult art classes, The Assembly Rooms, Melbourne, Australia

2016 - Teacher, children art classes, The Assembly Rooms, Melbourne, Australia

2015 - Guest artist and educator, Korowa Anglican Girls School, Melbourne, Australia

2015 - Commission art work, ArtBox Artclub, Melbourne, Australia

2011 - 2014 - Teacher, Drawing And Painting for Beginners - adult art classes, Melbourne Studio of Art, Melbourne, Australia

2011 - 2014 - Teacher and program coordinator - children art classes, Art Encounters, Melbourne, Australia

2007 - 2011 - Tutor, Private art mentoring, New Zealand and Australia

2007 - Image design consultancy and art commission, Locker Group, Auckland, New Zealand

2005 - Painting commission, Auckland Maritime Museum, New Zealand

2005 - Stage designer, ‘Scentless Apprentice’- SILO Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand

2004 - Interior design consultancy, Capital E Foyer, Capital E, Wellington, New Zealand

2003 - Tutor, Wellington Girls College, Wellington, New Zealand

2003 - Guest artist, ‘Bounce Festival’ Capital E, Wellington, New Zealand

2002 - Assistant stage designer, ‘Salto’- Under Lilly’s Balcony, Massey University, New Zealand

2002 - Stage designer and tutor - ‘MASSIVE DMV’, Capital E, Wellington, New Zealand

2002 - Stage design and costumes, ‘House with Two Doors is Difficult to Guard’, Studio 77, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

2001 - Window installation, Gallery 2021, Auckland, New Zealand

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