My practice is cross-media. Ideas relating to ecology and overlapping concerns between art and science underlie many of my projects, while their form stems from basic structural compositions of living things, their growth and transformation. Patterns, structures, and fragments are sifted from the natural world and recombined. What prevails is an interest in our relationships with ecology and science
My practice is cross-media. Ideas relating to ecology and overlapping concerns between art and science underlie many of my projects, while their form stems from basic structural compositions of living things, their growth and transformation. Patterns, structures, and fragments are sifted from the natural world and recombined. What prevails is an interest in our relationships with ecology and science and the creative boundaries of what is both imaginary and real. Frequently using ideas that are allied to science fiction and science fact, often my work manifests an ambiguous natural and artificial engagement. Transgenics, biotechnology, botanical illustration, microscopy, and science fiction have been some themes fuelling the explorations to date. My practice isn’t, however, always predictable. I take unexpected tangents, which vary conceptually and explore a multitude of material and aesthetic interests.
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Education: UK QTS, Nth London Metropolitan Uni; Grad Dip Edu, RMIT Uni; BA Fine Art (Hons), RMIT Uni
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Altered States (solo) ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Let There Be Light, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne
2018 Curiouser and Curiouser, curated by Julian Woods, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2017 Guides to help you, curated by Tracy Sarroff, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne
2016 Globelight biennial of light art, Melbourne
Darebin Art Salon, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
Laughing Waters Road, The Barn Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham
2015 Barbecue Stalagmites, Balloon Drumsticks (solo), ARC ONE Gallery
Dragon's Backbone (solo), Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
Sydney Contemporary with ARC ONE Gallery
Key works, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Melbourne Art Fair with ARC ONE Gallery
Miscellaneous Drawings (solo), Testing Grounds, Melbourne
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Gallery
Redland Art Awards, Redland Gallery, Cleveland
2013 Congruo (solo), Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Melbourne Art Fair with Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Bring On The Dot, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Sculpture Prize, Art Melbourne, Royal Exhibition Building
Mountains and Valleys, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney
2011 Future Nostalgia (solo) coinciding with Marrickville Council Art Residency,
Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney
Flourish 2011 Sculpture Prize, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, Substation Gallery, Melbourne
Cannock Chase (solo), The County Museum, Staffordshire / UK
Agendo Exhibition and Award for Emerging Artists, St Heliers Gallery, Melbourne
Transgenic, Project Space, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Rhizopoda Radiaria (solo) The Lock-Up Cultural Centre, Newcastle
CryptMas, Saint Pancras Crypt, London / UK
50 x 50, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
A Sense of Place, The Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford / UK
2009 The Space In Between Book Project, curated by Tara Gilbee, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
2008 Winter lights - Rhizopoda Radiaria (solo/group), MARS Gallery, Melbourne
Figure Burghley House Sculpture Park curated by Michael Shaw, Stamford / UK
Six of the Best, The Courtyard Gallery, London / UK
Electric Blue, The Barge House, Southbank, London / UK
The Space In Between Book Project curated by Tara Gilbee, Bendigo Art Gallery; Latrobe Regional Gallery, Gippsland; Umbrella Studios for Contemporary Art, Townsville
2007 Replenish, Saltburn Artist Projects, Saltburn By The Sea / UK
Collision Festival, Area 10, London / UK
Summer Lights, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
The Space In Between Book Project curated by Tara Gilbee, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2006 One Square Foot, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
A4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne
Propagating Fictions (solo), Bus Gallery, Melbourne
Utsuroi (solo), Dudespace, Melbourne
2005 Companion Planting (solo), West Space Gallery, Melbourne
Movement III, Dante’s Upstairs Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Cyber Plants (solo), First Draft Gallery, Sydney
Sci-Fi forms (solo), First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Some of them are Radioactive… (solo), The Experimental Artspace, Melbourne University
Cyber Plant Boxes (solo), LaTrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
Grants/Commissions/Residencies
2021 Public art commission: Flinders Quarter Augmented Reality Art Walk, Melbourne Metro Tunnel
2015-2017 Public art commission: Light Buoys, Melbourne Docklands at Yarra's Edge, South Wharf. Commissioned by Mirvac for Development Victoria and the City of Melbourne. Budget $800,000
2015 Art Residency: Testing Grounds, Melbourne
2011 Art Residency: awarded by Marrickville Council, Sydney
Grant & Art Residency: awarded by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery & NSW NPWS, Hill End
Art Residency: awarded by The Lock Up Cultural Centre & Newcastle University, Newcastle
Art Residency: awarded by Nillumbik Shire Council & Parks Victoria, Laughing Waters, Eltham
2010 Commission: Staffordshire Arts and Museum Services, Stafford / UK. Budget $5,000
2009 Public art commission: Selected for The Economist Plaza, London, Contemporary Art Society / UK
2005/06 Grant: Visual Arts/Craft: New Work, The Australia Council for the Arts
2002 Grant: Experimental Artspace, Melbourne University
Bibliography/Catalogues/Citations
2022 LEE-ANN JOY: Artist Profile magazine, Tracy Sarroff, March/April online edition
Capture magazine, Events, Altered States by Tracy Sarroff, March/April online edition
Art Collector magazine, Exhibitions, Tracy Sarroff Altered States, March/April online edition
2021 TIM BYRNE: The Guardian, Melbourne’s augmented reality: is public art the remedy to the city’s pandemic malaise?, 06.07.2021
LIBBY CURRAN: Concrete Playground, Flinders Quarter Augmented Art Walk 2021, 21.06.2021
2019 ANN FINEGAN: Artlink Magazine, Review 'Curiouser and Curiouser', 23.01.2019;
Interview: Forum, Kiss FM Dance Australia with host Lee Ann Joy, 18.03.2019
2017 ANDREA SIMPSON: Arts Hub, How public art is changing to our adapting world, 30.08.2017
Interview: ABC Breakfast radio with Jacinta Parsons and Sami Shah, 25.08.2017
TRICIA ZIEMER: Weekend Notes, Light Buoys – Yarra’s Edge, Docklands, 30.08.2017
Art Almanac: News: Tracy Sarroff: Light Buoys, 23.08.2017
What’s On Melbourne: Light Buoys – Sculpture, 23.08.2017
Only Melbourne: Light Buoys, New Docklands Sculpture, 21.08.2017
Bookmarc: Melbourne’s new science fiction inspired sculpture in the Yarra river, 17.08.2017
ODS Outdoor Design Source: Public art emerges from the Yarra, 10.08.2017
MARK BALJAC: Urban Melbourne: Melbourne’s latest public art installation arrives at Docklands, 03.08.2017
Property Observer: Light Buoys artwork illuminates Yarra’s Edge, Docklands, 03.08.2017
MEG HILL: Docklands News, Issue 132, Art Per Science, page 7
CREATIVE SPACES: Blog interview: Dirty Dozen Exhibition: Guides to help you, 10.04.2017
MCDOWELL, BELINDA: The Culture Concept Circle, Guides to help you, Tracy Sarroff curating art in the city, 17.02.2017
2016 WALLACE, FRANCESCA: Vogue Living - Arts, See this: Globelight's exhibition of light in Melbourne, 19.08.2016
MILONAS, BETTY: SciArt in America magazine, review for 'Barbecue Stalagmites, Balloon Drumsticks', 05.02.2016
2015 www.artsy.net, featured shows, Barbecue Stalagmites, Balloon Drumsticks, 27.11.2015
2014 PUVANENTHIRAN, BHAKTHI: The Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper, A buzz of love at the opening of the Melbourne Art Fair, 13.08.14
2013 LUSCOMBE LIANG: Art Collector Magazine, What Now, Issue 66 Oct-Dec, pg 72-73
Arts Hub, Bits and Blogs, Tracy Sarroff out of her mine, 04.10.2013
2012 RULE DAN: Broadsheet Arts and Entertainment Mountains and Valleys opens at James Dorahy Project Space, 02.02.2012
Habitus Living, 06.06.2012
2010 The Newcastle Post, Canvas pg 16, 24.11.2010
2008 Qantas Magazine, July issue, Diary
SHAW, MICHAEL: Exhibition Catalogue, Figure, Burghley House Sculpture Park / UK
GREGG, SIMON: Artlink Magazine, The Space In Between Book Project, Vol 28 no 1, pg 97
The Age Newspaper, Domain 28.06.2008, pg 10
The Age Newspaper, Entertainment Guide, 04.07.2008
Where Magazine, pg 6, July 2008, Melbourne
2007 KAISER, HELEN: Vogue Living Magazine, A Different Light, Autumn/Winter
STEPHENS, ANDREW: The Age Newspaper, Tripping the light artistic, 10.02.2007
GILBEE, TARA: Exhibition Catalogue, The Space In Between Book Project
Make Online, 29.08.2007
Arts Review, Frankston, Winter Edition, pg 2
