DIEDRE PEARCE
(2015)

Diedre Pearce works with drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. She is interested in how we interact with the physical, social and psychological spaces we inhabit; in how we map the boundaries between our interior and exterior worlds. Because Pearce explores ways of creating meaning, her work often refers to objects which can operate as symbols, to patterns and their interpretation, and to the body and the way it collects information through the senses. Pearce is fascinated by the way the web is increasingly part of ourselves and our environment. She has been exploring the possibilities of this different sense of self and space as it applies to my self, and to the relationship between the work she make and the spaces in which it is exhibited and viewed by audiences.

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EXHIBITIONS

2014 School of Art Graduation Exhibition, Australian National University
2014 ANU School of Art Drawing Prize Exhibition, School of Art Foyer Gallery, ANU
2014 in vitro / in vivo, pod Gallery, Lonsdale Street Traders 
2014 Rinse & Repeat, Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Manuka 
2014 aether, M16 Art Space, Canberra
2013 School of Art Graduation Exhibition, Australian National University
2013 Seven Nights and Seven Days, the Front Gallery, Lyneham
2013 Now and When, Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre, Eden, New South Wales
2013 Unexpected Intimacies, pod Gallery, Lonsdale Street Traders
2011 Harvest, CraftACT, Canberra
2010 frisson, ANCA Gallery, Dickson

SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2014 University Medal, Australian National University
2014 Paul Ross Bambury Award, Australian National University
2014 Canberra Contemporary Art Space Residency Award
2014 Sir John Yeend Honours Scholarship, Australian National University
2010 National Association for the Visual Arts Ignition Award
2010 Emerging Artist Support Scheme Award, CraftACT