Elizabeth Presa Explained

Elizabeth Presa (born 1956) is an Australian visual artist and academic based in Melbourne.

Working with sculpture her work uses a range of materials and processes, including sericulture, apiculture and casting. Some of her installations use plaster as a forensic tool to examine traces of the psyche, biological life and the environment.[1] She is an academic, an author and has also worked as a curator and gallery director.[2]

Presa is the mother of Australian contemporary artist Anastasia Klose with whom she occasionally collaborates.

Academic career

Presa studied at the Victorian College of the Arts of the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Diploma of Sculpture in 1977. She studied at the Phillip Institute, Post Graduate Sculpture, 1980, University of Melbourne; 1978, 83–85. She has a Masters in Critical Theory and Comparative Literature and a PhD in Critical Theory and Comparative Literature both undertaken at Monash University.

She tutored in art philosophy at Riverina College of Advanced Education during 1980–81, and as part of the Sculpture department of the Melbourne Centre for Adult Education from 1984 to 1985, and following this in the Sculpture department of the Victoria College Prahran.[3]

From 1993 she taught in the School of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, in 2003 she was appointed Head of the interdisciplinary Victorian College of the Arts Centre for Ideas, where she focussed on interdisciplinary curriculum and research design in the visual and performing arts. Additionally, she has been a visiting artist and guest lecturer at a number of international universities and has undertaken multiple international artist residencies. A notable fellowship Presa undertook was entitled "Interior Castle: St Teresa of Avila, architectures of space", at the Five College's Women's Research Centre, Mt Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Curation

Presa was Director of Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery in 1978–79.

Her work as curator has involved three iterations of 'Do It' with Hans Ulrich Obrist, including a project with the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.

Her work on a series of beehive projects titled ‘Apian Utopias: Small Architecture for Bees’ involves projects and exhibitions in Tokyo, the US, Beijing, New Zealand and Australia. Her ongoing interest is in the interrelationship between philosophy and art.

Selected exhibitions

Selected shows include

Selected reviews

Selected works

References

  1. Web site: elizabeth presa. elizabethpresa.com. 2020-03-08.
  2. Web site: Dr Elizabeth Presa. findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. 2020-03-08.
  3. Book: Germaine, Max, 1914-2006.. A dictionary of women artists of Australia. 1991. Craftsman House. 976-8097-13-2. Roseville East, NSW, Australia. 26591029.
  4. Web site: DARE 2017: aberrant nuptials – DARE conferences. en-GB. 2020-03-08.
  5. Web site: ARTICULATE. articulate497.blogspot.com. en-GB. 2020-03-08.
  6. Web site: Human/Animal/Artist: Janine Burke's exhibition explores the lines in between. Coslovich. Gabriella. 2016-11-14. The Sydney Morning Herald. en. 2020-03-08.
  7. Web site: Elizabeth Presa. 2014-12-01. Sculpture Magazine. en-US. 2020-03-08.
  8. Web site: Gregory Burgess Architects, Practice Profile. 8 March 2020. Gregory Burgess Architects. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200308122305/http://www.gbarch.com.au/practice-profile.pdf. 8 March 2020. 8 March 2020.
  9. A eDNA-qPCR assay to non-invasively detect the presence of the parasite Schistocephalus solidus inside its threespine stickleback host. Suzanne Berger. Chloé. Aubin-Horth. Nadia. 2018. 10.1101/231670. 90685369.
  10. Web site: Review: Human Animal Artist: art inspired by animals Art + Australia. artandaustralia.com. 2020-03-08.
  11. Book: Saliot, Anne-Gaëlle. The Drowned Muse: Casting the Unknown Woman of the Seine Across the Tides of Modernity. 2015. Oxford University Press. 978-0198708629. en.
  12. Web site: duetto. Artlink Magazine. en. 2020-03-08.
  13. 2003. Elizabeth Presa. Parallax. 9. 3. 73–78. 10.1080/1353464032000103654. 220343569. 1353-4645.
  14. Yuan. Xueying. Shi. Yeli. 2017-09-01. The C-E Translation of Business Promotional Material Based on Skopostheorie. Theory and Practice in Language Studies. 7. 9. 775. 10.17507/tpls.0709.09. 1799-2591. free.
  15. 2015-02-15. Playland. 10.5040/9781580817691.01. Playland.
  16. Ruggieri. Dominique G.. Leebron. Elizabeth J.. 2010. Situation Comedies Imitate Life: Jewish and Italian-American Women on Prime Time. The Journal of Popular Culture. 43. 6. 1266–1281. 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2010.00799.x. 0022-3840.
  17. Book: Coleman, Nathaniel. 2007-05-07. Utopias and Architecture. 10.4324/9780203536872. 978-0203536872.
  18. Backhouse. R. E.. 2014-01-01. MIT and the Other Cambridge. History of Political Economy. 46. Supplement 1. 252–271. 10.1215/00182702-2716190. 0018-2702.
  19. Book: Ammar. Doreid. Savinien. Jean. Radisson. Lionel. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things . The Makers' Beehives . 2019. 1–4. New York. ACM Press. 10.1145/3365871.3365887. 978-1450372077. 207955934.
  20. Book: Sawday, Jonathan. 2013. The Body Emblazoned. 10.4324/9781315887753. 978-1315887753.

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