BIOGRAPHY
Anna Carey is an Australian artist whose work overlaps photography, model-making, film and drawing. Through memory and imagination, she creates fictive architectural spaces based on familiar iconic architecture. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Media with Honours (first class) at Queensland College of Art and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies with QCA. She has exhibited at Photo la, Los Angeles; Artereal Gallery, Sydney; Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane; Dlux Media Arts, Federation Square Melbourne and the Museum of Brisbane. She has been shortlisted in numerous prizes including The Churchie National Emerging Art Award, the Queensland Regional Art Awards and the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award which she received the acquisition award. Her work has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, University of Queensland, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery and numerous private collections.
EDUCATION
2013 - Current Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2007 - 2010 Bachelor of Visual Media with Honours (First Class), Griffith University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Stardust, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane QLD
2014 Blue Angel, Artereal Gallery, Sydney NSW
Preludes, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane QLD
2013 Anna Carey, The Walls, Gold Coast QLD
Mirage, Artereal Gallery, Sydney NSW
Mirage, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane QLD
GROUP EXHIBITION
2015 Feelings of Place: Moreton Bay Regional Council Art collection - Recent Acquisitions Caboolture Regional Art Gallery Queensla
Video Contemporary, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Carriageworks Sydney NSW
Syndey Contemperory, Artereal Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
Photo Independent, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood Los Angeles, US
Reconstructed, PYO Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, USA
Photo L.A, The Reef, Downtown Los Angeles, USA
2014 Brisbane Open House, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, QLD
Urban Screen, Dlux Media Arts, Chatswood Concourse, Sydney, NSW
The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Brisbane QLD
Melbourne Art Fair, Artereal Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIc
David Malouf and Friends, Museum of Brisbane, QLD
Fibro Coast, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2013 California Dreaming, Gadens, Brisbane, QLD
Holiday and Memory, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, NSW
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW
Graceland, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
Speculative Spaces, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Photo L.A, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, USA
2012 Connection, Queensland Regional Art Awards Touring Exhibition
DTV, Dlux Media Arts, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC
2011 Built, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, NSW
From Here to There, Surfers Paradise Community Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
Best of 2010 Graduates, White Box Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2010 Art for Eva, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
First Date, The Fish Farm, Gold Coast, QLD
Spray Tan Spread, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
BARI Festival, Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane, QLD
Bursting at the Seams, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
Test Pattern, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2009 Mediamorphosis, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
AWARDS AND GRANT
2013 Acquired, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2012 Australian Postgraduate Award, Department of Industry, Australian Government, Canberra
2011 Queensland Regional Art Awards, Flying Arts, QLD
New Work Emerging Grant, Australian Council for the Arts, NSW
2010 Rapid Response Cultural Development Fund, Gold Coast City Council, QLD
Honours Best Research Project, Bachelor of Visual Media, QLD
Griffith University Academic Excellence Award, Griffith University, QLD
2009 Godfrey Rivers Medal, Best studio based work, Bachelor of Visual Media, QLD
Fine Art Best Portfolio, Bachelor of Visual Media, QLD
Griffith University Academic Excellence Award, Griffith University
Nava Ignition Prize (NAVA), NSW
2008 Griffith University Academic Excellence Award, Griffith University, QLD.
PUBLICATIONS
Rigney, Virginia. 2015, ‘A city made through the photograph’ in Lucida Journal, Habitat, Issue 1, p. 54-60.
Arcillia, Mariam. 2015 ‘Anna Carey’s Nostalgic Worlds’ in Raven July 2015.
Cheng, Scarlet. 2015 ‘ Re/constructed’ in Art Scene Los Angeles June 2015.
'Anna Carey' 2015, Interiors, Issue April/May 2015, p 30.
‘Anna Carey: Twilight’ 2014, Common Ground, Issue One, p 5-10.
Brown, Alexandra and Leach, Andrew. 2014, ‘Beyond Starlight’ in Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: 31, Translation, edited by Christoph Schnoor (Auckland, New Zealand: SAHANZ and Unitec ePress; and Gold Coast, Queensland: SAHANZ, 2014), 27–37.
Malouf, David, 2014, ‘Anna Carey’, David Malouf and Friends (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Brisbane, QLD.
Denham, Peter and Grace, Renai. 2014, ‘A shared place’ David Malouf and Friends (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Brisbane, QLD.
Wollf, Sharne. 2014 ‘David Malouf and Friends – artistic collaboration a Brisbane state of mind’ The Guardian, May 12.
Virginia, Rigney. 2014, ‘Places found and reimagined’ Fibro Coast Bleach Extension (exhibition catalogue) Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD.
Kumurdian, Dijana. 2014 ‘Time Warp’, Vogue Living, May – June Issue, p. 62 -63.
Brown, Alexandra and Leach, Andrew. 2012, ‘Anna Carey’ Queensland Centre for Photography Publishing.
Fortescue, Elizabeth. 2012, ‘Bygone charmers whose days in the sun are almost over’, The Daily Telegraph, September 13.
Ley, Aimee. 2012, ‘Not just a pretty face’, Gold Coast Magazine, Issue 203 September – October.
Fraser, Margie, 2012. ‘Anna Carey’, Inside Out Magazine Issue 95, January – February, p. 32.
Melville, Lucy. 2011, ‘Anna Carey’, Naked City Guide, Online City Guide Publication.
Rigney, Virginia. 2010, ‘Cultural context and art practice on the Gold Coast, Flying Colours (exhibition catalogue), Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD.
COMISSIONS
2013 Queensland Centre For Photography, promotional image for the Queensland Festival of Photography
2013 Gold Coast City Art Gallery, promotional image for the Fibro Coast exhibition
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Corrigan Collection
Coboolture Regional Art Gallery
Gadens Lawyers
Grantpirrie Private Collection, Sydney and New York, USA
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Gold Coast University Hospital
Macquarie Bank Art Collection
National Gallery of Australia
University of Queensland
Private Collections