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