CV for Gordon Monro

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Gordon Monro is a digital media artist who lives in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Gordon has a background in science and mathematics; he became involved in electronic and computer music in the 1990s, and eventually undertook a Masters in Music (Composition) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, which he completed in 2007. During his Masters studies Gordon worked on abstract videos, and since then he has become increasingly involved with visual art. He is currently undertaking a PhD in the Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, working on computer-generated art. Gordon commenced exhibiting in art galleries in 2008.

Education:

1968	BSc (Hons), Monash University, Melbourne.
1972	PhD (in mathematics), Bristol University, U.K.
1996	Grad Dip Mus Comp, University of Sydney.
2007	MMus (Composition), Sydney Conservatorium of Music (University of Sydney).
Current	PhD student in the Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University.

Awards:

2009	Winner of the University of Ballarat Emerging Artist Prize, St Patrick’s College Art Exhibition, Ballarat.
2007	Small grant from the Music Board of the Australia Council (category New Media).
2007	Mención especial in the III Muestra Monográfica de Media Art, Manizales, Colombia.
2006	Mención especial in the II Muestra Monográfica de Media Art, Manizales, Colombia.
2004	Work chosen for concert of brainwave sonifications in the Sydney Opera House, for the 2004 International Conference on Auditory Display
2003	Multi-media award at the Kaleidoscope Festival, Metro Screen, Sydney.
2002	Granted representation by the Australian Music Centre.
1999	Joint prize-winner, First Australian Flute Composition Competition, Brisbane.
1996	Honourable mention, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.

Solo Exhibitions:

2009	Ab Initio (digital prints), Radmac Gallery, Ballarat.
2008	Cloud Drum (installation) Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, Melbourne.

Group Exhibitions:

2009	Design After Nature, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne. The exhibition was also shown at the Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne, early in 2010.
2009	St Patrick’s College Art Exhibition, St Patrick’s College, Ballarat.
2009	Art exhibition for the Time, Transcendence, Performance conference, Monash University, Melbourne.
2009	Biotope, Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne.
2009	Silence Sound, Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne.
2008	30x30x30, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne.
2008	Art exhibition for the Australasian Computer Music Conference, University of Sydney.
2008	Wallpaper 08, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, Melbourne.

Performances and Screenings:

Approximately 100, from 1992 to the present, in Australia and several overseas countries.

Contact details:

Gordon Monro, 207 Windermere St, Ballarat VIC 3350

Tel: (03) 5331 8735
Mob: 0414 314 689

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