SARAH CATHERINE FIRTH
contact: sarahthefirth@gmail.com
UPDATES:
FEBRUARY 2012
An selection of my Attraction paintings are on show at Dench in North Fitzroy from 2nd February.
DECEMBER 2011
I have been awarded the Immigration Museum Fellowship! We are currently developing the project which will launch in April.
NOVEMBER 2011
See photos from my Attraction exhibition opening: http://www.sarahthefirth.com/sarahthefirth/Drawing_%26_Painting/Pages/Attraction_Opening_9th_November_2011.html
OCTOBER 2011
Next month I have a new show Attraction opening at Red Gallery on the 9th November at 6pm http://www.redgallery.com.au
I finally completed my Artist in Residency with the Cultural Council in Springvale VIC which received lots of attention and my film can be seen here: http://vimeo.com/29456937 Later in the year it will travel internationally and be shown in November at the 7th Renderyard Film Festival in Spain at La Rioja’s Technology Centre and then in London in July 2012 at RUSHES SOHO SHORTS. Below is the poster for Renderyard:
JUNE 2011
I am in the last few months of my Artist in Residency with the Cultural Council in Springvale VIC, and am in the midst of producing an animated documentary film from interviews with local kids as well as a series of illustrations and comics. This will be shown with an exhibition of all the kid’s wonderful comics, in Springvale in September. Date yet to be announced.
In the meantime, take a look at some of the works up online: http://www.springvalestories.org.au/gallery/view/comics-of-springvale
MARCH 2011
Check out RE: www.regarding.com.au an online gallery project.
RE: is an unrestricted, poetic, multimedia experiment in communication between the participating artists.
Over 7 months each artist will create 5 new works – a total of 30 works. Once a week (every Sunday, from March 2011) the artists will take turns in presenting a work via the ’Artwork’ page. There’s only one rule; each new piece must reference the one produced before it. The artists collaborating are: Anna Madeleine, Benjamin Forster, Robbie Karmel, Luke Penders, Sarah Catherine Firth and Travis H Heinrich.
I will be posting on these dates:
27/3/11 http://vimeo.com/21542451
1/5/11 http://vimeo.com/23082260
19/6/11 http://vimeo.com/25287295
7/8/11 http://regardingart.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/1.jpg
2/10/11 http://vimeo.com/29909797
OCTOBER 2010
I am currently running comic/cartoon workshops and doing an Artist in Residence with the Cultural Council in Springvale VIC.
AUGUST 2010
New show “Reflex - Mechanical Poetry” at Gaffa Gallery in Sydney OPENING NIGHT Thurs 6pm 26th August
for more info go to: http://www.gaffa.com.au/#171181/Future-Past-Exhibitions
Sarah selected for Comic Artist’s Rehab: http://comicrehab.wordpress.com/category/sarah-catherine-firth/
Stay tuned for comic posts every four days in August Sun 1st, Thur 5th, Mon 9th, Fri 13th, Tues 17th, Sat 21st, Wed 25th
My new blog “I’m in the world”: http://sarahthefirth.tumblr.com/
“ALIGN” new animation (a collaboration with Travis H Heinrich): http://vimeo.com/13777590
JULY 2010
I am now based in Melbourne
“SELF” animation portrait selected for exhibition in the National Youth Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery.
NYPP: http://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibit/nyspp10/exhib.html?pagenum=
link to SELF: http://vimeo.com/13225575
The National Portrait Gallery website: http://www.portrait.gov.au/site/nyspp.php
ABC1 News piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqXj51xF-zc
ABC1 online article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/22/2961114.htm
CityNews interview: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/22/2961114.htm
JANUARY 2010
Experimenta New Media Commission for my work Admonition:
http://www.experimenta.org/exhibitions-projects/commissioned-works/current.html
2010 commissioned artist Sarah Firth is funded through the Australia Council’s Young and Emerging Artists’ Initiative for artists under 30. These commissions help to grow the young artist’s practice, strengthen their understanding of media art process, exhibition considerations, collaborations and technical process. Firth’s work, “Admonition”, is inspired by her concerns for nature in the 21st century. “Admonition” is a kinetic sculptural tree that, once approached, comes to life and begins to draw. The tree produces a range of mark making from precise diagrammatic drawings to wild lyrical scribbling and works relentlessly in its pursuit to communicate with the viewer. It could be that the drawings express the cycle of nature, from subtle and soothing to violent and seemingly erratic or perhaps it’s a warning, a plea for us to listen to nature and stop destroying it. To see Sarah Firth's commission, go to: http://vimeo.com/8959388
DECEMBER 2009
Selected for Blanket Magazine: http://www.artistcareer.com.au/index.php?pageID=8701&merchant_id=0
NOVEMBER 2009
Reflex - Mechanical Poetry show receives CCA 2009 Visual Arts Award:
“Geoffrey Farquhar-Still was presented with the award for the group show at M16, Reflex - A Show of Mechanical Poetry, a standout exhibition of mechanical oddities. It was a tight, compact show in which the kinetic sculptures communicated with one another, and the audience, in an absurd, delightful and slightly sinister manner.” To see Sarah Firth’s work Dream Machine from the show click this link:
Sarah Catherine Firth Selected for CAPO Eckersleys Material Grant:
http://canberracontemporaryartspace.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/capo26/
http://www.capo.org.au/previous-grant-recipients/
OCTOBER 2009
“Riding the Coattails of Success” wins CCAS COPY CAT show: http://vimeo.com/6625888
APRIL 2009
Winner of Solander Gallery Award, selected by Joy Warren.
