Andrew Harper
+61 407 225 907
andrewharper@yahoo.com
GPO Box 325, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001
EDUCATION
2002 University of Tasmania - BA (English)
2005 University of Tasmania – BFA Hons (Art Theory)
EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
2018 sixpointsixsixyears Exhibition, performance, one day mini-festival, MAC
Evil Goatcollaborative sound performance at Mona Foma 2018
2017 Danger Magicperformance, produced by Liquid Architecture, First Draft ARI Sydney
Overground 2017 (part of Supersense at The Art Centre Melbourne). Collaboration with Sage Pbbbt
Price and Valueexhibition and Performance, Visual Bulk, Hobart
2016 Brainstormgroup show – DARK MOFO
HAUNTS (sound performance) Visual Bulk, Hobart
2015 Evil Goat (sound performance) FAUX MO, MONA FOMA
HAUNTS (sound performance) FAUX MO, MONA FOMA
Repeated Activity: Lattices (exhibition and expanded film performance) SPEEDY GRANDMA ARI, BANGKOK – artist in residence
2014 SAD DAY, GLAD DAYcollaborative performance with Luther Price, Gerturde, Melbourne
Mutterlard (sound performance), I married a dead icecream, internet performance, LABoral Centro de Arte, Spain
Evil Goat (sound collaboration with Scot Cotterrell), Brisbane Hotel, Hobart
Mutterlard (sound performance), KLAPPERSTEIN, internet performance, La Placard
Mutterlard (sound performance), Grimoire, Dark MOFO, Hobart
Mutterlard (sound performance), Wunderland, Hobart
2013 To Have Done With The Judgement Of God, performance collaboration with Julian Williams, The Plimsoll Inquiry, UTAS, Hobart
2012 This is what I do CAST (Curator Wes Hill)
Laughter CAST (Curator Victor Medrano)
2011 ShotgunCAST
Panoply (group show) Sawtooth ARI
Tasmania is an Anagram of I am Satan – HELL ARI, Victoria
Mr. Clevver (ongoing collaboration with Heather and Ivan Morrison, CAST)
2010 The Flâneur Project: The Midlands Highway (7 day walking performance, installation) part of Look Out (group show)jointly curated by TMAG and CAST
In the Hall Of The Mountain King Installation INFLIGHT A.R.I.
Mr. Clevver (ongoing collaboration with Heather and Ivan Morrison, CAST)
Art at The Brisbane Hotel (group show)
2009 ONO project (artist and organiser)
ONALOG(group show, Plimsoll Gallery, Curator: John Vella)
Little Red Riding Hood (group show)INFLIGHT ARI
Real Good Drawer (group show)Six_A ARI
Return to sender (group show) Burnie Regional Gallery
POST (group show)10% pending homeless ARI
sound poem (performance) six_ARI – Amplified sound festival
Six_A sound and experimental music festival (curator, organiser)
2008 Battery Operated, Membrane, Next Wave Festival Acrid, Performance installationSix_A ARI, Hobart
Guerrilla Gallery, 10% Pending ARI, This is Not Art Festival, Newcastle, NSW Taste of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
ONO Project, Hobart, Tasmania. (Organiser, artist, performer)
2007 A Thousand Pardons, video installation, Forepaw, Melbourne
A Thousand Pardons,performance installation,3 into 1, CAST Gallery, Hobart
Piss (Light), video, Sex and the City, BUS Gallery (group show0, Melbourne
Piss (Light),digital prints, No. 1 (group show), Six_A ARI, Hobart
PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS
2016 Andrew Harper, The Unconformity, Artlink
Andrew Harper, Cameron Robbins, Artlink
2015 Andrew Harper, Land of Milk and Honey, Artlink
Andrew Harper, Romantic Conceptualism, Eyeline 83
Andrew Harper, Tender Exotics Eyeline 84
Andrew Harper, Outside Thoughts (Cur: Wes Hill), Artlink 35:2
2014 Pricetag, runway.org.au/price-tags/
Conversations on Topography: notes on paintings, Chen Ping Unseen Mountain
2010 Andrew Harper, Attempting Alchemy — using the critical strategy outlined in David Keenan’s ‘Childhoods’ End’ to expand on Amelia Douglas’ notion of ‘Pyschotropicalism’, UN magazine 4.2
Andrew Harper, MONA FOMA, Artlink Vol 30, No. 1
Andrew Harper, Looping and Shimmering, Realtime 96
2009 Andrew Harper, Deus Ex Machina (essay for Rob O'Connor at Bett Gallery)
Philip Watkins, Big Bad World, Artlink Vol 29, No. 2
Andrew Harper, Lust for Life, Catalogue Essay
Andrew Harper, God Listens to Slayer,Encoding Experience, TMAG catalogue essay
Andrew Harper, Of the moment and about time, Realtime 89
Andrew Harper, A Sudden Responsibility, A New Career, Realtime 88
Andrew Harper, Phone Magic, Realtime 88
2008 Andrew Harper, Tasmanian Horrors: Real and Mythic, Realtime 85
2007 Andrew Harper, The Art of Not Listening, Realtime 81
Andrew Harper, Your Call Is Important To Us…, Catalogue Essay
2006 Andrew Harper, review, What We Do Is Secret
2005 Felix Radcliff, Surface, Un Magazine, issue 5, p.55
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016 – Current Co-Director Private Projects (gallery and collection)
2015 - Current Weeklyart column for The Mercury newspaper, Hobart
2012 Arts Writer for WARP Street press, regular column and arts editor
2011 Arts writer for Warp Street press; regular column and arts editor
Response Writer for Iteration:AgainCAST
Opening Speaker Ashes to Ashes (Joel Crosswell, Inflight)
Opening Speaker Holy Hell / Core (Tom O'Hern & Rob O'Connor, Bett Gallery)
Opening Speaker Makeshift Tongue(Tim Panaretos, Top Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre)
2010 MONA – curator for MONA sideshows
Kickstart Arts Inc, Artist and educator
2009 Opening Speaker Deus Ex Machina(Robert O'Conner, Bett Gallery)
Kickstart Arts Inc, Artist and teaching
Real Time Magazine, Arts Review writer
ABC Local Radio, Film Reviewer
2008 Right Angle Publishing, Advertising Copy Writer
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Gallery Attendant
Salamanca Arts Centre, Theatre Technician, Data Entry
Six A Artist Run Initiative, Board Member (until 2010)
2007 Edge FM, Breakfast Radio presenter(until 2010)
2006 Big Wig Youth theatre, theatre skills teacher
Hobart Comedy Festival, performer
Hobart Fringe Festival, Board member, artist