Izabela Pluta
born Warsaw Poland, 1979, migrated to Australia 1987
Education
2017
Doctor of Philosophy // Allegories of Diaspora: Gleaning the residues of spatial and temporal misalignments
Faculty of Creative Arts, The University of Wollongong, Australia
2009
Master of Fine Arts, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney Australia
2002
Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours Class 1, University Medal, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Image after image, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney
2022
Nihilartikel, curated by José Da Silva, UNSW Galleries Sydney
2021
Variable depth, shallow water, Spazju Kreattiv (Malta’s National Centre for Creativity) Valetta
2019
Reversal, The Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
2018
Figures of slippage and oscillation, Artspace Ideas Platform, Sydney
Geography of space, archaeology of time (with Utako Shindo), The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2017
Paper, stone and permutations, This is no fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
Bringing the distance near, TAEM Gallery, University of Wollongong
2015
Excavation, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
2014
Blue Distance, UTS Gallery, Sydney
Agency of inanimate objects, Galerie Pompom, Sydney
2013
Taken on the same day as the other photo, Dianne Tanzer Gallery + Projects, Melbourne
2012
Study for a sham ruin, Galerie Pompom, Sydney
Reservoir, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale Victoria
2011
Displaced images of distant objects, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Reservoir, Eastern Bloc, Sydney
On things mended and broken, Dianne Tanzer Gallery and Projects, Melbourne
Gestures of the Landscape, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
2010
Sailing for the abyss, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Gestures of the Landscape, 24 HR Art, Darwin
2009
Gestures of the Landscape, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
à la dérive, Mop Projects, Sydney
In (and against) time, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
2008
Singularity, The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2007
Home(land), Westspace, Melbourne
Home(land), Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Sometime, Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney
2006
Making Mirrors, Artspace, Sydney
Artist books
Nihilartikel (Perimeter Editions (076)
Figures of slippage and oscillation (Perimeter Editions 051), 2019
Taken on the same as the other photo, published by Onestar Press/VOLUME, 2017
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
States of disruption, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Blue Assembly: Oceanic thinking, curated by Peta Rake, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
From impulse to action, The Art Museum, Bundanon
Radical Slowness, curated by Anna May Kirk and Tai Mitsuji, The Lock-Up, Newcastle
2021
Oceans from here, Blue Mountains Culture Centre
Reconfigured/rediscovered, Town Hall Gallery present as part of PHOTO2021 International Festival of Photography, Melbourne
2019
The National: New Australian Art, The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Civilization: The way we live now, The National Gallery of Victoria
Oceans from here, Gosford Regional Art Gallery
Resurfaced Geographies, Verge Gallery, Sydney
2018
Nostalgia, it’s not what it used to be! Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
2016
Watching the clouds pass the moon, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
Timelapse, GIppsland Art Gallery
Out of Quarantine, Manly Art Gallery and Museum
2015
Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10
You can’t get there from here, 55 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville Sydney
2014
Through a lens, Horsham Art Gallery
Seven Trumpets, Stange Neighbour, Melbourne
Secure the shadow, Breezeblock, Sydney
View from a window, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
2013
Out of this world, Bill Wright Projects, Sydney
2012
The Third Landscape, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
Foreplay, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
2010
Interpreting portraits – Macquarie 1810-2010, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
time AND space, Hazelhurst Gallery and Arts Centre
2009
Disappearers, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
Un, deux, trios, Alliance Francaise, Melbourne
2008
An ideal for living, Linden Contemporary Arts Centre, Melbourne
2007
Here and Beyond, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Scene – Observe the lay of the land, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
From Space to Place, an IASKA touring exhibition, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Selected Public Art projects
2018
300 George Street Sales Centre, Brisbane (LoveArt International)
2014
CCP/City of Yarra Billboard Project, Melbourne
2012/13
City of Melbourne Public Art Program, Citipower Substation, Bourke Street, Melbourne
2008
Back to the city, temporary public art installation, Newcastle
Velour, commissioned by Frost Design, installed at Sydney Park Playground
Selected Residencies/Projects
2022
Powerhouse Museum, Artistic Associate
2018
Arts 3331 Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Inaugural Marrgu Residency, Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation, Peppimentarti Community
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
2012
Photomedia: site and context, a UNSW Art&Design Intensive Studio Project
Stocznia Gdańsk, Poland
2011
UK Academic Research Exchange at Art and Design Research Institute
University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2008
Cite des Arts Internationale, Paris, France
2006
Barcelona Studio, Australia Council for the Arts Residency, Spain
2006
Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2005
Artist in Residence, Red Gate Studios, Beijing, China
2004
Artist in Residence, IASKA (International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia)
Selected Grants, Awards & Prizes
2021
Australian Council for the Arts Project Grant
Finalist, Ravenswood Womens Art Prize
Finalist, Fremantle Print Award
2020
Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize
2019
Australian Council for the Arts Project Grant
Perimeter Small Book Prize
2018
Australian Council for the Arts Project Grant
Create NSW Artist Support Grant
Finalist, MAMA Art Foundation National Photographic Prize
2017
Faculty Research Grant, UNSW Art & Design
Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize
2015
Finalist, Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Art Award
2014
National Association for the Visual Arts NSW Artists Grant
2013
Finalist, Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Art Award
Finalist, The Substation Contemporary Art Prize, Victoria
2012
Finalist, Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize
Finalist, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
Finalist, The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
2011
Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant
Finalist, The City of Hobart Art Prize
Finalist, Olive Cotton Photographic Prize
2010
National Association for the Visual Arts NSW Artists Marketing Grant
2009
Qantas Foundation, Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award
Finalist, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
Finalist, Hazelhurst Art Award
Finalist, The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
2008
Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant (Emerging)
The Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
2007
Finalist, The Wilson HTM National Art Prize
Winner, The Freedman Traveling Arts Scholarship
Published
’Blue spectrum and descent study’, HOH Journal 01 – Disrupt, Ed. Rachel Ciesla & Jaxon Waterhouse, 2020, p.40-61
Photo feature Common Ground, Issue 3 2015 http://www.commongroundjournal.com/issues/#/issue03/
Photo feature Landscape Stories, edited by Heidi Romano, Australian Issue 2015. http://www.landscapestories.net/
VAULT Magazine PHOTO ESSAYS, Issue 5, November 2013
Excerpt Magazine, Issue 2, 2012, cover artist
NEW ROMANTICS DARKNESS AND LIGHT IN AUSTRALIAN ART, Simon Gregg, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Kew, Victoria, 2010
TIME AND SPACE : ART & ARTIST RUN SPACES 1970 TO NOW, Ann Finegan, Gymea, N.S.W, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, 2010
An ideal for living, exhibition catalogue, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2008, (text) p15, 25, (art) p15,16,18
ARTSPACE PROJECTS 2006, p159
Selected Bibliography
’Water, Water, Everywhere: Why is the age-old practice of oceanic thinking once again rising to the surface?’, ART REVIEW, Erik Morse, Summer 2022
’Radical Slowness’, THE SATURDAY PAPER, Tony Magnusson, April 2–8, 2022 | No. 393
’Radical slowness’, ARTIST PROFILE, April 2022, online
’“What could be more radical than slowing down?” New exhibition explores the necessity of slowness’, ART GUIDE, Barnaby Smith, 30 March 2022
'Izabela Pluta: Nihilartikel’, MEMO Review, Sarinah Masukor, 19 February 2022
’Capturing the unreality of visual perception’, TIMES OF MALTA, Joseph Agius, 28 March 2021
Exhibition feature, Maltarti, March 2020
’Pull focus with Izabela Pluta’, Art Collector, Briony Downes, 2020
’Photo Essay; Izabela Pluta’, VAULT - AUSTRALASIAN ART AND CULTURE, Issue 32, Nov 2020-Jan 2021, p.96-99
’Of dives, distortions and disorientation: Variable depth, shallow water’, THE MALTA ART PAPER, Giulia Privitelli, Issue 10, 2020, pp.26-27
’Izabela Pluta’, ARTIST PROFILE, Kathleen Linn, Issue 49, 2019, pp108-113
’The National 2019: New Australian Art’, ARTLINK, Craig Judd, 15 May 2019
’The National review – contemporary art from the uncanny to the inviting’, THE GUARDIAN, Andrew Frost, 29 March 2019
’Contemporary art's Instagram moment’, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Lina Morris, March 27, 2019
’Geography of Space, Archaeology of Time, Izabela Pluta & Utako Shindo’, ART & AUSTRALIA online, Kathleen Linn
’Notes from the darkroom’, ART MONTHLY, Michael Fitzgerald, October 2018, Issue 311
’Dimensions of Citizenship | US Pavilion - La Biennale di Venezi’, ARCHISEARCH, Tina Marinaki, 18 May 2018
‘Old sites, new visions: art and archaeology collide in Cyprus’ THE CONVERSATION, Craig Barker and Diana Wood Conroy, October 9, 2017
Exhibition review, THE AGE Spectrum, Dan Rule, Feb 14 2015, p21
‘Pluta, Ferran, crowEST and Arps' Melbourne exhibitions imbued with benignity and terror’ THE AGE,
Robert Nelson, February 17 2015
Interview, Try Hard Magazine, Andrew Yip (http://tryhardmagazine.com/interview-izabela-pluta), 2014
‘Art Radar #1: Photography’ ART GUIDE, Amy Marjoram, 7 May 2014
‘Agency of inanimate objects’ ART GUIDE, Toby Fehily, May/JUNE 2014, p43
‘Agency of inanimate objects’ ALTMEDIA, Leann Richards, 2 May 2014
‘Izabela Pluta Taken on the same day as the other photo’ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Dane Rule, Aug 3 2013
‘Racks and ruin: framing decay’ THE AGE, Robert Nelson, July 31 2013, p50
‘Rethinking the Margins’, SURFACE ASIA, Olha Romaniuk, 10 Dec 2012
‘Study for a sham ruin’, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD SPECTRUM, Lynne Dwyer, April 28-29, 2012, p12
‘Art sucks: monstrous breast bombs and classical maternity’ Robert Nelson, THE AGE,March 16, 2011, p5
'Izabela Pluta: Sailing for the abyss', Dan Rule, THE AGE, April 24 2010, p20
‘Temporary transformations’, AUSTRALIAN ART REVIEW, Apolline Kohen, Feb-April 2010, p72
'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow' Dan Rule, THE AGE, September 12, 2009
‘Ok with my decay: Encounters with chronology in the work of four contemporary Australian artists’, Simon Gregg, ARTLINK, Vol 29, No 1, 2009, p61-63
Back to the City. Strategies for Informal Urban Intervention, Steffen Lehmann, 2009, Hatje Cantz
Stuttgart/Berlin
‘Back to the city? The re-berth of coal’, ARTMONTHLY, April #208, 2008, p5
‘Inexorable march to ruin celebrated’, THE MELBOURNE AGE, Robert Nelson, April 2, 2008, p17
‘Art matters’, MCV, Lucy Elliot, Issue 376, March 20, 2008
‘An ideal for living’, TROUBLE ARTS TRAFFIC, Cassie May, March 2008, p12
‘Domestic sublime’, ART MONTHLY, Melissa Hart, March #207, 2008, p53
‘Art around the galleries’, THE MELBOURNE AGE, Megan Backhouse, March 29, 2008, A2 p20
‘Lifting the lids’, THE MELBOURNE AGE, April 4, 2008
‘Making mirrors and breaking walls’, ARTSPACE PROJECTS 2006, Ashley Whamond, p13
‘Dilemma of making decisions’, WEST AUSTRALIAN, WEEKEND EXTRA, Ric Spencer, June 16 2007, p13
‘Open gallery, Sometime’, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD SPECTRUM, Clara Iaccarino, Jan 26-28 2007, p16
‘in trouble’, MELBURNIN, Simon Gregg, Dec/Jan 2007, p16
‘Four Photographers’, ART COLLECTOR, Timothy Morrell, Feb 2006, p251
‘Illustration of rights and wrongs is a snap’, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD METRO, Robert McFarlane, Dec13, 2005
‘There and back’, REALTIME, Kate McMillan, June/July 2005, p40