About
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2006 Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with 1st Class Honours, Australian National University School of Art, Canberra
Solo Exhibitions
2012
River - Links Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW
2011
Vestiges - Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, Canberra, ACT
River - Reading Room Gallery, London, UK
2009
Antonia Aitken: new work - ANCA Gallery, ACT
2008
Drawing Breath: Breathing Place - M16 Artspace, Kingston, ACT
2007
Reading Namadgi - theblueroof gallery, Tharwa, ACT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 - 2003
Burnie Print Prize 2011, TAS
Dog of a Show - Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, ACT, 2009
Caring for Land - Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT, 2007
Residue - M16 Artspace, ACT, 2007
Trouble - ANU School of Art Gallery, ACT, 2007
Shepp. The Earth – Shepparton Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2006
Murray / Darling Palimpsest – ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery, ACT, 2006
Field Studies Selected Works 2000 – 2005 – Various venues in Shepparton, Victoria, 2006
Mungo Place Willandra Time – Mildura Arts Centre, NSW, 2005
Mungo – ANU School of Art Gallery, ACT, 2005
Wet River Dry Lake – Wentworth, Mildura, 2005
ANU School of Art Drawing Prize 2005 – ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery, ACT, 2005
Awards and Prizes
2012
UTAS Artist-in-Residence, Launceston, TAS
Bathurst Regional Gallery Hill End Artist-in-Residence, NSW
2011
Black Church Print Studio International Artist-in-Residence, Dublin, Ireland
Women's Studio Workshop Spring Fellowship, Rosendale NY, USA
Capital Arts Patrons Organisation Reading Room London Exhibition Award
Finalist for 2011 Burnie Print Prize, TAS
2009
ArtsACT Project Funding Grant
Bundannon Trust Artist-in-Residence, NSW
2008
Bathurst Regional Gallery Hill End Artist-in-Residence, NSW
Regional Arts CASP Grant
ArtsACT Out of Round Funding Grant
2007 – 2000
2007 NAVA Visual Arts and Crafts Artist Grant
2006 ANU Emerging Artist Support Scheme, Megalo Print Studio Residency Award
2006 ANU Emerging Artis Support Scheme, M16 Exhibition and Studio Space Award
2005 Winner ANU School of Art Drawing Prize
Professional Experience
Current
Printmaking Lecturer, ANU School of Art
Art Tutor, Belconnen Arts Centre
2011 - 2007
Press Studio Manager, Megalo print Studio + Gallery (2007 - 2011)
Edition Printer for artist Mini Graff, Art Vault, Mildura VIC
Art Mentor, Australian Talented Young People Project (ATYP), Australian National University
Artist in Residence, Majura Women's Group Backyard Project
Guest Art Tutor, National Museum of Australia
Edition Printer, Basil Hall Editions, Darwin NT
Chair, Environmental Collective Housing Organisation Committee
Art Tutor, Crossing Boundaries Project, M16 Artspace
Art Tutor, Messengers Youth Outreach Program, Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Drama Tutor, Canberra Youth Theatre Company
Art Tutor, Common Ground, Australian National Botanic Gardens
2006 - 2000
Puppetry making and performing in Serious Theatre and Erth Physical and Visual Theatre’s production all-mother, The Street Theatre
Arts facilitator / drama tutor, Canberra Youth Theatre
Arts facilitator for MUST Program puppetry workshop, ANU School of Music
Designer for Canberra Youth Theatre’s Production The Great Garden Game, National Museum of Australia
Assistant designer to Kaoru Alfonso for Canberra Youth Theatre’s Production of Under Milk Wood
ZAPT Committee Member – organising regular youth arts events/ performance nights at Canberra Youth Theatre
Suburban Festival Committee member, organising the youth arts festival, National Gallery of Australia
Speaker at Raising the Curtain, the National Forum on Performance in Cultural Institutions, National Museum of Australia
Publications
Trouble, exhibition catalogue, Printmedia and Drawing Workshop, ANU School of Art, Canberra, 2007
Shepp. The Earth: an Address about Water, exhibition catalogue, Field studies, Environment Studio, ANU School of Art, Canberra, 2006
Wet River Dry Lake, exhibition catalogue, Field studies, Environment Studio, ANU School of Art, Canberra, 2005
About
Antonia Aitken is a printmaker living and making in Canberra, Australia. Her environment-based practice has awarded her opportunities to exhibit and undertake residencies nationally and internationally. In 2011 she was awarded the inaugural Capital Arts Patrons Organisation (CAPO) Reading Room Exhibition Award to travel her exhibition River to Reading Room Gallery in London. Her most recent residencies include a Spring Fellowship at Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale NY and the 2011 International Residency at Black Church Print Studio, Dublin. Antonia was the Press Studio Manager for Megalo Print Studio + Gallery in Canberra from 2007 - 2011 and has taught printmaking in various capacities for a number of years. She is currently teaching printmaking at the Australian National University in the Printmedia and Drawing Workshop.
Antonia’s practice is largely site-specific and uses predominantly intaglio and relief printmaking techniques to make large-scale abstractions and performative interactions with her environment. She is interested in landscapes that bare witness to significant human impact and the ongoing struggles of a post-colonial society. The work attempts to raise questions about how we use, understand and visually represent our relationship to these sites over time. By walking, drawing and using the materials directly from each site, Antonia gathers a language in which to interpret the place and her physical presence within it.
