I am a visual artist with a passion for photography, the W.W.W, and digital technologies. My aim is to become a full time visual artist. My goal is to share my imagery with as many like minded individuals as possible and expand my experience in the fields of creating art [in particular photography], and Digital media, [with an emphasis on the self-publishing].
I have published several e-books, and am a founder and co-editor of a web site devoted to the exploration of the meaning and function of photography in the 21st century; altfotonet.
I am currently employed at the Northern College of the Arts and Technology teaching the Diploma of Photoimaging, as part of a small Team, to a large number of post VCE [High School] Students. In addition to photography, I also teach Photoshop, a program I have been working with since 1994. As other applications, like Aperture, Capture One and Lightroom become more vocationally relevant I continue to learn more about each of them and implement them into my curriculum. I have as a sessional lecturer in years past also taught several tools used heavily in the creative industries, including Photoshop®, and Indesign®. From 2009 to 2013 I taught a semester long unit called 'Digital Fine Art Photography' at Victoria University, in Melbourne Australia.
Since 1995 I have had an interest in the WWW, and HTML. I have been using a variety of programs to build and maintain several web sites. I primarily use Dreamweaver®, I have experimented with programs like Skedit, and NVU, both powerful text based web design tools, the latter being open source-cross platform software.
Photography, Adobe Photoshop®, and the World Wide Web are areas I feel passionate about. I use these tools to publish on an ongoing projects. I published a small web site that explored the notion of photography and what it means in the 21st century, http://altfotonet.org [ISSN 1836-845X], [this site is being archived by the national library of Australia]. I published 3 issues. I have more work waiting to be published as exhibitions, and am constantly researching areas of interest to me in both the creative industries and Web 2.0 environments as well as more traditional means of exhibiting and publishing.
Education
2012
Melbourne University [Certificate IV in Training & Assessment TAE 4110]
2008
Victoria University [Certificate IV in Training & Assessment TAA40104]
2002
RMIT University [Master of Arts]
1995
University of Melbourne [Postgraduate Diploma of Education-Secondary]
1991
PIT, Philip Institute of Technology[ Bachelor of Arts [ Media Arts ] Majoring in photography].
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Employment
2014-2020 NCAT Photography
Photography Trainer & Assessor. Teaching Diploma of Photoimaging, in all areas of photography, black & white, colour, studio, and digital photography including Photoshop, Lightroom, and Indesign.
1993-2013 Hawthorn Secondary College
Photography Trainer & Assessor. Teaching Diploma of Photoimaging, in all areas of photography, black & white, colour, studio, and digital photography including Photoshop, Lightroom, and Indesign.
2004 to 2015 Victoria University
Sessional Lecturing, for the School of Communication Language and the Arts, teaching an elective entitled, Digital Fine Art Photography.
Deakin University, 2015
Sessional Lecturer in Photography, ACI101, and ACI103
2001
Box Hill TAFE
Web Design Teacher [ Sessional ] Teaching Web design to E.D.I.M final year students.
1997-1998 Box Hill TAFE
Photography Teacher [ Sessional] Teaching VCE Media Students Photography.
1997 State Library of Victoria.
Digital Photographer VPS 2 (0.6).
Computer skills
Macintosh platform:-
Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Indesign, Keynote, Numbers, Microsoft Word, Lightroom, Aperture.
Windows platform:-
Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel.
Exhibitions
2020
Mallee Routes Exhibition, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, South Australia.
2019
Silver in Sunshine.[Stanza One] [Solo Exhibition] Sunshine Art Spaces, 2 City Place Sunshine.
[26th April to 30 May 2019.]
CCP Summer Salon Centre for Contemporary Photography George Street, Fitzroy.
2018
CCP Summer Salon Centre for Contemporary Photography George Street, Fitzroy
The Natural the constructed and the in-between [Solo Exhibition], Sunshine Art Spaces, City Place Sunshine, 9th February, to the 7th of March 2018
Collaboration: Interrogating Melbourne's changing urban landscape With Gary Sauer-Thompson. August 4th to September 7th during the 2018 SALA festival; and ongoing. Atkins Photo Lab Fullarton Road, Kent Town
2017
Sunshine Photo Project, Civic Centre, Hampshire Road, Sunshine.
2016
Weltraum, Magpie Springs Gallery, McLaren Vale, South Australia. [Part of the Photo Biennnale 2nd September to 2nd October 2016
Abstractions, CCP, 138 Richmond Rd, Marleston, Adelaide, South Australia.
2015
Ballarat Photo Bienalle, Fringe Exhibition, Time, The Lost Ones Gallery
2014
CCP Summer Salon, CCP George Street, Fitzroy
awesome repeat x infinity bonus ;-o.; Trocadero Gallery Footscray
2013
CCP Summer Salon, CCP George Street, Fitzroy
2012
Group Show, Eckersley's Art Store, Franklin St, Melbourne
2011
Ballarat International Foto Bienale, Fringe group show, entitled 'The Sets Show', at the Woolstore in conjunction with the Melbourne Silvermine.
2008
‘Guzzle It’ Workshop, Elizabeth St. City
‘Industrial Landscape’, Photospace, Dight St Collingwood.
‘In a moment’ Photospace, Dight St Collingwood.
2007
‘Christmas Show’ Gallery 124, Sunshine
‘When your Beauty is also my beauty’Water Tower Gokerstrasse 3 Wilhelmshaven, Germany
‘Photography, by Local Artists’ Gallery 124, Sunshine
‘…across the river styx’ Solo Show Trocadero Artspace, Footscray
2006
‘Web to Wall’ 69 Smith St. Fitzroy
2004
‘Two Points in Time’ Smyrnios Gallery, Prahran
2002
‘Urban or Urbane?’ Solo Show First Site Gallery, Swanston Street Melbourne
1999
‘Sight Insight Site’ Photographers gallery, Punt road South Yarra
1998
‘The Big Picture’ Photographers gallery, Punt road South Yarra
1997
‘Annual PIC staff show’ Photographers Gallery Punt Rd Sth.Yarra
‘Synaesthesia’ Stop 22 gallery, St.Kilda
‘Wild Places’ Linden Gallery, St.Kilda.
‘Xlrate Summer Salon Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy.
1996
‘...as a log book stands to a journey’ Solo show Photographers gallery. Punt road South Yarra.
‘Contemporary Art and Technology, 3rd Digital Imaging Awards.’Stop 22 St.Kilda
‘Sub Zero Summer Salon’ Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
‘Annual PIC Staff show’ Photographers gallery, Punt road South Yarra.
1995
‘Agfa Summer Salon’Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy.
‘Darebin Contemporary Arts show’ Darebin Town hall, Northcote.
‘Annual staff show’ Roar 2 Studios, Fitzroy.
1994
‘Agfa Summer Salon’ Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy.
‘A Summer Roar’Roar 2 Studios, Fitzroy.
‘Open’ Hawthorn Secondary College.
‘Book Launch’ Exhibition ABC Book shop Sate Bank Galleria Melbourne.
‘Camberwell rotary club photography exhibition’ Malvern town hall, Malvern.
1993
‘Agfa Summer Salon’ Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy.
‘Roar 2 members show’ Roar 2 Studios, Fitzroy.
‘Canterbury primary school's invitational annual art fair’ Canterbury Primary school, Canterbury.
‘Appearances’ Roar 2 Studios, Fitzroy.
‘Box hill Annual Invitational Art Exhibition’
Box Hill town hall, Box Hill.
‘Friends Loved Ones Exhibition’Gasworks Community Arts Centre, South Melbourne.
‘The Camera in Focus’Camberwell Rotary Clubs photography Exhibition, Camberwell.
‘The Big Little Picture Show’Centre for Contemporary photography, Fitzroy.
1992
‘…familiar into foreign’ Brighton Bay Gallery, Brighton.
1991
‘Graduate show’ Roar 2 Studios, Fitzroy
‘David Street, Inaugural fine Art exhibition’ David Street Gallery Carlton
‘Sights of South’ Photographic Exhibition Gasworks Community Arts Centre, South Melbourne.
1989
‘Footscray Rotary Arts Show’ Footscray Community Arts Centre, Footscray.
1988
‘The found object’ Linden Gallery, St.Kilda.
1987
‘Brighton Technical School Student Show’ Brighton Technical school Brighton.
Publications
2012
Art and Mathematics, a small self published book, available form blurb.com.
2011
Castlemaine Fleeting Glances, a self published e-book part of the SoFoMoBO project.
2009
February; Launched Publication, altfotonet [ISSN 1836-845X], online at http://altfotonet.org
Second Nature: International journal of creative media,
Vol 1, No 2 (2009) Games, Locative & Mobile Media The project itself.
2007
ABC online
buy, buy, buy, self published and archived by the National Library of Australia
Lo-fi Vol 1 Self published, archived by the National Library of Australia
2006
Metroblossom
1996
"Eight" Published by Photographic imaging college.
1994
Essential but unplanned. 'The story of Melbourne's Lanes'
By Weston Bate
Published by the State Library of Victoria ISBN 07306 3598 8
