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I am currently updating my artist website in 2024-2025. Meanwhile please free, and most welcome, to check out my current site of creative practice ‘ARI REMIX PROJECT’ an internet art work as ‘living archives’ accessed here, enjoy!!!
And another recent artist-run activity I founded in 2014 [2014-2017] with a strong arts and disability focus can be accessed here;
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Paul William ANDREW (Artist Researcher/ Interdisciplinary)
Pronouns: him, him, they
Born 1964 Brisbane Meeanjin, Lives and works with arts and disability in the inner regional area.
Canaipa Russell Island on Quandamooka country.
Their Whistling Kite Artist Studios, Canaipa Russell Island, are located in a MM5 region.
BIO
Paul Andrew is a queer artist researcher, DIY coordinator, curator, exhibition maker and facilitator. They have long-standing expertise using curatorial and creative practice techniques included, documentary media, ‘little stories’, collage, remix, assemblage-like techniques, and community contribution methodologies for making multimodal, archival art initiatives in varied cultural forms, in both online and offline settings. Their queer art making started in childhood, and they have been practicing and exhibiting professionally since 1984.
Paul has actively participated in artist-run culture, heritage and knowledge production throughout the 1980 to Now period including: Artworker’s Union Queensland [1982-1986], Queensland Artworker’s Alliance (QAA) [1986-2012], F. Art (DIY Art Zine) [1985-1987], That Contemporary Art Space [1984-1988], That Annexe[1985-1988], Axis Art Projects AU/USA (Art eXtremists International Syndicate) [1987-1992], 2B: The Garage USA [1988], [Bureau] Artspace [1988-1989], Breathing Concrete [1986-1987], Bitumen River Gallery [1986-1987], TAG (Tropical Artists Guild) [1985], First Draft [1990], Sydney Super 8 Filmmakers [1990], Sydney Intermedia Network (SIN) [1990-1996], Queer TV [1991-1995], Metro Screen [1990-1997], DLux Media Arts [2001], Epicormia Collective (Museum-quality exhibition + Artist Zine) 2014-2017, The Soylent Spot ARI [2017], Next Door ARI [2022], CUT-BAIT [2024], Tripla ARI/IT [2017].
EDUCATION
2017-2024 | Doctorate of Creative Industries, Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice, QUT, Brisbane/AU [current and due for completion in January 2025]
Research interest [Southeast Queensland]: Artists as A(na)rchivists: Unpacking Brisbane Artist-Run Initiatives and the Archive.
2007-2010 | Master of Arts, Creative Writing, RMIT, Melbourne/AU | 1985-1988 | Bachelor of Arts, Art History, University of Queensland, Brisbane/AU
CURRENT & ONGOING
[Lead Artist, DIY coordinator & Facilitator]
2011-2026 | ARI REMIX PROJECT [ARI REMIX + EXTRA ZINE], Queensland/Australia Artist-Run Culture and Heritage, a community-based ‘living archives’, internet art work and public history initiative: https://ariremix.com.au/
AWARDS – ARI REMIX PROJECT
2024-2025 ARI Remix Project Two Stage Two: Extra Zine Anthology Part Two [in development now]
2023 Redland RADF| Self-directed Artist Residency, Canaipa Russell Island
2022 Creative Australia Funding | Internet Artwork Project Two Stage Two: Extra Zine Anthology Part One
2021 Arts Queensland Funding | Internet Artwork Project Two Stage One Part One: Extra Zine Anthology Part One
2017 Arts Queensland Funding | Internet Artwork Project One Stage Two
2017 Creative Australia Funding | Internet Artwork Project One Stage Two
2015 Creative Australia Funding | Internet Artwork: ARI Remix Project https:remix.org.au
2015 Arts Access & Create NSW Funding | Epicormia Collective https:
2015 Arts Queensland Funding | Internet Artwork: ARI Remix Project https:remix.org.au Project One Stage One
FORTHCOMING
[ARI REMIX PRESENTS | PROJECT TWO | STAGE THREE | Part Two – Stories Which Must Be Told]
2025 | Artist Residency | The Artist-led Archive & Memory Zine | National Irish Visual Arts Library, National College of Art & Design | Dublin/IE
2025 | Headlands Revisited, Ten Years On, Collaborative Reminiscence – Group Exhibition and Public Program June-July 2025 | Redland Art Gallery | Cleveland/AU
2024-2025 ARI REMIX [Project Two Stage Three] ARI REMIX PRESENTS: EXTRA ZINE – PART TWO – Stories Which Must Be Told – by 9 Artists + 9 ARIs + 9 Zines.
RECENT & CURRENT ARTISTIC PROJECTS + GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 | CUT-BAIT ARI, Woolloongabba, Brisbane/AU
2024 | IMA Zine Fair, Institute of Modern Art Bookshop, Brisbane/AU
2024 | ARI REMIX + EXTRA Zine Stall, Paperbark Zine Fair, Jagera Arts Centre, South Brisbane, Brisbane/AU
2024 BVAA CHATS, Brisbane ARIs, Brisbane Visual Arts Advocacy, Panel Discussion, Highgate Hill, Brisbane/AU
2024 ARI REMIX & Counter Archives, QUT Faculty of Architecture, Artist Report, Brisbane/AU
2022-2023 | ARI REMIX + EXTRA Zine Stall, Brisbane Writers Festival, Whale Mall, South Brisbane/AU
2022 | Circadian Visions, curator Erika Scott, Ngudooroo (Lamb Island, QLD)
2022 | Adjusting Margins, ENTER OUTER SPACE, Outerspace, Fortitude Valley/AU
2020 – 2022 | EXTRA Zine, NGV, Melbourne Art Book Fair, Melbourne/AU
2021 | EXTRA Zine Issue # 2 BACKYARD: ZINE FAIR, Next Door ARI, Brisbane/AU
2021 | EXTRA Zine Issue # 1 Launch (Virtual) NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair 2021, Melbourne/AU
2018 – 2020 | Studio Artist (Queer Digital Art + Ecology) Whistling Kite Bird Hide Artist Studio, Canaipa Russell Island/ AU
2011 – 2023 | ‘ARI Remix Living Archives & Social Memory Project, A Queensland Remix 1970 to NOW’ – Stages One and Two 2015 -2019 Funded by Arts Queensland & Australia Council and Stage Three 2021-2021 current. Funded by Arts Queensland ], Brisbane / AU – https://arremix.com.au, https://www.instagram.com/ari_remix and https://www.facebook.com/groups/451268288264701
2014 – 2017 | Artist Researcher, Curator, Project Co-ordinator, Epicormia Collective | ‘The Re-authoring Impulse’, NRCG, Northern Rivers, Ballina /AU | http://epicormiacollective.com Arts & Disability, Funded by Create NSW and Accessible Arts, NSW
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS + ATTENDANCE
2024 | Community Archives & ARI REMIX, QUT Architecture, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane/AU
2024 | BVAA Chats [Podcast], Brisbane Visual Arts Advocacy, Brisbane/AU
2023 | Keynote Speaker & Artist report, Better Together: Artist Collectives [Regional Queensland], Hervey Bay Regional Gallery
2021 | Online Attendee ‘Archives Amplified’, Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) National Conference, Brisbane/AU
2017 | Attendee & Artist Report, ‘Art as Archive, Archive as Art & The Imagined Archive’, Monash Centre CIRN and Informatics Conference 2017 | Monash University, Prato / IT – Funded in part by the Australia Council
2016 | Attendee, ‘THE WORK OF ART 2016’, AAANZ Conference, Canberra/AU
KEY CAREER HIGHLIGHTS (Visual Art)
2017 | Risky Business: Performing the ARI Remix Living Archives’, ‘Art as Archive: Archive as Art & The Imagined Archive’, Prato Conference 2017, 25-27 October, Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy
2014-2017 | Epicormia Collective -The Re-Authoring Impulse, Arts & Diffability ARI and exhibition, Ballina/AU.
2001 | ‘The Elders Project’, Funded by the ALSO Foundation and the City of Port Phillip and presented at the 2001 Australian Homosexual Histories Conference [ALGA], University of Melbourne, Melbourne/AU
1998 |‘The Man in the Irony Mask’ (Video Art/ Documentary), Funded by FTO NSW and Metro Screen, A Portrait of HIV AIDS activist and performance artist Brenton Heath-Kerr/ Sydney/AU
1995 | ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in Age of AIDS’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 12 November 1994 – 5 March 1995/ Canberra/AU
1988 | AXIS Art Projects [1987-1989], Various Iterations & Locations including Los Angeles, New York, London, Tokyo, Brisbane, Ballina.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
NAVA, Arts Law Centre of Australia, Oral History Association of Australia (Qld), Oral History Association (NSW), Australian Society of Archivists, Brisbane Visual Arts Association [BVAA].
COMMUNITY SERVICE + CHARITABLE MEMBERSHIPS + VOLUNTEERISM (1976 – 2024)
Since 1976 Paul has been actively engaged in social justice, cultural justice, community service, activism and volunteerism including the RSPCA, The Australian Conservation Fund, Home Care (Qld), Veterans Affairs (Qld), Rainforest Remediation (Qld and NSW), Qld ARIS, Qld Artworker’s Alliance, Qld AIDS Council, 4ZZZ Public Radio, Queer TV (NSW UHF Channel 31), LGTB Mardi Gras (NSW), AIDS Council of NSW, Red Cross, 40 Hour Famine, Melbourne Pride March, The ALSO Foundation (Melb.), Yooralla (Vic), Triple “0” (Vic), Deaf Children Australia (Vic), Regional Land Care (NSW, Vic, Qld), Melbourne IVF (Vic), Dlux Media Arts (NSW), Melbourne Queer Film Festival (Vic), The Corner Dance Lab (NSW), Remembering and Healing: Peace and Non-Violence, Lismore (NSW), SMBI Bay Islands Conservation Inc. (Qld).
BIBLIOGRAPHY [Select]
Anderson, P. (2016). Ephemeral Traces: Brisbane’s artist-‐run scene in the 1980s. Brisbane: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Jackson, B. (2017). Brisbane’s artist-run scene in the 1980s. Eyeline, 86, 74.
Rollman, L. (2018). Curating the city: Unpacking contemporary art production and spatial politics in Brisbane (Doctoral dissertation, Queensland University of Technology).
Willsteed, J., Andrew, P., Doherty, B., & Richens, J. (2016). Where the action isn’t, that’s where it is.
COLLECTIONS
Paul Andrew has works collected and held in public and private art collections including: University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane / AU, Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne / AU, Griffith Art Museum, Brisbane / AU, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra / AU, Richens & Doherty Collection/AU.
Artists and ARI members Elysha Rei and Paul Andrew [feat. Made. Creative Space 2011-2013 Toowoomba/AU] , ARI Remix with friends, IMA Zine Fair, October 2024. Photo. Liav Shalev
Since beginning as a young artist student member of the Ferny Hills Painter’s Group – convened by artist educator Audrey Kelk – the Northside Creative Artists Association in Brisbane and the Brisbane School of Art with artist educator Irene Amos in 1977-8 its almost 43 years now that I have been involved with artist collectives and artist groupings in Australia and overseas.
From March 2018 until November 2019 I had the pleasure to be involved with two local Canaipa artist collectives; ‘Canaipa Mudlines’ and ‘Trica Dobson’s Weaving Circles’. These two groups include local artists who focus on and feature personal, collaborative and eco friendly, creative responses to art and ecology in the SMBI [Southern Moreton Bay Islands] region on Quandamooka country.
‘Field Notes – Walking Meditation’, is part of my ongoing ‘Tidal Meditations’ series of video and sound works. More specifically, this particular work was made as a response to the Canaipa Mudlines site generated residency in May 2019 at Deenbilla Bay. It is imagined as a queer walking meditation composition. It draws on my earlier art and ecology work where personal walking meditations are performed as a way to contemplate and reflect on the impermanence of life.
I acknowledge the Quandamooka People as the traditional custodians of the lands in which we live, make and work where sovereignty was never ceded. We pay respects to their elders and their youth, past, present and emerging – and stand in sovereignty with the Uluru Statement from the Heart and their ongoing resistance against colonisation.
Established in June 2018 on Canaipa [Russell Island, QLD].
My newly established artist studio builds out from earlier iterations of artist-run studios. Including Jedda Studio [Ballina, NSW 2013-2018], Black Glossies Studio [Katoomba, NSW 2012-2013], Newport Studio [Williamstown, VIC 2008-2012] , St Kilda Studio [St Kilda, VIC 1999-2005], Enmore Darlinghurst Bondi North Studio [ Sydney, NSW 1989-1999 ], AXIS Clinton Street Studio [New York City, USA 1988], Crouch End Studio [London, UK 1984 & 1988], That Space Studios [Brisbane, QLD 1985-1988] , Arana Hills Artist Studio [Brisbane, QLD 1964-1984]
“ We acknowledge the Quandamooka People as the traditional custodians of the lands in which we live, make and work where sovereignty was never ceded. We pay respects to their elders and their youth, past, present and emerging – and stand in sovereignty with the ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART and their ongoing resistance against colonisation.”