About

cassiesullivanphotography@gmail.com

Cassie Sullivan is a lutruwita/Tasmanian Indigenous contemporary Artist.

She has a responsive, intimate and experimental practice that crosses disciplines of moving image, photography, writing, sound, installation and printmaking. Cassie is currently exploring themes of intergenerational experience and trauma, bodily knowledge holding and the ancestral memory of water.

Exhibitions

2024 - Dreams Nursed in Darkness (group exhibition), Wollongong Art Gallery, New South Wales

2024 - The Light Draws Along (group exhibition), Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

2024 - Faux Mo (group exhibition in collaboration with Jessie French), MONA, Hobart, Tasmania

2023 - Between Waves (group exhibition), ACCA, Melbourne, Victoria. Now on tour nationally.

2023 - Devotion - An Ode to Oceans (group exhibition), Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny, Tasmania

2023 - Interfacial Intimacies (group exhibition) as part of Dark Mofo, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania. Now on tour nationally.

2022 - Down In The River, Project Space, Contemporary Art Tasmania.

2022 - Taking Up Space Group Exhibition, Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny, Tasmania.

2021 - Honours Graduate Exhibition, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.

2021 - Curing Exhibition, Kelly’s Garden - Salamanca Arts Centre and The Barracks - New Norfolk, Tasmania.

2021 - #selfportrait Group Exhibition, Sidespace Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania.

2021 - The Pink Palace: From Isolation; Group Exhibition, Schmørgåsbaag, Hobart, Tasmania.

2020 - Scarring Group Exhibition, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.

2020 - Our-Self Group Exhibition, Studio Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania.

2019 - Graduation Exhibition, School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania.

2017 Namesake – Inaugural solo exhibition, Studio Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania.

2016 Apart – In conjunction with Emily Eliza Arlotte Jewellery. Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania.

2011 Obscura – NMIT group show. Chapel on Chapel. Melbourne, Australia

2010 Group show – NMIT, Fairfield Australia

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours. UTAS, Tasmania  2017- 2021

Diploma of Photoimaging NMIT, Victoria 2010-2011

Awards

2024 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania - Winner lutruwita Award

2024 The Farm Margaret River Artist in Residency

2021 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania - Finalist

2019 New Columbo Plan Mobility Grant Scholarship - Indonesia

2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize - Finalist

2018 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize - Semifinalist

2011-2013 - Australian Institute of Professional Photography and The International Loupe Awards, numerous silver and distinction silver awards.

2011 NMIT – Student of the Year Award

2010 NMIT - Excellence Award For Photoimaging

Conference/Speaker Invitations

2024 Plimsoll Gallery, printmaking workshop, Hobart, Australia.

2024 Plimsoll Gallery, Artist Talk, Hobart, Australia.

2023 ACCA Artist Talk, Melbourne, Australia.

2023 ACCA Online Teacher Professional Learning, Melbourne Australia.

2023 Plimsoll Artist Talk, Tasmania, Australia.

2023 Schoolhouse Gallery Artist Talk, Tasmania, Australia.

2019 Make Art Workshop, Perth, Australia.

2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize Artist Talk, Sydney, Australia.

2017 A Bit More Soul Workshop, New Zealand

2016 A Bit More Soul Workshop, New Zealand.

2015 A Bit More Soul Workshop, New Zealand.

2015 Camp Common Folk, West Australia.