Curriculum Vitae
Education
2005-2009 Masters of Fine Art, Monash University, Melbourne
2004 Graduate Diploma of Visual Art, VCA, Melbourne
1991-1994 Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2022. Rules for Transformation Radius Gallery, Hepburn Springs
2018 Re-Mapped Wodonga Artspace, Wodonga
Volcanus Floralis, Ballarat Botanic Gardens Conservatory
2017 Mapped MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Flora Loci St Arnaud Street Museum St Arnaud, Vic
2014 Mycofloral Manningham Gallery Doncaster
2013 Fungivorous MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Another Turn MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Consumed MARS Gallery, Melbourne
The Garden Shed MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Unbound MARS Gallery Melbourne
2005 Specimens Dianne Tanzer Gallery Melbourne
2003 Gold in a Moment Dianne Tanzer Gallery Melbourne
2002 Grains Dianne Tanzer Gallery Melbourne
2001 Trees Seventh Gallery Melbourne
Public Art, Site ResponsiveArt, Sculptures and Commissions
2023 The 11th Planet, Public Art Commission for Eleven Eastern, South Melbourne,
With John Power
Breathe Plants - Plants Breathe Public Art Commission for East Brunswick Village
2019 Somewhere Under the Rainbow, MARS Gallery, Climarte Festival
2017 Lunaris Commission Clunes Skate Park, Clunes. Shire of Hepburn Public
Art Commission
2016 Blue Wren Public Art Commission. Cardigan St St Kilda East, Melbourne
Laughing Waters Art, Landscape and Memory in Eltham,
Shire of Nillumbik Montsalvat, Eltham
2015 Hanging Garden Climearte Festival, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
Simpson’s Sofa Brunswick Sculpture Nature Walk, Brunswick Heads, NSW
2014 Everlasting Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Lorne
Ford’s Word Garden, Birrarung, Laughing Waters Rd Eltham
2013 Grounded Mildura Palimpsest, Mildura
Historic Spots Spiritious Commissions, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2011 Distress Signal Lorne Sculpture Prize, Lorne
Transplantation Incinerator Arts Complex, Mooney Ponds
2010 Australia Re-generated McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award,
McClelland Sculpture Park, Langwarrin
2009 Heritage Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Living Room Private Collection, Bellarine Peninsula
2008 Ha-ha Reversed Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award, Werribee Park,
Werribee
2007 Memento Melba Festival, Yarra Glen
Selected Group Exhibitions and Awards
2021 Holding Ground Silverleaf Artbox, Merricks
Every Artist Ever Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton
Radius Radius Gallery, Hepburn Springs
2019 MARS Anniversary Exhibition, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2018 City of Port Philip Design Awards (Shortlisted)
Interruptions Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton
Mixed Tape Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton
2017. Deakin Small Sculpture Award (Shortlisted)
2015 Brunswick Nature Sculpture Walk Brunswick Heads, NSW, Winner
Pandorama collaboration with John Power, RMIT New Academic Street
Commissions, Melbourne
25 Sculptors Private Residence, Curated by Andy Dinan
2014 Lorne Sculpture Biennale Lorne (Shortlisted)
Processional with John Power, C3 Artspace, Melbourne
2013 McClelland Small Sculpture Fair McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
Toyota Sculpture Prize Toyota Spirit Gallery, Melbourne (Shortlisted)
Buda Sculpture Buda Historic Homestead, Castlemaine
2011 Lorne Sculpture Prize Lorne (Shortlisted)
Studio Apartment C3 Artspace, Melbourne
Artecycle Incinerator Arts Complex, Mooney Ponds (Shortlisted)
2010 McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award 2010 McClelland Sculpture
Park and Gallery Langwarrin, (Shortlisted)
A little Bird Told Me MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Current C3 Artspace, Abbotsford
2009 Ligura Natura Curated by Kent Wilson, C3 Artspace, Abbotsford
2008 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award Werribee Park, Werribee
(Shortlisted)
The Moment Monument C3 Artspace, Abbotsford.
2006 Is Art from Mars? MARS Gallery, Melbourne.
Elements of Abstraction Curated by Maudie Palmer AO, Deloitte,
Melbourne
2005 Discovery Art Prize Gasworks Sculpture Park, Port Melbourne, Winner
2004 Vivid 45 Downstairs, Melbourne
Landed Domain House, Melbourne
Athenaeum Art Prize Athenaeum Club, Melbourne (Shortlisted)
Special Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Alignment Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
Willoughby City Art Prize Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney (Shortlisted)
Plastic Fantastic Lover Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Surprise Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
8X8 Horti Hall, Melbourne
2001 Vanity, Fitzroy Gallery Melbourne
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Seventh Heaven Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Play, Chiara Goya Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Fringe Salon The George, Melbourne
1995 Installation House Raleigh St Prahran, Melbourne
1994 Barracooda Coode View Gallery, Melbourne
Residencies
2022. Art Lab STACC The Bowery St Albans Community Centre, Brimbank City Council
2022. Big Words Creative Victoria’s Creative Partnerships Program, Cairnlea Park Primary School
2021 Australia Map Garden Creative Workers in Schools, RAV. Truganina South Primary School
2015 Flora Loci: Plants about this place St Arnaud Street Museum
Curated by Maudie Palmer AO, St Arnaud, Vic
2013 Community Garden Art Artist-in-Residence for Big West Festival at
Braybrook Community Garden, Braybrook
2012 The Spiral Garden Arts Victoria Artists-In-Schools with Weeroona
Secondary College, Bendigo
Snake In The Grass Environmental sculpture project with Dame
Elisabeth Murdoch Secondary College, McClelland Sculpture Park,
Langwarrin
2011 The Garden Project Arts Victoria Artists-In-Schools with Shepparton ACE
College, Shepparton
2010 New Cubby Project Strathewyn Primary School, Wattle Glen.
2009 The Cubby Project Artist-in-residence for Big West Festival at Dinjerra
Primary School, Braybrook
Jumpstart Shepparton ACE College, Shepparton.
Social and Community Art Projects
2023 Arcacia botantica National Wattle day, Gisborne Botanic Gardens, Macedon Ranges Shire Council
2022. Plant Creatures Ferntree Gully Creative Placemaking Project, City of Knox
Brush-tailed Planigales Various locations, Macedon Ranges Shire Council
2021. Lighten Your Carbon Footprint Public Artwork, Shire of Macedon Ranges
Faces of Brimbank Public art Installation, STACC Bowery, St Albans
Nature of Cairnlea Cairnlea Park Primary School
Crafty Eco-Activism KTH Kids, Macedon Ranges Shire Council
Windcrafting KT Kids Macedon Ranges Shire Council
2020 The Geography of Home Movelle Primary School, City Of Brimbank
Carbon Footprints Shepparton ACE College
2018-20 Toddler Tuesdays St Albans Community Centre at The
Bowery, City of Brimbank
2019 Blooming Now! RMIT University, Melbourne
Fuzzy Faces Interactive installation commissioned by City of Brimbank
Growling Grass Frogs and Legless Lizards Workshop and Installation.
The Sunshine Silo Festival
2018 Wind Temple Windcrafters workshops and ephemeral installation.
Collaboration with Sandra Fiona Long, Coburg Carnival, City of
Moreland
Bottle Terrariums Kingston Popup Bar, Moorabbin, City of Kingston
Save the Words Mosaic stepping-stones. Shepparton Ace College,
Shepparton
2016-17 Straw Bale Lounges Shepparton ACE College, Shepparton
2015 Our Orchids St Arnaud Community, Northern Grampians Shire,
St Arnaud, Victoria
Mobile Art Gardens Arndell Community Centre, Truganina, Melbourne.
Wind in B Minor Artplay Birrarung Marr, Melbourne
2014 Hanging Bottle Garden Kid’s day Out, St Albans
2013 Birds on a Fence Better Block Brunswick, Wilson Ave, Brunswick
2012 Big Nancy The Village Festival @ The Edinburgh Gardens, Fitzroy.
2007-09 Moomba-making workshops Artplay, Birrarung Marr, Melbourne
2003-07 Theatreworks Projects Shire of Strathbogie Youth Arts Program, Euroa.
2006 Peace Tree Edinburugh Gardens Festival, Edinburugh Gardens,
Melbourne.
2000 Garbage Youth Advisory Bureau (YAB), Fringe Festival Parade
Theatre, Parades and Performance Design
2015 Birdcage Thursdays By Sandra Long, Big West Festival, Footscray.
2013 Birdcage Thursdays By Sandra Long, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne.
2009-10 Fiesta Parade Lead artist and artistic director The Village @ The Falls
Festival, Marion Bay, Tasmania
2004 Welcome the Rushes By Sandra Long, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne
2002 Kitchen Adapted from book by Banana Yamamoto, Dir. Naomi
Steinbourner, Dantes, Melbourne.
2001 The Tar MachineBy Tony Wreck, Dir. Sandra Long, The Storeroom,
Melbourne
2001 Baby Dog’s Head By Sandra Long, Dir. Naomi Steinbourner, The
Storeroom, Melbourne
2001 Butterflies De La Tip World Environment Day, St Kilda Botanic Gardens,
Melbourne
1999 Web Art Garden World Environment Day, Victoria Gardens,
Melbourne
1997 The Kydz By Ken Slattery, The Dublin Fringe Festival, The Arthouse,
Dublin, Ireland
1995 This Old Man Comes Rolling Home By Dorothy Hewitt, Dir. Sandra
Fiona Long, The Moat Festival, La Trobe Theatre, Melbourne
Bibliography
Anthony Fitzpatrick Mapped, Ex Cat 2017
Belinda McDowell ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017 Belinda McDowell Reports, The Culture Concept
Dana McCauley, Appreciation grows for message in garden art at Mars Gallery in Windsor, Herald Sun. May 11 2015
Jade Wildy Re-inscribing Nature, Realtime Magazine, issue 118, pg 28, 2013
Damian Smith Consumed, Ex Cat., 2011
Robert Nelson A Park Fitting for a Stationary Wagon, The Age, Jan 26, 2011
Robert Lindsay Art and Nature/ Nature and Art, Ex Cat. 2010
Dylan Rainforth Joanne Mott: Consumed, Art(e)fact Magazine, Oct 2009
Dylan Rainforth Consumed, Ex Cat. 2009
Harbant Gill The Peril Vaults Back, Herald sun, Feb 18, 2008
Megan Backhouse Drought Saps Creative Juices, The Age, Jan 31 2007
Sarah Thomas Elements of Abstraction, Ex Cat., 2006
David Burrows Specimens,Ex Cat. 2005
Robert Nelson Rich Vein of Colour, The Age, Sept. 23, 2005
Collections
Government House, Melbourne
Byron Shire
Hepburn Shire
Tarrawarra Estate, Healesville
Tolanos Hotel, Melbourne
Rusden House, Melbourne
Shire of Nillumbik
Yarra Ranges Shire
Northern Grampians Shire
McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery
Private Collections overseas and Australia
The Bourke Collection, Bellarine Peninsula.
Joanne has served a member of the C3 Artspace board, the Visual Arts Grants Selection panel for Creative Victoria and the Brimbank Public Art Advisory Committee, the selection panel for Be Bold Artist Residencies(Brimbank) and KTH Kids Program for Macedon Ranges Shire Council . She is currently a committee member for The Gisborne Botanic Gardens.
