Veronica Kent
veronicakittykent@gmail.com
BORN Sydney, Australia, 1970
Lives and works Bruny Island, Nuenonne Country,
Tasmania, Australia
Represented by Sarah Scout Presents
EDUCATION
2012 PhD, University of Melbourne
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours, Victorian College of the Arts
Veronica Kent is an Australian based artist involved in two parallel practices:
‘The Telepathy Project’ (TP)* is a collaboration between Veronica and Sean Peoples that considers the possibility that telepathy might exist as a starting point to explore a range of interrelated questions on collaboration, intimacy, perception and interpretation. Telepathy serves as both a metaphor and a prompt for the generation of works that have included events made with people from around the world at varying physical distances and degrees of intimacy that have manifested as curatorial projects, lectures, musicals, drawings, paintings, dream experiments, institutional interventions and group happenings.
Veronica’s solo practice incorporates painting, photography, installation and collage to explores narratives and portraits of characters (both real and imagined) engaged in moments of wonder, and how these acts/states connect us to each other and to place
2019 Arts Tasmania, Jeju Residency, South Korea
2016 Australia Council, Arts Project Grant (TP)*
2014 Australia Council, Experimental Art grant (as part of The Unconscious Collective) (TP)
2014 New Initiatives, the Faculty of VCA & MCM and Department of Premier and Cabinet (TP)
2014 Artbank/Gertrude Contemporary New Work commission (TP)
2013 Australia Council, ArtStart grant
2012-2014 Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artist
2009-2012 Australian Post Graduate Award
2011 University of Melbourne CCRAFS funding for research at the Freud Museum London
2011 Melbourne Abroad Traveling Scholarship for research at the Freud Museum Vienna
2011 Australia Council, Barcelona Studio Residency (TP)
2010 Bundanon Trust Residency (TP)
2008 Arts Victoria Presentation Grant
2008 City of Melbourne Presentation Grant
2007 DOWD Fellowship (Athens Residency)
2007 Janet Holmes a’ Court Grant
2003 KASKE Award
2022
-Instrument Builders #6 – Atelier IBP, for MONA FOMA. Tasmania, Australia
-Teleplasticity and Activist Neuroaesthetics in Video Art – Sawtooth ARI. Launceston, Australia.
2021
GROUP
-'Numinosity', Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart.
-'Dreaming The Collection' as part of 'activist-neuro-aesthetics', Babylon Theatre, Berlin.
2019
SOLO
-ISLAND, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne, Australia.
GROUP
-'Zzzzz: Sleep, Somnambulism, Madness', Gertrude Contemporary/Murray Art Museum, Albury
2018
GROUP
-'Zzzzz: Sleep, Somnambulism, Madness', Gertrude Contemporary/Melbourne International Festival.
-'The Telepathy Project', Melbourne Art Book Fair, NGV, Melbourne
2017
GROUP
-'A Meeting Of Waters', Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria.
-'The End of Time, The beginning of Time', Gertrude Contemporary, Victoria.
2016
SOLO
-'I Get Nervous At Bulls and Eagles', Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne, Australia.
GROUP
-'Angels and Dogs', Room 301 for Spring 1883.
2015
-'Neverwhere', Gaia Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey: for ASIALINK.
-'Spring 1883' for Sarah Scout Presents, Sydney, Australia.
-'From the Collection: Chapter One', Warrnambool Art Gallery + Gertrude Contemporary, Victoria, Australia.
-'Amber Stones and Green', Kings, Melbourne, Australia.
2014
SOLO
-'Roman Charity', Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia
-'Ghosts', Bakehouse Public Art Paste-up, Melbourne, Australia
-'Practicing Love Songs', Spring 1883, for Sarah Scout Presents, Windsor Grand Hotel, Melbourne, Australia.
GROUP
-'STAR PAVILION', (TP) MPavilion, Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens, Melbourne, Australia.
-'Primavera 2014' (TP) Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
-'Reading Solaris to The Great Moorool', (TP) 2014 Tarrawarra Biennial: Whisper In My Mask Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
-'Motel Dreaming', (TP) Dark Mofo, Hobart, Australia.
-'Framework 1: Extrasensory Bonds', (TP) insitu, Berlin, Germany
-'Dream Recital', (TP) White Nights, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2013
SOLO
-'Dreaming The Arabian Sea', (TP) (en)counters, Mumbai, India
-'Dream Paintings' (TP) Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary
GROUP
-'Dreaming The Collection', (TP) for ‘Melbourne Now’, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
-'The Telepathy Project', (TP) remotespace, Barcelona, Spain
-'Dream Studio', (TP) Gertrude Studio’s 2013 Exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2012
SOLO
-'Funny Face', Ryan Renshaw, Brisbane Australia
-'The Telepathy Project', Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
-'Fold Me', Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP
-'Ode To Form', West Space, Melbourne, Australia
-'Gertrude Studio’s 2012' Exhibition Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
-'Small Room with Animals and Humans', MARS Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011
GROUP
-'Material Conversion', (TP) Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany
-'Telepathy and Love', (TP) OZCO Apartment Barcelona, Spain
-'Fehily Contemporary Opening', Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
-'Speech Objects', (TP) Musée de l’Objet, Blois, France
-'Telepathy and Love', (TP) West Space, Melbourne, Australia
-'RBS Emerging Artist Award Finalist Exhibition', Sydney, Australia
-'Art for Science', Nellie Castan Melbourne, Australia
2010
SOLO
-'HeadHunters', Fehily Temporary, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP
-'Monumental Effect', Death Be Kind, Melbourne Australia
-'Things I Wish I’d Known', West Space, Melbourne Australia
-'Melbourne Art Fair', for Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
-'Schadenfreude', TCB, Melbourne, Australia
-'Structural Integrity', Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia
-'TableLampChairBigPainting', Margret Lawrence Gallery, curated by Nicki Wynnychuk, Melbourne, Australia
-'The Aesthetics of Joy', WestSpace, curated by Bernhard Sachs and Brad Haylock, Melbourne, Australia
2009
GROUP
-'SUGAFAINT', for Slide , Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, curated by Matthew Shannon, Melbourne, Australia
-'Seppuku', Lindberg Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
-'Erotica', Spilioti Projects, Athens, curated by Tessie Spilioti, Athens, Greece
-'Transformation' (TP), Moving Galleries/Creative Spaces, Australia
-'Once More With Feeling' (TP),VCA Margret Lawrence Gallery, curated by Meredith Turnbul, Melbourne, Australia
-'Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition', VCA Margret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008
SOLO
-'The Telepathy Project' (TP), for the 2008 Next Wave Festival. Forum Theatre, Melbourne, Australia.
-'Seymour', West Space, Melbourne, Australia
-'The Prosthetic Animal', CUBE 37, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP
-'Team Australia', Carlton Hotel, curated by Veronica Tello, Melbourne, Australia
-'Stand-in', Kings ARI , curated by Kings ARI, Melbourne, Australia
-'Electromagnetic Imaginary' (TP), Spectrum Project Space, Perth, Australia.
2007
GROUP
-'You Are Probably My Favourite Person In The Whole World' (TP), The Academy, curated by Hooray For Humans Long Beach California, USA.
-'Provisional Investigations' (TP), George Paton Gallery, curated by Melanie Irwin, Melbourne, Australia
-'Geek Chic 2.0' @ Loop, Loop, curated by Alex Gibson, Melbourne, Australia
-'Athanaeum Club Exhibition', Melbourne, Australia
-'Electromagnetic Imaginary' (TP),AREA Contemporary Art Space, curated by Matthew Shannon, Melbourne, Australia
2006
SOLO
-'All Night Telepathy Exchange' (TP), CUBE 37, curated by Amanda Slacksmith, Melbourne, Australia
-'Dreamt', CUBE 37, Melbourne, Australia
-'Telepathy Lecture' (TP), Federation Hall, VCA, Melbourne, Australia
-'WOOD : The Telepathy Project Group Show' (TP), IIBL , Melbourne, Australia.
Eliza Burke, ARTLINK, Numinosity, 2021
Edward Colless (ed.) Making Meetings With The Miraculous. The Telepathy Project, Art+Australia Vol. Four (55:1) The Miracle, 2018
The Telepathy Project. Self Published, Book, Melbourne, Australia 2018
Pascal Rousseau Cosa Mentale, Les Éditions Gallimard, Centre Pompidou-Metz, ex.Cat 2015
Ric Allsopp (ed.) 20 Days of Dream Telepathy, The Telepathy Project (Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples), PERFORMANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL Vol. 21, No. 1: ‘On Sleep’ February, 2016
Julie Rrap and The Telepathy Project I Slept With You Under My Pillow, Sturgeon, Issue 4, 2015
Veronica Kent and Sarah Crowest ‘The Story of The Balloon’ , Bureau (2nd edition) Laura Castagnini & Vikki Mcinnes (ed’s.), Margaret Lawrence Gallery and The University of Melbourne, 2014.
Mikala Dwyer, PRIMAVERA 2014, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Australia , Ex Cat. 2014
Djon Mundine & Natalie King, Whisper In My Mask, Tarrwarra Biennial, Ex Cat. 2014
Andrew Stephens, The AGE, Artists Tap Into Hidden Histories 2014
Tracey Clement, Two Heads Are Better Than One, Art Guide 2014 http://artguide.com.au/articles-page/show/two-heads-are-better-than-one
Anusha Kenny, Ode To Form Innocence and Experience, Ex Cat. West Space 2013
Andrew Stephens, The AGE, , The Telepathy Project: to sleep perchance to dream, to share the dreams that come February 16, 2014
John Neylon, THE MELBOURNE REVIEW, In The Belly Of The Beast February 2014
THREE THOUSAND MELBOURNE NOW, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013
Lauren Bliss, 'A Love Story’ DISCIPLINE #3, 2013
Ray Edgar, Art Guide (cover/feature article), December/January 2013
Prue Gibson, Australian Art Collector, ISSUE 59 January – March 2012
Anna Hess and A Constructed World, ‘Speech Objects’, Ex.Cat. published by Musée de l’Objet, Blois, France. 2012
Un magazine, Artist Page, http://www.unmagazine.org/magazine/issues/issue-6-1/~artist-page-veronica-kent/
video interview WUNCE Magazine http://wuncemag.com/index.php/component/k2/item/45-veronica-kent
Interview with VCA on the occasion of their 40 year http://blog.vca.unimelb.edu.au/2012/07/02/qa-veronica-kent-artist-and-phd-student/Ann
Marsh/Meredith Turnbul/Dylan Rainforth, ‘Once More With Feeling’, Ex Cat. 2009
Melissa Loughnan, ‘Skeptics Vs Mystics’ RUNWAY #14,2009
Rosemary Forde (ed.), Commissioned Artist Pages, unMagazine Issue 2.2, 2008
Jeff Khan, ‘Big, Intimate and Fearless’, REALTIME ISSUE 84 , 2008
Fiona Scott-Norman, ‘Do You See What I See’, THE AGE , May 16, 2008
Anneke Jaspers (ed.),‘The Telepathy Project’ RUNWAY #11, 2008
Edward Colless/Meredith Turnbul, ‘Prosthetic Animals’, Ex Cat. 2008
Leon Goh, ‘The Telepathy Project’ Text Camp Reader,2008
Meredith Turnbul, The Telepathy Project, SPEECH, 2008
Tony Reck, ‘Exotic Intimacies’, REALTIME 86, 2008
Penny Modra, ‘In the Frame’, THE AGE, 2008
2013
The Speakeasy Medicine Show, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne
2010
Fragments In A Constructed World Plausible Artworlds, Basekamp, Philadelphia, USA.
The Speakeasy Medicine Show, Belleville Biennale, Paris, France.
Speech and What Archive,(TP) Y3K Gallery, Melbourne Australia, replayed for Explaining Contemporary Art to Live Eels #6, Double Blind,(TP) Villa Arson for A Constructed World. Nice, France.
2008
Explaining Contemporary Art To Live Eels (TP),in collaboration with ‘Superflou’ as part of the A Constructed World exhibition ‘Saisons Increase’, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France.
2007
Explaining Contemporary Art To Live Eels (TP),(in collaboration with A Constructed World) Increase Your Uncertainty, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
