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I live and work on - Meanjin Land. Always was.. Always will be.. Aboriginal land!
My Background
My Inspiration
My Background
Cleo Gardiner is a contemporary and conceptual artist. Her writing has been published in Edinborough press’ Somatechnic’s journal and she has been in group exhibitions at M Contemporary, Gaffaa Gallery and the Woollahra Small Sculpture Award exhibition (with the collective "The Peculiar Annes"). She curated the exhibition Queering the Bo
Cleo Gardiner is a contemporary and conceptual artist. Her writing has been published in Edinborough press’ Somatechnic’s journal and she has been in group exhibitions at M Contemporary, Gaffaa Gallery and the Woollahra Small Sculpture Award exhibition (with the collective "The Peculiar Annes"). She curated the exhibition Queering the Body at Verge Gallery and has created installations for Club Kooky. In collaboration with Kelli Jean Drinkwater, she presented an installation and performance at The Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of Justin Shoulder and Glitter Militia's Nightcraft.
My Medium
My Inspiration
My Background
Cleo’s mediums are etching, screen print, performance, digital photography, collage, multi media installations and sound pieces.
Cleo won the Dean's prize (Print Media) and the University Medal for her Honours thesis and artwork at University of Sydney at the Sydney College of the Arts.
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
Cleo is inspired by the outlaws, the risk takers, the poets, the ones called mad, the ones who make us think and ultimately push our boundaries. Cleo's inspiration, includes but is not limited to the following artists.... Nan Goldin, Karla Dickens, Norman Lindsay, Tracey Moffatt, Yoko Ono, Frida Kahlo, Augusta Savage, Andy Warhol,
Lou
Cleo is inspired by the outlaws, the risk takers, the poets, the ones called mad, the ones who make us think and ultimately push our boundaries. Cleo's inspiration, includes but is not limited to the following artists.... Nan Goldin, Karla Dickens, Norman Lindsay, Tracey Moffatt, Yoko Ono, Frida Kahlo, Augusta Savage, Andy Warhol,
Louise Bourgeois, Guerilla Girrrls,
Shirin Neshat, Barbara Hepworth,
Artemisia Gentileschi,
Cleo Gardiner's Creative Universe
Writing
Becoming: Subjectivity, Icons and Identity for a Feminine Underclass
This dissertation is concerned with processes involved in re-imagining identity/ies for a working class queer woman. https://www.academia.edu/11779037/Becoming_Subjectivity_Icons_and_Identity_for_a_Feminine_Underclass
DANGER, Curves Ahead Edinburgh Press
Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies – Technologies – Power
https://www.academia.edu/33152430/DANGER_Curves_Ahead
Collections
Cleos work is in many private collections and venues but also at the:
Whitlam Institute Salvation, Big Daddy
https://rosetta.westernsydney.edu.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE25153
Patti Smith Family Salvation, Patti
Annandale Hotel Harry
Lisa Herrod Harry
https://sydneyprintmakers.com.au/2016/05/23/exhibition-janet-parker-smith-and-cleo-gardiner/
https://sculptureprize.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/sculptures/2014/seraph
https://www.hiddeninrookwood.com.au/gallery/hidden-2014-gallery
https://www.broadsheet.com.au/sydney/event/justin-shoulder-and-glitter-militia-mca-artbar
https://affiliatedtext.com/2015/07/13/notes-toward-a-future-feminist-archive/
https://mcontemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/YAI-Catalogue-2014-15.pdf
https://www.art-almanac.com.au/woollahra-small-sculpture-prize-announces-2014-finalists/
https://honisoit.com/archive/print/2013/Honi%20Soit%202013%20Semester%201%20Week%2003.pdf
https://issuu.com/miyukibaker/docs/australia_queer_zine