ella dreyfus
Curriculum Vitae
1960 Born in Crows Nest, Australia

Education

2009 PhD Candidate, School of Art, Faculty of the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australian Post-Graduate Award Scholar

1990 Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

1985 Bachelor of Visual Arts, City Art Institute, Sydney College of Advanced Education

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Scumbag, Stills Gallery, Sydney

2005 Under Twelves, Ground Floor Gallery, Sydney

2004 Age and Consent and Transman, Broken Hill Regional Gallery

2001 Transman, Stills Gallery, Sydney and Nexus Gallery, Adelaide

1999 Age and Consent, Stills Gallery, Sydney and Campbell Mahony, Brisbane

1993 The Body Pregnant, Stills Gallery, Sydney

1992 Pregnancy Series, Stills Gallery, Sydney

1991 Camera Lucida, Sydney

Group exhibitions

 2008 Finalist, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Art Gallery

2007

Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery

Finalist, Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed River Art Gallery

 

 

 

2006

Finalist, Head On Alternative Portrait Award Sydney

Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery

 

Finalist and Judges Commendation,  Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed River Art Gallery

Drawcard, National Art School, Sydney

 

 

 

 

2005  WINNER of the Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed River Art Gallery

         Finalist, Citigroup Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales

         Weight and Sea, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney

         Sculpture Inside, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney

         States of Transformation, COFA Gallery, University of NSW  

2003  Women and Documentary Photography, Photo Technica Gallery, Sydney

         Re-Presenting the Real, Documentary Photography, Stills Gallery

2002  Re-Presenting the Real, Documentary Photography, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney Uni.

        Soundings, National Art School, Sydney

2001  Photography from our Region, Gallery 15, Queensland Art Gallery

        Castlemaine State Festival Photo Award, Castlemaine, Victoria

        Sydney Leather Pride Art Exhibition, Tap Gallery, Sydney

        We Are Australian, 3rd World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia

        Durban, South Africa

2000  We Are Australian, Adelaide Festival Centre

        Maxwell Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

        Sacrifice and Memory, with Ari Ehrlich, Watt Space, Newcastle

        Half Metre Square, National Art School, Sydney

1999  We are Australian, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne

1998  The Body Pregnant/Women on Women, Stills Gallery, Sydney

        Girlfriends...(and a few good blokes), Casula Powerhouse

 1997  Retracing the in-between, The Australian Museum, Sydney

        Memory and Sacrifice, with Ari Ehrlich, Contemporary Performance Week 8

        Neshamah, Performance Space Gallery, Sydney

        Stills Artists on View, Stills Gallery, Sydney

 1996  A View from the Hills, The Australian Museum, Sydney

        Mente Manque, Cellblock Theatre, Sydney

        Imag(in)ing Bodies, inter sections 96, satellite event of Biennale of Sydney, COFA, NSW Uni.

 1993  Only Girls Can Do It, aGOG, Canberra

 1992  Salon Obscura, 24 HR ART, NT Centre for Contemporary Art

 1991  Agfa National Photographic Exhibition, Albury Regional Art Gallery

 1990  Graduate Diploma Exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts

 

Lecturing appointments

2009  Head of Public Programs, National Art School

1987-2009

Lecturer in Photography: National Art School, Sydney and Northern Sydney Institutes of TAFE

Guest Lecturer: University of Sydney, University of NSW, Australian National University, University of South Australia, La Trobe University, National Art School, Northern Institute of TAFE, Stills Gallery, SH Ervin Gallery, Nexus Gallery, SODA Gallery, Royal Hospital for Women, Liverpool Hospital, Women and Mental Health Inc, Uniting Church Aged Care Chaplains Conference

Commissions

1980-2009 Public and private photographic commissions