EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, MADA, Monash University.

2015    Master of Fine Art, Monash University.

2002    Bachelor of Fine Art, First class Honours,  Victorian College of Art, Melbourne University.

1998  Bachelor of Fine Arts, Queensland College of Art.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Our Voices Together Bouncing Off The Walls, Watch this space, Mparntwe/Alice Springs.

2019 A Ripple and an Echo, Linden Contemporary.

2017    A Steady Backbeat TCB Inc. Melbourne.

2016    Rhythmic Traces,  Bus Projects, Melbourne

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS.

2022

ISTHMUS - Wyndham Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Dr. Tania Cañas

Shortwave, a collaborative work with Claudia Nicholson for the Sydney Opera House.

Image as Sound, Project 8 Gallery.

An ear to the edge of sound - curated by Josephine Mead, MILK Gallery, Collingwood.

2021

Collaboration with AM Kanngieser On the volatility of noise, residual bass for Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Austria

Un Projects Fundraiser, Westspace.

2020

Speaking Surfaces, St Paul’s gallery, Aukland University of Technology Curated by Charlotte Huddlestone.

Fluidity, Incinerator Gallery, Curated by Jake Tracey.

res[on]ance [off] Curated by Gabrielle White, Brisbane QLD

2019

Bundoora Homestead Arts Prize finalist

M_othering the perceptual ars poetica, curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk and Antonia Selbach, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

A World of One’s Own, Ballarat Regional Gallery,Curated by Tai Snaith

Shapeshifters, New Forms of Curatorial Research commissioned artist. Curated by Tara McDowell, MADA Gallery

28 Beats, curated by Jake Treacy and Ben Taranto, private home in Brunswick East

A Night in Hell, performance even at Seventh Gallery, curated by Mel Deerson

2018   

Session Vessels, AirSpace, Sydney, Curated by Rafaella Pandolfini

Family Grimoires, Seventh Gallery Melbourne, Curated by Diego Ramirez

We, Bundoora Homestead curated by Renee Cosgrave

XYL, Curated by Sisters Akousmatica, MONA FOMA, Tasmania

2017

Everything Spring, curated by Julia Murphy, The Honeymoon Suite Melbourne

Mountain Dew, Banff Centre for Creativity, Canada

2016

Collaborative dance work as part of Geoff Robinson’s work Spatial Markers under the direction of Brook Stamp, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne

Westspace annual fundraiser exhibition 

If People Powered Radio, curated by Helen Hughes and Spiros Panigarakis Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

MFA Graduate exhibition Monash University

2015   

FEM[X] -Liquid Architecture Festival Westspace, Melbourne  

Other Planes of Here,  exhibition Monash University Postgraduate Gallery

2014    

Call and Response a Collaborative performance alongside Rebecca Ann Hobbs,  Auckland ArtGallery as part of the St. Paul’s St Gallery Curatorial Symposium In practice: Models of Cultural Exchange and Reciprocity

Sunra and Rosetta’s Comet, event to commemorate the legacy of Sunra, Monash University Post graduate Colloquium

Instrument Builder's Project, National Gallery of Victoria Project Space in collaboration with Wukir Suryadi

2013   

Prisma Pavilion, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Germany, Curated by Gerry Bibby.

Viewfinder, Auckland Central Library New Zealand, Curated by Rebecca Ann Hobbs.

2012   

Planted, Mr Kitly Gallery, Melbourne.

Its A Small, Small World/Clusterf*ck, Family Business Gallery, Chelsea, New York, Curated by Hennessy Youngman

2011   

Panoply, curated by Nat Thomas, Sawtooth, Launceston, Tasmania

That Went Well, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces. Curated by Nat Thomas,  Melbourne

 Roda Roda Soundsystem collaborating with Slow Art Collective, The Brunswick Project, Counihan Gallery

2008   

Informal Rituals Curated by Helen Johnson, TCB Inc.  Melbourne.

2007   

Portal in a Storm, RM103, Auckland, New Zealand. 

2006   

Hair at Habtie’s Salon Aesthetics, Bus Gallery, Melbourne

2003   

Resistance is Futile, Frist Draft Gallery, Sydney.

First, Spencer Street Gallery, Melbourne curated by Rob MacAffie

2002   

Graduate Exhibition Victorian College of the Arts.

1999   

Corps, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane

 End of Year Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

 Xx, Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane

 

OUT OF GALLERY PROJECTS

2022

Composer for sound score for Brian Fuata performance Intermission for ANTI Festival, Finland.

Rising Festival - Participant in Heavy Congress, The Forum Melbourne

2021

ConchCast commissioned by Contemporary Art Tasmania https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/s07e04/

Collaborative work with Claudia Nicholson for the Art Gallery of New South Whales, Sydney.

Mass Movement, sound work in collaboration with Latai Taumoepeau and Nina Buchanan for Artshouse Refuge commission.

Sound work for the Social Studio x Atong Atem x Romance Was Born.

Un Projects, 15.1 Sound contribution. https://unprojects.org.au/article/night/

Makeshift Publics, Artshouse, Melbourne.

2020

Call WestSpace Offsite Series Curated by Tamsen Hopkinson.

2019

Live and soundsystem collaboration with Sarah Crowest Magdalene Laundry, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne.

Live sound collaboration with Galambo (Bryan Phillips) as part of Polyphonic Social, Liquid Architecture supporting Chino Amobi and Nina Buchanan.  Magdalene Abbotsford Convent.

Perspective Block Party - Closing of the Getrude Street Projection Festival - Soundsystem operator - Other Planes of here Soundsystem

J’Ouvert, sound designer, collaboration with Makeda Zucco, Dark MOFO, Tasmania

Mi Gente soundsystem party, MPavillion - Soundsystem operator - Other Planes of here Soundsystem

2018

Barrio//Baryo Next Wave Festival, in collaboration with Caroline Garcia, artist, curator, stage designer, DJ, Soundsystem operator - Other Planes of here Soundsystem

Precog Curated by Sarah Scott, The Tote Hotel.

Respondent to the work of Abhishek Hazra, Draghima Dithyrambic curated by

Kelly Fiedler and Westspace Inc.

 Departed Acts, Curated by Made Spencer, MPavillion, Melbourne

2017 Radio art piece for Radia FM International Radio Art Network  -  curated by Sally Ann McIntyre.

2014-2015 - Other Planes of Here, A series of events organised around a speaker stack by different communities around Melbourne including - Feminist music collective LISTEN, the Pacific Photo Project, The Instrument Builders Project and others. 

2012 ¡Thunderrclapp! collaboration with artist Bianca Hester, music producer Lochie Bradfield and film-maker Jason Heller. Participants in event: Nuba Mountains Cultural Society of Victoria inc., Eleanor Butt and Matthew Brown, Mercat Cross venue, Melbourne

2010 Roda Roda Soundsystem, Sepeda Pawai (Bicycle Parade) collaborating with local artists and musicians including Bayu Widodo and Heri Dono, Yogyakarta Indonesia.

2007- 2008 Co-curator - Collectors Set - weekly music event at Recorded Music Salon. Working with Artist/Musicians: Christopher Hill, Julie Burleigh, Matthew Brown, Oscar Yañez, Sean Bailey, Felicity Mangan, Hana Shimada amongst many others.

 

PUBLISHED WRITING/PAGE ART

2022 No Walls, a sound work for Disclaimer, edited by Liang Luscombe.

The Place In Which I Fit Won’t Exist Until I Make It, editor of publication.

Essay for Meredith Turnbull monograph - upcoming

UN Magazine Collaborate written piece with Meredith Turnbull

2021 Written work for Snack Syndicate curated issue of UN Magazine

2020 Essay in response to finalist artist Brian Fuata’s practice for the Anti Live Art Prize, Finland

2019 Famili Launch review for Djed Press

Records of Displacement and the Echo as a Beckoning Artefact with Fjorn Butler. Disclaimer Journal.

2018   UN Magazine review of Selina Thompson's Salt

Collaborative piece with Leuli Eshrahi republished in Absolute Humidity - edited     by Tess Mauder

2017    UN Magazine review of Nastio Mosquito's performance work Respectable Thief

2014    Dancing Between the Lines catalogue essay for artist Caroline Garcia

2013    Trueno Tropical, Faititili a Motu, Tropical Thunder,  Co-written alongside Leuli Eshraghi and published on peer     review journal, Writings from Below, published by Latrobe University.

2007    Resistance is Futile Publication for exhibition of the same title curated by artist, curator and educator Kim Donaldson

 

AWARDS, GRANTS and RESIDENCIES

2022

Recipient of Australia Council for the Arts International Engagement Fund.

2020

Creative Victoria Quick Response Grant

2019

Bundoora Homestead Arts prize finalist

2017

One month funded residency BAIR Spring Intensive, The Banff Centre for Creativity, Canada.

2016  

Recipient of NAVA Sainsbury Sculpture Grant.

2014   

Recipient of Australian Postgraduate Award Monash University.

2010   

National Gallery of Victoria Post Graduate Award.

Arts Victoria International Exchange Grant as part of Roda Roda Sound System.

 Cultural Grant Australia Indonesia Institute as part of Roda Roda Sound System.

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021

et al. vol. 2 (2021) | Diego Ramirez on Lucreccia Quintanilla CoBo Social Publication

2019

Briony Downes, Artguide, Lucreccia Quintanilla: A Ripple and an Echo, Exhibition preview

2018

Interview by Fjorn Butler, The Minority Report, http://min.report/records-of-displacement-lucreccia-quintanilla/

2017

Diego Ramirez, 'Lucreccia Quintanilla: The Void After The Colonies',  http://www.dumb-brunette.com/lucreccia

2015  

Lana Lopesi, Decolonisation Frameworks and Indigenous curatorial practice' Runway Magazine http://runway.org.au/decolonisation-frameworks-indigenous-curatorial-practice/

2011  Dr. Helen Addison Smith, 'Bike Jam, where music, art and bicycles collide',  Treadlie Magazine, Issue 1. 

2008  Dr. Johnson, Helen 'Hair at Habties' review for the South Project http://www.southproject.net/south/South_Project_Publications.html.

 

EDUCATION WORK

Currently teaching at Monash University and The Victorian College of the Arts  

2016   

Visiting lecturer at Auckland University of technology where I presented a lecture and conducted one  on one critique sessions with  post-graduate candidates.

2014    

Educator, Signal Arts Working with teenagers on film based outcome

Artist in Residence, Princes Hill Primary School. Working on Ceramic based project.

 

PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS

2021

Speaker at High Viz Practice Exchange, Sound as knowledge exchange. https://chambermade.org/

2020

Writing and Concepts Lecture in the format of a conversation with Samira Farah and Westspace.

2019

Writing and concepts presentation on the Echo a Future Tense project.

Speaker at Sounds In The City Conference organised by Sound System Outernational (Goldsmiths University), Universita L’Orientale Napoli, Italy.

2018

Moderator for Melbourne Writers Festival Panel: Resistance and Lyricism.

Moderator for discussion with sound Artist Klein in conversation with Ripley Kahara and Makeda Zucco.

2017

Art, Agency, Action panel speaker for the National Association of Visual Arts. 

Moderator of discussion and event for Hannah Catherine Jones: Afrofuturism an Gesamtkunstwerk a performative lecture alongside a presentation by artist Atong Atem. Part of Liquid Architecture and Cyclops joint project. 

2016

What Makes A Great Photograph Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.

2013

Mapping South book launch alongside: Professor Nikos Papastergiadis, and Anthony Gardner - Associate Professor of Art History at Oxford University at Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne

2009

What does Latin American Art Look Like? Centre for Post-Colonial Studies Melbourne University.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Current - Co-director of Liquid Architecture alongside Kristi Monfries

2022 - Curator in residence Darebin Council Fuse Festival

Project Manager and translator from Spanish to English for Mapping South Publication Edited by Prof. Anthony Gardner.

2017- 2019 Selection committee member for City of Melbourne Grants.

Former member of selection advisory committee of Westspace inc.

Former board member of South Project Inc. 

2006-2009 Music writer - Beat Magazine/Cyclic Defrost